Income distribution in rice-growing villages during the post-Green Revolution periods: the Philippine case, 1985 and 1998

This paper aims to examine changes in household income sources and its impa ct on household income distribution in the post-Green Revolution periods in 1985 and 1998 in the rural Philippines. We found that there has been a str uctural shift of household income away from farm in favor of nonfarm labor income sources. This finding indicates that rural development is being led by nonfarm sectors. Such a shift has resulted in an increase in household i ncome inequality as the distribution of nonfarm income has become less equa l over time and was markedly more unequal than that of farm income in 1998. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.