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... Section: Working Papers
by Sudha Narayanan | On 01 Apr 2020 Previous studies find mixed results about how a fee on high order-to-trade (OTR) ratios impacts market quality. Using a natural experiment where such a fee was introduced twice for different reasons,... Section: Working Papers
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 01 Apr 2019 New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models with various specifications of technology, markup and interest rate shocks are estimated with Indian data using Kalman filter based p... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Apr 2019 Indian post reform growth rates have been higher but more volatile compared to transition periods for other comparable countries. The reasons are aggravation of shocks due to unaddressed critical bott... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Mar 2019 Over 2017-18 there was a sharp rise in Indian government securities (G-Secs) interest rates unrelated to fundamentals. Examining each of the standard explanatory variables shows them to be inadequate... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Mar 2019 The chapter examines progress as well as continuing concerns in G-20 led financial reforms, with particular emphasis on emerging markets (EMs). Although risks remain they are of a lower order of magni... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Mar 2019 This study analyses the time varying correlation of money and output using the DCC GARCH model for the Euro, India, Poland, the UK and the US. Apart from simple sum money, this model uses Divisia mone... Section: Working Papers
by Taniya Ghosh | On 27 Jan 2019 This paper provides 10 conclusions on the policies needed to achieve three goals of agricultural development in India. These are : (1) There is a need for change in the narrative in the new context; (... Section: Working Papers
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 15 Dec 2018 Non-stationary time series are a frequently observed phenomenon in several applied fields, particularly physics, engineering and economics. The conventional way of analysing such series has been via s... Section: Working Papers
by Dilip M. Nachane | On 15 Dec 2018 This paper analyses competition in a two sided market with congestion. The existing literature’s pricing mechanisms of two-sided markets has concluded that pricing mechanism depends on the following t... Section: Working Papers
by Swapnil Sharma | On 01 Dec 2018 This paper analyses the factors affecting on-farm diversification decision. Notwithstanding the influence of farm and household conditions, studies have also highlighted the role of external pull fact... Section: Working Papers
by Varun Kumar Das | On 15 Nov 2018 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Oct 2018 This paper takes a New Keynesian model with non-separable money in utility to Indian data using maximum likelihood. The identification problem in isolating the effect of money on output and inflation... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Sep 2018 Selfless activists like Mr. Pai teach us the importance of continuously interrogating the functioning of our democracy. The NPA issue has persisted for almost a decade. It has eroded the profitability... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Sep 2018 The paper assesses the performance of India's managed float with respect to maintaining a real competitive exchange rate, its effect on trade, on stability of currency and financial markets, and on in... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Aug 2018 Gross capital inflows and outflows to and from emerging market economies (EMEs) have witnessed a significant increase since early 2000s. This rapid increase in these flows accompanied by sharp rise in... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Jul 2018 The paper analyses a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is affected by household's ownership of land, and particip... Section: Working Papers
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 01 Jul 2018 The paper analyses a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is affected by household's ownership of land, and particip... Section: Working Papers
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 01 Jun 2018 This note shows that the argument of Šaljanin(2017) [Šaljanin, 2017. “Signaling through public antitrust enforcement―, Economics Letters 169, 4 - 6] that public antitrust enforcement complements... Section: Working Papers
by Madhuparna Ganguly | On 01 Apr 2018 This paper reexamines the impact of merger on innovation. Unlike as in Federico et al (2017), it considers the scenario where merged firms combine their research labs. It shows that, in equilibrium, e... Section: Working Papers
by Piuli Roy Chowdhury | On 01 Mar 2018 This paper attempts to find the answer to this question. It examines the contract design of the Indian PPP road contracts and analyzes its strengths and weaknesses to avoid the opportunism or hold-up... Section: Working Papers
by Chandan Kumar | On 01 Mar 2018 This paper analyses the Indian PPP framework, including its bidding process and the standard concession agreement. The paper argues that the existing bidding method (i.e. premium/grant based method) c... Section: Working Papers
by Chandan Kumar | On 01 Mar 2018 This paper empirically examines the impact of differences in contract attributes on project outcomes. The hypothesis is to test whether better incentive structure and stricter administrative controls... Section: Working Papers
by Chandan Kumar | On 01 Mar 2018 The paper presents a variety of indicators to show that demand constrained output during the period of growth slowdown 2011-17. It also draws on research to show the macroeconomic structure of the eco... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Feb 2018 The paper examines how endogenous social preferences could affect economic incentive design to encourage biodiversity protection on private land. A 'green' farmer may enjoy esteem from leading by exam... Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 01 Feb 2018 This paper examines dimensions of inequality including labour market inequalities and discusses public policies needed for reduction in inequalities. It discusses both inequality of outcomes and inequ... Section: Working Papers
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 01 Jan 2018 This paper estimates the impact on domestic trade in agricultural commodities of India's demonetization exercise that invalidated 86% of the currency in circulation. Using data on arrivals and prices... Section: Working Papers
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 01 Nov 2017 This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare programme (MGNREGA) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India for the prevalence of anaemia, examining whether... Section: Working Papers
by Sudha Narayanan | On 01 Oct 2017 Growing non-performing assets is a recurrent problem in the Indian banking sector. Over the past two decades, there have been two such episodes when the banking sector was severely impaired by balance... Section: Working Papers
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 16 Sep 2017 The paper examines the strength and efficacy of transmission from the policy rate and liquidity provision to market rates in India, using event window regression analysis. The paper finds the interest... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Sep 2017 Causality from the capital account (KA) to the current account (CA) of the balance of payments indicates disruption from capital flows while the reverse can indicate smooth financing of the CA that al... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Sep 2017 This paper studies the revisions in the annual estimates of India's GDP data. The objective of the analysis is to understand the revision policy adopted by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) a... Section: Working Papers
