This study examines the economic profiles of morbidity by disease in Kerala and all-India by estimating Engel … elasticities for diseases and classifying them as between those associated with affluence and deprivation. Morbidity rates, in … diseases. This is borne out by pseudo-Lorenz curves for disease specific morbidity. Pseudo-Lorenz curves lay above/below the …

Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution …

rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent in school, time spent at work, time spent on home study and …

Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive (new trading … a comparative study of exports from India and China by analysing the role of extensive and intensive margins in the … narrower as India is clearly catching up with China. By contrast, India lags significantly behind China in terms of intensive …

This piece analyzes the implications of the National Food Security Act for India's commitments under the WTO Agreement … NFSA and that it is possible to leverage existing provisions in the WTO AoA to accommodate these within India's commitments … under the WTO AoA. While India should negotiate to retain the flexibility afforded in the Agreement and argue on specific …

We investigate the relationship between growth and deprivation in India, an issue of immense interest. Given the … continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor …

This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for 2004-05 and 2009 …

on performance contracts for state-owned enterprises in India, this paper empirically examines whether granting increased … unique reform experience of India as a natural experiment, whereby enterprise autonomy has been simultaneously pursued with … partial privatization in India in studies that did not explicitly control for enterprise autonomy thereby raising the …