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Working Paper: Land Distribution, Income Generation & Inequality in India’s Agricultural Sector

NO: WP-2019-018 AUTHOR: Sanjoy Chakravorty, S Chandrasekhar, Karthikeya Naraparaju TITLE: Land Distribution, Income Generation & Inequality in India’s Agricultural Sector ABSTRACT: This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India’s agricultural sector. We analyse the National Sample Surveys of agriculture in 2003 and 2013 using descriptive and regression […]

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Working Paper: Agrarian Distress in India: Possible Solutions

NO: WP-2019-017 AUTHOR: Barendra Kumar Bhoi and C.L. Dadhich TITLE: Agrarian Distress in India: Possible Solutions ABSTRACT: Agrarian distress in India, built-up over time, has further deteriorated recently. At the height of the farm output, Indian farmers are a disappointed lot. Despite spectacular rise in agricultural production, they continue to languish in […]

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Working Paper: Determinants of Firm-Level Investment in India: Does Size Matter?

NO: WP-2019-016 AUTHOR: Parul Bhardwaj and Abhishek Kumar TITLE: Determinants of Firm-Level Investment in India: Does Size Matter? ABSTRACT: The study estimates the dynamic panel version of augmented neoclassical investment model using ARDL specification. There are evidences in support of interest rate and credit channels of monetary transmission, both in the short […]

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Working Paper: Where Have All the Factories Gone? : Growth and Concentration of Sub-National Manufacturing Activity in India

NO: WP-2019-015 AUTHOR: K.V.Ramaswamy TITLE: Where Have All the Factories Gone? : Growth and Concentration of Sub-National Manufacturing Activity in India ABSTRACT: The spatial distribution of manufacturing across the states of India is analyzed covering the period 2004-05 to 2015-16. We found that the spatial concentration of manufacturing activity has increased […]

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Seminar: Mechanism Design in Single Dimensional Type Spaces

Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Abdul Quadir, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Date & Hour: 27 May 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Mechanism Design in Single Dimensional Type Spaces Abstract: We consider a class of mechanism design problems in private value environment where the type of an […]

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