by Amey Sapre | On 01 Sep 2017 This paper tests the bank lending channel against the aggregate demand channel as an explanation for slow credit growth by estimating the determinants of credit and of non- performing assets (NPAs) us... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Sep 2017 This paper discusses (a) changes in measurement in industry and services (b) changes made in agriculture sector and (c) major issues on the measurement of GDP in new series. There are long term or leg... Section: Working Papers
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 01 Sep 2017 The study finds that a U-shaped relationship exists between farm size and farm / farmer's income. The results also show that both on-farm and
off-farm diversification have an inverted U-shape relatio... Section: Working Papers
by Varun Kumar Das | On 01 Sep 2017 A chapter dedicated to migration in the Economic Survey 2016-17 signals the willingness on the part of Indian policymakers to address the linkages between migration, labour markets and economic develo... Section: Working Papers
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 01 Sep 2017 This paper introduces a new dataset of orders passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the insolvency cases under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code or IBC. It builds this dataset to atte... Section: Working Papers
by Sreyan Chatterjee | On 01 Aug 2017 The Laspeyres-type consumer price index (CPI) is traditionally used to measure the changes in cost-of-living over time. Studies indicate this CPI suffers from a plutocratic bias, attaching greater wei... Section: Working Papers
by Dilip M. Nachane | On 01 Aug 2017 Using Input-Output (IO) analysis, this study provides the time series estimates of domestic value added (DVA) content of India's merchandise and services exports for the period 1999-2000 to 2012-13 an... Section: Working Papers
by Veeramani C | On 01 Jul 2017 Inflation expectations are an important marker for the conduct of monetary policy. Using a Bayesian structural VAR-X model that includes the inflation expectations of general public based on the Infla... Section: Working Papers
by Taniya Ghosh | On 01 Jul 2017 This paper studies the impact on investor behaviour of fraud revelation. The paper ask if investors with direct exposure to stock market fraud (treated investors) are more likely to decrease their par... Section: Working Papers
by Renuka Sane | On 01 Jul 2017 This study explores three major points, namely, Singapore's development process,Singapore's model of economic development, and the economic challenges of post-war Sri Lanka. This study explores pages... Section: Working Papers
by Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake | On 01 Jul 2017 The paper investigate the predictive power of Divisia monetary aggregates in explaining exchange rate variations for India, Israel, Poland, UK and the US, in the years leading up to and following the... Section: Working Papers
by Taniya Ghosh | On 01 Jul 2017 This paper analyzes interdependencies between optimal trade policy and 'preferred' liability doctrine to assess infringement damages, when intellectual property rights are probabilistic, in a model of... Section: Working Papers
by Apurva Dey | On 09 May 2017 The paper estimates the relationship between the current account and fiscal deficit, and the real exchange rate, in a structural vector auto regression, with Indian data for the managed float period 1... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 May 2017 This study investigates the effects of the gender gap on economic growth by using a composite gender gap index from the World Economic Forum. The index captures the multidimensional aspect of the gend... Section: Working Papers
by Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake | On 01 Jan 2017 The paper examines consumption, income, regional, social and gender inequalities in India. Income
inequalities are much higher that of consumption. It also looks at inequalities in opportunities like... Section: Working Papers
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 01 Dec 2016 Data from two recent NSSO surveys are analysed to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education
and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher education out... Section: Working Papers
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 01 Dec 2016 The paper analyse data from two recent NSSO surveys to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher educatio... Section: Working Papers
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 01 Dec 2016 This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India's agricultural sector. The paper analyses the National Sample Surveys of agriculture in 2003 and 2013 using desc... Section: Working Papers
by Sanjoy Chakravorty | On 01 Nov 2016 This paper examines Karnataka's pioneering agricultural output marketing reforms with the twin goals of assessing the state and challenges of implementation and to glean lessons from Karnataka's
expe... Section: Working Papers
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 01 Nov 2016 India can substantially increase her production and yield in
pulses with a strategic emphasis on research in public and private sector, expanding irrigation
infrastructure, provision of MSP to pulse... Section: Working Papers
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 01 Sep 2016 This paper examines the implication of the nature of competition in a market with network externalities on strategic investment in process R&D by firms. It shows that network externalities have a posi... Section: Working Papers
by Mili Naskar | On 01 Jul 2016 This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators
in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its comp... Section: Working Papers
by B.Sudhakara Reddy | On 01 Jul 2016 Macroeconomic analytical frameworks change with events they are unable to explain. The process is
closer to abductive reasoning that is based on both events and analysis, unlike induction which is
d... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Jul 2016 Social Cost Benefit Analysis has long been used as a useful tool to appraise the value of a range of investment projects. Various aspects of this method have been subject to scrutiny over the decade... Section: Working Papers
by Shovan Ray | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper seeks to measure the extent to which Indian regulators are responsive in the performance of
their functions. The paper focuses on one function common to all Indian statutory regulators, na... Section: Working Papers
by Anirudh Burman | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper aims to analyze the differential impact of exchange rate undervaluation on growth and exports in different countries. The paper considers two sets of countries in our dataset-18 countries a... Section: Working Papers
by Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake | On 01 Jul 2016 This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators
in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its comp... Section: Working Papers
by B.Sudhakara Reddy | On 01 Jul 2016 The paper asks what drives insurance coverage in low income households by analysing repurchase
patterns of micro-insurance policies. The paper uses data on customers of a financial services provider... Section: Working Papers
by Renuka Sane | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper analyzes optimal monetary policy under zero lower bound in the
presence of cost channel. Cost channel introduces trade-o¤ between output and
