Articles by N Krishnaji

Working Mothers and Child Survival in Rural India Insights from Spatial Patterns N Krishnaji This paper analyses the levels and gender differentials in child mortality across the rural parts of the Indian states in relation to the work status and work participation rates among women and two other correlates of mortality, viz, fertility and female literacy. Since states are large and some of them contain sub-regions which vary considerably with respect to both agro-economic and cultural factors, the correlations are examined in more detail at the district and sub-regional levels as they are observed in Andhra Pradesh. The paper concludes with a discussion of the main issues.

A Study in Inter-Regional Variations N Krishnaji P Satya Sekhar The Indian experience of the two decades, 1961-81, offers some scope for analysis of the interrelationships between the components of population growth and the characteristics of agrarian change. A dramatic improve- ment has taken place during this period in technology and productivity in some parts of the country even as other regions have demonstrably stagnated. Did the prosperous regions experience higher rates of population growth, either through higher rates of natural increase or through immigration? What is the demographic picture of areas of stagnation and decline: Are they marked by high rates of mortality and out-migration? One can ask similar questions about the extent to which population pressure has led to land or labour intensification in areas ex- periencing drastic declines in land-man ratio. This paper is concerned with these Questions.

A Survey with Reference to Indian Foodgrain Economy N Krishnaji Agricultural price policy must be seen as an essential part of a larger 'package' of policies designed to promote rapid growth in a few regions endowed with irrigation facilities and to encourage private investment in the necessary means for the cultivation of the new varieties. Given the highly skewed distribution of land and assets and the marked regional concentration of irrigated areas, the policy package was bound to promote both interand intra- regional inequalities. One can thus perceive a built-in regressive element in the price policy and locate it within the overall policy of promoting growth through various production incentives, a policy not based on sufficient consideration of its distributional consequences.

A Note on Ninth Finance Commission's Approach N Krishnaji The Ninth Finance Commission claims to have adopted a normative approach in assessing the tax revenue capacities of the different states and for this purpose the commission has, in its first report covering 1989-90, employed a regression equation fitted to past data to generate estimates of tax potential. This note discusses the regression equation and the manner in which it has been used for making revenue projections and shows that the whole procedure is shot through with defects.

N Krishnaji Agricultural Price Policy and Income Distribution in India by Alain de Janvry and K Subbarao; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986; pp 114, Rs 75.