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Debt Decomposition and the Role of Inflation:A Security Level Analysis for...
In this paper, to study India’s debt dynamics, we assemble a novel data-set on Indian public debt with consistently defined aggregate annual components from 1951–2018, and Centre-State security level data from 2000–2018. Based on aggregate debt data, we quantify the contribution of inflation, real GDP growth, nominal interest rates and primary deficit/surplus ...Colloborative Research Programme on Urban Transformation in India
Funded by: ICSSR Principal Investigator: Prof. Sanjay Srivastava Date of Initiation: June, 2018 Likely Date of completion: June, 2020Institutional Innovations Gender and the Economy
Funded by: International Balzan Foundation Principal Investigator: Prof. Bina Agarwal Date of Initiation: January, 2018 Likely Date of completion: December, 2022Fiscal restructuring and its implications on health sector : An analysis...
Funded by: Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation, USA Principal Investigator: Prof. Indrani Gupta Date of Initiation: October, 2015 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021Association between Time Use Behaviour and Health and Well Being among...
Ageing is an inevitable demographic process occurring globally. Coming decades are projected to see a substantial increase in the elderly population and with rise in their number, the social, economic and health policy landscape for the elderly would also need upgradation in response to their needs. Thus identifying the drivers of health ...Untangling Policy Mishaps: How to Make Policies More Effective during a...
A number of economic and health policies adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic have been rendered partially or fully ineffective due to offsetting actions from private individuals.Does Services Sector Encourage Migration and Reduce Poverty?
The Indian Journal of Labour EconomicsEmphasizing visual tools: using R to understand dynamic models of biology...
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and TechnologyDoes Services Sector Encourage Migration and Reduce Poverty?
The Indian Journal of Labour EconomicsEmphasizing visual tools: using R to understand dynamic models of biology...
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and TechnologyForecasting Agricultural Output Using Space,Agro-Meterology & Land...
Funded by: Ministry of Agriculture Principal Investigator: Dr. Nilabja Ghosh Date of Initiation: April, 2006 Likely Date of completion: March, 2022Understanding the adoption of modern agricultural technologies in India
Journal of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsKautilya Economic Conclave (KEC)
Funded by: Ministry of Finance Principal Investigator: Prof. Mausumi Das Date of Initiation: January, 2022 Likely Date of completion: September, 2022Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM)
Funded by: Ministry of Finance Principal Investigator: Prof. Mausumi Das Date of Initiation: January, 2020 Likely Date of completion: March, 2022Impact of Direct Procurement on Farmer Profitability, Employment and...
Funded by: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC Principal Investigator: Prof. Chandra S.R. Nuthalapati Date of Initiation: December, 2021 Likely Date of completion: November, 2022India Countary Economic Memorandum Convergence study
Funded by: The World Bank Group Principal Investigator: Dr. Sabyasachi Kar Date of Initiation: December, 2021 Likely Date of completion: September, 2022Anemia mukt bharat and Maternal Nutrition (Non-FCRA)
Funded by: UNICEF Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: Jauary, 2021 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021India Countary Economic Memorandum Convergence study
Funded by: The World Bank Group Principal Investigator: Dr. Sabyasachi Kar Date of Initiation: December, 2021 Likely Date of completion: September, 20212Divergent Policies for Convergence Clubs: A Study of Post-Reform Indian...
Should economies attempting to break out of low-growth convergence clubs adopt policies distinctly different from those in high-growth clubs? This paper proposes a framework that helps answer this question. To do this, we extend the logic of policy divergence from the growth transitions literature to the analysis of club convergence. We then ...Unreliable Public Water Supply and Coping Mechanisms of Low-Income...
India is reported to have the world’s highest inhabitants without access to safe drinking water.Even in the capital city Delhi, although around 81% of the households have access to piped water supply system, it does not indicate reliability in water supply in terms of quantity or quality. Households adopt various coping mechanisms ...Differential Growth Impact of FDI on LICs, LMICs, and ECs: The Role of...
FDI has been beneficial to developing countries through increased access to capital, technology, foreign markets, superior managerial skills, and other backward and forward spillover effects. However, the developmental implications of FDI are dependent on the absorptive capabilities and levels of development. In this context, we scientifically examine the impact of FDI on ...Econometric crop yield modelling with satellite remote sensing under...
