This study analyzes the evolution of agricultural policies from 1985 to 2002 in India, Indonesia, China, and Vietnam and provides empirical estimates of the degree of protection or disprotection to agriculture in these four countries, both by key
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India spends more money on agriculture each year than any other developing Asian country.
India’s investments in agricultural research, extension, and irrigation have made it one of the largest publicly funded systems in the world.
North Arcot, a rural district of Tamil Nadu, India, has been the site of extensive research on whether economic growth induced by the introduction of the green revolution has widened inequities between the well-to-do and the poor.
Economic growth is driven by technical change. Understanding the many factors that influence technical change is therefore key to an understanding of economic growth and its potential.
In many developing countries the government has divided the grain market into two sectors: an open market and a government-run, concessional food supply system.