inflation when economy is out of ZLB. As a res... Section: Working Papers
by Taniya Ghosh | On 01 Jul 2016 In this paper, the evolution of the corporate insolvency resolution framework, with the objective of linking it back to the policy directive of the time is described. It is concluded that when policy... Section: Working Papers
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 01 Jun 2016 The paper asks what drives insurance coverage in low-income households by analysing repurchase patterns of micro-insurance policies. It uses data on customers of a financial services provider from thr... Section: Working Papers
by Renuka Sane | On 01 Jun 2016 Honor and stigma play a role in environmental protection. Environmental honors are bestowed on
people and firms who go out of their way to do right by the environment. Similarly, environmental
stigm... Section: Working Papers
by Prasenjit Banerjee | On 01 May 2016 This paper examines the importance of board size and board composition in determining bank outcomes using data from an emerging economy, India, and using a sample that includes both public and priva... Section: Working Papers
by Jayati Sarkar | On 01 May 2016 This paper analyzes two notions of compliance, 'compliance in letter' and 'compliance in spirit', using data on Board and Audit Committee meetings from India under its Clause 49 corporate governance r... Section: Working Papers
by Subrata Sarkar | On 01 May 2016 There is a growing concern among policy makers about how electricity is generated and consumed in the context of energy security and global climate change. In such a scenario, renewable energy sources... Section: Working Papers
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 01 May 2016 The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between movements in oil prices and exchange rates with macroeconomic variables like price, output, interest rate and money by using structural vector a... Section: Working Papers
by Taniya Ghosh | On 01 May 2016 This paper analyzes the optimal discretionary monetary policy under Zero Lower Bound (ZLB) for varying degree of interest rate pass-through. This paper finds that (i) exit date from ZLB becomes endoge... Section: Working Papers
by Siddhartha Chattopadhyay | On 01 May 2016 This paper analyzes two notions of compliance, 'compliance in letter' and 'compliance in spirit', using
data on Board and Audit Committee meetings from India under its Clause 49 corporate governance
... Section: Working Papers
by Subrata Sarkar | On 01 May 2016 The paper is a case study of Vadinar refinery in Gujarat. It examines the costs and benefits associated with one of the world's mega refinery projects highlighting the welfare impacts on society. The... Section: Working Papers
by Sumana Chaudhuri | On 01 Apr 2016 It is going to be 25 years since India embarked on big-bang economic reforms in 1991. What are the achievements in terms of growth and inclusive growth in the post-reform period? What are the issues i... Section: Working Papers
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 01 Mar 2016 Land and buildings are a preferred collateral for lenders in India due to its ease of valuation and
disposal in the event of default. Yet several distortions afflict Indian land markets that make thi... Section: Working Papers
by K.P. Krishnan | On 01 Feb 2016 This study investigates the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis on the performance of different
microfinance ownership types. The analysis in this study relies on a novel methodological frame... Section: Working Papers
by Mahinda Wijesiri | On 01 Feb 2016 This paper evaluates the case for greater exchange rate coordination in South Asia. With inter-regional integration in South Asia progressing at a faster pace than the region's integration with the wo... Section: Working Papers
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 01 Jan 2016 In recent years DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) models have come to
play an increasing role in central banks, as an aid in the formulation of monetary
policy (and increasingly after th... Section: Working Papers
by DILIP NACHANE | On 01 Jan 2016 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point
of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education a... Section: Working Papers
by Runu Bhatka | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper examines statistical reliability of univariate filters for estimation of trend in leading indicators of cyclical changes. Section: Working Papers
by Anusha . | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper motivates the need for a personal bankruptcy law, and study the
existing Indian legal framework in the form of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 (PTIA) for Calcutta, Bombay and Mad... Section: Working Papers
by Siva Raman | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper identifies the rationale for creating a cadre of insolvency professionals who can play an
important role in the process of rescuing, restructuring or liquidating a distresse... Section: Working Papers
by Anirudh Burman | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper assesses the fiscal space and cyclicality of total Indian Central Government expenditure and its
major components Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper analyses 45 cases of insolvency and bankruptcy resolution in order to measure the efficiency
and problems of the present laws for firm bankruptcy in India. These cases have been selected t... Section: Working Papers
by Aparna Ravi | On 01 Nov 2015 This paper provides evidence on the effect of women directors on the performance of family firms with a
case study of India. Section: Working Papers
by Jayati Sarkar | On 01 Oct 2015 In this paper the aim is to investigate the different nuances of India's capital account management through empirical analyses as well as descriptive discussions. In particular the study the evolution... Section: Working Papers
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 01 Aug 2015 This paper analyzes optimal strategies of an incumbent intermediary, who matches agents on the two
sides of a market, in the presence of entry threat under alternative scenarios. Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 01 Aug 2015 In recent years the comply-or-explain approach for enforcing corporate governance norms has gained
ground in regulatory parlance. The comply-or-explain approach has the advantage of tailoring
govern... Section: Working Papers
by Subrata Sarkar | On 01 Aug 2015 This article provides evidence on the role of consumer food subsidies in improving nutritional intake
and diet quality by evaluating the expansion of the government food assistance program coverage i... Section: Working Papers
by Andaleeb Rahman | On 01 Jun 2015 In the context of increasing contribution of developing countries in world trade, an important question is whether trade can be used as an instrument to stimulate higher participation of women in the... Section: Working Papers
by Purna Banerjee | On 01 Jun 2015 This paper revisits the Dornbusch exchange rate overshooting in a different model setting. Section: Working Papers
by Taniya Ghosh | On 01 Jun 2015 Market frictions limit arbitrage, but these frictions affect different stocks differently. Using intraday data on a liquid single stock futures and spot market, we examine the arbitrage efficiency of... Section: Working Papers
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 01 May 2015 The paper describes the institutional features of these markets, with special emphasis on the process of liberalization and deepening in Indian FX markets, in the context of global integration. Since... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 May 2015 This paper investigates the information role of algorithmic traders (AT) in the Nifty index option market.
