Economic Development in Palanpur Over Five Decades

by Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern

Book Overview

This book provides an account of economic development in Palanpur, a village in rural North India, based on five detailed surveys of the village over the period 1957 to 1993. These five decades have seen economic well-being rise in some important respects, but stagnation and even decline in other areas. The analysis presented here focuses on the reasons behind this uneven progress. The authors tie in the background issues of the evolution of poverty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198831951
• ISBN13: 9780198831952
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"