1. Agrarian Poverty, Nutrition and Economic Class - A Study of Gujarat, India.
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Dixit, Anita
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POVERTY research , *NUTRITION , *INDUSTRIALIZATION , *ECONOMIC development , *POVERTY reduction , *LAND tenure - Abstract
This paper analyses poverty and calorific undernourishment in the Indian state of Gujarat, where high and market-led industrial growth has resulted in rapid economic improvement. The study is carried out through a combination of secondary and survey-based data. We conclude that the neoliberal agenda of uncontrolled, outward-looking growth has not resulted in significant reduction of poverty or malnourishment in rural areas. Furthermore, while land ownership is officially used as a proxy for wealth distribution, class position appears a better predictor of poverty status in the rural areas than landownership per se. At the policy level, there is a need to revive the agrarian economy and create new non-agricultural assets, and the primary focus in the state must shift to the distribution of created assets rather than a single-minded focus on growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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