Journal of Rural Development

G. V. Krishna Lohi Das

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The global economy has been transforming at a rapid rate. Technology and innovations played a pivotal role in this process of economic transformation. The nature of technological progress and institutional arrangements effect the direction of economic development. There is increasing interest among economists to examine the creation and dissemination of innovations across farms, firms, regions and over time. The pace of knowledge generation and diffusion, a basic responsibility of the nation state, has fundamentally determined the pace of economic development across countries and over time. Therefore, there has been a close relationship between innovation and the government's innovation policies governed by the national goals and expectations.

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G. V. Krishna Lohi Das

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Rural Development has always been a significant concern in all debates pertaining to sustainable development, especially of developing countries, throughout the world. India, as a developing country is not an exception. Rural development has great importance for a country like India, where majority of the population, around 68.64 per cent (as per 2011 Census) of the people live in rural areas. The process of development has been considered as a guaranteed mechanism of progressive transformation. The term rural development includes a wide range of development initiatives that focus at developing rural areas through creation of all types of assets to ameliorate the condition of the rural people.

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G. V. Krishna Lohi Das

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G. V. Krishna Lohi Das

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India's economy has witnessed a significant economic growth in the recent past, growing at 7.3 per cent in FY 2015 as against 6.9 per cent in FY 2014. The size of the Indian economy was estimated to be at US $ 2.01 trillion for the year 2014 as compared to US $ 1.84 trillion for 2013. This growth is powered by greater access to banking, technology adoption, urbanisation and other structural reforms.

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G. V. Krishna Lohi Das

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G. V. Krishna Lohi Das

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In the year 2000, the United Nations, after surveying all the economic, social, health and environmental problems of our planet, announced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). They agreed on eight goals, the first of which was declared to be the eradication of poverty. This was of immediate significance to all those concerned about poverty in India, which, going by the World Bank poverty standard of a per capita income of less than US$ 1.25 per day, implied that India contained one-third of the world's poor (2010 figures). The poor thus formed 42 per cent of the Indian population and lived mostly in rural areas. Despite recent overall increases in India's growth rates and an official downward revision of poverty estimates, the absolute number of rural Indians living below the poverty line is estimated at about 400 millions (2010 figures).

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