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Economic growth and rural transformation in Eastern India: Strategies for Inclusive Growth

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Title Economic growth and rural transformation in Eastern India: Strategies for Inclusive Growth
 
Creator Kumar, R
Deb, U
Bantilan, C
Nagaraj, N
Bhattarai, M
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description There is an emerging consensus that the well-being of rural households
improve with the blending of farm activities with non-farm economic
activities. The diversification of rural livelihood positively impacts the wellbeing
of the rural households. Eastern states however remained laggard in
rural transformation due to myriad of endogenous as well as exogenous
factors. With uneven distribution of production assets, poor infrastructure
and governance, low levels of literacy, skills, awareness and connectivity
and limitations of alternative options for livelihood, the high prevalence of
poverty in the region becomes the structural corollary. This paper delves
into its multiple dimensions of rural transformation with focus on selected
eastern states of India. Considering very small landholding of the farmers
and thereby negligible employment elasticity to agricultural growth,
creation of non-agricultural opportunities, diversification, and
transformation of rural economy towards expanding rural non-farm
employment are adjunct to the strategies of managing vulnerabilities
associated to the region bringing meaningful structural change in the rural
socio-economic conditions.
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9144/1/2015_Eastern%20India_IJED.pdf
Kumar, R and Deb, U and Bantilan, C and Nagaraj, N and Bhattarai, M (2015) Economic growth and rural transformation in Eastern India: Strategies for Inclusive Growth. Indian Journal of Economics and Development, 11 (3). pp. 779-797. ISSN 2277-5412