Agricultural Growth and Rural Poverty Reduction in India: Targeting Investments and Input Subsidies - Softcover

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Chapter I Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction through Public Investment

 I.1 Introduction

I.2 Regional Impacts of Public Expenditure

I.3 Key Questions

I.4 Chapter Scheme

 

Chapter II Contextualising Public Intervention in Agriculture and Welfare Effects

 II.1 Rationale

II.2 Welfare Effects of Public Spending-A Conceptual Framework

 

Chapter III Spatial Patterns in Public Expenditure, Subsidies and Outcomes

III.1 Trends in Public Expenditure and Share of Economic and Social Services

III.2 Investments in Agriculture and Irrigation

III.3 Magnitude of Input Subsidies in Agriculture

III.4 Public Spending Outcomes

III.5 Summing Up

 

Chapter IV Size of Private Investment and its Relationship with Public Investment and Input 

                    Subsidies

IV.1 Introduction

IV.2 Database and Methodological Approach

IV.3 Structure and Trends in Fixed Capital Expenditure

IV.4 Results from Econometric Analysis

IV.5 Summary and Conclusions

 

Chapter V Welfare Effects of Public and Private Investments and Input Subsidies

V.1 Main Hypotheses and Model Estimation

V.2 Income and Poverty Effects of Public Spending

V.3 Marginal Returns to Agricultural Income and Rural Poverty Reduction

 

Chapter VI Major Findings and Way Forward

VI.1 Key Results and Policy Implications

VI.2 Interventions in Input Subsidy Regime

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