This chapter deals with the distortions to price incentives for agriculture that result from the trade, exchange rate and domestic policies in place in the four main South Asian countries, by summarizing and comparing the findings and themes of the more-detailed case studies on India, Pakistan,...

This paper uses state data to analyze the impact of agricultural research on reducing urban poverty in India from 1970 to 1995. In addition to substantially reducing rural poverty, agricultural research investments have played a major role in the reduction of urban poverty. Agricultural research...