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An approach to the problem of employment in India
Basu, Deepankar - 2018
agricultural productivity and income, which can reduce the wage gap. Since crop yields in India are far lower than many other …
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Revisiting India's growth transitions
Basu, Deepankar - 2020
This paper reconsiders two questions relating to India's economic growth: structural breaks in growth and the impact of … post-independence India has witnessed four structural breaks: in 1964-65, in 1978-79, in 1990-91, and in 2004-05. However …
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To reform and to procure: An analysis of the role of the state and the market in Indian agriculture
Misra, Kartik; Basu, Deepankar - 2022
Since the early 2000s, many Indian states started reforming their agricultural marketing policies and allowed private traders to buy directly from farmers outside the state-regulated market system. The experience of these states during the period 2000 - 2012 can shed light on the impact of...
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The Calorie Consumption Puzzle in India: An Empirical Investigation
Basu, Deepankar; Basole, Amit - 2012
Over the past four decades, India has witnessed a paradoxical trend: average per capita calorie intake has declined …
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BJP’s Demographic Dividend in the 2014 General Elections: An Empirical Analysis
Basu, Deepankar; Misra, Kartik - 2014
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the 2014 General Elections in India and emerged as a single party with absolute …
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Social Hierarchies and Public Distribution of Food in Rural India
Basu, Deepankar; Das, Debarshi - 2014
In this paper, we develop a simple model that shows that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states where the PDS functions relatively well; in places where the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using...
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Service sector growth in India: A view from households
Basu, Deepankar; Das, Debarshi - 2015
This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of …, transportation, entertainment, and personal services - for both rural India. We begin by showing that expenditures of non … larger numbers referring to urban India. Next, we show that expenditure on services, as a share of total expenditure, has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788877
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Profitability and investment: Evidence from India's organized manufacturing sector
Basu, Deepankar; Das, Debarshi - 2015
Using a state-industry panel data set at the 3 digit national industrial classification (NIC) level of disaggregation for 19 major Indian states over the period 1983-84 to 2007-08, we analyze the contemporaneous and long run impacts of the rate of profit and its components - profit share,...
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The effect of public health expenditure on infant mortality: Evidence from a panel of Indian states, 1983-84 to 2011-12
Barenberg, Andrew J.; Basu, Deepankar; Soylu, Ceren - 2015
expenditure on the infant mortality rate (IMR), after controlling for other relevant covariates like per capita income, female …
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Relations of production and modes of surplus extraction in India
Basole, Amit; Basu, Deepankar - 2011
This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as case-studies, to trace out the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy, relating both to the agricultural and the informal industrial sector. These aggregate trends are used to infer: (a) the dominant relations of...
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