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This article evaluates rural infrastructure facilities in 16 major states of India, and examines their impacts on some income and non-income dimensions of rural development. Despite several public initiatives for infrastructure development in rural India, facilities continue to be poor and progress has been mostly unsatisfactory with differential performance across states. Estimates of regression coefficients of the composite indices and individual indicators of rural infrastructure reveal that improved physical and social infrastructure and livelihood opportunities enhance agricultural productivity and output, improve literacy and life expectancy, and reduce poverty and infant mortality. The results, showing the relative importance of various infrastructures, suggest that the government should prioritise additional investments in electricity, roads, irrigation, housing and telecommunications to enhance overall well-being.
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101088
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This paper examines spatial integration of food grain markets in India. Using the maximum likelihood method of cointegration, it investigates whether regional food grain markets within and across states are spatially linked or not. The cointegration tests provide evidence in favour of spatial integration of the regional food grain markets. Even though regional markets are geographically dispersed, prices across different market centres within and across states have exhibited long-run spatial linkages, suggesting that all the exchange locations are integrated and that prices provide relevant market signals. There are, however, regional variations in the extent of market integration, which could be due to regional disparities in infrastructure and the institutional structure of food grain markets. The results have important implications for agricultural price policy and the food market liberalisation programme.
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