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Agriculture, growth, and redistribution of income : policy analysis with a general equilibrium model of India /
This book presents an empirically estimated applied general equilibrium model for India and the analysis of a wide range of policy issues carried out using the model. The various chapters in the book deal with public distribution policies, foreign trade and aid policies, rural works programmes, term...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Oxford :
North Holland in association with Allied Publishers : Distributors for the U.S. and Canada Elsevier Science Pub. Co,
1991.
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| Colección: | Contributions to economic analysis ;
190. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Agriculture, Growth and Redistribution of Income: Policy Analysis with a General Equilibrium Modelof India; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; CHAPTER 1. A FRAMEWORK FOR POLICY ANALYSIS; 1.1. Guiding Principles of India's Development; 1.2. Problems in Policy Formulation; 1.3. Desiderata for Policy Analysis; 1.4. Planning for National Development; 1.5. Modeling an Open and Mixed Economy; 1.6. Policy Analysis with an AGM; 1.7. Scope and Plan of the Book; CHAPTER 2. INDIAN ECONOMY AND AGRICULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- CHAPTER 3. A POLICY MODEL FOR AGRICULTURE, GROWTH AND REDISTRIBUTION OF INCOME (AGRI MODEL)3.1. Supply Sub-Models; 3.2. Demography; 3.3. Distribution of Endowments and Population among Consumer Expenditure Classes; 3.4. Demand Sub-Model: Private Final Consumption; 3.5. Policy Sub-Models; 3.6. Exchange; 3.7. Scope, Limitations and Concluding Remarks; Appendix 3.1: Sectors and Commodities in the Model; Appendix 3.2: Updating of Expenditure Class Boundaries; Appendix 3.3: Government Policy Specifications, Bounds and Prices; (a) Stocks; (b) Consumptions; (c) Prices
- (D) Retail Prices, Raw Prices and Processing Margins(e) Tax-Rate; (f) Commodity Prices; Appendix 3.4: Some Econometric Issues in Estimation; (a) Crop Revenue Expectations; (b) Acreage Responses; (c) Yield Functions; (d) Groupwise and Cropwise Irrigated Area; (e) Distribution of Population and Income across Classes; Appendix 3.5: Sources of Data; Appendix 3.6: The Estimated Equations and Parameters of the Model; Appendix 3.7: Construction of Cropwise Rainfall Indices; CHAPTER 4. SCHEME OF ANALYSIS AND THE REFERENCE SCENARIO; 4.1. Need for and Specification of a Reference Scenario
- 4.2. Indicators for Comparison of Scenarios4.3. The Reference Scenario
- Specification; 4.4. The Reference Scenario
- Results; 4.5. The Reference Scenario: Concluding Summary; CHAPTER 5. PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION POLICIES; 5.1. The Issues; 5.2. Public Distribution System; 5.3. Specifications of Alternative Policies and Scenarios; 5.4. The Results; 5.5. Conclusions; CHAPTER 6. FOREIGN TRADE AND AID POLICIES; 6.1. Indian Foreign Trade and Payment Policies; 6.2. Foodgrains Imports; 6.3. Foreign Aid; 6.4. The Scenarios; 6.5. The Results; CHAPTER 7. RURAL WORKS PROGRAMS; 7.1 Why a Rural Works Program?
- 7.2. Rural Works Programs in India: The Experience7.3. The Issues; 7.4. Specification of Rural Works Program Scenarios; 7.5. The Results; 7.6. Impact on Growth and Hunger; 7.7. Impact of the Size of the Program; 7.8. RWP without Additional Taxes or Aid; 7.9. Effect of Targeting Failure and Investment Inefficiencies; 7.10. RWP as a Mechanism for Targeted Redistribution; 7.11. Conclusions; CHAPTER 8. TERMS OF TRADE POLICIES; 8.1. The Issues; 8.2. The Scenarios; 8.3. The Results; 8.4. Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER 9. FERTILIZER SUBSIDY; 9.1. The Issues; 9.2. The Scenarios