Funded by: Agriculture & Land Eco-System Division, BPSG, EPSA, Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad Principal Investigator: Prof. Nilabja Ghosh Date of Initiation: June, 2019 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021Effects of heat on incomes of workers in the informal sector (MS-538)
Funded by: Indian Statistical Institute through EfD, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das Date of Initiation: March, 2019 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021New Approaches to Forecasting Growth and Inflation: Big Data and Machine...
The use of big data and machine learning techniques is now very common in many spheres and there is growing popularity of these approaches in macroeconomic forecasting as well. Is big data and machine learning really useful in the prediction of macroeconomic outcomes? Are they superior in performance compared to their traditional ...Export Performance: A Study of Labour and Capital Intensive Manufacturing...
This paper makes an attempt to explore the export performance and its determinants of labour and capital intensive industries of Indian manufacturing sector for the period of 2004 to 2019. The paper found that the labour-intensive industries are more export-oriented than capital intensive industries. Foreign share, research and development and real effective ...Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): Critical Issues and the Indian...
A large number of Central Banks around the world are planning to introduce Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as a legal tender in their countries. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also revealed similar plans with an Indian CBDC expected in the near future. Any evaluation of such a major change ...DO DIFFERENT TYPES OF CAPITAL INFLOWS HAVE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT ON OUTPUT?...
Emerging market economies have experienced an unprecedented rise in cross-border capital flows and the existing literature provides us evidence of both expansionary and contractionary effects of inflows on domestic output. In this context, we make an attempt to answer the following questions: (1) Do capital inflows lead to expansionary or contractionary effect ...Financial Access and Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship and Employment:...
Can expansion of bank branch network reduce gender-gap in economic activity at the village level? To explore this issue, we construct a novel village-level panel data where we observe the financial access of each unbanked village in India defined as its distance to the nearest village/town with bank branch from 1951-2019; and ...Drivers of Corporate Investment Slowdown in India: A Firm Level Analysis
Majority of the existing literature has focused on examining the determinants of investment behaviour and the factors responsible for its slowdown at an aggregate level. There have only been a few studies analysing investment behaviour at firm level, and those are confined to the manufacturing sector using static panel models. In this ...AGRICULTURAL MARKET IMPERFECTIONS AND FARM PROFITABILITY IN INDIA
The gap between the incomes of agricultural workers vis-a-vis non-agricultural workers in India has widened since the 1990s and improving farmers’ income has emerged as the key policy focus in recent times. In realizing this objective, functioning of the markets is very critical as market imperfections can increase the production and transaction ...Investment Slowdown in India: Role of Fiscal-Monetary policy and Economic...
The current study attempts to understand the determinants of investment and the underlying reasons for its current slowdown in India. For the purpose, we estimate the investment functions by using the ARDL bounds-testing approach on quarterly data from 2004-05Q1 to 2019-20Q1 at three levels – aggregate investment, private investment and private corporate ...Economy’s response to Rainfall and Economic factors
Agriculture, known to be particularly sensitive to rainfall, helps determine GDP by its own performance and through its linkages with the industrial sector. Using Factor analysis to spatially disaggregate meteorological rainfall data based on commonality and employing an econometric simultaneous model the study finds determination of sectoral GDP performances in the economy ...Shedding light on unnoticed gems in India: Small towns’ development...
Shedding light on unnoticed gems in India: Small towns’ development perspective Mitra, Arup and Tripathi, Sabyasachi 2021 Employment, Labour and Informal Sector Though a large portion of India’s urban population is living in large cities, the latest Census period (2001-2011) showed that small towns (population less than 0.1 million) such as Census ...Investment Behavior in India: What led to Investment Slowdown and how to...
The importance of investment for improved productivity and economic growth has been well established in both theoretical and empirical literature. Investment slowdown has been the subject of intense debate in recent years. Most of the existing debates have been around aggregate investment but disaggregate investment at institution wise and assets wise may ...Do Absorptive Capacities matter for FPI-Growth Nexus? Evidence from...
Since the 1990s, there has been an increase in the volume of Foreign Portfolio Investments (FPI) flowing to developing economies. Theoretically, FPI inflows are supposed to promote economic growth by lowering cost of capital, increasing investment, diversifying risk and developing the financial sector. However, FPI – being short term investments – may ...Assessing Community Sanitary Complexes for System Strengthening (Non-FCRA)
Funded by: UNICEF Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: September, 2021 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021Mobility at the Lower Echelons?Evidence Based on Slum Household Panel Data...
