-asset substitutability. We conduct nonparametric tests to examine whether data on financial savings in India can be rationalized in terms of … that data on financial savings in India are consistent with the existence of a utility function for a representative …

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 …

growth in rural India. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna by providing certainty equivalent growth of consumption in 14 … major states of India over the period 1958-1997, corresponding to NSS Rounds 13th to 53rd. The extant debates around poverty … that certainty equivalent consumption growth in rural India has been much lower than average real per capita consumption …

This paper provides an update on the recent performance of the Indian economy. It reviews India's growth performance …

food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household …