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January 2014 Vol. 2 No.1

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Merit Research Journal of Agricultural Science and Soil Science (ISSN: 2350-2274) Vol. 2(1) pp. 007-023, January, 2014

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Agricultural sustainability and economic development: A cross – country analysis

Pratip Kumar Datta

Asst. Teacher, Rajatpur Indranarayan Vidyapith (H.S.), Rajatpur, Bolpur, District: Birbhum, West Bengal, India

E-mail: pratip_riv@yahoo.com

Accepted December 30, 2013

Abstract

In this paper, we assume that agricultural sustainability (AS) is an integral part of environmental sustainability, and geographical, cultural and social differences among countries are certainly important factors for development, but economic compulsion is an extremely important and decisive factor under the present ‘borderless world’. This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between agricultural sustainability and economic development in a broader perspective by constructing inter-country agricultural sustainability index and economic development in a time series cross section pooled framework introducing dummy variables for continent as well as some threshold level of development at the country level. In this connection, we also try to test the validity of the Environmental Kuznets’ Curve (EKC) across the countries.

Keywords: Agricultural Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, Economic Development, Environmental Kuznets’ Curve, Agricultural Sustainability Index.