On March 24, 2020, the Government of India announced a 21-day national lockdown that has since
been extended to May 3, 2020. The lockdown has left urban food markets in disarray with severe supply
b...
On 06 May 2020 This study investigates the consequences of poor implementation in public workfare programs, focusing
on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India. Using
national...
On 29 Nov 2016 the study has been able to highlight the increasing
role that agriculture credit is playing in supporting agriculture production in recent
times- credit accounted for 16% of the total value of paid...
On 10 Aug 2016 This study examines the nature of the relationship between formal agricultural credit and agricultural GDP in India, specifically the role of the former in supporting agricultural growth, using state...
On 23 Jan 2015 This paper presents the results of a survey of over 4100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and over 4800 randomly selected users across
100 vil...
On 20 Oct 2014 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days, has different progressive provisions which incentivise higher p...
On 25 Aug 2014 This piece analyzes the implications of the National Food Security Act for India's commitments
under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) in the context of widespread concern that they might be
mu...
On 10 Dec 2013 This study examines time use data for 1244 children in the age-group 6-12 years in 274
villages in eight states in rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent
in school, time sp...
On 02 Dec 2013 This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India,
bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses a...
On 20 Sep 2012 The heterogeneity of welfare impacts of contract farming participation is demonstrated by estimating
an endogenous switching model using survey data for 474 farmers in four commodity sectors, gherkin...
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