transfers to state governments. As a result, state government budgets faced crises and agriculture, being largely a state … subject, was denied adequate investment. This paper reviews the performance of Indian agriculture, particularly in the post … augmentation of productive capacity in agriculture are dwindling …

This paper surveys the status of food security in the South Asian countries, particularly India. Particular attention … households who are poor, and iii) rural households who are undernourished. The paper then singles out five disconnects in India …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …

activities have been effective in reducing poverty in India. To ensure sensitivity and robustness of the results, three different … fourteen Indian states from 13th to 53rd rounds of National Sample Survey of India are used for estimating poverty. Using …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …

more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …