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Trevor Swan and Indian Planning : The Lessons of 1958/59

Cornish, Selwyn - 2017

at MIT during 1958-59 he spent nine months in India to assist in the formulation of India's third five year plan and to … contribute to the development of India's premier research institutions. This paper provides an account of his work in New Delhi … Oxford. Swan was of the view that India's economic problems should be clearly understood and the best policy measures to …

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Political Reservations, Access to Water and Welfare Outcomes : Evidence from Indian Villages

Jha, Raghbendra - 2015

In a developing economy with an ethnically diverse society, such as India's, household welfare and its distribution … political reservations in rural India. Using a unique data set we find that Political reservations and the ability of women to …

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Wachstumsland Indien : überwundene Hindernisse und strukturelle Stärken

Jha, Raghbendra - In: Chancen des Wachstums : globale Perspektiven für den …, (pp. 197-224). 2008

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Increasing Pace of Urbanization and Implications for Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Jha, Raghbendra - 2019

The increasing pace of urbanization in emerging market economies poses a challenge for agricultural production in these countries. On the one hand, agricultural productivity is not keeping pace with the speed of urbanization and growth in food demand and, on the other, the demand for food is...

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Child Undernutrition in India

Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - 2014

We have constructed a composite indicator of anthropometric failure (CIAF) that refines the Waterlow-3 tier classification, using a recent nation-wide household survey. The CIAF and its disaggregation into subcategories of undernourished 5 years old children reveal a grimmer story of child...

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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty : The Indian Experience

Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - 2014

This paper focuses on the Indian experience with dietary changes, their nutritional implications, and policy response to alleviate nutritional deprivation. We review the evidence on nutrient intake and dietary changes, particularly the downward shift in calorie, protein and other nutrient intake...

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Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - 2014

The contribution of the present paper is threefold. First, we formally test whether the effect of calorie deprivation on wages is more significant/higher for the lower quantiles of workers. In the extant literature this is established through non-linear terms in the wage equation. A more...

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The first ten K R Narayanan orations : essays by eminent persons on the rapidly transforming Indian economy

Jha, Raghbendra (contributor); … - 2006

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Twenty K.R. Narayanan orations : essays by eminent persons on the rapidly transforming Indian economy

Jha, Raghbendra (ed.); Narayanan, Kocheril Raman (honouree) - 2021

needed a public forum with a global reach to involve the best minds working on economic development in India as well as to … honour its founder, Dr K.R. Narayanan, President of the Republic of India. The K.R. Narayanan Oration series was developed in … both an expert account of key aspects of the economic development process in India and a peek into India's potential in the …

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Twenty K. R. Narayanan Orations : Essays by Eminent Persons on the Rapidly Transforming Indian Economy

Jha, Raghbendra - 2021

development process in India and a peek into India's potential in the future. …

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