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Tushar Agrawal
Tushar Agrawal is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Udaipur. Prior to joining IIM Udaipur, he worked as an Associate Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. His areas of research include issues related to education and labour market in India. He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Development Studies from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai.
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Food subsidy – PDS, cash, or both?
Should food subsidies – currently availed in the form of subsidised cereals – be given out in the form of cash instead? In this post, Krishna and Agrawal contend that rather than asking this binary question, it might be more cost-effective and welfare-enhancing to consider: where is PDS, and where might cash be, the better policy response for serving the same need?
कोविड-19 और दीर्घकालिक गरीबी: ग्रामीण राजस्थान से साक्ष्य
प्रारंभिक गणना के आधार पर, भारत में कोविड-19 के कारण 7.7 से 22 करोड़ लोग गरीबी में आ गए हैं, जिसके अनुसार अब शहरी आबादी में गरीब 60% और ग्रामीण आबादी में 70% हो गए हैं। वर्ष 2002 में ग्रामीण राजस्थान में किए गए सर्वेक्षण के 2021 में किये गए फॉलोअप के आधार पर, यह लेख दर्शाता है कि परिवारों को मार्च 2020-अगस्त 2021 के दौरान अपनी नकद आय का एक-तिहाई और दो-तिहाई के बीच नुकसान हुआ, जबकि उन्होंने अपनी दीर्घकालीन गरीबी में बहुत कम बदलाव देखा या किसी बदलाव का अनुभव नहीं किया।
Covid-19 and long-term poverty: Evidence from rural Rajasthan
Based on preliminary calculations, it is being reported that 77-220 million have fallen into poverty in India on account of Covid-19, with the poor now accounting for 60% of urban, and 70% of rural residents. Based on a 2021 follow-up to a 2002 survey conducted in rural Rajasthan, this article shows that while households lost between one-third and two-thirds of their cash incomes during March 2020-August 2021, they experienced little to no change in long-term poverty.