Verlag: Classique Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 8187616008 ISBN 13: 9788187616009
Anbieter: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Indien
Hardbound. Zustand: As New. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Sampling methodology and area description. 3.Estimation of income, consumption and saving. 4. The effect of redistribution of income and wealth on actual savings. 5. Analysis of investment behaviour. 6. Agricultural backwardness and policy suggestions. Index. "Saving Investment Behaviour of Rich Farmers present a new explanation for agricultural backwardness. A new source of income, hitherto almost absent and unobserved in the rural areas, has come up as an important source of income. This is the income of the rural people from their employment in the service sector which is rapidly expanding in rural areas because of various developmental and welfare activities of the government. Partial stoppage of the old channels of income through usury and rack renting seems to have been compensated by opening up a new source of income from the employment in the service sector. This new source of income, in conjunction with the continuation of the old culture of not depending on agricultural improvement for augmenting their income, seems to have logically led to the continuation of backwardness in agriculture. "This book shows that there exists a tremendous potential for mobilising saving for productive investment. However, a large part of this potential seems to be frittered away in unnecessary or in luxury consumption in the context of the present situation in our country. Actual saving is far less than the potential saving because of the huge excess consumption on the part of the rich farmer. This demand for luxury consumption creates the 144 pp.