Agricultural growth, rural poverty and environmental degradation in India

Abstract

Based on the author's research over the past 20 years, this volume contains his observations on the Indian economy. The issues discussed include: the spread of agricultural growth, in the 1980s, to the less developed regions, and the consequent decline in real poverty there; the paucity of resources, in the same period, caused by mounting subsidies; the fall in real public investment in agriculture, caused by this paucity; increasing environmental degradation due to the slow rate of land - augmenting technological change; and the inequitable distribution of gains in agriculture.