New paper out from lab co-facilitator, Dr. Vaishnavi Tripuraneni

“Credit in agrarian India: narrative policy struggles over farmer surplus”

Highlights

  • •Evolution of innovative agricultural credit policies to solve the problem of farmer indebtedness continue to be shaped by a consistent narrative of eliminating informal lending.
  • •Informal lending is a barrier to capitalist accumulation.
  • •State policy to eliminate informality perpetuates a class struggle over farmer surplus.