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Economics of civil conflict : evidence from the Punjab insurgency
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
The Punjab Insurgency in India (1978-1993) took the lives of over 20,000 people. Yet, there has been little research on … the economic causes and consequences of the conflict in Punjab, which has been classified as a civil war and also an … insurgency. In this article, I delve into some of the reasons for why Punjab suffered such a prolonged and bloody insurgency …
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Formal versus informal : efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of dairy value chains in India
Birthal, Pratap S.; Chand, Ramesh; Joshi, Pramod Kumar; … - 2016
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Regional disparities in Indian agriculture : some empirical evidence
Kumar, A.; Molana, Hassan - 1992
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Agricultural productivity shocks and poverty in India : the short- and long-term effects of monsoon rainfall
Brey, Björn; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2019
This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian agricultural sector. We distinguish between positive and negative rainfall shocks and explicitly consider their spatial dimension (local/regional). We find that particularly negative...
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Risk sources and management strategies of farmers : evidence from Mahanadi River Basin of Odisha in India
Nayak, Jayanti Mala; Manjunatha, A V - 2019
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Assessing the benefits of long‐run weather forecasting for the rural poor : farmer investments and worker migration in a dynamic equilibrium model
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Udry, Christopher - 2019
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Crop selection and international differences in aggregate agricultural productivity
Alvarez, Jorge A.; Berg, Claudia - 2019
A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...
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Assessing the benefits of long-run weather forecasting for the rural poor : farmer investments and worker migration in a dynamic equilibrium model
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Udry, Christopher - 2019
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Financing smallholder agriculture : an experiment with agent-intermediated microloans in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - 2016
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Farmer suicides in India and the weather god
Banik, Nilanjan; Stevens, Philip - 2016
This paper examines the reasons for farmer suicides in India. Inability to get the right price, crop failures, and insurmountable debt are the factors that may drive the farmers to take this extreme step. A key factor for farmers being unable to get market prices is inefficient agriculture...
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