I analyse a unique dataset to test for information-based trading by looking at the effect of... Section: Working Papers
by Rohini Grover | On 01 May 2015 This paper proposes a simple game-theoretic framework for analyzing the relationship between the government, industry and indigenous community, especially in the context of mounting violence surroundi... Section: Working Papers
by Soumyanetra Munshi | On 01 Mar 2015 A comprehensive overview of a few empirical studies is presented that have explored the issue of Trilemma in the Indian context. Based on these studies an analysis is done on how have Indian policy ma... Section: Working Papers
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 01 Mar 2015 An ongoing debate on the shape of the Indian aggregate supply curve (AS) raises interesting econometric and policy issues. Systematic steps were taken to improve the estimation. On adding better vari... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Mar 2015 Conditions for stability in an open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model adapted to a
dualistic labor market (SOEME) are the same as for a mature economy. But the introduction of
mon... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Feb 2015 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... Section: Working Papers
by Sudha Narayanan | On 01 Jan 2015 This paper first presents approach of Expert Group (Rangarajan). The
clarifications are given under the following heads: (1) what is new in the approach for poverty line; (2)
Use of calories; (3) Mu... Section: Working Papers
by C. Rangarajan | On 01 Dec 2014 This paper focuses on one such
setting in India's urban informal economy: the 'day labour' market for casual labour. We survey seven
such markets in Navi Mumbai (a city on the outskirts of Mumbai),... Section: Working Papers
by Karthikeya Naraparaju | On 01 Dec 2014 The basic objective of the study is to examine the impact of public expenditure on health and education after
incorporating the linkages between health status of children and their educational achiev... Section: Working Papers
by Runu Bhatka | On 01 Dec 2014 Food security policies in developing countries generally focus on calorie intake, which is not sufficient
to tackle the triple burden of malnutrition: undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies and... Section: Working Papers
by Mousumi Das | On 01 Nov 2014 The student parties on campus are essentially student wings of larger national parties, which
command huge amounts of resources that are used during elections, often instigating conflict and
violenc... Section: Working Papers
by Soumyanetra Munshi | On 01 Nov 2014 This paper examines the labour market characteristics for adults and the entire population. Then it analyses challenges and opportunities in labour market for youth. Next, the paper discusses the exis... Section: Working Papers
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 01 Oct 2014 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... Section: Working Papers
by Sudha Narayanan | On 01 Oct 2014 In this study how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture
over the last four and a half decades are traced. Two features which stand out in our results are that not a... Section: Working Papers
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 01 Oct 2014 Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. I... Section: Working Papers
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 01 Sep 2014 The objective of the study is to analyse the impact of provision of health care facilities on the child health status taking into account the utilization of these available facilities. The study offer... Section: Working Papers
by Runu Bhatka | On 01 Sep 2014 A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard
Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that rai... Section: Working Papers
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 Sep 2014 The article examines the restructuring of expenditure in the first budget of the new government, and its
feasibility. It compares the increase in budget allocations for key macroeconomic aggregates a... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Jul 2014 An 'Energy Index', which is aggregated from energy indicators is a rich source of information and is
helpful in providing an assessment of a country's performance. This has, however, resulted in
mus... Section: Working Papers
by Kapil Narula | On 01 Jul 2014 Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? This is examined using expenditure data at
the local level from India’s N... Section: Working Papers
by Megan Sheahan | On 01 Jul 2014 To develop a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of unemployment and that satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity (dealing w... Section: Working Papers
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 Jul 2014 This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for
2004-05 and 2009-10 in rural and urban areas. It raises concern on increasing poverty risk and als... Section: Working Papers
by Srijit Mishra | On 20 Jun 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... Section: Working Papers
by Sudha Narayanan | On 01 Jun 2014 With an urbanization level of 31.16 percent in 2011, India is the least urbanized country among the top
10 economies of the world. In addition, unlike other countries, the transition of workforce out... Section: Working Papers
by Ajay Sharma | On 01 May 2014 Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's
public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in... Section: Working Papers
by Andaleeb Rahman | On 01 Apr 2014 The paper analyzes causes of movements in Indian wages for rural unskilled male laborers, and
assesses their impact on inflation. Theoretical priors derived from an analytical framework based on the
... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Apr 2014 Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in
developing countries. This paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India t... Section: Working Papers
by Ajay Sharma | On 01 Apr 2014 In 2007-08, short-term migrants constituted 4.35 per cent of the rural workforce. A total of 9.25 million
households in rural India had short-term migrants.Using a nationally representative data for... Section: Working Papers
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 01 Mar 2014 Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive(new
trading relationships) or at the intensive margin (increase in trade of existing relationships)... Section: Working Papers
by C. Veeramani | On 01 Mar 2014 This paper seeks to understand what kind of economic activities are concentrated in which regions of
India. Spatial concentration of jobs is measured by calculating the location quotient using inform... Section: Working Papers
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 01 Jan 2014 This paper sheds light on the issue of internal migration for education and employment among the
youth. i.e those aged 15-32 years. The paper is a first step towards addressing the issue of whether
... Section: Working Papers
by Ajay Sharma | On 01 Jan 2014 This paper propounds a contract-theoretic model where dowry acts as a screening device to
differentiate grooms of varying qualities. In 'arranged' marriage settings that are characterized by
incompl... Section: Working Papers
by Soumyanetra Munshi | On 01 Jan 2014 Public welfare policies in developing countries have a Rawlsian perspective; they seek to uplift the
poor, the poorest of the poor in particular. Policies to enable the poor to catch up with the rich... Section: Working Papers
by Suryanarayana M H | On 01 Jan 2014 If banks solve an inter-temporal problem under adverse selection and moral hazard, then bank specific
factors, regulatory and supervisory features, market structure, and macroeconomic factors affect
... Section: Working Papers
by Jugnu Ansari | On 01 Jan 2014 Food security policies in developing countries generally focus on calorie intake, which is not sufficient to tackle the triple burden of malnutrition: undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies and... Section: Working Papers
by Mousumi Das | On 01 Jan 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... Section: Working Papers
by Sudha Narayanan | On 01 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... Section: Working Papers
by Sudha Narayanan | On 01 Nov 2013 This paper examines who contributes and who persists in contributing in a national, voluntary, defined
contributory pension program, where the government provides the incentive of matching contributi... Section: Working Papers
by Renuka Sane | On 01 Oct 2013 This paper is an attempt to estimate the magnitudes of yield gaps, causative factors and constrains for attending greater farm potential in adsali, suru, preseasonal and ratoon sugarcane production in... Section: Working Papers
