Preface | |
Terms and Abbreviations | |
Technical Change and Rural Poverty | p. 1 |
Equity Issues: The Early Assessments | p. 2 |
Broader Implications of the Early Assessments | p. 11 |
Gains from Green Revolution Technology | p. 14 |
Emerging Trends: Second-Generation Effects | p. 18 |
Organization of the Book | p. 20 |
The Green Revolution in Uttar Pradesh: The Widening and Subsequent Narrowing of Regional Disparities | p. 23 |
Profile of Uttar Pradesh | p. 23 |
Historical Perspective on East-West Disparities | p. 30 |
State Intervention to Correct Imbalances | p. 36 |
Widening and Subsequent Narrowing of Regional Disparities | p. 38 |
Income Differentials: Evidence from Micro Studies | p. 55 |
Income Diffusion over Time: Walidpur Village | p. 63 |
Profile of Walidpur Village | p. 66 |
The Benchmark and Present Studies | p. 69 |
Impact of the Green Revolution | p. 71 |
Income Diffusion over Time | p. 81 |
Mechanisms of Income Diffusion: Meerut District | p. 105 |
Profile of Meerut District | p. 105 |
Mechanisms of Income Diffusion | p. 110 |
Methodology and Data Collection | p. 119 |
Off-Farm Diversification: Rampur Village | p. 127 |
Profile of Rampur Village | p. 127 |
Increasing Importance of Off-Farm Activities | p. 131 |
Income Diffusion in Rampur | p. 140 |
Household Economic Strategies | p. 144 |
Dairying as a Source of Income Diffusion: Izarpur Village | p. 176 |
Profile of Izarpur Village | p. 176 |
The Appeal of Dairying to Small Producers | p. 181 |
Income Diffusion in Izarpur | p. 190 |
Household Strategies | p. 193 |
Labor-intensive Cultivation of High-Value Crops: Jamalpur Village | p. 211 |
Profile of Jamalpur Village | p. 211 |
Growing Importance of High-Value, Labor-intensive Crops | p. 217 |
Income Diffusion in Jamalpur | p. 224 |
Household Strategies | p. 226 |
Speeding up Income and Employment Diffusion: Some Policy Implications | p. 239 |
Hastening the Income Diffusion Process | p. 243 |
Appendix: Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient by Sources of Income | p. 256 |
References | p. 259 |
Index | p. 269 |
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