Based on data collected from a representative national sample, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper …

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 …-human consumption and wastage. This paper reviews the trends in urbanization in as well as in in agricultural productivity and comes to …

such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …

analysis. The paper uses household level data for 2004–05 (NSS 61st Round) and 1993–94 (NSS 50th Round) for India and also … demographic transition in India (particularly the movement in Total Fertility Rates across Indian states) during 1961 … poverty status at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of …

This paper surveys the status of food security in the South Asian countries, particularly India. Particular attention … households who are poor, and iii) rural households who are undernourished. The paper then singles out five disconnects in India …

in workfare programs, particularly in India. Using a unique data set for the Indian state of Rajasthan for 2009-10, this …