growth in rural India. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna by providing certainty equivalent growth of consumption in 14 … major states of India over the period 1958-1997, corresponding to NSS Rounds 13th to 53rd. The extant debates around poverty … that certainty equivalent consumption growth in rural India has been much lower than average real per capita consumption …

The policy of allocation of food grains under rationing has been very ad hoc in India with allocation being fixed on a … and wheat in physical terms in rural and urban India. Food grain demand is estimated for all the States in India. The own …