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  • The Political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh 
    Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B; Narayanan, Sudha (2014-07)
    Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? We investigate this conjecture using expenditure data at the local level from India's National ...
  • Price elasticity estimates for tobacco and other addictive goods in India 
    John, Rijo M (2012-05-24)
    The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fteen per cent of the tobacco users who represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are ...
  • The Productivity of agricultural credit in India 
    Narayanan, Sudha (2015-01)
    This study examines the nature of the relationship between formal agricultural credit and agricultural GDP in India, specifically the role of the former in supporting agricultural growth, using state level panel data ...
  • Returns to education in India: Some recent evidence 
    Agrawal, Tushar (2012-06-04)
    This paper estimates returns to education in India using a nationally representative survey. We estimate the standard Mincerian wage equation separately for rural and urban sectors. To account for the possibility of ...
  • Revival of rural PDS: Expansion and outreach 
    Rahman, Andaleeb (2014-04)
    Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in the performance of PDS ...
  • Social group disparities and poverty in India 
    Mutatkar, Rohit (2012-05-24)
    This paper seeks to provide a profile of social group disparities and poverty in India, where social groups are classified as scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other social groups, and examine the factors underlying ...
  • Spatial convergence in public expenditure across Indian states 
    Garg, Sandhya (2015-12)
    India, a quasi-federal structure specifies the provisions of federal transfers to sub-national governments to cushion their inadequate expenditure capacity. Observing this provision of federal transfers and large disparities ...
  • To bt or not to bt? Risk and uncertainty considerations in technology assessment 
    Gaurav, Sarthak; Mishra, Srijit (2012-06-06)
    The acreage under the transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India has risen significantly since its legalization in the year 2002. Discussions on the advantages from the technology have focused on increments in productivity and ...
  • Trade liberalisation and women's employment intensity: Analysis of India's manufacturing industries 
    Banerjee, Purna; Veeramani, C (2015-06)
    In the context of increasing contribution of developing countries in world trade, an important question is whether trade can be used as an instrument to stimulate higher participation of women in the labour market? Trade ...
  • Universal food security program and nutritional intake: Evidence from the hunger prone KBK districts in Odisha 
    Rahman, Andaleeb (2015-06)
    This article provides evidence on the role of consumer food subsidies in improving nutritional intake and diet quality by evaluating the expansion of the government food assistance program coverage in the hunger prone state ...
  • What should regulation do in the field of micro-finance? 
    Sane, Renuka; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-06)
    Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus on the appropriate regulatory stance towards micro-finance. In this paper, we review facts and recent experience about Indian microfinance. We analyse the puzzles of ...