by Deokae Tai Balasaheb | On 01 Jul 2013 This paper presents two approaches that use publicly available data to estimate the loss to investors
from mis-selling of insurance products. The first approach uses the number of lapsed policies fro... Section: Working Papers
by Monika Halan | On 01 Apr 2013 The report investigate the relationship between growth and deprivation in India, an issue of immense interest. Given the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that... Section: Working Papers
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 Feb 2013 As population and human activities expand they exert heavy environmental pressure through the resource requirement, their production and consumption. Hence, it is important to understand the resource... Section: Working Papers
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 01 Jan 2013 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... Section: Working Papers
by Sudha Narayanan | On 01 Sep 2012 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... Section: Working Papers
by Sudha Narayanan | On 01 Sep 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. [WP-2012-023]. URL:[http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-023.pdf]. Section: Working Papers
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 01 Sep 2012 Estimates suggest that Indian aggregate supply is elastic but subject to upward shocks. If supply shocks
make a high persistent contribution to inflation, it implies second round pass through is occu... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Aug 2012 Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, intergenerational
occupational mobility in India is examined, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. Individ... Section: Working Papers
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 Jul 2012 This paper examines the roles and challenges of small holding agriculture in India. It covers trends in agricultural growth, cultivation patterns, participation of small holding agriculture, productiv... Section: Working Papers
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 30 Jun 2012 This paper examines the effects of political factors on allocation of revenue budget for developmental
expenditure by the sub-national governments, using data from 15 major states in India during the... Section: Working Papers
by Arun Kaushik | On 30 Jun 2012 This paper analyzes income related inequality in financial inclusion in India using a
representative household level survey data, linked to State-level factors. This paper also provides estimates of... Section: Working Papers
by Rama Pal | On 09 Jun 2012 Distance-to-default (DtD) from the Merton model has been used
in the credit risk literature, most successfully as an input into reduced
form models for forecasting default. [WP-2012-010]. URL:[http:... Section: Working Papers
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 30 Mar 2012 A Corporate Governance Index for 500 large listed Indian firms for
the period from 2003 to 2008 is constructed. The index construction uses information
on four important corporate governance mechan... Section: Working Papers
by Jayati Sarkar | On 20 Mar 2012 This paper examines transactions costs in buying versus selling using a large database
of snapshots of the limit order book. On the equity spot market, there is clear evidence
of asymmetry in liquid... Section: Working Papers
by Rajat Tayal | On 20 Mar 2012 This is a study of employment growth, structure, and job quality outcomes in manufacturing and
service-sector in urban India spanning the period 1999-2000 to 2009-10. The context is that of
dynamic... Section: Working Papers
by K.V. Ramaswamy | On 11 Mar 2012 Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus on the appropriate regulatory stance towards micro-finance. In this paper, facts and recent experience about
Indian microfinance is reviewed. The puz... Section: Working Papers
by Renuka Sane | On 10 Mar 2012 This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for
nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In additi... Section: Working Papers
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 05 Feb 2012 This paper analyses the energy use in the manufacture of cement in India during 1992–2005. Cement
manufacturing requires large amounts of various energy inputs. The most common types of energy
carri... Section: Working Papers
by Binay Kumar Ray | On 30 Jan 2012 Stability results for an open economy DSGE adapted to an emerging market (SOEME) with a dualistic
structure have the same structure as in the original model, but those derived for the simulated versi... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 30 Jan 2012 What is the role of financial regulation in the field of micro- finance?
This paper identifi es two features of micro- finance which call for unique
treatment in policy considerations as compared... Section: Working Papers
by M Sahoo | On 30 Jan 2012 Production costs and crop incomes in drought years are analyzed to test a simplistic theory of risk based
on first principles. A mixed-methods framework is employed to draw inferences by combining da... Section: Working Papers
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 20 Jan 2012 The present paper explores the nexus between gender-energy-poverty, highlights areas of gender
concern, and suggests actions. It is analyzed how women from rural areas and low income
households are... Section: Working Papers
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 19 Jan 2012 The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi organized a workshop ‘Strengthening the Role of Agriculture... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Srijit Mishra | On 27 Dec 2011 Financial distribution, where the distributor is the agent of both the product provider and the customer,
has been found to inherently work against the interests of customers, in the form of high ser... Section: Working Papers
by M Sahoo | On 06 Dec 2011 As markets deepen and interest elasticities increase it is optimal for emerging markets to shift towards
an interest rate instrument since continuing monetization of the economy implies money demand... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 04 Oct 2011 This paper investigates the relationship between returns to cultivation per hectare and size-class of land cultivated in India, using unit level data from the 59th round National Sample Survey, 2003.... Section: Working Papers
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 01 Oct 2011 Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from
an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happe... Section: Working Papers
by Srijit Mishra | On 30 Sep 2011 In a recent work Nathan and Reddy (2011a) have proposed a Multi-view Black-box (MVBB) framework
for development of sustainable development indicators (SDIs) for an urban setup. The framework is
flex... Section: Working Papers
by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan | On 30 Sep 2011 This study examines how business entities and individuals in Jammu and Kashmir view trade
transactions with the other side and perceptions about the economic viability of Cross-LoC trade. More
speci... Section: Working Papers
by Altaf Hussain Kira | On 28 Sep 2011 In this paper the objective functions of the regions as well as their decision to provide
public investment are endogenized in a model of competition for foreign owned mobile capital. It is demonstra... Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 26 Sep 2011 An SIIO paradigm, based on structure and ideas that become engraved in institutions and affect
outcomes, is developed to examine and assesses monetary policy in India after independence. Narrative
h... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Sep 2011 This paper estimates returns to education in India using a nationally representative survey. The standard Mincerian wage equation separately for rural and urban sectors is estimated. To account for th... Section: Working Papers
by Tushar Agrawal | On 05 Sep 2011 In response to the Second Micro Finance Crisis in Andhra Pradesh, which took place in October 2010,
the Ministry of Finance has pro- posed a new Micro Finance Institutions (Development & Regulation)
... Section: Working Papers
by Shubho Roy | On 30 Aug 2011 Stock futures offer leveraged positions and are expected to attract informed traders. Many
researchers have found that the information share of the stock futures is surprisingly small; the equity
sp... Section: Working Papers
by Jeffrey Vincent | On 19 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of poverty and inequality across states as also for different sub-groups of
population for 2004-05 by using the old and new methods of the Planning Commission. The new m... Section: Working Papers
by Durgesh C Pathak | On 17 Aug 2011 The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated
with agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, a... Section: Working Papers
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 16 Aug 2011 A documentation of different aspects of human deprivation in the old age other than the
measurement of income poverty is done. Aspects of economic, health and social aspects of
deprivation and how i... Section: Working Papers
by Syam Prasad | On 14 Jul 2011 Polarization in India is analysed roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption
expenditure data. It is seen that polarization has increased sharply since the 1990s, reversing the earlie... Section: General
by Sripad Motiram | On 13 Jun 2011 India, located in South Asia is a large country that ranks second in the world in terms of
population and seventh in terms of geographical area. Its civilization is very old dating
back to at least... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research | On 09 Jun 2011 India has been facing rapid urbanization. There is a two-fold increase in urban population
during 1971-2001, registering a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.8%. Among all the problems
caus... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Sudhakar Yedla | On 03 Jun 2011 The present study focuses on examining socio-economic aspects that can be identified as important risk factors and in providing some suggestions to the GOM. [PP-005] URL: [http://www.igidr.ac.in/suici... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Srijit Mishra | On 02 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side
issue? This paper examines school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in sc... Section: Working Papers
by Sripad Motiram | On 13 May 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply
side or a demand side issue? School attendance and total human capital
investment time (time in school plus travel ti... Section: Working Papers
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 May 2011 In this distinguished lecture on Law and Economics, the author shares the lessons in economics that he has learnt from random experiences of the same. [IGDIR PP-067] URL: [http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/p... Section: General
by Y. Venugopal Reddy | On 25 Apr 2011 This paper examines
the employment and unemployment situation of the youth in India during the last two-and-half decades
namely, 1983 to 2007-08. It analyses the trends in labour force and workforce... Section: Working Papers
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 10 Apr 2011 The legal processes at SEBI is examined and described with a focus on the
enforcement process, particularly on the quasi-judicial functions. An attempt is made to lay out the
principles that ought t... Section: Working Papers
by Dharmishta Raval | On 19 Mar 2011 Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus upon the problem
of regulation in the field of micro-finance. This paper delineates the
three distinct aspects where government needs to play a role... Section: Working Papers
by Renuka Sane | On 13 Mar 2011 Some option series in the market are far less liquid than others. Market illiquidity can reduce the
informativeness of option prices. In this paper, an alternative schemes are proposed to estimate im... Section: Working Papers
by Rohini Grover | On 09 Mar 2011 There have been many evaluation studies on the impact of NREGS but there are hardly any systematic
studies relating to impact of the scheme on children. This paper tries to fill this gap. There is a... Section: Working Papers
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 31 Jan 2011 The objective of the study is to examine the impact of rising food prices and financial crisis on the
impact of women and children in India. It identifies the pathways for dealing with the effects of... Section: Working Papers
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 31 Jan 2011 If priors are deterministic (zero or unity) and conditional evidence is uncertain (lies between zero and
one) then Bayesian updating will lead to posteriors that are the same as priors. This in a sen... Section: Working Papers
by Srijit Mishra | On 31 Jan 2011 This paper investigates the conditions for the desirability of exclusive intellectual property rights for innovators,
as opposed to weak rights allowing for some degree of imitation and ex-post compe... Section: Working Papers
by Vincenzo Denicolòyand Luigi A. Franzoni | On 23 Jan 2011 They show under general demand and cost conditions that in a mixed duopoly with pollution the
government can (and will) implement the socially optimal outputs and abatements by a tax-subsidy
scheme... Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 16 Jan 2011 This paper tries to identify food insecure population of the country, analyse the availability, storage, procurement of food grain , assess the effectiveness of PDS, identify the discrepancies in the... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Ishita Aditya Ray | On 01 Jan 2011 The paper analyzes the changing INR trends over the reform period, in the context of fundamental
determinants of exchange rates. [WP-2010-024]. Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 13 Dec 2010 This paper aims to analyse urban mobility patterns and consequent impacts on energy and environment
in India. We investigate the quantity of energy use in 23 metropolitan regions for the period 1981–... Section: Working Papers
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 03 Dec 2010 Since a crisis is a shock impinging on a system, the response can be used to deduce aspects of the
system’s structure. Analysis of the crisis and recovery suggests aggregate supply in India is elasti... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Dec 2010 The paper defines financial liberalization, distinguishing between liberalization of domestic financial
markets and capital account convertibility. It then examines the stages and the strategy of Ind... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 Nov 2010 This paper is the first attempt to rank economics departments of Indian Institutions based on their
research output. Two rankings, one based on publications in international journals, and the other b... Section: Working Papers
by Tilak Mukhopadhyay | On 02 Oct 2010 This article reviews the regulations and governance reforms carried out in India with respect to auditor
and audit committee independence. In doing so it critically compares them with the regulations... Section: Working Papers
by Jayati Sarkar | On 02 Oct 2010 The fast growing demand for fresh water-coupled with the need to protect the environment has made
many areas of India and the rest of the World vulnerable to water shortages for various uses of the
... Section: Working Papers
by Perini Praveena Sri | On 29 Sep 2010 The purpose of this paper is to examine water use estimation in hydel and thermal electric power plants
in selected regions i.e. Coastal, Rayalaseema and Telangana regions of Andhra Pradesh. The stud... Section: Working Papers
by Perini Praveena Sri | On 20 Sep 2010 Whether the outcome of bargaining over wage and employment between an incumbent firm
and a union remains efficient under entry threat is examined. The workers\' reservation wage is not known to the
... Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 10 Sep 2010 This paper examines the interdependence of cross-ownership and level of privatization in case of
differentiated products mixed duopoly. It shows that it is optimal for the private firm not to own any... Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 03 Sep 2010 This paper shows that, in case of differentiated products mixed duopoly, environmental damage
increases (decreases) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than
... Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 03 Sep 2010 This paper formalizes ideas from classical and radical political economy on task allocation and
technology adoption under capitalism. A few previous studies have attempted this, but the framework
an... Section: Working Papers
by Sripad Motiram | On 03 Jul 2010 Call auctions represent an alternative
strategy, where the order
ow over a certain time period is pooled,
and the market-clearing price obtained through an aggregated supply
and demand curve. Cal... Section: Working Papers
by Susan Thomas | On 22 Jun 2010 Using Bayesian updating to deterministic priors persistence of fundamentalist belief like
those in the mind of a terrorist is explained. Under such belief system if conditional evidence
is diametric... Section: Working Papers
by Srijit Mishra | On 14 Jun 2010 Stylized facts for South Asia show the dominance of supply shocks, amplified by macroeconomic policies
and procyclical current accounts. Interest and exchange rate volatility rose initially on libera... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 09 Jun 2010 This working paper discusses the dependence of Indian agriculture on uncertain rains.
