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Papers by Rinku Murgai
Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2002
ABSTRACT
Rural development policy addresses the welfare of rural households and communities. With a majori... more Rural development policy addresses the welfare of rural households and communities. With a majority of the world's poor located in rural areas, the resilience of rural poverty in industrialized countries, and a significant share of environmental degradation the byproduct of rural poverty, the design of effective rural policies remains an important theme. There is a long history of economic thought
In the Northern Andes, one of the riskiest agriculture climates in the world, farmers use sharecr... more In the Northern Andes, one of the riskiest agriculture climates in the world, farmers use sharecropping to obtain seed, their most costly input. With survey data from Peru, this paper calculates that the cost of seed, when it is provided though sharecropping, is two times higher than the market price. We test the hypothesis that risk-averse farmers are willing to
India's states have significant developmental expenditure responsibilities. While the "f... more India's states have significant developmental expenditure responsibilities. While the "fiscal crisis" which engulfed India's states in the late nineties led to higher deficits and debt levels, it was also associated with a rapid increase in expenditure levels, and it might be thought that this would have increased the development effectiveness of the state governments. However, a closer look at the
Right to Work?:Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar, 2014
Economic and political weekly
Regionally disaggregated estimates of poverty within India's states are typically not compute... more Regionally disaggregated estimates of poverty within India's states are typically not computed because of inadequate sample sizes available for geographic or administrative units below the state level. This paper attempts to ameliorate the sample size problem by pooling the 1999-00 NSS 55th round central and state sample data. We use the pooled data to examine regional variation in poverty within Karnataka. The poverty estimates reveal significant geographic imbalances, with much higher levels and concentration of poverty in the northern districts. Regional patterns are found to be reasonably consistent with independent correlates of poverty, including agricultural wages, employment shares, and district domestic products. However, one important inconsistency is that the rural-urban differentials in poverty rates are not credible and warrant further attention.
This article attempts to determine the long-term productivity and sustainability of irrigated agr... more This article attempts to determine the long-term productivity and sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs by measuring trends in total factor productivity for production systems in both states since the advent of the Green Revolution. These measurements over time and across systems have resulted in three major findings. First, there were wide spatial and temporal variations between the two Punjabs. Although output growth and crop yields were much higher in the Indian Punjab, productivity growth was higher by only a small margin. Moreover, the lowest growth in productivity took place during the initial Green Revolution period (as opposed to the later intensification and post--Green Revolution periods) and in the wheat-rice system in both states. The time lag between adoption of Green Revolution technologies and realization of productivity gains is related to learninginduced efficiency gains, better utilization of capital investments over time, and p...
Journal of Developing Societies, 2005
Abstract Analysis of data from various Bangladesh Household Expenditure Surveys suggests consider... more Abstract Analysis of data from various Bangladesh Household Expenditure Surveys suggests considerable progress at poverty reduction during the 1990s. About 50 percent of the country's population lived below the poverty line in 2000 compared to 59 percent in ...
Journal of Developing Societies, 2005
Page 1. Effectiveness of Food Assistance Programs in Bangladesh1 Rinku Murgai and Salman Zaidi* A... more Page 1. Effectiveness of Food Assistance Programs in Bangladesh1 Rinku Murgai and Salman Zaidi* ABSTRACT Bangladesh boasts a wide array of targeted food assistance programs that strive to achieve a number of important developmental objectives. ...
The impact of global climate change on developing countries is analyzed using CGE-multimarket mod... more The impact of global climate change on developing countries is analyzed using CGE-multimarket models for three archetype economies representing the poor cereal importing nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The objective is to compare the effects of climate change on the macroeconomic performance, sectoral resource allocation, and household welfare across continents. Simulations help identify those underlying structural features of
India's approach to social security stresses the provision of subsidized food and public work... more India's approach to social security stresses the provision of subsidized food and public works. Targeted, unconditional cash transfers are little used, and have been little evaluated. An evaluation of cash transfers for the elderly and widows based on national household survey data and surveys on social pension utilization in two of India's states, Karnataka and Rajasthan, reveal that these social
How can increased spending on priority social and infrastructure sectors be financed in India? Wh... more How can increased spending on priority social and infrastructure sectors be financed in India? While increased tax revenue is part of the answer, as is increased private sector financing of infrastructure, expenditure restructuring will also be important. But how much can be saved by expenditure restructuring? We examine salaries, including pensions, and subsidies in turn. We argue that there are
Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education, 2001
Policy Research Working Papers, 2012
The World Bank Research Observer, 2001
... Rinku Murgai, Mubarik Ali, and Derek Byerlee ... evident from the cost function analysis, Ind... more ... Rinku Murgai, Mubarik Ali, and Derek Byerlee ... evident from the cost function analysis, India would be expected to have more rapid input use and produc-tivity growth than Pakistan, where the share of public resources allocated to agri-culture was lower (Choudhry and Faruqee ...
Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2002
ABSTRACT
Rural development policy addresses the welfare of rural households and communities. With a majori... more Rural development policy addresses the welfare of rural households and communities. With a majority of the world's poor located in rural areas, the resilience of rural poverty in industrialized countries, and a significant share of environmental degradation the byproduct of rural poverty, the design of effective rural policies remains an important theme. There is a long history of economic thought
In the Northern Andes, one of the riskiest agriculture climates in the world, farmers use sharecr... more In the Northern Andes, one of the riskiest agriculture climates in the world, farmers use sharecropping to obtain seed, their most costly input. With survey data from Peru, this paper calculates that the cost of seed, when it is provided though sharecropping, is two times higher than the market price. We test the hypothesis that risk-averse farmers are willing to
India's states have significant developmental expenditure responsibilities. While the "f... more India's states have significant developmental expenditure responsibilities. While the "fiscal crisis" which engulfed India's states in the late nineties led to higher deficits and debt levels, it was also associated with a rapid increase in expenditure levels, and it might be thought that this would have increased the development effectiveness of the state governments. However, a closer look at the
Right to Work?:Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar, 2014
Economic and political weekly
Regionally disaggregated estimates of poverty within India's states are typically not compute... more Regionally disaggregated estimates of poverty within India's states are typically not computed because of inadequate sample sizes available for geographic or administrative units below the state level. This paper attempts to ameliorate the sample size problem by pooling the 1999-00 NSS 55th round central and state sample data. We use the pooled data to examine regional variation in poverty within Karnataka. The poverty estimates reveal significant geographic imbalances, with much higher levels and concentration of poverty in the northern districts. Regional patterns are found to be reasonably consistent with independent correlates of poverty, including agricultural wages, employment shares, and district domestic products. However, one important inconsistency is that the rural-urban differentials in poverty rates are not credible and warrant further attention.
This article attempts to determine the long-term productivity and sustainability of irrigated agr... more This article attempts to determine the long-term productivity and sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs by measuring trends in total factor productivity for production systems in both states since the advent of the Green Revolution. These measurements over time and across systems have resulted in three major findings. First, there were wide spatial and temporal variations between the two Punjabs. Although output growth and crop yields were much higher in the Indian Punjab, productivity growth was higher by only a small margin. Moreover, the lowest growth in productivity took place during the initial Green Revolution period (as opposed to the later intensification and post--Green Revolution periods) and in the wheat-rice system in both states. The time lag between adoption of Green Revolution technologies and realization of productivity gains is related to learninginduced efficiency gains, better utilization of capital investments over time, and p...
Journal of Developing Societies, 2005
Abstract Analysis of data from various Bangladesh Household Expenditure Surveys suggests consider... more Abstract Analysis of data from various Bangladesh Household Expenditure Surveys suggests considerable progress at poverty reduction during the 1990s. About 50 percent of the country's population lived below the poverty line in 2000 compared to 59 percent in ...
Journal of Developing Societies, 2005
Page 1. Effectiveness of Food Assistance Programs in Bangladesh1 Rinku Murgai and Salman Zaidi* A... more Page 1. Effectiveness of Food Assistance Programs in Bangladesh1 Rinku Murgai and Salman Zaidi* ABSTRACT Bangladesh boasts a wide array of targeted food assistance programs that strive to achieve a number of important developmental objectives. ...
The impact of global climate change on developing countries is analyzed using CGE-multimarket mod... more The impact of global climate change on developing countries is analyzed using CGE-multimarket models for three archetype economies representing the poor cereal importing nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The objective is to compare the effects of climate change on the macroeconomic performance, sectoral resource allocation, and household welfare across continents. Simulations help identify those underlying structural features of
India's approach to social security stresses the provision of subsidized food and public work... more India's approach to social security stresses the provision of subsidized food and public works. Targeted, unconditional cash transfers are little used, and have been little evaluated. An evaluation of cash transfers for the elderly and widows based on national household survey data and surveys on social pension utilization in two of India's states, Karnataka and Rajasthan, reveal that these social
How can increased spending on priority social and infrastructure sectors be financed in India? Wh... more How can increased spending on priority social and infrastructure sectors be financed in India? While increased tax revenue is part of the answer, as is increased private sector financing of infrastructure, expenditure restructuring will also be important. But how much can be saved by expenditure restructuring? We examine salaries, including pensions, and subsidies in turn. We argue that there are
Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education, 2001
Policy Research Working Papers, 2012
The World Bank Research Observer, 2001
... Rinku Murgai, Mubarik Ali, and Derek Byerlee ... evident from the cost function analysis, Ind... more ... Rinku Murgai, Mubarik Ali, and Derek Byerlee ... evident from the cost function analysis, India would be expected to have more rapid input use and produc-tivity growth than Pakistan, where the share of public resources allocated to agri-culture was lower (Choudhry and Faruqee ...