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Understanding land accumulation dynamics is relevant for policy makers interested in the economic effects of land inequality in developing country agriculture. We thus explore and simultaneously test the leading theories of microlevel land accumulation dynamics using unique panel data from...
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and Korea, or now emerging economies like China and India. The type of support, of course, varies widely across countries …. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone … and a sizeable portion of budgetary support goes towards fertiliser subsidy. Fertiliser subsidy in India has succeeded in …
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India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw …-scarce, food-importing country, India has emerged as a grain-surplus and a net grain-exporting country. The production base is … in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and its nominated state agencies, raising questions about the …
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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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With increasing farm distress in the wake of falling farm prices in 2017, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh (GoMP) came out with an innovative scheme called Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana (BBY), a price deficiency payment (PDP) scheme, to support farmers. It covered eight Kharif crops in 2017-18...
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Economic theory and econometric evidence support the thesis that the displacement of government expenditures on public goods by subsidies to private goods inhibits the performance of the farm sector. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the mix of expenditures related to...
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