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This paper explores through counterfactual simulations the effects of deregulating and liberalizing the foodgrain sector on the costs of price stabilization, production incentives and consumption levels. The outcomes under free trade with trade taxes are compared with those of a regime in which...
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Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution …
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days, has different progressive provisions which incentivise higher participation of women in the programme. Official data suggest that 47 of all MGNREGA workers are...
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rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent in school, time spent at work, time spent on home study and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for 2004-05 and 2009 …
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