The paper examines the nature of tribal deprivation, with specific focus on the issue of education. The research delves into the supply– and the demand–side factors, which determined the state of...
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The e-National Agriculture Market is a pan-India electronic trading portal which integrates the existing Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee mandis to create a unified national market for...
Farmer profitability, cost of food production, and associated issues of nutri-cereals are analysed by leveraging a large database spanning a 35-year period. The skewed food policies being followed in...
This paper investigates the impact of the Backward Regions Grant Fund on change in access to amenities for more than 5,000 subdistricts using data from the Census of India, 2001 and 2011. Using...
An outline of key aspects of crisis and change in the world and in the United States is provided by looking at three ways in which we might think about the nature of the world crisis and the crisis...
The paper investigates the spatial pattern of multidimensional deprivation in rural areas by developing a multidimensional deprivation index and examining its relationships with the poverty ratio and...
In the case of fertilisers, unlike other forms of subsidy, the government provides subsidy to the manufacturers and not the farmers, allowing inefficient production units to thrive in the system. The...
The Rythu Bandhu scheme gives financial support to farmers towards meeting the cost of inputs and other initial needs to support farming. Still, it cannot provide sufficient support to tenant farmers...
We contend here, in the main, that resource use on the land leased-in by the share tenant is unlikely to be less than that put in by their landlord under personal cultivation of the land. In trying...
Water as a basic natural resource plays a critical role in any country’s economic, ecological, and human development. Water is a state subject in India, and the provision of reliable, safe, and...
Using the decennial All-India Debt and Investment Survey, this paper examines the spatial and temporal trends of private fixed capital expenditure among rural households. It also examines the impact...
Historically, vaccine manufacturing in India has centred around the production of a wide variety of conventional vaccines that made the country self-sufficient as well as a net exporter and global...
High palatability of basmati rice followed by attractive appearance of the cooked grain and strong demand were the top ranked attributes elicited by the adopter respondents of Pusa-1121. However,...
The essential religious practices test is employed by the Indian judiciary for the adjudication of matters of freedom of religion. While there is long-standing criticism of this test by legal...
Based on an empirical analysis of 300 informal manufacturing firms in the National Capital Region of Delhi, the paper finds that innovative firms exhibit higher productivity growth and sales growth,...
