The New Economics of India's Green Revolution : : Income and Employment Diffusion in Uttar Pradesh /

The New Economics of India's Green Revolution : : Income and Employment Diffusion in Uttar Pradesh / / Thomas T. Poleman, Rita Sharma.

This book is a reappraisal of the effects of the Green Revolution in India's most important agricultural region. Through an examination of the changes that have occurred in Uttar Pradesh, Rita Sharma and Thomas T. Poleman show that the impact of technological change has varied over time, initia...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Sharma, Rita,
Poleman, Thomas T.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1993
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Food Systems and Agrarian Change
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 17 b&w illustrations, 65 maps/charts/graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Terms and Abbreviations
  • 1. Technical Change and Rural Poverty
  • 2. The Green Revolution in Uttar Pradesh: The Widening and Subsequent Narrowing of Regional Disparities
  • 3. Income Diffusion over Time: Walidpur Village
  • PHOTOGRAPHS
  • 4. Mechanisms of Income Diffusion: Meerut District
  • 5. Off-Farm Diversification: Rampur Village
  • 6. Dairying as a Source of Income Diffusion: Izarpur Village
  • 7. Labor-intensive Cultivation of High-Value Crops: Jamalpur Village
  • 8. Speeding up Income and Employment Diffusion: Some Policy Implications
  • Appendix. Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient by Sources of Income
  • References
  • Index

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