Explaining agricultural wage trends in India

Acharya, S. and Papanek, G.F. (1995) Explaining agricultural wage trends in India. Development Policy Review, 13 (1). pp. 23-39.

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Abstract

There is an extensive literature on the relationship between rates of economic growth and the incomes of the poor.' Many of these studies have questioned whether the poor benefit from rising agricultural output (see Griffin and Chose, 1979; Saith, 1981; Bardhan, 1986). A definitive answer has been handicapped by the paucity of consistent, long-term time series. There is also disagreement on the causal linkages between gro-wth in output and changes in the incomes of the poor...

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India and Boston Institute for Developing Economies, Boston, MA, USA
Subjects: Social Sciences
Divisions: General
Depositing User: Ms K Syamalamba
Date Deposited: 03 Sep 2014 07:57
Last Modified: 03 Sep 2014 07:57
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/13417

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