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India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the...
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The study revealed the strong impact of policy measures on production, procurement, stocks and trade. We detected several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum support price (MSP). Wholesale prices at planting or...
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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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The climate crisis is inevitably looming over the horizon. Some countries are much more vulnerable than others to its harshest consequences due to their existing issues of poverty and underdevelopment. At the same time, developmental policies pursue economic growth at the cost of environmental...
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In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...
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the case of Brazil. The IT monetary policy regime has been adopted by a significant number of countries. While the focus … of this paper is on Brazil, which began inflation targeting in 1999, we also examine the experience of other countries … compare the experience of Brazil with that of non-IT countries, and ask the question of whether adopting IT makes a difference …
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matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found …
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This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of …
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This paper argues that the pass-through in Brazil has fallen compared with estimates in other studies on earlier time …
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This study proposes a simple modification to a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) in order to analyze the multiplier effects of a new sector. A different input composition, or technology, of the sector makes a conventional analysis of final-demand injections on existing sectors invalid. We show that...
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