Population and Foodgrain Output in India: A Note on Disparate Growth Rates

Ashok Mitra
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Ashok Mitra: Government of India

Chapter 2 in Economic Development in South Asia, 1970, pp 21-32 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This short paper has a modest objective. In recent years, attention has been increasingly concentrated on the difficulties India has been experiencing in feeding her growing population. An attempt has been made below to analyse the data relating to the contrasting rates of growth of foodgrain output and population in the country as a whole and in the different constituent states. Some implications of these diverse rates of growth in terms of policy-making are mentioned; the discussion concludes with a reference to the alternative possibilities of economic growth germane in the situation.

Keywords: Population Growth; Capita Production; Resource Endowment; Decline Death Rate; Commercial Crop (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1970
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-00964-0_2

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