Government Spending Growth And Poverty In Rural India
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Author | : Shenggen Fan |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0896291138 |
Government expenditure, agricultural growth, and rural poverty; conceptual framework; Data model, estimation, and results.
Author | : Shenggen Fan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Using state-level data for 1970-93, a simultaneous equation model was developed to estimate the direct and indirect effects of different types of government expenditure on ruralpoverty and productivity growth in India. The results show that in order to reduce rural poverty, the Indian government should give highest priority to additionalinvestments in ruralroads and agriculturalresearch. These types of investment not only have much larger poverty impacts per rupee spent than any other government investment, but also generate higher productivity growth. Apart from government spending on education, which has the third largest marginalimpact on ruralpoverty and productivity growth, other investments (including irrigation, soil and water conservation, health, and rural and community development) have only modest impacts on growth and poverty per additional rupee spent.
Author | : Shenggen Fan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, Domestic |
ISBN | : 9780896291133 |
Author | : Sukhadeo Thorat |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Seema Bathla |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9811535841 |
This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures “in” and “for” agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions where the marginal returns on additional investments would be higher. It provides insights into the inter-linkages between public expenditures, private investment, rural poverty, and agriculture productivity from a regional perspective to reflect upon spatial differences in the welfare effects of various investments, subsidies, and policies. The book focuses on agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction through public and private investments, non-farm employment, and other pathways to the formulation of appropriate policies at the dis-aggregated state level. It presents new evidence based on advanced econometric tools for analysing and understanding the relationship between public and private investments in agriculture and input subsidies (fertilizer, power, irrigation, and credit) together with their impacts at the dis-aggregated state level. The book also deliberates on an income based direct support system for farmers as an alternative to the existing input price subsidy regime. Accordingly, the book offers valuable insights not only for researchers working on poverty alleviation, rural economy, and agricultural growth, but also for policymakers.
Author | : Fan, Shenggen |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2008-05-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 080188859X |
Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years. Overall, the studies find that investments in agricultural research, infrastructure, and human capital are beneficial in the long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and generating short-run income effects. The book develops a conceptual framework for analyzing public expenditures and their short- and long-run impact on poverty through various channels. It surveys spending trends and analyzes the effect of growing public investment on urban and rural poverty through case studies of India, China, Thailand, and Uganda. And it highlights the advantages of directing spending toward public works programs that engage impoverished peoples rather than using the limited aid money on food subsidies and other passive donations. Featuring discussions about the roles of various social safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty will aid policy makers and encourage further, more analytic study of worldwide poverty reduction programs.
Author | : Martin Ravallion |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Higher agricultural yields reduced absolute poverty in rural India, both by raising smallholder productivity and by increasing real agricultural wages. But gains to the poor were far smaller in the short run than in the long run.Unlike most developing countries, consistent poverty measures for India can be tracked over a long time. Ravallion and Datt used 20 household surveys for rural India for the years 1958-90 to measure the effects of agricultural growth on rural poverty and on the rural labor market and to find out how long it takes for the effects to be felt.They found that measures of absolute rural poverty responded elastically to changes in mean consumption. But agricultural growth had no discernible impact - either positive or negative - on the share of total consumption going to the poor.For the rural poor, Ravallion and Datt attribute the long-run gains from growth to higher average farm yields, which benefited poor people both directly and through higher real agricultural wages. And the benefits from higher yields were not confined to those near the poverty line - the poorest also benefited.The process through which India's rural poor participate in the gains from agricultural growth takes time, although about half of the long-run impact comes within three years.The long-run elasticity of the head-count index to farm yield was over 2 - of which 40 percent came through wages. Short-run elasticities were far smaller.Inflation adversely affected the rural poor by eroding their real wages in the short run.This paper - a product of the Office of the Vice President, Development Economics - is one in a series of background papers prepared for World Development Report 1995 on labor. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Poverty in India, 1950shy;90 (RPO 677-82). The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].
Author | : Martin Ravallion |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Crecimiento economico - India |
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Author | : Shenggen Fan |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0896291286 |
Growth, inequality, and poverty; Public capital e investment; Concptual framework and model; Data, estimation, and results.
Author | : Martin Ravallion |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
January 1995 Higher agricultural yields reduced absolute poverty in rural India, both by raising smallholder productivity and by increasing real agricultural wages. But gains to the poor were far smaller in the short run than in the long run. Unlike most developing countries, consistent poverty measures for India can be tracked over a long time. Ravallion and Datt used 20 household surveys for rural India for the years 1958-90 to measure the effects of agricultural growth on rural poverty and on the rural labor market and to find out how long it takes for the effects to be felt. They found that measures of absolute rural poverty responded elastically to changes in mean consumption. But agricultural growth had no discernible impact -- either positive or negative -- on the share of total consumption going to the poor. For the rural poor, Ravallion and Datt attribute the long-run gains from growth to higher average farm yields, which benefited poor people both directly and through higher real agricultural wages. And the benefits from higher yields were not confined to those near the poverty line -- the poorest also benefited. The process through which India's rural poor participate in the gains from agricultural growth takes time, although about half of the long-run impact comes within three years. The long-run elasticity of the head-count index to farm yield was over 2 -- of which 40 percent came through wages. Short-run elasticities were far smaller. Inflation adversely affected the rural poor by eroding their real wages in the short run. This paper -- a product of the Office of the Vice President, Development Economics -- is one in a series of background papers prepared for World Development Report 1995 on labor. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Poverty in India, 1950-90 (RPO 677-82). The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].