State-led or market-led green revolution? Role of private irrigation investment vis-a-vis local government programs in West Bengal's farm productivity growth
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☆ For research support we are grateful to the Mac Network and the National Science Foundation (Grant has benefitted considerably from comments received fro We are grateful to Vikas Rawal for sharing district-lev Bengal, and Bhaswar Moitra for many useful discussions. 3 of Neha Kumar's PhD dissertation submitted to Boston U ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 3534392; fax: + E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P. Ba (D. Mookherjee), [email protected] (N. Kumar).
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تاریخ انتشار 2009