Contrasts in Development in Bihar: A Tale of Two Villages
研究印度最贫困邦之一比哈尔邦两个村庄过去30年的经济和社会变化，一个依靠农业多样化和本地非农就业，另一个依赖远距离移民，两种发展模式在收入上未分优劣，但移民模式的长期可持续性存疑。
The article investigates the economic and social changes that have occurred over the last 30 years in two villages in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India. The two villages are on different development paths: one based on agricultural diversification and local non-agricultural employment, the other dependent on migration to distant labour markets. They therefore connect with India’s overall growth in different ways. Neither development model delivers clearly superior outcomes in terms of incomes, nor are they exhausted, but the long-term sustainability of a migration-led model remains debatable.