Subject(s): Economic developmen -- Economic policy -- Income distribution. India. -- Agricultural growth -- Poverty -- Public Policy -- Growth in west Bengal : Growth and instability of agricultural production in west Bengal, productivity growth and use of modern farms inputs, rural credit and agricultural growth , inter sectoral terms of trade -- Distribution in west Bengal : Poverty, role of the state and participatory development, malnutrition and hunger , poverty and nutritional deprivations, pattern of consumption expenditure, human development and social progress, living conditions, revelations through ACRP benchmark survey -- Public policy in west Bengal : Poverty alleviation programmes, poverty alleviation through special public works programme in irrigation, decentralised planning, globalisation and empowerment