Engel curve shifted down-especially in rural India- over the period 1993–2004. The puzzle for the longer period analysed by … capita household expenditure, across the expenditure scale, in 2004. In trying to resolve this puzzle, they are emphatic that … consumption-through both own and cross-price effects — is confirmed. Although calorieincome/ expenditure elasticities are large …

framework, with food prices and expenditure (as a proxy for income) cast in a pivotal role. Based on different experiments … urban areas. Our results show consistently robust food price and expenditure effects. Besides, shifts in food price …

requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels in India, we develop an alternative explanation embedded in a … standard demand theory framework, with food price and expenditure effects and shifting food and expenditure elasticities. The … recent period (2004-2009). But there is also weakening of food price and expenditure elasticities over this period. Closer …

towards welfare in terms of per capita expenditure. The focus is on household characteristics (size, composition, education … India in 1993 and 2004, we first review the changes in participation rates in farm and non-farm activities by gender, age …, education and caste affiliations. This is followed by an econometric analysis of contribution of farm and non-farm employment …

, Indian policymakers planning for economic development concentrated largely on issues of capital, labour and, to a lesser … extent, technology. This paper argues that India’s demographic dividend with 65 per cent of the population in aged 15-24 in … 2012 is ideally suited to embark on a path of sustained high rate of economic growth for the foreseeable future if India …

If public expenditure and public revenue are I(0) public debt is sustainable but if these are I(1) and not cointegrated … that India’s public debt is unsustainable. We re-investigate this issue by allowing for endogenous structural breaks for … two data sets - the British period 1871-1921 and the post independence period 1950-1997. Revenue and expenditure series …

) developing countries have low tax/GDP and expenditure/GDP ratios compared to developed countries, even though developing … countries need more public expenditure; (ii) developing country fiscal stance is often pro-cyclical; (iii) developing country … problems arising therefrom in developing countries. I then discuss some widely accepted norms for tax and expenditure reforms …

Business is increasingly seen by international aid agencies as a partner in development. Recommendation 21 of the … currently provides on its development contributions. The key finding is unsurprising: private sector reporting is oriented to … serve the needs of business, not that of the development community. The paper suggests ways in which corporate reporting …

This article considers prospects for effective development partnership in Solomon Islands following the transition of … development assistance from the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to bilateral donors in 2013. It focuses on … development problems in Solomon Islands, will be important to the effectiveness of future support. …