No: WP-2020-002 Author: Digvijay S. Negi and Bharat Ramaswami Title: International Risk Sharing for Food Staples Abstract: It is claimed that the world food supplies are more stable than the domestic supplies, and therefore free trade should achieve a higher degree of stability in prices and consumption than autarkic policies. […]
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Working Paper: Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates and Misalignments in Large Emerging Markets: A Re-look through Panel Cointegrating Estimation
No: WP-2020-001 Author: Krittika Banerjee and Ashima Goyal Title: Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates and Misalignments in Large Emerging Markets: A Re-look through Panel Cointegrating Estimation Abstract: Equilibrium real exchange rates (ERERs) of a set of major emerging market economies (EMEs) are estimated in a panel cointegrating equation framework against trade weighted advanced economy […]
Working Paper: Commercialization, Diversification and Structural Determinants of Farmers’ Income in India
No: WP-2019-042 Author: Varun Kumar Das and A. Ganesh-Kumar Title: Commercialization, Diversification and Structural Determinants of Farmers’ Income in India Abstract: This paper examines the effect commercialization (sale ratio, market transaction, co-operative sale), and diversification (crop, animal husbandry, and non-farm diversification) may have on farmers’ income. In investigating so, this paper takes into […]
Working Paper: Synergies in Social Protection : Impacts of India’s MGNREGA and Public Distribution System on the health and nutrition of Women and Children
No: WP-2019-041 Author: Sudha Narayanan, Karthikeya Naraparaju, Nicolas Gerber Title: Synergies in Social Protection : Impacts of India’s MGNREGA and Public Distribution System on the health and nutrition of Women and Children Abstract: This paper examines whether participation in workfare and food grain subsidy programs in India impacts health and nutritional status of […]
Working Paper: Dynamics and Determinants of Fragmentation Trade: Asian Countries in Comparative and Long-term Perspective
No: WP-2019-040 Author: C Veeramani and Garima Dhir Title: Dynamics and Determinants of Fragmentation Trade: Asian Countries in Comparative and Long-term Perspective Abstract: This paper analyses the dynamics and determinants of fragmentation trade in major Asian countries in comparative and long term (1962-2018) perspective. Based on the available literature, we identify certain […]
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Working Paper: Empowerment and Nutrition in Niger: Insights from the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Grid
No: WP-2019-039 Author: Erin Lentz, Elizabeth Bageant, and Sudha Narayanan Title: Empowerment and Nutrition in Niger: Insights from the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Grid Abstract: We present a novel application of a regression decomposition technique, the Shapley Owen decomposition, to identify the aspects of empowerment associated with undernutrition in Niger. Niger is […]
Working Paper: Loan Waivers and Bank Credit Reflections on the evidence and the way forward
No: WP-2019-038 Author: Sudha Narayanan and Nirupam Mehrotra Title: Loan Waivers and Bank Credit Reflections on the evidence and the way forward Abstract: In the past decade, farm loan waivers have become a policy instrument to alleviate financial distress of farmers. Despite agreement on the theoretical rationale for such debt forgiveness and its […]