This paper based on the household panel data collected from the slum surveys in the national capital of India notes that the extent of mobility is not uniform across slum households, which in the literature is interpreted as time independent mobility. It tries to identify the determinants of mobility through various econometric ...Reliability of PLFS 2019-20 Data.
Reliability of PLFS 2019-20 Data.IMPACT OF OUTWARD FDI: Evidence from Emerging Economies for Policy
The study makes an attempt to contribute to the ongoing policy debate on whether OFDI has a complementary or substitution effect on domestic investment and hence, growth. For the purpose, the current paper uses panel data analysis to understand the impact of OFDI for 14 emerging economies in the period 1981-2019. We ...Including musculoskeletal diseases in the health policy agenda in...
Morbidity due to Musculoskeletal Diseases (MSDs) has been rising steadily both globally and in India – fuelled primarily by lifestyle/behavioural factors and occupational risks. In India, MSDs are yet to find a place in discussions around non-communicable diseases. This exploratory study was an attempt to fill this gap. It used the 75th ...COVID-19 and the Paris Agreement target: A CGE analysis of alternative...
Journal of Urban Planning and DevelopmentCity Size Effect on Migration and Poverty: Study of Million-Plus Cities in...
Journal of Urban Planning and Development.Agglomeration Economies and Rural to Urban Migration: A District Level...
Keeping in view the concept of agglomeration economies and the New Economic Geography (NEG) angle, this paper makes an attempt to examine the rural to urban population movement at the district level in India. The findings tend to confirm that higher levels of urbanisation and higher migration rates are not strongly associated. ...IEG-SAGE Lecture Series
Funded by: SAGE Publication Principal Investigator: Prof. Ajit Mishra Date of Initiation: Annual Sponsorship Likely Date of completion: Annual SponsorshipStrengthening Anemia Mukt Bharat and Maternal Nutrition in Jharkhand
Funded by: UNICEF Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: August, 2021 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021GEN-GoI-UNDP-NATCOM
Funded by: Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change Principal Investigator: Prof. B.K. Pradhan Date of Initiation: August, 2021 Likely Date of completion: September, 2021Obesity and its Impact on COVID Occurrence: Evidence from India
Over-nutrition has emerged as a major public health issue in India. Being overweight or obese has been linked to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which are also linked to susceptibility and severe illness due to COVID. This paper investigates the association between overnutrition indicators and COVID prevalence and case fatality rate, for India. Using ...Anemia mukt bharat: Budget for Emergency Support (Non-FCRA)
Funded by: UNICEF Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: July, 2021 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021Fiscal dominance in India: Through the windshield and the rearview mirror
Theoretical works have pointed at the potentially damaging impacts of fiscal dominance, i.e. fiscal authority’s profligacy being accommodated by the monetary authority. Recent scholarship have highlighted to the contrary the arguably positive effects of such accommodation under certain circumstances. Ergo, a surgical snipping of the cord of joint working of monetary and ...Technology, Productivity growth and productivity employment trade-offs.
Productivity: A Quarterly Journal of The National Productivity Council.THE RECENT FARM LAWS IN INDIA: RATIONALE, IMPLICATIONS AND WAY FORWARD
Indian Parliament has recently enacted three laws related to agricultural marketing (two laws and an amendment to an existing Act), which are popularly called the ‘Farm Laws’. The enactment of these laws led to largescale unrest and protests in some parts of the country, particularly the northwestern states of Punjab, Haryana and ...Social Demographics and Health Achievements: An Ecological Analysis of...
The National Rural Health Mission of India was expected to have two broad kinds of impacts on institutional delivery and immunization coverage. First, to significantly increase institutional delivery and immunization coverage levels across all districts and, second, to enhance equity by reducing utilization gaps between districts with higher and lower share of ...Gender and workplace interactions: who is likely to lose?
Workplace interactions have been identified as a valuable source of information and career advancement. This study examines workplace interaction by looking at personal ties of 1744 blue-collar workers in 2 garment manufacturing units in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, India. Data analysis shows that men have a more expansive set ...Assessing impact of women health on poverty based on evidence from Nepal
International Journal of Child Health and Human DevelopmentDoes climate change perception make livelihood diversification more...
