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Population and Foodgrain Output in India: A Note on Disparate Growth Rates

In: Economic Development in South Asia

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  • Ashok Mitra

    (Government of India)

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This short paper has a modest objective. In recent years, attention has been increasingly concentrated on the difficulties India has been experiencing in feeding her growing population. An attempt has been made below to analyse the data relating to the contrasting rates of growth of foodgrain output and population in the country as a whole and in the different constituent states. Some implications of these diverse rates of growth in terms of policy-making are mentioned; the discussion concludes with a reference to the alternative possibilities of economic growth germane in the situation.

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  • Ashok Mitra, 1970. "Population and Foodgrain Output in India: A Note on Disparate Growth Rates," International Economic Association Series, in: E. A. G. Robinson & Michael Kidron (ed.), Economic Development in South Asia, chapter 2, pages 21-32, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-00964-0_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-00964-0_2
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