The Green Revolution and Rural Inequality: India
Leah Bevis
A number of recent papers have found impressive, positive effects of the global Green Revolution on agricultural productivity and measures of average human welfare. Working with datasets that span the Green Revolution in India, we show early evidence that the roll-out of high-yielding crop varieties (mostly rice and wheat) seems to have increased land inequality and inequality in rural income and rural, female educational attainment. This is is line with scattered, small-scale evidence collected by Indian economists in the 1970s and 1980s. We are also exploring the mechanisms behind these distributional impacts; this is early work, with more to follow, not to be cited or circulated.
Event: World Bank Land Conference 2024 - Washington
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