, which brings destabilizing price effects on the economy and causes serious environmental problems like climate change. India … economic feasibility of sugarcane bioethanol in India while considering food security as a competing policy priority. The … analyses show that 20% blending of bioethanol cannot be achieved without affecting food production in India at the current …

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 …

Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus. Vast … Organization laws on agriculture and farmers, the media’s spotlight on starvation deaths and, finally, the Supreme Court of India … situation prevailing in India and reviews the obligations and initiatives by the government of India to ensure food security …

A comparative study of the public distribution systems of foodgrains in India and China is expected to reveal lessons …

a women’s empowerment programme in rural India on child immunization and school enrolment. The survey covers both …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has boomed in post-reform India. Moreover, the composition and type of FDI has changed … considerably since India has opened up to world markets. This has fuelled high expectations that FDI may serve as a catalyst to … higher economic growth. We assess the growth implications of FDI in India by subjecting industry-specific FDI and output data …

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of …