electricity, banks and schools, in addition to promoting research and development for unfavorable regions (and crops). Secondly, if the increased productivity through the 'green revolution' causes an inequality in income distribution, the effect is halved, because hunger is rooted in insufficient purchasing power as mentioned in the beginning. Thus, in South Asia it may be important to establish a suitable system to develop and manage tubewells (it is also important from the point of view of sustainable use of groundwater). In addition, I would like to bring your attention to the point that land reform is still an important policy issue to be considered in some areas as the basis for growth with equity. Finally, policies targeted at rural poor should continue to be considered important, as well as the 'green revolution' strategy because it enables the side-effect of population control by raising the food entitlement of those impoverished people, and eases the environmental deterioration.
In this paper the agricultural marketing and pricing policies, issues of subsidies for agricultural input and agricultural taxation problems had to be left out because of the restriction of space. Please refer to other literature regarding these things (14).
Footnotes
(1) Data source is as follows. Populations below poverty is the estimates of the World Bank in 1985 ('World Development Report 1990'), Populations of malnutrition is the estimates of FAO in 1988/90 ('World Agriculture in 2010').
(2) Wade,R., "The Ecological Basis of Irrigation Institutions: East and South Asia", World Development, Vol.23, No.12, 1995.
(3) See K.Fijita, "Bangladesh: Changes in Villages by Shallow Tubewells"
('Irrigation Systems in Asia' edited by Honi, Shinoda, Tada, Shinpyoron, 1996).
(4) Binswanger,H.P. and others, "How Infrastructure and Financial Institutions
