The Subsidy Syndrome in Indian Agriculture

By A. Gulati, S. Narayanan. 2003

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Review: Taking stock of Africa’s second-generation agricultural input subsidy programs (2018, background): “Fertilizer-responsive modern varieties, irrigation, and fertilizer were the main ingredients of Asia’s Green Revolution (Gulati and Narayanan, 2003), and there are many areas of Africa where fertilizer is highly valued by farmers.”
Old Problems in the New Solutions? Politically Motivated Allocation of Program Benefits and the “New” Fertilizer Subsidies (2011, background): “Gulati and Narayanan (2003) document how political interests have prevented reform in agricultural subsidies in India when evidence shows that such reform is necessary from an efficiency perspective.”
Electricity Provision and Industrial Development: Evidence from India (2012, background): “[25] Gulati, A.”
Measuring distortions to agricultural incentives, revisited* (2008, background): “…rate (which could be the black market rate if no legal secondary market exists) is 13 For an analysis of input subsidies in Indian agriculture, see Gulati and Narayanan (2003). reported along with an estimate of the proportion of foreign currency actually sold by exporters at the parallel market…”
Energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia: improving groundwater conservation and power sector viability (2003, background): “3 Gulati and Narayanan (2003) took the difference between the total cost of supplying power to all sectors and the tariff charged from the agriculture sector as a measure of the subsidy to agriculture per kWh. Multiplying this by the estimated power supply to agriculture, they place the power…”
Investment, subsidies, and pro‐poor growth in rural India (2008, methodology): “The oneyear lagged per capita urban GDP variable is used in the wages, nonfarm employment, and agricultural price determination equations.”
Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India (2018, background): “75 percent of its GDP on fertilizer subsidies in 1999–2000 (Gulati and Narayanan, 2003).”
Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya (2011, background): “…use and yields in test plots, they argue that fertilizer generates high returns and that dramatic growth in agricultural yields in Asia and the stagnation of yields in Africa can largely be explained by increased fertilizer use in Asia and continued low use in Africa (Michael Morris et al. 2007).”