Poor households engage in multiple activities to maintain their consumption in face of economic hardships or exogenous shocks. In this paper, we try to examine the effectiveness of such livelihood diversification to increase or maintain the inter-temporal consumption level conditional to the climate change knowledge of the households. We use a cross ...India’s Cartel Penalty Practices, Optimal Restitution and Deterrence
We analyze the cartel penalty regime in India in light of the literature on optimal penalty for restitution and deterrence, as well as current penalty practices in different jurisdictions. Our analysis reveals that though India’s Competition Act allows for a much harsher penalty than other jurisdictions in cartel cases, the actual practices ...Revisiting Reports of the First National Labour Commission & the...
From 1940s onwards and well into the 1970s, labour policy had revolved around principles of tripartism and protection of labour rights; in contrast, from the late 1980s onwards, policy discourse sought to legitmise a shift from protection of labour rights to a deregulation of labour laws. Major shifts in labour policy agendas ...Policy Analysis beyond Development Economics: Questions for Labour...
From 1940s onwards and well into the 1970s, labour policy had revolved around principles of tripartism and protection of labour rights; in contrast, from the late 1980s onwards, policy discourse sought to legitmise a shift from protection of labour rights to a deregulation of labour laws. Major shifts in labour policy agendas ...Casuarina Monocultures are not efficient coastal shelterbelts: Some...
Coastal bio-shields are expected to protect human settlements against coastal disasters such as cyclones, tsunamis, and high-speed winds. Since the early 20th century, Casuarina plantations have been raised extensively along the vast Indian coastlines as shelterbelts, despite concerns that they are detrimental to local biodiversity and native ecosystems that provides a habitat ...Summer Research Fellowship on Public Policy at IEG
Funded by: Ms. Shailja Chandra, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi Principal Investigator: Prof. Ajit Mishra Date of Initiation: January, 2021 Likely Date of completion: October, 2022EXPLORING THE CONVERGENCE PUZZLE IN INDIA: Combining neoclassical and...
The study of economic growth across countries is highly rewarding. Understanding the varied patterns of growth across countries is crucial because disparities in growth rates have, in due course of time, led to gaps in living standards and ‘welfare’. The Economic Survey 2016-17 (2017)conducts an empirical exercise for the ß-convergence for i) ...Health, Development, and HIV in India.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian HistoryPrice or income support to farmers? Policy options and implications
The recent farm laws enacted by the Indian Parliament have sparked a major debate over the importance and the form of public support for farming in India. At the centre of the discourse are issues related to price support, income stabilization, fair trade and the role of government. The Government of India ...What causes poor child health in India? Reflections from NFHS-5.
International Journal of Child and Adolescent HealthCoordinated Horticulture Assessment & Management using geoiNformatics...
Funded by: Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Principal Investigator: Prof. Nilabja Ghosh Date of Initiation: December, 2018 Likely Date of completion: March, 2021Energy Security for India: Petroleum Demand Estimations and Projections
Crude oil and other petroleum products play an important role in India’s energy security and in sustaining its high growth rate. Against that background, this document empirically analyses petroleum demand; estimates demand functions for crude oil, diesel, and petroleum; and projects demand for these products up to 2025 for several different reasonable ...Growth Matters? Revisiting the Enigma of Child Undernutrition in India
Higher economic growth in the post-liberalization phase since the 1990s was expected to translate into rapid all around improvements in well-being of the people. A notable exception in defiance of this association is apparent in the form of a persistently high level of child undernutrition in the face of rapid economic growth ...Has Open Innovation Taken Root in India? Evidence from Startups working in...
Open innovation represents a paradigm shift in the technology development process from the advent of the New Millennium. Though evidenced mainly in technology-intensive sectors of developed countries, several ‘erosion factors’ and their interplay catalyse open innovation in relatively traditional sectors of developing countries. The rise of startups with supplementary venture capital industry ...Livelihood Volatility in the Urban Labour Market: Reflections from...
