Rural poverty and agricultural performance in India
通过构建一般模型，解释了Ahluwalia和Saith关于农业增长对印度农村贫困影响结论相反的原因，并验证了农业增长减轻贫困、通胀加剧贫困的结论。
In earlier articles in this journal Ahluwalia and Saith came to opposite conclusions about the effect of agricultural growth on rural poverty in India. Our general model shows that the main reason for the difference in the conclusions is the different specification used for the estimating equation. Using the general model and the same data as Ahluwalia and Saith, we are able to verify Ahluwalia's result that agricultural growth reduces rural poverty; our analysis also supports Saith's conclusion that inflationary pressures increase rural poverty.