Articles by T Krishna Kumar

The eco-behavioural approach to the study of education suggests that the achievements of students would depend on the expectations placed on them, and the support they receive from other participants in various behavioural settings. The approach is theoretically constructed and empirically verified in this paper. Using the methodology of such an approach, one can debate the reasoning behind the policy of reservation in higher education. Such an exercise is attempted in this essay.

While the headcount index of poverty in India has fallen, per capita cereal consumption and calorie intake have also decreased. At the poverty line, the minimum calorie requirements used for defining this line in the base year are not being met in later years. While the official poverty line used the food requirement norm from nutrition science, this paper employs the food consumption requirement derived from the Engel curve as the norm to arrive at a measure of food consumption deprivation. It is shown that food deprivation levels do not reflect the same pattern that the traditional poverty indices depict, questioning the usefulness of traditional poverty indices for measuring food deprivation.

Econometrics is the better half of economics. It is scientific, practical and useful. And - a point not to be ignored - it provides a lot of fun to those who know how to use it.

Development as Differential Game Problems T Krishna Kumar The new international economic order has thrown open several issues of utmost importance for rigorous analytical examination, This paper tries to develop an analytical framework and to pose the major issues confronting economic policy-makers and economic policy analysts in the newly emerged global economic environment as appropriately formulated differential game problems.

An Unfinished Biography Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis T Krishna Kumar Mahalanobis may have been wrong in the basic assumption he made on the omnipotence of the planner to implement the plan in a mixed economy with a large private sector consisting millions of individual decisionmakers, in agriculture and industry, But the strategies proposed by him must be examined with respect to their fundamental determinants, that is. the objectives, the model of the dynamic economy, the constraints and the assumptions underlying the model and regarding the exogenous factors.