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Reforming Indian agriculture [electronic resource] : towards employment generation and poverty reduction : essays in honour of G.K. Chadha / edited by Sankar Kumar Bhaumik.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--India.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture and state--India.
- Agriculture and state.
- Manpower policy--India.
- Manpower policy.
- Poor--India.
- Poor.
- India--Economic policy--1991-2016.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (589 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This compilation includes original essays that examine past and current status. of the agricultural sector in India and delineate the challenges it faces in the. era of economic reforms. It highlights the issues that are beginning to raise. serious policy discussions in India in view of continuing agrarian crisis and. the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012). Apart from providing macro level. analyses, the collection also features studies which are based on micro (field). data that reflect the realities of the Indian agrarian economy. In addition, Reforming Indian Agriculture: Towards Employmen
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; India: The State of Its Economy; Agricultural Development in India: Policies and Performance; Domestic Policy Measures and Challenges in Indian Agriculture; Income, Consumption and Expenditure of Farmers: Stunted Capitalist Development in Indian Agriculture; The Decline of Agriculture; Price Policy and Minimum Support Prices in a Changing Agricultural Economy; Agricultural Risks and Public Policy: Cross-Country Experiences; Contract Farming for Agricultural Development: Review of Theory and Practice with Special Reference to India
- Structural Inequalities and Interlinked Transactions in Agrarian Markets: Results of a Field SurveyFunctioning and Impact of Microfinance: Evidence from Himachal Pradesh; When Rural Development Succeeds? Experience from the Two Punjabs and West Bengal; Crucial Role of Agriculture in Indian Development: A Japanese Perspective; Unemployment in a Traditional Agrarian Economy: Theory and Evidence; Employment in India's Development Strategy; Rural Non-farm Employment, Poverty and Inequality in West Bengal*; Combating Poverty and Malnutrition in Bangladesh
- Dalits and the Right to Food: Discrimination and Exclusion in Food-related Government ProgrammesImperative of Cooperation among Indian States; Privatization of State-owned Enterprises in India; Technological Constraints of Small-Scale Industries in India: Some Evidence from a Field Survey; Appendix; About the Editor and Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 93-5280-317-5
- 1-281-96351-8
- 9786611963514
- 81-321-0013-1
- OCLC:
- 476230984
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