This study aims at capturing the labour market volatility which is conceptualized in terms of the lack of sustainable sources of livelihood round the year. Though we are not able to identify the number of times workers change their jobs, the change in the job status which cannot occur unless the job ...COSTING OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTRES : A CASE STUDY OF GUJARAT
The National Health Policy 2017 recommended the establishment of Health and Wellness Centres (HWC) as the primary platform to deliver comprehensive primary health care in India and emphasised that about two-thirds of the health budget of the government should be invested on primary care. In February 2018, the government announced its plan ...Long-term growth employment relationship in India
Journal of Asian Development ResearchE-commerce’s fast-tracking diffusion and adaptation in developing...
Applied Economic Perspectives and PolicyThe Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action...
Funded by: Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: January, 2021 Likely Date of completion: October, 2022Monitoring of PIP under NHM (Programme Implementation Plan under National...
Funded by: Centre for Catalyzing Change Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: January, 2021 Likely Date of completion: September, 2022Assessment of Provision and Promotion of Spacing Methods under Family...
Funded by: Centre for Catalyzing Change Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: January, 2020 Likely Date of completion: September , 2021What Causes Poor Child Health in India? Reflections from NFHS-5
This paper based on the data from the NFHS-5 examines various indicators of child health in India. A variety of correlates have been considered in order to understand the causes of poor health outcomes and reflect on effective strategies which may contribute to better health of the children. The inter-spatial variations bring ...Harrod-Domar Formula for Two Sector Growth Models
In this paper the much celebrated Harrod-Domar model is extended to include a non-consumable capital good. Here, growth rate of capital is directly proportional to saving rate and inversely proportional to weighted harmonic mean of capital output ratios of two sectors. Moreover, our formula includes differential prices for the two goods. Further, ...Efficiency Assessment of Maternal health services in the Aspirational...
India has achieved a momentous leap in economic growth in last few decades despite that it exhibits two disparate spectrums. At one spectrum, there are rapidly urbanizing mega-cities and wealth expansion of prosperous communities, while on the other hand a large number of people are lacking essential healthcare accessibility, social services and ...BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: Developments, Economic and Strategic...
China’s flagship project Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched in 2013 is meant to reshape global networks of transport infrastructure further integrating China with Asia, Europe and Africa having significant implications on trade, investment and economic and political ties of China vis-à-vis with other countries. The paper also highlights the economic as ...Innovations in Food Value Chains and Dynamics of Participation and Welfare...
Funded by: NABARD Principal Investigator: Prof. N. Chandrasekhar Rao Date of Initiation: December, 2018 Likely Date of completion: December, 2020Employment and TFP Impact of Technologies in the Developing World:...
This study assesses the impact of technology import, input import, foreign ownership of the company and domestic innovation on productivity and employment. For this purpose, we analyze enterprises-level survey data for developing countries across the world. In terms of labour productivity, we noted that it varies inversely with all the three foreign ...COVID lockdown, how people managed and impact of welfare schemes on...
COVID-19 pandemic is likely to accentuate poverty and vulnerability of people at the margin for a number of reasons like lockdown, relocation to native places having no scope for gainful employment, health effects, opening of work with many restrictions, future uncertainty, etc. Following the lockdown in March, the central and state governments ...Towards Universal Access to Quality Contraception (UAQ)/ SARAL Project
Funded by: Population Services International Principal Investigator: Prof. Indrani Gupta Date of Initiation: November, 2020 Likely Date of completion: November, 2023Farmers’ Stress, Income and the role of Non-Farm Business
Agricultural policies in India have largely been geared to increase domestic production and productivity in agriculture. Some of the reasons for farmers’ stress are rooted in these policies. For example, land related policies have largely focused on large land-owners, prohibition of tenancy, and similar measures; while the number of unviable size of ...Collabortion Agreement – GCRF Covid-19 Response Study (in...
Funded by: Univeristy of Aberdeen Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: November, 2020 Likely Date of completion: November, 2021Reflecting on Gendered Effect of COVID-19 in the Backdrop of PLFS...
The paper tries to assess the status of women employment by analyzing the data from the recently released Government of India’s Periodic labour Force Survey (PLFS ) 2018-19 and also throws light on gendered effect on labour market during Corona times.Vocational Training, Extension, and the Changing Landscape of Agricultural...
Since 2013, India has been introducing new, nationally standardised agricultural vocational training programmes, as part of the broader Skill India initiative of vocational education reform. Yet, given a dearth of existing specialised vocational education centres capable of providing agricultural training, India has been relying on other institutions to implement training at the ...Cost-Benefit Analyses of Nutrition Interventions in India’s Policy...
