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9780195662061

The Subsidy Syndrome in Indian Agriculture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195662061

  • ISBN10:

    0195662067

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-03-27
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This work provides an understanding of agricultural subsidies in the context of the World Trade Organisation and the process of liberalisation in India. It examines the issue from various angles in order to move the reform process forward.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
xvi
List of Abbreviations
xix
Introduction
1(5)
Backdrop
1(2)
Issues
3(1)
Scope of the Study
4(2)
India in a Global Setting
6(42)
Backdrop
6(1)
Support to Agriculture: Definition and Measurement
7(9)
Aggregate Measure of Support (AMS)
11(3)
Producer Support Estimate
14(1)
The PSE and AMS Distinguished
15(1)
Support to Agriculture: Degree, Direction and Composition
16(15)
Support in India
16(6)
Support in Other Countries
22(9)
Restructuring Support
31(6)
Changing Colours of Subsidies in OECD Countries
31(6)
Attempts at Subsidy Reform
37(3)
The Indian Experience
37(3)
Summary and Concluding Remarks
40(8)
Endnotes
44(4)
Fertilizer Subsidies
48(42)
Backdrop
48(2)
Existing Pricing Policy Framework
50(1)
Rising Fertiliser Subsidy: The Beneficiaries
51(8)
Rising Fertiliser Subsidy
51(3)
The Beneficiaries of Fertilizer Subsidy
54(5)
Phasing Out Fertilizer Subsidies and likely Implications for Indian Urea Industry
59(13)
Profile of the Urea Industry
59(2)
Comparing Retention Prices and Import Parity Prices
61(4)
Comparing Economic Cost and Import Parity Prices
65(2)
Resource Costs (RCs), Import Parity Prices (IMPPs) and implications for Urea Industry
67(5)
Phasing Out Fertiliser Subsidy and its Likely Implications on Foodgrain Production
72(5)
The Possible Alternatives
77(2)
Policy Options
79(3)
Summary and Concluding Remarks
82(8)
Endnotes
84(6)
Power Subsidies
90(52)
Backdrop
90(2)
The Role and Performance of State Electricity Boards
92(2)
Power Pricing Policy Framework for Agriculture
94(5)
Concept of Power Subsidy to Agriculture
99(1)
Degree and Trends: Power Subsidies to Agriculture
99(1)
Power Subsidies to Agriculture
100(9)
The Need for Reform
100(9)
Who Benefits from Power Subsidy?
109(13)
Reforming Power Subsidies
122(12)
Why Tariff Reform alone will not Succeed
123(1)
Institutional Reform
124(10)
Summary and Concluding Remarks
134(8)
Endnotes
136(6)
Irrigation Subsidies
142(41)
Backdrop
142(1)
Irrigation Subsidies
143(3)
Approaches to Quantifying Irrigation Subsidy
146(5)
Alternate Approaches
147(4)
Approach in this Study
151(1)
Quantification of Irrigation Subsidies
151(4)
Consequences of Irrigation Subsidies
155(8)
Financial and Economic Consequences
157(1)
Physical Constraints
158(1)
Wastage and Inefficiencies in Water Use
159(2)
Inequity
161(1)
Decline in Public Investment
162(1)
The Vicious Circle and the Need for Reform
163(2)
The Remedy
165(13)
Price Reform
166(5)
Institutional Reform
171(7)
Concluding Remarks
178(5)
Endnotes
179(4)
Input Subsidy and its Implications for Policy
183(34)
Backdrop
183(1)
An Overview of Input Subsidies in Indian Agriculture
184(16)
Pricing Policy Framework for Input Subsidies in Indian Agriculture
184(1)
Measuring the Subsidies
185(1)
Degree, Trend, and Dispersion
186(12)
Is Indian Agriculture Net Subsidized?
198(2)
Support to Indian Agriculture
200(17)
The Way to Go
200(1)
The Need for Reform
201(5)
Towards an Agenda for Reform
206(9)
Endnotes
215(2)
Bibliography
217(39)
Annexes
The WTO-URAA and the Colour Boxes
227(1)
An Overview of Fertilizer Pricing Policy in India 1944 to 2001
228(3)
The Concept of Power Subsidy---Different Perspectives
231(2)
Status of Power Reforms and Restructuring in India (2001--2)
233(5)
Power Sector Reform: Global Experience and Lessons for India
238(7)
Reforms in Public Irrigation: The Story of Andhra Pradesh
245(6)
Global Experience in Institutional Reform in Irrigation: What can India Learn?
251(5)
Annexe Tables 256(30)
Name Index 286(2)
Subject Index 288

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