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Vol. 49, Issue No. 5, 01 Feb, 2014

On Cereal Consumption as a Proxy for Real Income

Vol. 49, Issue No. 5, 01 Feb, 2014

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There is very little reliable information on indirect cereal consumption in India and a number of other developing countries. To, therefore, use such unreliable estimates to test for the links between total (direct and indirect) cereal consumption and income will lead to inaccurate results. This places a question mark on the exercise by Krishna Ram (EPW, 20 July 2013).

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