The Government of India has launched several important nutrition and health programmes and interventions. This study is an attempt to estimate the costs and benefits accruing from the implementation of the national interventions. The benefits are measured in terms of the number of years of life saved due to decreased child mortality ...Developing an Investment case for Kochi under the integrated sub-national...
Funded by: ICLEI South Asia (Local Government for Sustainability) Principal Investigator: Prof. Purnamita Dasgupta Date of Initiation: January, 2020 Likely Date of completion: September, 2021COVID-19 Pandemic and Livelihood Loss: Variations in Unemployment Outcomes...
The paper notes significant variations in the rise in the unemployment rate across regions though the nationwide lockdown was implemented without any discrimination. It explores the reasons of such disparities and notes that migration is an important factor. States with higher rates of migration and urbanisation rate, greater dependency on casual wage ...Finance and Innovation: Country-level Evidence on Role of Firm Size and...
With the increased globalization, the production processes are fragmented and the size of the firm tends to shrink under more competitive environment all over the world. Intuitively, it is assumed that small firms face much competition than the larger one that could raise innovation and receive less external finance for the same. ...Financial access of unbanked villages in India from 1951 to 2019: A...
With the increased globalization, the production processes are fragmented and the size of the firm tends to shrink under more competitive environment all over the world. Intuitively, it is assumed that small firms face much competition than the larger one that could raise innovation and receive less external finance for the same. ...The Glasses are Tinted: Self-Confidence and Poverty Trap
In an overlapping generations model, this paper looks at the effects of behavioral anomalies on human capital investments and skill distributions. In this model education is necessary but not sufficient to get a skilled job. There are three types of agents: uneducated-unskilled, educated-unskilled, educated-skilled. Behavioral anomalies are such that adults underestimate the ...Services Sector in India: Does It Contribute to Population Movement and...
Based on the cross-sectional data this study examines the role of the services sector in the context of migration from the rural to the urban areas. The dominance of the services sector in the urban setup seems to be working as a pull factor.While industrialisation is seen to encourage migration, the three-equation-recursive ...Fiscal Space and Expenditure Priorities post -14th Finance Commission: A...
Inter-governmental fiscal transfers comprising specific purpose (tied/conditional) and general purpose (untied/unconditional) transfers, underwent a significant change following the 14th Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations and its subsequent acceptance by the Government of India. The FFC increased the tax devolution to states from the divisible pool and adopted a new formula for the inter-se ...Determinants of Economic Growth across States in India
Economic performance has been widely different across states in India. This paper attempts to examine some possible determinants of growth across 17 major states in India during 2004-05 to 2016-17. While investment data at the state level are not available to examine its influence on growth at the state level, the growth ...The Unification Movement in Karnataka: Twin Logics of Cultural and...
The significant work on regional identities that emerged around the new standard vernacular forms in the 19th century has shown how these had offered possibilities of subsuming sectarian and hierarchical markers of belonging such as caste, religion. As imperatives towards territorial reorganization gained momentum in the years after the Bengal Partition and ...Rethinking Linguistic Unification, Spanning Political Heterogeneity:...
In the years after the Partition of Bengal in 1905, the consolidation of linguistic identities emerged as an important assertion of core democratic values positing that governance must be in a language intelligible to the majority. Like other linguistic movements in late colonial India, however, the Kannada Ekikaran movement did not progress ...Constructing an Input-Output Table for Odisha for 2013-14
This study focuses on construction of regional input-output table for the Indian state of Odisha. From 2011-12 onwards, Government of India is publishing all-India Supply-Use tables instead of Input-Output tables. Using an all-India input-output table generated from the Supply-Use table, this is an attempt to make a state level Input-Output table, and ...Impact of COVID Lockdown
Funded by: Indian Statistical Institute-Sweden Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das, Prof. Ajit Mishra, Dr. E. Somanathan, Dr. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay Date of Initiation: August, 2020 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021End term evaluation of Making It Happen, Rajasthan
Funded by: The India Nutrition Initiative (TINI) Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: August, 2020 Likely Date of completion: September, 2020Impact Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation
Funded by: NABARD Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das Date of Initiation: August, 2019 Likely Date of completion: August, 2020Valuing the Commons: Essentials of Managing the Environment for...
