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Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...
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The paper looks into the level of integration of commodity markets in India, across centres and states using consumer … price data. It measures the extent to which domestic markets for goods in India are integrated, and recommends policy … methodology proposed by Bradford and Lawrence (2004) on the consumer prices of goods in major states across India. This is then …
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agricultural productivity and income, which can reduce the wage gap. Since crop yields in India are far lower than many other …
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This paper reconsiders two questions relating to India's economic growth: structural breaks in growth and the impact of … post-independence India has witnessed four structural breaks: in 1964-65, in 1978-79, in 1990-91, and in 2004-05. However …
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Since the early 2000s, many Indian states started reforming their agricultural marketing policies and allowed private traders to buy directly from farmers outside the state-regulated market system. The experience of these states during the period 2000 - 2012 can shed light on the impact of...
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Over the past four decades, India has witnessed a paradoxical trend: average per capita calorie intake has declined …
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the 2014 General Elections in India and emerged as a single party with absolute …
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In this paper, we develop a simple model that shows that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states where the PDS functions relatively well; in places where the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using...
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This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of …, transportation, entertainment, and personal services - for both rural India. We begin by showing that expenditures of non … larger numbers referring to urban India. Next, we show that expenditure on services, as a share of total expenditure, has …
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Using a state-industry panel data set at the 3 digit national industrial classification (NIC) level of disaggregation for 19 major Indian states over the period 1983-84 to 2007-08, we analyze the contemporaneous and long run impacts of the rate of profit and its components - profit share,...
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