ABSTRACT
It follows from our general concept of the nature of economic progress that the institutional aspects of agrarian development will have to be taken fully into account; in the first place the distribution of rural property and the nature of ownership relations. 1 Even now the majority of the Oriental populations earns its living by working on the soil. Yet land is, as a rule, extremely unequally distributed. Since the main income of the population derives from it, the income distribution in Oriental countries reflects a similar degree of inequality.
