India's economy has accelerated sharply since the late 1980s, but agriculture has not. The
rural population and labour force continue to rise, and rural-urban migration remains slow …

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted
in India with the multiple objectives of providing employment in a rights-based framework …

This paper has applied the parametric and non-parametric approaches to estimate the Total
Factor Productivity (TFP) growth for major wheat and paddy crop producing states in India …

This paper presents an overview of the state of young women farmers in India as they
navigate livelihoods in a sector that faces severe challenges. Discussions of young women …

The central premise of this article is that Indian agriculture must undergo a fundamental
transformation between now and 2039, both on the demand and supply side, by …

If imports of food are constrained to levels only slightly higher than at present, at least a 4%
growth rate of agricultural GDP is needed to support GDP growth rates in excess of 8%. This …

This chapter applies the non-parametric data envelopment approach (DEA) to estimate Total
Factor Productivity (TFP) growth rate for agricultural output during the period 2000–2012 …

As India integrates into the global economy, its villages are integrating into a rapidly growing
urban economy. One of the links through which this is happening is labour markets, where …

This paper applies the non-parametric data envelopment approach (DEA) to estimate Total
Factor Productivity (TFP) growth rate for agricultural output comprising the period 2000 …

As an industrial cluster develops, demand for a labour force in the duster may increase.
There are two sources of labour forces in developing countries. First, surplus labour from …