2007/06/01 by Tirthankar Roy · 30 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Social Sciences · #Agrarian society #Agriculture #Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development #Colonial rule #Colonialism #Constraint (computer-aided design) #Development economics #Economic growth #Economic system #Economics #Geography #Green Revolution #Land Rights and Reforms #Political science #Poverty #Social and Economic Development in India #State (computer science)
paper · doi:10.1093/oxrep/grm011
published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy 23(2), 239-250 (Oxford University Press)
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Slow growth of agricultural income has contributed to poor economic growth and poverty in India in modern times. The condition was weakened by Green Revolutions in the last third of the twentieth century. Conventional accounts attribute the stagnation to institutions created during colonial rule in India. This article suggests, instead, that it derived from an environmental constraint. The Green Revolutions succeeded partly because state aid enabled peasants to overcome the constraint in some regions.