Rural poverty and the role of nonfarm sector in economic development : the Indian experience
Rural poverty and the role of nonfarm sector in economic development : the Indian experience
This dissertation examines certain issues of rural economic backwardness and the nonfarm sector relevant to many developing countries within the context of the Indian rural sector. The study focuses on the causes of the persistence of rural poverty and suggests the expansion of the modern nonfarm sector as a strategy to stimulate development in rural areas. The thesis consists of an overview paper which underlines the contributions made in this study in the context of the work already carried out in the field. Three independent papers follow this.
The first paper applies Sen's (1981) entitlement approach to look into the persistence of poverty and the presence of multiple groups with different productive resources within the rural economy. It builds on the existing literature relating to the causes of rural poverty by seeking to establish a relationship between the rural households and the anti-poverty policies through the ownership bundles of the households. A theoretical framework is presented within which the collective response of the households that determines the success or the failure of a policy can be examined.
The second paper examines expansion of the nonfarm sector as a strategy to strengthen the consumption bundles of resource poor rural households using a theoretical framework. The model here is based on the regional characteristics of eastern parts of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. The work extends the increasing awareness of the potential role of the nonfarm sector in the development process. This is done by focusing on the expansion of the modern nonfarm sector and linkages running from it to the rural economy.
The third paper explores the income enhancing potential of nonfarm sector by empirically appraising a nonfarm employment project of Social Forestry in the region under study using a simulation model. The model simulates the inter-dependencies in the local economy and evaluates the income profile of both types households, those that directly participated in the project and the others that did not, over a period of ten years.
University of Southampton
Tiwari, Meera
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2000
Tiwari, Meera
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Tiwari, Meera
(2000)
Rural poverty and the role of nonfarm sector in economic development : the Indian experience.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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This dissertation examines certain issues of rural economic backwardness and the nonfarm sector relevant to many developing countries within the context of the Indian rural sector. The study focuses on the causes of the persistence of rural poverty and suggests the expansion of the modern nonfarm sector as a strategy to stimulate development in rural areas. The thesis consists of an overview paper which underlines the contributions made in this study in the context of the work already carried out in the field. Three independent papers follow this.
The first paper applies Sen's (1981) entitlement approach to look into the persistence of poverty and the presence of multiple groups with different productive resources within the rural economy. It builds on the existing literature relating to the causes of rural poverty by seeking to establish a relationship between the rural households and the anti-poverty policies through the ownership bundles of the households. A theoretical framework is presented within which the collective response of the households that determines the success or the failure of a policy can be examined.
The second paper examines expansion of the nonfarm sector as a strategy to strengthen the consumption bundles of resource poor rural households using a theoretical framework. The model here is based on the regional characteristics of eastern parts of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. The work extends the increasing awareness of the potential role of the nonfarm sector in the development process. This is done by focusing on the expansion of the modern nonfarm sector and linkages running from it to the rural economy.
The third paper explores the income enhancing potential of nonfarm sector by empirically appraising a nonfarm employment project of Social Forestry in the region under study using a simulation model. The model simulates the inter-dependencies in the local economy and evaluates the income profile of both types households, those that directly participated in the project and the others that did not, over a period of ten years.
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