State-led or Market-led Green Revolution? Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengal’s Farm Productivity Growth1
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We estimate the role of private investments in irrigation in farm productivity growth in West Bengal, India between 1982-95. Using a state-wide farm panel, we find falling irrigation costs generated significant growth in value added per acre for farms. However, changes in irrigation capacity and costs were stimulated by tenancy registration programs implemented by local governments. This helps account for substantial spillover effects of the tenancy reform on non-tenant farms noted in an earlier study. Hence the West Bengal Green Revolution of the 1980s benefited from complementarity between private investment incentives and state-led institutional reforms.
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State-led or market-led green revolution? Role of private irrigation investment vis-a-vis local government programs in West Bengal's farm productivity growth
☆ For research support we are grateful to the Mac Network and the National Science Foundation (Grant has benefitted considerably from comments received fro We are grateful to Vikas Rawal for sharing district-lev Bengal, and Bhaswar Moitra for many useful discussions. 3 of Neha Kumar's PhD dissertation submitted to Boston U ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 3534392; fax: + E-mail addresses: b...
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