Articles by N V Namboodiri

N V Namboodiri The emphasis in government policy on target-group specific and social sector related government expenditure for poverty alleviation programmes and neglet of government expenditure for agricultural growth together with an ad hoc policy approach to farm input subsidies and interest rates for rural credit in addition to the misdirected policy of relying on relative farm prices as an engine of agricultural growth are disconcerting developments as agricultural growth and poverty alleviation are perfectly compatible objectives. Against this background this paper analyses the prerequisites of alleviation of absolute rural poverty with a view to identifying a strategy and policy priorities for poverty alleviation.

A Strategic Perspective for Ninth Plan Bhupat M Desai N V Namboodiri This paper develops a strategic perspective on agricultural development in the Ninth Plan by analysing the sector's contributions to the state's economy, its features, and its shortas well as long-run growth performance. The paper also suggests the kind of restructuring required in the new economic environment.

Agricultural Development Bhupat M Desai N V Namboodiri This article analyses the performance of rural institutional finance system and draws implication for improving his performance. It is seen that while the long run performance of the rural institutional finance system has been good short run growth rates display a desperate performance. Moreover, this system has performed better in deposit mobilisation than in financing agricultural output and investment Its performance on the functional structure of loans and loan recovery leaves much to be desired. Despite this, the RFIs are viable and have not suffered from scale diseconomies in their transaction costs. Similarly, agricultural productivity and investment have increased with the increase in various functions of the rural institutional finance system.