Watering the Seeds of the Rural Economy

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dc.creatorBoudot-Reddy, Camille
dc.creatorButler, André
dc.date2025-08-06T19:14:41Z
dc.date2025-08-06T19:14:41Z
dc.date2025-08-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:31:21Z
dc.descriptionThis study explores the impact of private investment in groundwater extraction for irrigation on the spatial and sectoral distribution of rural economic activity in India. Exploiting a kink in access to groundwater, generated from an absolute technological constraint on the operational capacity of irrigation pumps with depth of the water table, there is evidence of a significant improvement in agricultural production accompanied with modest consumption gains. Groundwater extraction causes a substantial increase in population density, but has no effect on the employment rate or labor reallocation between sectors of the economy. Furthermore, irrigated agriculture appears to provide additional employment opportunities for waged labor from surrounding non- irrigated villages.
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dc.identifierhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/c8d24e32-05a8-4747-ba14-a55320a7a014
dc.identifierThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier1564-698X (online)
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/43550
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/405211
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.relationWorld Bank Economic Review; 39 (3)
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectIRRIGATION
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.subjectLABOR
dc.subjectINDIA
dc.titleWatering the Seeds of the Rural Economy
dc.titleEvidence from Groundwater Irrigation in India
dc.typeJournal Article

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