Funded by: Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), Anand, Gujarat Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: January, 2020 Likely Date of completion: September, 2021Importance of Scholarship Scheme in Higher Education for Students from the...
Given the challenges faced due to declining public budgets on education on one hand and the need for more resources on the other, many developed and developing countries such as India, are now examining alternative methods of subsidizing higher education to benefit students from the deprived sections. One such mechanism is scholarship ...The Role of Income Distribution in Financing Human Capital Investment
We study relations between parents’ income and children’s college graduation, using data for 20.5 million children, born during 1978-83 in the U.S. or authorized immigrants, and their parents, mobility matrices for 741 U.S. commuting zones and Markov chain model for income distribution. Graduation rates are significantly andcausally related to parents’ income shares. ...Fourth industrial revolution and India’s employment problem
International Journal of social EconomicsDemystifying causal inference: ingredients of a recipe
In the last few decades, scholars have contributed to a flourishing literature on casual inference and the demand for its application in areas like programme evaluation has increased. Our suggestion is that the following ingredients are useful for demystifying causal inference in introductory courses: (1) using the potential outcomes and causal graph ...‘OUR PLACE IN THE FUTURE’: AN EXPLORATION OF CHALAKI AMONG YOUNG...
In the mid 1990’s, Adivasi and Dalit villagers in Kashipur, Southern Odisha, strongly resisted a proposed bauxite mining project through collective struggle. The movement registered many successes but it could not stop the mining project. The struggle waged on for twenty years and eventually declined by 2010. Curiously, as the construction work ...Does it matter who extorts? Extortion by competent and incompetent...
Law enforcement officers can engage in two forms of corruption. Bribery, which arises when officers accept bribes from criminals, and extortion when officers demand payments from law-abiders. While bribery is mutually beneficial to both parties and therefore easy to explain, explaining extortion is more challenging because it only benefits one party; namely, ...COVID-19 AND INDIAN ECONOMY: Impact on Growth, Manufacturing, Trade and...
We make a preliminary assessment of Covid-19 on Indian economy by analyzing its impact on growth, manufacturing, trade and MSME sector. The impact of the Pandemic across sectors and in different scenarios of complete, extended and partial lockdown and at different levels of capacity utilisation is massive on the Indian economy. India’s ...Assessing Marine Plastic Pollution in India
Rampant use of plastics and inefficient waste management practices have led to the plastic waste being either piled up on dumpsites or finding their way into the open sea contributing to global problem of marine plastic pollution. The marine debris is a matter of grave concern both for marine biota and humans ...Estimating Social Time Preference Rate for India:Lower Discount Rates for...
This paper provides estimates of social time preference rate for the appraisal of investment projects in India, It uses generalized Ramsay rule that accounts for impatience and wealth effects and precautionary effects of uncertain future consumption on rate of discount.Using relevant data from different sources for India, all three components of Ramsey ...Is the Electronic Market the Way Forward to Overcome Market Failures in...
Endemic market failures with infrastructural bottlenecks compounded by excessive regulation and vested interests stifle agricultural markets and farm incomes in developing countries. Electronic market is the new initiative of the central government to overcome these problems. This paper examines the performance of these markets through analysing primary data from 856 farm households ...Kuznets’ tension in India: Two episodes
Developing countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the ‘developer’s dilemma’. This study analyses the dilemma as it manifested itself in the Indian context, and identifies two distinct episodes over the post-independence period. We characterize these two episodes as ‘inclusion without growth’ and ...Valuing the Role of Mangroves in Storm Damage Reduction in Coastal Areas...
