Development Economics
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-71714-9 (ISBN)
Raja Junankar studied at the London School of Economics, and has a Ph.D. from the University of Essex, UK. He has held research and teaching appointments in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, India, and the United States of America. He has published several books and refereed papers in leading national and international journals. He is an Emeritus Professor, University of Western Sydney and Honorary Professor, UNSW Australia.
1. Introduction
2. Land Tenure, Agricultural Productivity, and Taxation
2.1 Land Tenure and Indian Agricultural Productivity
2.2 Land Ceilings as a Tax on Agriculture
2.3 Review of Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village
2.4 Agricultural Taxation in Less Developed Countries
3 Poverty, Mobility and Inequality
3.1 Poverty in India
3.2 The Green Revolution and Inequality
3.3 Mobility and Inequality in Indian Agriculture
4 Do Farmers in Developing Countries Maximise Profits?
4.1 Tests of the Profit Maximisation Hypothesis
4.2 Do Indian Farmers Maximize Profits?
4.3 Neoclassical Economics and Indian Agriculture
4.4 The Response of Peasant Farmers to Price Incentives
5 Informal Labour Markets
5.1 The Informal Labour Market in India
6 Microfinance and Women's Empowerment
6.1 Factors influencing women's empowerment on microcredit borrowers
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.12.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XII, 233 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| Schlagworte | Economic Efficiency • Indian agriculture • Microfinance • Neoclassical Economics • Social Justice • Unorthodox |
| ISBN-10 | 1-349-71714-2 / 1349717142 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-71714-9 / 9781349717149 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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