State-led or market-led green revolution? Role of private irrigation investment vis-a-vis local government programs in West Bengal's farm productivity growth

被引：11

作者：

Bardhan, Pranab ^{[2
]}

Mookherjee, Dilip ^{[1
]}

Kumar, Neha ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Boston Univ, Dept Econ, Boston, MA 02215 USA

[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Econ, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[3] Int Food Policy Res Inst, Washington, DC 20006 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | 2012年 / 99卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Land reforms; Tenancy; Irrigation; Agricultural development; Public-private linkages; REFORM;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.06.003

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We estimate the role of private investments in irrigation in farm productivity growth in West Bengal, India between 1982 and 95. Using a state-wide farm panel, we find that falling groundwater costs generated significant growth in value added per acre for farms. These resulted from investments in minor irrigation which was stimulated by tenancy registration programs implemented by local governments. This helps account for substantial spillover effects of the tenancy reform on non-tenant farms noted in an earlier study. Hence the West Bengal Green Revolution of the 1980s benefited from complementarity between private investment incentives and state-led institutional reforms. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：222 / 235

页数：14

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