Agricultural Productivity Growth, Rural Economic Diversity, and Economic Reforms: India, 1970–2000*

By Andrew D. Foster, Mark R. Rosenzweig. Economic development and cultural change, 2004

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Electricity Provision and Industrial Development: Evidence from India (2012, unknown): “[22] Foster, A and Rosenzweig, M.”
Poverty Decline, Agricultural Wages, and Non-Farm Employment in Rural India 1983–2004 (2009, unknown): “However, studies based on other data sources have suggested that growth in the non-farm sector has been more pronounced (Foster and Rosenzweig, 2003a, b)..”
Non-Farm Activity, Household Expenditure, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Vietnam: 2002–2008 (2014, background): “…which lies outside the transition world, rural non-farm employment accounted for approximately 20% of total employment, or approximately 70 million non-farm employees, in 2000 (Mukherjee & Zhang, 2005), playing a substantial role in non-farm income and poverty reduction (Foster & Rosenzweig, 2004).”
Impact of modern agricultural technologies on smallholder welfare: Evidence from Tanzania and Ethiopia (2012, background): “Foster and Rosenzweig (2003) and de Janvery et al. (2010) point out that the adoption and input uses are the outcomes of optimizing by heterogeneous agents.”
Agricultural productivity and the sectoral reallocation of labor in rural India (2018, background): “As is shown in Foster and Rosenzweig (2004), the local non-tradable sector in rural areas expands during agricultural booms because income gains from agricultural increase the demand for local goods and services.”
Rural Poverty (2009, background): “Furthermore, evidence from Foster and Rosenzweig (2004) suggests that areas in India with the slowest growth in agricultural productivity had the largest growth in the rural non-farm tradable sector.”
Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South (2006, background): “This rich data source shows that during 1971–99, the share of non-farm incomes in total rural incomes rose from 19% to 48% (Foster & Rosenzweig, 2004, pp. 517–518).”
Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution (2016, background): “Foster and Rosenzweig (2004), for instance, show that the Green Revolution has increased both demand and supply of schooling in India, and that better educated individuals adopted new productivity enhancing agricultural technologies faster.”