Agriculture and economic development

By:

Jha, Prakash Ratna

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; Ashish Pub.; 1988Description: 215pISBN:

8170242193

Subject(s):

Agriculture-Economic aspects-India

DDC classification:

338.1 Jha

Summary: The book examines a highly complex but important area of economic system: Contributions of agricultural sector to over all economic growth in India. The book is based on Simon Kuznets' model concerned with the measurement of contribution of a sector to economic growth. The contribution of agricul tural sector to over all economic growth takes three distinct forms. These are product contribution, factor contribution and market contribution. This book analyses all these three forms in the context of Indian economy and draws a number of interesting and significant conclusions. The book also analyses the concept of warranted rate of growth in a theoretical framework and tries to apply it to the Indian agriculture.

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The book examines a highly complex but important area of economic system: Contributions of agricultural sector to over all economic growth in India. The book is based on Simon Kuznets' model concerned with the measurement of contribution of a sector to economic growth. The contribution of agricul tural sector to over all economic growth takes three distinct forms. These are product contribution, factor contribution and market contribution. This book analyses all these three forms in the context of Indian economy and draws a number of interesting and significant conclusions. The book also analyses the concept of warranted rate of growth in a theoretical framework and tries to apply it to the Indian agriculture.

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