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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