Type | Working Paper |
Title | Farm Productivity and Rural Poverty in India |
Author(s) | |
Issue | 42 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 1998 |
URL | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/97041/2/Farm productivity and rural poverty in India.pdf |
Abstract | To what extent do India’s rural poor share in agricultural growth? Combining data from 24 household sample surveys spanning 35 years with other sources, we estimate a model of the joint determination of consumption-poverty measures, agricultural wages, and food prices. We find that higher farm productivity brought both absolute and relative gains to poor rural households. A large share of the gains were via wages and prices, though these effects took time. The benefits to the poor were not confined to those near the poverty line. |