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This paper studies the impact of replacing sales tax by value-added tax (VAT) on production efficiency and informality … among Indian states. We disentangle the production efficiency gains caused by removing the distortions of sales tax from the … reform depend on input-output linkages. While production efficiency is larger in downstream industries with backward linkages …
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This paper serves to disentangle the complex system of Indian food policies related to wheat and rice procurement, storage, distribution and trade. Using nationally aggregated time series data, these policies are econometrically analysed. Based on the estimation results, their market...
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While several studies have shown that genetically modified Bt cotton can benefit smallholder farmers economically, the sustainability of these effects is still unclear and debated controversially between biotechnology proponents and critics. We use unique panel data of 533 cotton farmers,...
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This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy workers’...
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