Analyses the structure of costs in the cement, lime and plaster industry of India. Using aggregative data for the …

Recent high rates of economic growth in India have been accompanied by major dietary transitions. Using a nationwide … household survey, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper estimates the impact of such transitions on the incidence of … non communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer in India. The estimated deaths from …

This paper evaluates the case for inflation targeting (IT) in India. It states the objectives of monetary policy in … India and argues that, with widespread poverty still present, inflation control cannot be an exclusive concern of monetary … India's experience with using nominal targets for monetary policy and why India is not ready for IT. Further, even if India …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large …

India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …

activities have been effective in reducing poverty in India. To ensure sensitivity and robustness of the results, three different … fourteen Indian states from 13th to 53rd rounds of National Sample Survey of India are used for estimating poverty. Using …