CHANGING TRAJECTORIES - AGRICULTURAL GROWTH IN WEST-BENGAL, 1950-1996

Authors
RAWAL V SWAMINATHAN M
Citation
V. Rawal et M. Swaminathan, CHANGING TRAJECTORIES - AGRICULTURAL GROWTH IN WEST-BENGAL, 1950-1996, Economic and political weekly, 33(40), 1998, pp. 2595-2602
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Political Science","Planning & Development
Journal title
Economic and political weekly → ACNP
ISSN journal
00129976
Volume
33
Issue
40
Year of publication
1998
Pages
2595 - 2602
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-9976(1998)33:40<2595:CT-AGI>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
This paper examines the record of agricultural growth in West Bengal o ver the last 50 years. What is interesting and remarkable about the We st Bengal experience is that acceleration in growth occurred during an d after major changes in agrarian institutions and land relations. Thi s experience underlines the importance of changes in agrarian structur e and agrarian reform for economic growth in a backward agrarian econo my.