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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 ...
Economics of resource use on sample farms of central Gujarat
(2010-05-18)
This paper considers whether or not the returns on the resource
use for a sample farms located in two distinct parts of central Gujarat,
given their respective production functions, are maximized and if not,
why ...
Cooperative rural banking: Anad shows the growth - Oriented path
(2010-03-31)
This paper is about how Anand Farmers Service Cooperative Bank could be successful under the same macro rural credit policies that governed most rural financial institutions. This bank is innovative in both the spirit of ...
Comparative performance of farmers service societies and primary agricultural cooperative credit societies
(2010-07-27)
This paper analyses performance of Farmers' Service Societies (FSS) and Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS) comparatively. Features of these two field-level rural financial institutions (RFIs) are ...
Performance of institutional finance for agricultural development
(2010-03-22)
This paper analyses the performance of rural institutional finance system and based on that draw implication for improving this performance. Section II provides a conceptualization of performance criteria. Section III ...
Development of food-processing industries
(2010-03-22)
The paper has analysed development and financial, with special reference to working capital management, performance of the selected food-processing industries. It prioritizes these industries for their development based ...
Policy strategy and instruments for alleviating rural poverty
(2010-04-01)
The paper departs from the present policy emphasis for and more recent literature on rural poverty in advocating six major conclusions based on its validation of a multi-variate model explaining the behaviour of this poverty ...
Determinants of total factor productivity in Indian agriculture
(2010-04-03)
Past literature shows that technical change in agriculture is determined by non-price like government expenditure on R&D and infrastructure. But more recent literature also considers relative farm prices that would provide ...
Institutional credit for green revolution and dry-farming areas in India
(2010-03-21)
This paper examines the relationship between the degree of agricultural progress and institutional credit. More specifically it examines the relationship between the proportion of area covered under HYVs of foodgrains and ...