This paper formulates an analytical framework to assess the impacts of India's Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on commodity value chains. Existing academic literature have relied on examining Balance of Payments (BoP) to assess the impact of FTAs. This paper views such methodology as reductionist,...

We humans are born with narrative fallacy as we like to summarize or simplify stuff to reduce the dimension or impact of matters. But history is opaque and hence the fallacy is associated with our vulnerability to over interpretation over actualities. Present economic environment is bit more...

Objective: To examine the potential effect of a tax on palm oil on hyperlipidemia and on mortality due to cardiovascular disease in India.Design Economic-epidemiologic model. Modeling methods: A microsimulation model of mortality due to myocardial infarction and stroke among Indian populations...

Commodity prices have become volatile over the past 2 decades, and their recent sharp decline has decreased the consumer price index inflation rates for most economies. While many Asian economies have benefited from low international oil and food prices, commodity exporters have suffered. Thus,...