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 …

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 …

whether decline in routine jobs and change in demand for skills has shaped evolution of earnings inequality in India. We rule …

India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers … in India in contributing to the observed decline. Exploiting regional variation in changes in minimum wages over time in … inequality. These findings underscore the important role played by rising minimum wages in reducing wage disparities in India. …