The importance of nutrient intake in the development literature stems from its role as a determinant of economic growth and welfare via its link with productivity and deprivation. This article analyses nutrient intake in rural India and provides evidence on its determinants in selected Indian...

This paper unites two strands of the literature on subgroup decomposable poverty measurement originating from Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (1984) by incorporating information on both multiple dimensions and multiple periods. This generalises the Alkire and Foster (2011a) measure into a dynamic...

This paper extends the recent literature on spatial price differences within a country to provide evidence on the Australian experience during the past two decades. While much of the existing evidence on spatial price variation within a country relates to large heterogeneous countries such as...

There have been very few attempts in the economics literature to empirically study the link between criminal and corrupt behaviour due to lack of data sets on simultaneous information on both types of illegitimate activities. This paper is, to our knowledge, the first in the literature to...

This paper attempts to measure the redistributive effects of commodity taxation within a nonlinear Engel curve framework. A recent nonlinear demand system (RNLPS) is estimated on Indian budget data and the parameter estimates are used in conjunction with actual tax rates to quantify possible...

The paper looks at the determinants of the size of the informal sector. We argue that corruption and informality complement each other and are jointly determined by various market and non-market variables. Our theoretical model as well empirical exercises focus on wealth and income inequality as...