Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public Policy: Evidence, Diagnosis and Alternatives from Punjab
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Keywords
Farmers’ Suicides; Indebtedness; Public Policy; Agrarian Crisis; Agriculture sector; Structural Transformation; Indian Punjab;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- Q14 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Finance
- Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2006-12-04 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-CWA-2006-12-04 (Central and Western Asia)
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