consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, reduced form demand relations are estimated …

Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India -a nation-wide poverty alleviation programme which was introduced in 2005. The focus … is on excess demand at the district level. Some related issues addressed are (i) whether excess demand responds to … poverty, and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary. Our analysis confirms responsiveness of excess demand …

consumption of calories, protein and fats over the period 1993–2004. This explanation is embedded in a standard demand theory …, robust demand functions are estimated for each of three nutrients viz. calories, protein and fats, separately for rural and … specified in the demand equation. In the context of calories, for example, it is plausible that part of the reduction in their …

-term imbalances between supply and demand, water utilities frequently use mandatory water restrictions to curb demand. By contrast …, adjustments to the volumetric price of water are rarely used as a demand-management tool in response to variability in catchment … inflows. To evaluate the welfare losses from the typical water restrictions approach to demand management and supply …

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

threatened. India's national rural employment guarantee scheme's (NREG) institutional design (mandating village assemblies to …