In addition the farmers experience other production risks as well as marketing risks
related to different crop e... Section: Working Papers
by Gurdev Singh | On 06 Jun 2010 The present study attempts a quantitative assessment of the impact of recently signed ASEAN-India FTA
(AIFTA) for selected plantation commodities (coffee, tea and pepper) in India. Partial
equilibri... Section: Working Papers
by C. Veeramani | On 20 Apr 2010 Stricter regulatory surveillance in emerging market economies (EMEs) largely insulated their
financial systems from the crisis. Development and convergence of regulatory apparatus has
been rapid. In... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Mar 2010 The present paper attempts to modify definition of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure by characterising it based on consumption of necessities. Catastrophic health expenditure is defined as... Section: Working Papers
by Rama Pal | On 11 Feb 2010 This paper reports findings from the survey of India’s textiles and clothing exporters. The survey method has been used to identify and assess the impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) and the Cost of... Section: Working Papers
by Gordhan K Saini | On 11 Dec 2009 How product differentiation as well as strategic managerial delegation
affects optimal emission tax rate, environmental damage and social welfare, under
alternative modes of product market competiti... Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 04 Oct 2009 The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6 per cent in 1993-94 to 46.4 per cent in 2004-05, has been a matter of concern. The current exercise attem... Section: Working Papers
by Srijit Mishra | On 27 Sep 2009 This paper is about quantitative methods and public policy and how they shaped the author's professional
career. Although it may look like a professional autobiography, it is much more. [PP-062-00B]... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by T. Krishna Kumar | On 12 Aug 2009 This paper addresses twin issues--- poverty and under-nutrition among the STs in India at disaggregated levels. Following the draft tribal policy, districts in Schedule VI states as well districts und... Section: Research/Project Reports
by Amaresh Dubey | On 12 Aug 2009 The record of different post reform governments in meeting their targets and improving both delivery and finances is assessed. A variety of indices are constructed, and consistency checks devised to m... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 10 Aug 2009 In the context of the formation of G-20, the paper points out the absence of reform in the global financial architecture (GFA) after the East Asian crisis, and assesses factors that can improve the ch... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 08 Jun 2009 The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typ... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 Mar 2009 This paper compares equilibrium technology adoption in a differentiated duopoly under two alternative modes of product market competition, Cournot and Bertrand. It shows that the cost of technology ha... Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 02 Jan 2009 This paper examines the strategic nature of choice of environmental standards under
different degrees of openness of countries. It also compares and contrasts equilibrium
environmental standards and... Section: Working Papers
by Rabindra N Bhattacharya | On 23 Dec 2008 This paper tries to analyze the interrelationship between possibilities of conflict
in cross border mergers and acquisitions and firm and market characteristics in a two
country three firm model. Th... Section: Working Papers
by Poonam Mehra | On 14 Dec 2008 This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and
policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its
usefulness,... Section: Working Papers
by A. Ganesh Kumar | On 13 Dec 2008 Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and ca... Section: Working Papers
by C Veermani | On 02 Dec 2008 Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermed... Section: Working Papers
by C Veermani | On 01 Dec 2008 This paper provides a cradle-to-grave model for political union between two unequally endowed states. The main contribution of this paper is to highlight the role of technology gap and unequal distrib... Section: Working Papers
by Vikas Kumar | On 10 Nov 2008 The paper analyses the impact of the reach of communist parties, the degree of political activism, personal attributes of workers, and industrial characteristics on the individual decision to unionise... Section: Working Papers
by Rupayan Pal | On 22 Sep 2008 Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based
indicators provided by the United Nations Development Program. Population share of the
genders enter the formulation of t... Section: Working Papers
by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan | On 18 Sep 2008 It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a thres... Section: Working Papers
by Rama Joglekar | On 15 Sep 2008 India’s economic growth has accelerated in recent years, and its share
of world trade has expanded. These are welcome developments for
the country and, given India’s large share of the world’s popul... Section: General
by Sandra Polaski | On 10 Jun 2008 Physical energy intensity indicators for Indian manufacturing sector is developed and analyzed.
Energy consumption in five industrial sub-sectors, namely, iron and steel, aluminium, textiles,
paper... Section: Working Papers
by Binay Kumar Ray | On 02 Jun 2008 An optimizing model of a small open emerging market economy (SOEME) with
dualistic labour markets and two types of consumers, is used to derive the natural
interest rate, terms of trade and potentia... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 May 2008 In the context of the current public policy focus on rising food prices and their implications for food security, this paper examines two major issues raised: (i) Universalization of the public distri... Section: Working Papers
by Suryanarayana M H | On 04 Apr 2008 This study provides a profile of deprivation with respect to consumer expenditure,
cereal consumption and energy intake across demographic and agro-climatic regions
as defined by the National Sample... Section: Working Papers
by Suryanarayana M H | On 22 Mar 2008 This note seeks to show that the debate on ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ is sterile and largely
academic with few policy insights. Section: Working Papers
by Suryanarayana M H | On 15 Mar 2008 The popularly known Human Development Index (HDI) is obtained through linear averaging (LA) of indices in three dimensions- health, education and standard of living. This paper questions the appropria... Section: Working Papers
by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan | On 22 Jan 2008 Supply response to price changes is likely to increase with the increasing liberalization of
the agricultural sector in India. Past studies revealed a weak supply response for Indian
agriculture. No... Section: Working Papers
by G. Mythili | On 21 Jan 2008 The paper examines the basic reasons and feasible remedies for organizational
weakness, and the possible contribution of ownership, industry and management
structure, leadership, social norms, and i... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 12 Dec 2007 Traditionally sanitary services are provided by the State or State owned bodies. However, with the ever increasing population and waste generation rates coupled with lack of financial resources and in... Section: Working Papers
by Sudhakar Yedla | On 27 Sep 2007 Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger
socio-economic malaise in rural India. This is accentuated by the multiple risks that the
farmer faces... Section: Working Papers
