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India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support … production by 20 MMT over the subsequent five years. The results: India contained food inflation below 7 per cent in 2007 … robust production and stock levels, rice exports surged when India freed up its exports in September 2011, making it a world …
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India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007-08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to … India's ban on exports of wheat and common rice. But the fiscal stimulus that the government provided in 2009 in the wake of … G8 countries' call to avert economic recession, coupled with one of the worst droughts India experienced in that year …
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Compared with most other Indian states, women's reported work participation rates have historically been low in West Bengal. This trend is more prominent in rural areas. Historians have tried to explain this phenomenon in terms of culture and the ideology of domesticity. While persisting...
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paper on the gender impact of the pandemic and the consequent lockdowns and curfews in the city of Delhi, India, seeks to …
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