09 October, 2012

Agricultural Incentives in India: Past Trends and Prospective Paths Towards Sustainable Development


Agricultural Incentives in India: Past Trends and Prospective Paths Towards Sustainable Development

By- Bruno Dorin and Thomas Jullien (eds)


This book gathers twelve papers which sustained the discussions and conclusions of an Indo-French seminar organized by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH, New Delhi) on 3 and 4 April 2000 at the India International Centre (IIC, New Delhi).

 The objective of this meeting was rather ambitious and sensitive: to debate the relevance and sustainability of a nearly forty-years old system of public incentives to Indian agriculture, mainly subsidies to water, electricity and fertilizers.

The sensitivity of the subject, as also its pertinence, is rooted in the difficult challenge that India had to take up since the early 1990s: to liberalize and open to the world its domestic market in order to bypass some inefficiencies or failures of its mixed economy, without selling of in the process its decision-making independence, as well as some social and environmental objectives peculiar to the subcontinent or to the world community.


Bruno Dorin, Ph.D. in economics and postgraduate in agricultural engineering and management, was Director and Researcher of the CSH (1995-2000). He lived 8 years in India where he conducted various research programmes on contemporary Indian economy and society. He works now for the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD, Montpellier, France).

Thomas Jullien, postgraduate in economics, was Research Assistant at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH, New Delhi) in 1999-2000. He works now for the Institute de Stratégies Patrimoniales of the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA-PG, Paris).






ISBN  978-81-7304-589-9  2004   334p.   Rs.950/Pounds 70

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