IMPACT OF IRRIGATION ON RURAL POVERTY IN INDIA : AN AGGREGATE PANEL-DATA ANALYSIS

Quantification of the marginal impacts of irrigation and selected impact factors on spatial and temporal variation in the rural level in India. The study uses the head count ratio measure of poverty to evaluate how the poverty level is affected by impact factors (irrigation, fertilisers application, rural literacy rate, and rural road density). It was found that marginal impacts of irrigation followed by the rural literacy were larger in explaining the variation of rural poverty level in India than those of other factor-impact selected.