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Rural banking: misdirected policy changes
(2010-07-14)
Three policy alternatives can be identified for improving the profitability
of commercial banks' rural branches: closing loss-making rural branches,
improving the interest spread for these branches and diversifying ...
Food subsidy: concept, rationale, implementation design and policy reforms
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2014)
This paper counters negative advocacy about the food subsidy, the public distribution system, and farm price supports. It argues that the public food supply chain for market intervention has a favourable impact on the ...
Level and pattern of investment in agriculture: a micro cross-section analysis of a progressive and a backward area in central Gujarat
(1969-05-18)
The paper seeks to answer the following three objectives at the farm level:
1. To determine the level and pattern of investment
2. To examine the factors influencing the same
3. To examine the sources of financing ...
Agenda for financial reform
(1990-07-13)
N A MUJUMDAR (financial Scenario in
the 1990s: Agenda for Reform', April 7) has
persuasively shown what lack of financial
liberalisation has accomplished in India,
Japan, and South Korea and what acceptance
of this ...
Growth with social justice: sweet slumber or big leap?
(1995-07-14)
V S VYAS and Pradeep Bhargava in their
paper, 'Public Intervention tor Poverty
Alleviation: An Overview' (ERW, October
14-21) have done eloquent scrvice by not
only commissioning nine state-specific
studies on rural ...
A review of a study of SHGs and linkage programme
(2000-10-13)
Determinants of total factor productivity in Indian agriculture
(1977-07-15)
Past literature shows that technical change in agriculture is determined by non-price factors like government
expenditure on R and D and infrastructure. But more recent literature also considers relative farm prices ...