This planning commission paper tries to examine some of the factors that have led to accumulation of excess food grain stocks and make policy prescription on how to deal with the problem of surplus fo...
On 25 Aug 2015 A fairly long series of normal monsoons has coincided with a policy of ensuring relatively higher returns on production of rice and wheat and led to a surplus of food grains accumulated in the FCI god...
On 28 Apr 2014 This paper talks about the customs tariff reforms in India that have come down significantly over the last decade. The 'peak' customs duty rate for instance has progressively come down from around 150...
On 03 May 2011 There is a view favoured by anti-globalisation activists, left economists
and the global/international socialists that faster growth in India has not
reduced poverty. A sub-set of these personalitie...
On 04 Mar 2011 Broad ranging economic reforms were introduced in the Indian economy in the
early 1990s. Yet there was no evidence of a statistical break in the rate of growth of the
Indian economy during the ninet...
On 08 Feb 2011 The focus of the analysis is on the post-colonial period after India attained
independence in 1947. This paper covers the period from 1950-51 onwards for which
consistent data series are available....
On 03 Feb 2011 For most people the story of Indian reforms starts in the nineties, following the
BOP crisis of 1990-91. There was a detectable increase in the rate of growth of the
Indian economy in the 1980s aris...
On 26 Oct 2010 The manufacturing sector in India is crucial for two main reasons: It has significant potential to provide modern
employment to a growing labour force, especially that of less skilled type and second...
On 09 Feb 2010 In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform,
with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
On 28 Jan 2010 The focus of this paper is on the
potential economic factors underlying voter behaviour in a democracy. It develops a
simplified model based on economic theory (welfare & conditional probabilities)...
On 28 Apr 2009 The
paper’s focus is on successful Chinese policies that can be emulated by other countries to an extent (within certain bounds) which mentined in the article. The author is not trying to draw lesson...
On 22 Apr 2009 The paper proposes a Public accountability information system (PAIS), with a web enabled public information system and a smart card recording all the benefits that the poor are entitled to receive thr...
On 22 Jan 2009 The paper lays out a consistent frame work for monetary management in the
context of excess capital inflows. There is an urgent need for developing
competitive, open and well regulated markets for (...
On 24 Jan 2008 This paper focuses on government investment and expenditure policies.
Going beyond the growth experience, the author also tries to relate the
policy experience to the issues of aggregate poverty, in...
On 25 Apr 2007 Though Paul Kennedy and other scholars of National Security, Diplomacy and
Foreign relations have emphasized the importance of the economy in National Power, not many economists have taken an interes...
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