This paper reviews the literature on economic change in rice-growing areas in Java in the 1970s and focuses on the extent to which the Green Revolution and commercialization of agriculture contributed to labour displacement and inequalities in wealth and income.

This paper looks at the Cohesion Policy of the European Union (EU) and investigates how the EU agricultural and rural development policies shape its influence on regional growth. The analysis of the drivers of regional growth shows that the EU Regional Policy has a positive and significant...