@article{Samantara:230039,
      recid = {230039},
      author = {Samantara, Samir R.},
      title = {Financial inclusion through Kisan Credit Cards in  Disadvantaged Region like Arunchal Pradesh - Is There  District-Level Convergence?},
      journal = {Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics},
      address = {2015},
      number = {902-2016-68387},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Arunachal Pradesh, though strategically very important, is  one of the most backward States in the
country in the  traditional sense of economic parameters. The long  isolation and separation from the main
stream of the  country, posed formidable problems to the efforts of  socio-economic development of the
State. This paper  examines the question of convergence in Arunachal Pradesh  agriculture since the last
decade. It focuses on the  questions of (a) whether there has been a catching-up  tendency (β-convergence)
of slow-growing districts with  fast-growing ones; and (b) whether there has been a  tendency towards
convergence (σ-convergence) in  agricultural productivity in the last one decade  (2000-2010) over a
representative cross-section of  Arunachal Pradesh districts. The paper also tests the  operation of Galton’s
fallacy through growth-terminal level  regressions for robustness of the results. The tendency of  low-KCC
concentration districts to catch up with high-KCC  concentration districts is studied through  the
unconditional β-convergence approach, and the operation  of Galton’s fallacy through growth-terminal
agricultural  productivity-level regressions. The diminution of variance  in productivity levels is tested
using the σ-convergence  approach and the robustness of the results is tested using  alternative test
statistics.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/230039},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.230039},
}