TY - BOOK AU - Kurosaki,Takashi TI - Comparative economic development in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: agriculture in the 20th century SN - 9784621301364 U1 - 338.1095405 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Tokyo, Japan PB - Maruzen Publishing KW - Agriculture KW - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Long-term agricultural growth and crop shifts -- 3. Agriculture-Macroeconomy linkage -- 4. Land productivity and spatial crop shifts in West Punjab -- 5. Spatial changes in agricultural production in contemporary India -- 6. Cropping patterns at different aggregation levels in West Punjab -- 7. Crops, Livestock, and disasters in the North-West frontier province -- 8. Conclusion N2 - This volume empirically analyzes the long-term process of agricultural development in the Indian subcontinent, based on new datasets compiled by the author. The basic approach of the analysis is comparative. first, agricultural performance in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-the three largest countries in South Asia-is compared. Second, the process of agricultural transformation is investigated at the country, regional, and farm level, enabling the author to compare empirical patterns at different aggregation levels ER -