Tag Search: “Agriculture”
Are grain procurement shocks inflationary?
Central banks in emerging markets grapple with understanding the inflationary impact of grain procurement shocks because the precise link between the agriculture sector and the rest of the economy may...
- Chetan Ghate Sargam Gupta Debdulal Mallick
- 17 October, 2016
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Indian agriculture: How to feed more people with fewer resources
While agriculture in India has achieved grain self-sufficiency, it has become cereal-centric, regionally-biased and resource-intensive. In this article, Swain, Price and Sharma discuss the rising res...
- Gareth Price Ira Sharma Ashwini K. Swain
- 05 July, 2016
- Perspectives
Are banks responsive to credit demand shocks in rural India?
The output of Kharif crops is estimated to decrease by about 2% this year due to deficient monsoon rains in some Indian states. How responsive are commercial banks to a credit demand shock in rural I...
- Sankar De
- 05 October, 2015
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Road to riches: An evaluation of India's rural road programme
Access to roads is believed to be essential for economic growth and poverty alleviation. This column evaluates the short-term impact of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana – India’s flagship rural road ...
- Shilpa Aggarwal
- 19 August, 2015
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Boosting Indo-Pak agricultural trade
Despite close geographical proximity of India and Pakistan and implementation of SAFTA almost a decade ago, trade potential between the two countries remains largely unexploited. This column analyses...
- Ramesh Chand Raka Saxena
- 02 April, 2015
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'Cry, the Beloved Country': Mending Punjab's economy
The growth rate of Punjab, which once ranked among India’s most affluent states, is slowing. In this article, Nirvikar Singh, who holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at U...
- Nirvikar Singh
- 11 February, 2015
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Saving people's livelihoods
The new government is seeking to alter the essence of MNREGA based on the premise that it is not useful in its current form. In this article, Sudha Narayanan criticises the move and argues that despi...
- Sudha Narayanan
- 28 October, 2014
- Perspectives
India's WTO problem: A proposal
India is threatening to block the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement unless its agricultural policies are exempted from multilateral scrutiny. This article contends that while India’s objectives on agri...
- Arvind Subramanian
- 31 July, 2014
- Perspectives
The Jaitley Budget: Planning for crisis
El Nino can potentially derail the best-laid plans of the new government in India. The article contends that the finance minister would do well to plan his first Budget by attaching a reasonable prob...
- Arvind Subramanian
- 23 June, 2014
- Perspectives
The nutrition puzzles: Need for more holistic solutions
In this column, the author critiques the approach of only focusing on nutrition and health sector-related solutions for achieving food security. She calls for more holistic approaches that take into a...
- Uma Lele
- 28 April, 2014
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Why food inflation has been high in India
The persistently high food inflation witnessed in India over the past few years has been a cause for concern. This column seeks to identify the major drivers of food inflation in India, and to evalua...
- Rudrani Bhattacharya Abhijit Sen Gupta Narhari Rao
- 16 April, 2014
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Bali conundrum: WTO and Indian agriculture
The outcome of the recent WTO meetings at Bali is a stopgap arrangement, which implies that the Indian government does not have to make any changes in the implementation of the new Food Security Act i...
- Ashok Kotwal Milind Murugkar Bharat Ramaswami
- 15 January, 2014
- Perspectives