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 …

India today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also … project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the all-India level over three decades up to 2011/12 and contrasts …

northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …

entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … broadly in rural India. In this paper, we construct a simple model of a village economy that captures several of the salient … outcomes observed in the village. We suggest that to the extent that there exist other villages in rural India with such …