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Fluctuating staple prices and household poverty in India

Shutes, Lindsay; Ganesh-Kumar, Anand; Meijerink, Gerdien W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The general perception is that high food prices in India have increased poverty and that trade reforms will further … without trade reform, using price and income effects for 32 representative households computed from a global economic model … opportunities for poverty alleviation. Global trade reform reinforces this effect for all rural population groups. An increase in …

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India-Africa partnership in trade and investment: With focus on the agriculture and food sector

Gulati, Ashok; Das, Sandip - 2020

. This paper looks at historical ties between India and Africa. It identifies trade and investment patterns in recent decades …

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India-Africa partnership in trade and investment : with focus on the agriculture and food sector

Gulati, Ashok; Das, Sandip - 2020

. This paper looks at historical ties between India and Africa. It identifies trade and investment patterns in recent decades …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265001

India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08: Learning some lessons

Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015

India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially. The urea price increases in global markets were absorbed through enhanced fertilizer subsidies. The government launched the...

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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08 : learning some lessons

Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015

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China, India, Brazil and South Africa in the world economy: Engines of growth?

Nayyar, Deepak - 2008

. In doing so, it considers the main channels of transmission, to focus on international trade, investment, finance and …

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Welfare Analysis of Changing Food Prices: A Nonparametric Examination of Export Ban on Rice in India

Groom, Ben; Tak, Mehroosh - Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African … - 2013

During the world food crisis of 2007-08, the price of staples soared rapidly. Higher food price impacts poor households more as they spend approximately three quarters of their income on food. Together rice and wheat provide more than 50% of the calorific intake in India. Apart from providing...

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Impact of India's National Food Security Act On Domestic and International Rice Markets

Debnath, Deepayan - 2017

Policy making in food security is at a crossroads in India, particularly for the rice crop. Whereas India has emerged as a leading rice exporter over the last two years, the government has also introduced a large food subsidy program called the National Food Security Act. The program requires...

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Study of Cost Benefit Analysis of Managing Bt. Cotton Farming with Special Reference to Vidarbha

Timane, Rajesh - 2013

About forty lakh hectare of land is under cotton cultivation in Maharashtra. Once known as the prosperous cotton-belt; today the irony is that the state tops the list when it comes to suicides by farmers. Further, almost all of them are cotton farmers mostly from Vidarbha. At present, Vidarbha...

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Development of Potato in Bihar:Issues and Strategies

Singh, K.M.; Kumar, Abhay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Potato is the fourth major food crop after rice, wheat and maize in Bihar. It occupies less than 5% of net sown area with production only 4th after rice, wheat and maize. Potato a short duration crop has special significance since it gives exceptionally high yields/unit area/unit time and has...

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