The study attempts to examine the impact of remittances on macroeconomic activities (private consumption and investment …) and its implications on economic growth in India for the period from 1966-67 to 2003-04. Estimating a general consumption … model, the results indicate that remittances along with debt, money supply (net of bank demand deposits) and income …

When households increase their deposits in formal bank savings accounts, what is the source of the money? High … deposits directly from households each week. In this context, the headwaters of formal savings are to be found in sacrificed … leisure time: households work more and work more on the wage market when savings options improve. These results suggest that …

data collected from rural households in major states in the country. Policy implications are also discussed. [CPRC]. …

This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level of consumption plays a key role in explaining the …

It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to … attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a threshold level to define catastrophic health … based on a purposive sample survey covering 1,200 households from Ahmedabad and neighbouring areas. Thus, sample is not …

. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) during 1986–91, were resurveyed in 2004–05 …

This paper attempts to understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of rural India … and specifically examine the effectiveness of coping mechanisms adopted by households living in these areas to hedge … flood occurring every ten years and smaller ones happening every one-two years. The data is drawn from primary household …