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Sandip Mitra is an Assistant Professor, at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research areas include political economy, financial inclusion, microfinance, poverty, large-scale sample survey, agricultural markets and health economics. He has published in a number of refereed international journals.
Posts by Sandip Mitra
Using intermediaries to deliver credit
Communities are monitoring service providers, and local governments are delivering development and welfare programmes in developing countries. This article indicates the potential value of enlarging t...
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Pushkar Maitra
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Sujata Visaria
02 March, 2020
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Middleman margins and market structure in West Bengal potato supply chains
Potato farmers in West Bengal sell to local middlemen because they lack direct access to wholesale markets. Middleman margins are large and there is negligible pass-through from wholesale to farm-gat...
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Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Sujata Visaria
22 September, 2017
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Financial inclusion for agricultural growth: An alternative approach
Traditional, group-based microcredit has had limited success at enabling farmers to expand the cultivation of risky but profitable cash crops. Evidence suggests that this is mainly because of its mech...
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Pushkar Maitra
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Alberto Motta
Sujata Visaria
08 December, 2014
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Cash Transfer versus In-Kind Transfers: A conceptual framework and preliminary evidence
This project studied the performance of a conditional cash transfer scheme called Mukhyamantri Cycle Yojana, which provides money to purchase a bicycle to every student who is enrolled in standard nin...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
Sandip Mitra
01 June, 2013
- IGC Research on India
Potato Traders in West Bengal: A Survey of Contractual Relations and Market Structure
This study consists of a pilot survey of a random subset of phorias (middlemen) and larger traders who operate in 72 villages of West Medinipur and Hugli districts in West Bengal and their correspondi...
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Pushkar Maitra
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Alberto Motta
Sujata Visaria
01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Political Clientelism and Government Accountability in West Bengal: Theory and Evidence
This project provide a theory of political clientelism, which explains sources and determinants of political clientelism, the relationship between clientelism and elite capture, and their respective c...
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Pranab Bardhan
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
31 October, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Middleman Margins, Credit and Information Constraints: Potato Markets in West Bengal, India
This project investigates how potato farmers in West Bengal sell their crop to local traders, the determinants of farm-gate prices and margins earned by traders. Specifically, it examines the role of ...
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Pushkar Maitra
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Sujata Visaria
31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Designing microfinance for agricultural growth
Credit and information constraints are particularly acute for farmers in developing countries, and can have a strong impact on their productivity.
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Pushkar Maitra
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Alberto Motta
Sujata Visaria
31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Land Acquisition for Business and Compensation of Displaced Farmers
This project addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialisation ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are lea...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Case study on successful land acquisitions in Bihar
This project addresses the question of compensation policies for rural communities that lose their traditional lands and livelihoods to make way for business (e.g., industry, commercial agriculture, u...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India