Using longitudinal date for a rice village in the Philippines that were collected from recurrent household surveys over the past three decades, the patterns and sources of income growth and distributional change in the rural community were analyzed. The development of new rice technology in the decade and half following the advent of the Green Revolution in the late 1960s and the increase in non-farm employment opportunities in the more recent years are identified as major factors that prevented per-capita income from declining and income inequality from worsening.
