Groundwater irrigation using electric pumps plays a key role in India's agricultural water
supply. Power utilities across different states use two common tariff modes to charge …

Climate change will likely increase crop water demand, and farmers may adapt by applying
more irrigation. Understanding the extent to which this is occurring is of particular …

Groundwater is playing an essential role in expanding irrigated agriculture in many parts of
the world. Pakistan is the third-largest user of groundwater for irrigation in the world. The …

Efforts to improve access to electricity and access to water and sanitation often go hand in
hand, as they are essential components of sustainable development. By ensuring access to …

Understanding the complex relationship between water, agriculture and poverty (WAP) is
essential for informed policy-making in light of increasing demand for scarce water …

Private on-farm investment has been lacking by smallholders in Indian agriculture. This
study explores the efficiency of alternative public expenditures to support Indian agriculture …

This paper evaluates the impact of access to groundwater on poverty using data from rural
India. The estimation exploits the fact that the technology required to access groundwater …

India's sequencing of economic and political development has been unusual. In contrast to
the West and more recently East Asia, democratization has preceded economic growth …

In India, the government provides agricultural electricity subsidies amounting to 85% of the
average cost of supply to encourage agricultural production and economic growth …

Growing inequity in access to sustainable irrigation supply services, groundwater and
electricity in particular, has become core agendas in many recent global development …