Using the decennial All-India Debt and Investment Survey from 1981-82 to 2012-13, this paper delves into the spatial and temporal trends in private fixed capital expenditure and its composition, among rural households in India. We also assess its relationship with public investment in...

Introduction -- Contextualising Public Intervention in Agriculture and Welfare Effects -- Spatial Patterns in Public Expenditure, Subsidies, and Outcomes -- Changing Composition of Private Investment and its Relation to Public Investment and Input Subsidy in Agriculture -- Welfare Effects of...