Babu, K.K. and Satish, K. (2014) Incidence of rural poverty in dryland regions of Andhra Pradesh. Asian-African journal of Economics and Econometrics, 14 (1). pp. 83-88.
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Abstract
The paper attempts to shed some light on the issue of social aspect, by finding out the relation between performance of dryland agriculture and poverty. The results of the specified logit model shows that the coefficient associations with the explanatory variables have registered an expected sign and most of them are found to be significant at probability levels ranging from 1 to 10 per cent. The coefficient of determination R2 is 0.85 which indicates that the model is a good fit. The literacy percentage, farm size, mandays of employment, percentage of adults in the household and income from agriculture are found to be negative and significant. The social status of the farm households could not influence their probability of being deprived, i.e., non SC, ST households are also found to be deprived by their appropriate percentages. Thus the results of analysis, imply that the probability of a household being deprived could be influenced by the variables considered in this model except that of social status.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Dryland, Rural Poverty, Composite Index, Logit regression. |
| Author Affiliation: | Department of Economics, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur-522510, Andhra Pradesh |
| Subjects: | Agricultural Engineering |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr B Krishnamurthy |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2016 10:03 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2016 10:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/14431 |
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