Climate Change and Community Resilience. Ed. By Enamul Haque A., Mukhopadhyay P., Nepal M., Shammin M.R., Springer, Singapore. 2022. pp 257-273Employment Modeling in India
After working out the long term series on employment based on forecast methods using the cross sectional estimates of elasticity of unorganized/informal sector employment with respect to organized/formal sector employment this paper argues that the long term employment growth in India has been sluggish. In the time series framework it is also ...G20’s Effectiveness in Turbulent and Normal Times
This paper examines the G20’s effectiveness in turbulent as opposed to normal times. The forum’s 2008-09 performance remains unparalleled as consensus, cooperation and collective action has eluded it since. This paper examines the G20’s efficacy in the two polar situations through a simple empirical exercise that employs efficiency scores constructed from word ...Corona Crash: Need Global Efforts to tackle Global Crisis
The Corona pandemic has affected around 6 lakh people with little more than 27 thousand casualties across the globe as on 27 of March 2020 and still counting. The pandemic has severely affected top economies such as China, Italy, Spain, Germany, S. Korea, France, the U.S., Switzerland, the U.K. and India. The ...Combating Hidden Hunger through Micro-Nutrient Dense Biofortified Foods
The burden of malnutrition in the world is unacceptably high and is estimated to adversely affect two billion people. The extent of ‘hidden hunger’ in South Asia is much more widespread than other parts of the world. Anemia among pregnant women (52%) and children of less than five years (58%) in South ...Start up with Innovation and Impact of Growth, Employment and Welfare
Funded by: ICSSR Principal Investigator: Prof. N. Chandrasekhar Rao Date of Initiation: March, 2018 Likely Date of completion: February, 2020Meghna Basin Socio-ecological Research
Funded by: International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN) Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das Date of Initiation: January 2020 Likely Date of completion: June, 2020Assessment of Provision and Promotion of Spacing Methods under Family...
Funded by: Centre for Catalyzing Change Principal Investigator: Dr. William Joe Date of Initiation: January, 2020 Likely Date of completion: September, 2021Gendered Violence and Urban Transformation in India and South Africa
Funded by: Cambridge University, UK Principal Investigator: Prof. Sanjay Srivastava Date of Initiation: January, 2020 Likely Date of completion: March, 2023Meghna Basin Socio-ecological Research
Funded by: International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN) Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das Date of Initiation: January, 2021 Likely Date of completion: June, 2020Informal Sector in India: Migration and Poverty Implications
Regional Economics Development Research.Informal Sector in India: Migration and Poverty Implications.
Regional Economics Development Research.DAMS 2.0 : Design and assessment of resilient and sustainable...
Funded by: The University of Manchester Principal Investigator: Prof. Ajit Mishra Date of Initiation: November, 2019 Likely Date of completion: March, 2022For Implementation of Price Support for Farmers
Price support to farmers has been an important pillar of development policy in agriculture. Price support is a way to implement minimum support price of crops and its proper implementation provide income insurance to farmers. Read MoreSmall Farmers and Disruptive Innovations in Food Chains in India
Various segments of value chain from consumption to production that includes retailing, wholesaling, logistics, processing and production have been undergoing rapid and unprecedented changes in recent times in the country. This policy brief traces innovations in value chains brought about by new-generation start-ups, and presents an econometric analysis of field data on ...The Other Side of Indian Demographics: Accelerating Growth in Ageing and...
The OTher Side Of indian demOgraphicS: acceleraTing grOwTh in ageing and iTS challengeS The authors are at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. This policy brief is drawn using data collected during the survey conducted by three collaborating institutions—ISEC, IEG, and UNFPA—as part of the research project ‘Building a Knowledge Base ...Trade Prospects Between India and Central Asia
There is significant potential for improving trade in commodities and services between India and Central Asia. This document identifies the constraints of trade in this region and suggests policies that could be implemented to overcome these constraints and increase bilateral trade. Read MoreDiesel Subsidy Withdrawing The Economic Impact of Withdrawing the Diesel...
The large subsidy on diesel has become controversial in view of the large current account and fiscal deficits. The consequent depreciation of the rupee—along with the additional fiscal burden of the food security bill—will make it absolutely necessary to phase out the diesel subsidy of about Rs 13 per litre. Our research ...Towards Increasing Off-Farm Income Opportunities for Farmers
Small land holders dominate Indian agriculture, and need off-farm income for survival. Analysis shows that for sufficient off-farm income opportunities, growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or tourism is important as it triggers growth in other sectors of the rural economy. After weighing various options, the study finally concludes that spatially distributed, linkage-based manufacturing ...Challenges of HMIS in India
The Health Management Information System (HMIS) was designed to facilitate the monitoring and evaluation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), which aims to improve health care delivery in India, and identify shortcomings. A study of the HMIS in the Udham Singh Nagar district in Uttarakhand, a state in northern India, finds ...Financial Access in Post-Reform India
This study focuses on the state of financial access in post-reform India. It is analysed from the macroeconomic growth perspective keeping in view the importance of rapid growth for the Indian economy and the fact that majority of production organizations especially in the unorganized segment are yet to have access to the ...