Books by Ester Boserup

This book sets out to investigate the process of agrarian change from new angles and with new results.

Investigating the process of agrarian change, this text analyses costs and productivity under the main systems of primitive agriculture.

Suitable for economists, sociologists, development workers, and activists, this book highlights the key issue of how the role of women in economic development has or has not changed over the past decades in developing countries. It covers topics ranging from women and inequality, international and national migration, to conflict, HIV and AIDS.

Using extensive analyses of the costs and productivity of the main systems of traditional agriculture, this book concludes that technical, economic and social changes are unlikely to take place unless the community concerned is exposed to the pressure of population growth. It shows how population growth may be the main stimulus to agrarian change.