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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 ...
A discussion on price and non-price determinants of rural poverty
(2000-10-13)
It has been argued in this note that the
impact of relative prices on rural poverty
became non-significant in the recent
paper (1998b) by B M Desai and N V
Namboodiri (hereafter as DN) probably
because it is being ...
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 ...
Profile and performance of some Farm Input Industries
(2009-12-14)
Modernisation of agriculture requires different farm inputs industries like seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, implements and machinery, feed for livestocks and electricity. This is because new technologies in agriculture are ...
Viability of rural banking by the nationalized commercial banks in India
(Indian Economic Journal, Vol.47 (1), pp.24-41., 2000-03)
In this paper addresses the current debate on the viability of rural banking by the Nationalized Commercial Banks (NCBs) in India. The debate centers around two divergent views about the future role of the NCBs. One view ...