several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … Food Corporation of India's (FCI's) procurement volume is driven by the production level and the difference between the MSP … wheat, the influence of subsidised wheat is much less pronounced, probably due to weaker functioning of the PDS for this …

We present a Bayesian structural Vector Autoregressive model of the global wheat market to examine the relative … importance of supply and demand shocks, which are interpreted as the fundamental driving forces of wheat price. To our knowledge … opposite in signs (0.19 for supply and -0.20 for demand); (ii) the price and the inventories respond to global wheat market …

The retail business, in India, is estimated to grow at 13 per cent per annum from US$ 322 billion in 2006-07 to US$ 590 …

The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The first section briefly summarizes key … to deal with the challenge of the unprecedented surge in external capital inflows into India. The final section outlines … India in macroeconomic policy and coping with a weak international economic environment. -- Economic growth ; inflation …