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| Title: | | Credit constraints as a barrier to technology adoption by the poor: Lessons from South-Indian small-scale fishery  |
| Authors: | | Giné, Xavier Klonner, Stefan |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU) 2006/104 |
| Abstract: | | We study the diffusion of a capital intensive technology among a fishing community in south India and analyze the dynamics of income inequality during this process. We find that lack of asset wealth is an important predictor of delayed technology adoption. During the diffusion process, inequality follows Kuznets’ well-known inverted U-shaped curve. The empirical results imply that redistributive policies favouring the poor result in accelerated economic growth and a shorter duration of sharpened inequality. |
| Subjects: | | technology adoption inequality fishing sector India |
| JEL: | | O33 O13 O25 |
| ISBN: | | 9291908886 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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