' Green revolution and redistribution of rural incomes: Pakistan's experience' - a comment.

Abstract

The Green Revolution should have exacerbated rural income inequalities if all that has been said so far accorded with the actual conditions prevailing in Pakistan. Attempts to show that the majority of the arguments are not correct, and that part of the evidence which has been used to demonstrate the adverse consequences of the Green Revolution on income distribution is particularly untrustworthy. The paper also demonstrates that the Green Revolution has been 'the most viable rural development strategy ever pursued in Pakistan'.-after Author