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Impoverishment, Technology and Growth in Rural India

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  • Gaiha, Raghav

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This paper seeks to demonstrate that the effects of the introd uction of new (Green Revolution) agriculture technology in rural Indi a were highly ambiguous. Based on an analysis of rural households und ertaken between 1968 and 1971, the paper shows that a nonnegligible number of households became poorer. It is argued that a key reason for this was the fact that large cultivators were able to benefit dispro portionately from the growth process unleased by the new technology. It is conjectured, on the basis of more recent evidence, that there was a weakening over time in some of the causal mechanisms making for impoverishment. Copyright 1987 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Gaiha, Raghav, 1987. "Impoverishment, Technology and Growth in Rural India," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 11(1), pages 23-46, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:11:y:1987:i:1:p:23-46
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    1. Aubhik Khan & B. Ravikumar, 2002. "Costly Technology Adoption and Capital Accumulation," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 5(2), pages 489-502, April.
    2. Varsha S Kulkarni & Raghav Gaiha, 2018. "Beyond Piketty: a new perspective on poverty and inequality in India," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 332018, GDI, The University of Manchester.
    3. Madhura Swantinathan, 1991. "Gainers and Losers: A Note on Land and Occupational Mobility in a South Indian Village, 1977–85," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 22(2), pages 261-277, April.
    4. Raghav Gaiha, 1991. "Poverty Alleviation Programmes In Rural India: An Assessment," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 22(1), pages 117-154, January.
    5. Osborne, Theresa, 2006. "Credit and risk in rural developing economies," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 541-568, April.

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