Regional inequalities represent a continuing development challenge in most countries.
There is a presumption in development economics that decentralized fiscal arrangements …

Viewing chronic poverty in terms of extended duration, severity and multidimensional
deprivation, this paper uses existing literature to draw attention to those people in India for …

The agriculture sector has gone through different phases of growth, embracing a wide
variety of institutional interventions, and technology and policy regimes. From the late 1960s …

Due to the socio-economic, infrastructural and governance peculiarities, identification of key
macroeconomic factors determining the economic growth in developing countries becomes …

The present study discusses the trends and patterns in agricultural growth at the national
and sub-national levels in India. Data on important variables like area, production, input use …

This book started life as a rather unorthodox thesis presented to the University of Amsterdam
in 2006: unorthodox because it was based not on one or two years of fieldwork but on more …

The paper deals with the effects of the green revolution (GR) technology on poverty both
conceptually and empirically. It provides a brief overview of the GR debate and then …

The public and private capital formation in Indian agriculture has expanded manifold during
the postreform period. Yet, agricultural growth continues to hover around three per cent …

The formulation of agricultural price policy is complicated by the multiplicity of functions that
price performs. The objectives, thrust, and instruments of agricultural price policy in India …

Towards the end of the 1990s, the incidence of unemployment on the basis of CDS (current
daily status) has exceeded seven per cent. There are also evidences of deterioration in the …