Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India -a nation-wide poverty alleviation programme which was introduced in 2005. The focus … poverty, and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary. Our analysis confirms responsiveness of excess demand … to poverty. Also, apprehensions expressed about the inflationary potential of recent hikes in NREGS wages have been …

on wages is more significant/higher for the lower quantiles of workers. In the extant literature this is established … of productivity/wages to nutrition. The present paper addresses this lacuna. Third, we are able to establish a critical … wage level for which the PNT trap hypothesis holds. For wages higher than this the hypothesis does not hold. We then argue …

This paper investigates the impact of foreign labour on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia … unskilled-worker wages, but the magnitude of the impact is rather small. …

India has a federal system of governance with both the state or provincial and the Central governments responsible for … variations in economic conditions in turn. It is in this context, this paper examines whether governments in India within a … indicate that Government in India within a federal framework has mechanisms that foster development equitably across its states …

such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …

decisions of households, and regional and ethnic factors on patterns of household level fertility in India. These have helped … determine the composition of India's young (aged 9 to 34) today. Demographic transition is well underway in India with rising … across various groups in India. …

India suffered humiliations in terms of balance of payments crises in 1991 but since then it has weathered all crises … deficits. It is in this context that an analysis of fiscal and debt problems of India is timely and assumes importance. The … paper delves upon fiscal exuberance and debt management practices in India, the budgetary allocations, changing structure of …