This paper seeks to demonstrate that the effects of the introd uction of new (Green Revolution) agriculture technology in rural Indi a were highly ambiguous. Based on an analysis of rural households und ertaken between 1968 and 1971, the paper shows that a nonnegligible number of households...

The empirical analysis at the all-India level demonstrates that, while the level of agricultural production and rural poverty were inversely related, unanticipated consumer price increases aggravated rural poverty. Whether the advent of the new agricultural technology in the late 1960s altered...

This paper uses nine years of panel data on 170 rural households in southern India to calculate intertemporal measures of poverty. These include measures of (1) expected poverty that identify households likely to remain poor on average during any year; (2) innate poverty that identify households...