by Srijit Mishra | On 18 Sep 2007 The wine market is a pretty paradoxical research object for the economical and marketing studies. In France alone, every year, hundreds of thousands of new brand differentiated products are marketed.... Section: Working Papers
by Geneviève Teil | On 01 Sep 2007 The issue of farmers’ indebtedness becomes a matter of intense debate whenever the
agricultural sector faces distress. But, the root cause of the current crisis is not indebtedness
alone - indebtedn... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Jul 2007 With the alarming rate of growth in vehicle population and travel demand, the energy consumption has increased significantly contributing to the rise of GHG emissions. Therefore, the development of a... Section: Working Papers
by P. Balachandra | On 30 Mar 2007 This study explores the factors determining the dependence of local people on protected area of forest based on household analysis of a Protected Area from Kerala. [WP-2007-005]. Section: Working Papers
by Shylajan C.S | On 21 Mar 2007 Indian public foodgrains management, perhaps still motivated by the experiences of the 1960s to attain and maintain self-sufficiency in foodgrains to achieve food security, has outlived its’ usefulnes... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by A. Ganesh Kumar | On 16 Mar 2007 Indian agriculture today is under a large crisis. An average farmer- household’s returns from cultivation would be around one thousand rupees per month. The state of the vast majority of small and mar... Section: Working Papers
by Srijit Mishra | On 26 Jan 2007 In this paper, the potential impacts of trade and investment-related policy reforms on India’s agro-processing sector is explored. The direct effects of policy reforms within the processing sector, an... Section: Working Papers
by A. Ganesh-Kumar | On 20 Dec 2006 In order to examine if the impact of oil price shocks depends on the structure of an economy, a vertical (VSC) and a horizontal (HSC) long-run supply curve identification are successively imposed on a... Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 05 Dec 2006 The paper reviews the trends over three decades in the consumption of cereals, calories and micronutrients and nutritional status based on anthropometric measures using the data sets of NSS, NNMB and... Section: Working Papers
by Radhakrishna R | On 15 Nov 2006 This study estimates supply response for major crops during pre and post reform periods using Nerlovian adjustment cum adaptive expectation model. Estimation is based on dynamic panel data approach wi... Section: Working Papers
by G. Mythili | On 06 Nov 2006 The paper conceptualizes chronic poverty by using the spaces of income and nutrition and estimates its incidence among states and social groups. It also aims to improve our understanding of the determ... Section: Working Papers
by C.H. Hanumantha Rao | On 01 Oct 2006 This paper examines the consequences of alternative CO2 emission reduction strategies on economic development and, in particular, the implications for the poor by empirically implementing an economy-w... Section: Working Papers
by N. Murthy | On 01 Aug 2006 This paper attempts to build an aggregative, structural,macroeconometric model for India. Investment and output in the model are disaggregated into four sectors namely(a) agriculture including forestr... Section: Working Papers
by K.N Murty | On 26 Mar 2006 The paper examines the division of tasks required between politicians and bureaucrats to run an effective rural employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits. Section: Working Papers
by Ashima Goyal | On 07 Nov 2005 In recent years, employment has fallen in the organised textile
sector despite an aggregate rise in output and capital. This paper
analyses the role of various factors that influence employment usin... Section: Working Papers
by Badri Narayanan G. | On 14 Oct 2005 This paper seeks to provide a profile of social group disparities and poverty in India,where social groups are classified as scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other social groups, and examine the f... Section: Working Papers
by Rohit Mutatkar | On 01 Sep 2005 The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fteen per cent of the tobacco users who represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of... Section: Working Papers
by Rijo John | On 27 Aug 2005 The present study is an evaluation of the food-for-work component of Sampoorna
Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) in Satara, Aurangabad, Gadchiroli and Akola districts of
Maharashtra. SGRY was launched al... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Manoj Panda | On 21 Apr 2005 The basic concern of the development process started after the world wars was
improvement in level of living of the people. This concern was expressed in aggregative
terms of national income growth... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Manoj Panda | On 20 Feb 2005 The edible oil and oilseeds sector in India faces many challenges in the new environment of liberalized trade. Government intervention is faced with the task of balancing the interests of different st... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by P.V. Srinivasan | On 02 Feb 2005 The consumption patterns, socio-economic distribution and the household
choice of a variety of tobacco products across rural and urban India are analyzed. Using a Multinomial Logit Model, the choice... Section: Working Papers
by Rijo M John | On 19 Oct 2004 In this paper a dynamic model of subsidized credit provision is presented to examine how asymmetric information exacerbates inefficiency caused by corruption. Though designed to empower the underprivi... Section: Working Papers
by Bibhas Saha | On 22 Apr 2004 This paper is about hopscotching, and in turn jumps over many disciplinary categories, from literature to gender studies to development studies. At one level this is the voice of the interdisciplinary... Section: Working Papers
by Barnita Bagchi | On 11 Dec 2003 The first section of this essay considers the personal narratives of suffering and growth of the
Tarini Bhavan workers and inmates. The second section analyses the ideological contours of the
reform... Section: Working Papers
by Bagchi B | On 16 Oct 2003 The paper carries the reader across and over great spans of space and time, with an Indian feminist woman academic journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 17... Section: Working Papers
by Bagchi B | On 01 Oct 2003 The phenomenon of interlocking directorates is widespread among corporate across the world. This
paper studies the structure and extent of interlocking directorates within Indian business groups and
... Section: Working Papers
by Bikram De | On 24 Apr 2003 The structure and extent of interlocking directorates within Indian business groups is studied and analyses the performance effects of such interlocks. It finds that large groups tend to have more int... Section: Working Papers
by Bikram De | On 21 Apr 2003 India’s patent reforms represent a shift in India’s policy from one of enormous opposition to revising patent laws according to the WTO, to one of compliance with many aspects of TRIPs (Trade Related... Section: Working Papers
by Anitha Ramanna | On 02 Jan 2003 Demand Side Management refers to activities designed to change electricity consumption at consumer's end and historically, DSM programmes have been carried out through active intervention by utilities... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by J.P. Painuly | On 06 May 1996 Labour regulations like employment protection legislation in India are size-dependent rules and
therefore constitute a basis for threshold effects. Firms could use non-permanent workers to stay below... Section: Working Papers
by K.V. Ramaswamy | On 01 Jul 1900 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education an... Section: Working Papers
by Runu Bhakta | On 01 Jan 1900 |