Since the early 1980s the Philippine economy has been suffering from a serious setback. It has been plagued with a prolonged recession accompanied by political unrest including a separatist movement. In order to solve these multiple problems, international development agencies recommended...

This paper examines the relationship between land distribution and income inequality in three rice-growing villages in the Philippines. One of our findings is that access to land has ceased to be the most important determinant of household income position, as farming and landless households have...