controversial policy issues in many developing economies including India. This paper theoretically evaluates the consequences of … agriculture and SEZ can grow simultaneously provided the government spends more than a critical amount of resources on irrigation …

than all-India. Orissa agriculture is highly concentrated in low productive and high water consuming paddy cultivation with …The extent of India’s regional disparities has been an issue since many decades, and this concern has been partly … motivated by a desire to alleviate poverty (Datt and Ravallion, 1996). Agriculture remains an important feature of the economic …

households while additional secondary education has no effect on agricultural productivity. Returns to agricultural inputs are … benefit poor and rich alike. Land titling has little effect on improved agricultural productivity. More formal land titling is … therefore not sufficient to change the bad performance of agriculture of the last decades …