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Since independence, India has come a long way from being a food-deficit to a food surplus country. With its varied agro … analysis and a primary survey, tries to identify the food safety barriers that Indian exports face in key export markets, the …
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reductions by the USA. The study identifies particular products for India at the ISIC 4-digit level of disaggregation, which … could be considered tariff sensitive. Regression analysis of the relationship between MFN tariff rates and India's exports … Round. This analysis suggests that tariff cuts are not expected to benefit India's exports to the US in a major way. With …
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... This paper discusses solutions to important incentive problems in micro-health insurance schemes which threaten their sustainability. In particular, three issues explored are : (i) if defining household as unit of insurance always mitigates adverse selection problem; (ii) how ex ante moral...
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Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …
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reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does …
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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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The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections have been based on change in productivity levels,...
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India's growing economic strength of recent years has seen it adapting its foreign policy to increase its global … vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the definition of its security interests. As a result, India … global partnership between them.India and Japan share a special relationship as fellow democracies without hegemonic …
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