Income Generation and Inequality in India's Agricultural Sector: The Consequences of Land Fragmentation

Sanjoy Chakravorty, S Chandrasekhar and Karthikeya Naraparaju ()

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Abstract: This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India's agricultural sector. The paper analyses the National Sample Surveys of agriculture in 2003 and 2013 using descriptive, decomposition, and modelling tools, and estimate income inequality in the agricultural sector at the scale of the nation and its 17 largest states.

Keywords: Agricultural Households; Sources of Income; Income Inequality; agricultural sector; National Sample Surveys (NSS); modelling tools; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-05
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Working Paper: Income generation and inequality in India's agricultural sector: The Consequences of land fragmentation (2016)
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