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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Costs of operations in agricultural financing by formal agencies
(1978-06-19)
The purpose of this paper is, first, briefly to discuss the main elements of costs in agricultural finance
operations of formal agencies. The sources of high administrative costs are then identified. And, finally,
a ...
Is inadequacy of institutional credit a problem in changing agriculture
(1970-09-26)
An earlier study had indicated that farmers ten l to suibstitute commercial bank credit for their own
futnds and/or for other sources of finance, and that this substitution has no significant impact on frmi
production.
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