Returns to Public Investments in the Less-Favored Areas of India and China

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Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production: Evidence from Rural China (2012, unknown): “Gollin and Rogerson (2010) develop a theoretical model and calibrate it with Uganda data, showing that as transportation cost decreases, farmers will use more intermediate inputs, which in turn contribute to agricultural output growth.”
Livestock sector development for poverty reduction: an economic and policy perspective. Livestock's many virtues. (2012, background): “• It has been demonstrated that in today’s world, investments have higher returns in less-favoured areas, which are also home to the poorest segments of humanity, mainly because investment opportunities have begun to decline in more developed areas (Fan and Chan-Kang, 2004; Fan and Hazell, 2001).”
Green Revolution: Impacts, limits, and the path ahead (2012, background): “In South Asia, the poorest areas that relied on rain-fed agriculture were also the slowest to benefit from the GR, contributing to widening interregional disparities and an incidence of poverty that still remains high (34, 41).”