Inclusive Development and Institutional Dynamics

Contents Foreword. Preface and acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Review of literature. 3. Research methodology. 4. Demographic features of the study area. 5. Results. 6. Summary. Bibliography. It has been widely recognized that with the advent of liberalization and globalisation India has made significant achievements in the field of agriculture food security rural poverty alleviation and social and economic safety net during the last two decades. The existing policy regime which is founded on achieving food grain self sufficiency achieved through innovative support price to the agricultural produces and rationalizing farm subsidies (fertilizer irrigation and power). Hence the earlier absolute protection regime is no longer compatible with the changed environment of third phase of globalisation as the earlier policy regime is no more sustainable without working on its total efficacy on long term basis. Therefore there is an acute need of developing a new sustainable and acceptable strategy for the rural India with human face. The book has mostly dealt with two key policy areas. The first is to reorient government expenditures away from subsidies toward more productivity enhancing public investments including rural infrastructure (irrigation rural markets roads electrification and drinking water) and services (agriculture research and extension environmental conservation land administration education and health in rural areas). The second policy change emphasized here is to eliminate for good the artificial restrictions on domestic trade (storage transport credit controls). These changes will improve the investment climate for farmers and other socio economic actors in rural sector that would go a long way in empowering the rural India. 222 pp.…