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Anshuman Kamila
Anshuman Kamila is an officer of the Government of India and has previously worked at the Reserve Bank of India. He belongs to the Indian Economic Service, batch of 2020. An alumnus of St Stephen’s College, Delhi School of Economics and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Anshuman is also the President of India Gold Medal for the Best Officer Trainee awardee for the 95th Foundation Course at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy for Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie.
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Addressing the economic trade-offs of interlinkages in contemporary agrarian markets
Agrarian markets often see interlinked market transactions – the arhatiya deals with the farmer in both the crop market as a commission agent, and in the credit market as a moneylender. In this post, Kumar et al. examine the trade-off between the welfare of farmers and arhatiyas, and how schemes and institutions can work to increase access to formal credit in agriculture
Poverty is bad – but is vulnerability worse?
Official data reveal that poverty in India has declined significantly over time. In this post, Kamila and Wadhwa make the case for policy discourse to shift towards the phenomenon of ‘vulnerability’. Presenting their view on alternative methods of quantifying vulnerability, they highlight the challenges of leveraging existing data for this purpose and the kinds of data that would be needed to capture the essence of vulnerability.