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Growing
Differences in State Per Capita Incomes |
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| May
15th 2012, C.P.
Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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| The
period of economic liberalisation has been marked by
growing differences in per capita incomes across states,
although the trend has varied across decades. In this
article, the authors examine the evidence on per capita
Net Domestic Product at the state level since 1980,
and consider some possible explanations for the observed
trends. |
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| Factor
Shares in the Indian Economy |
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| Apr
17th 2012, C.P.
Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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The
functional distribution of national income is relatively
ignored by researchers interested in income distribution
in India. An analysis of CSO's data on factor shares
in the past three decades shows that the the period
of most rapid acceleration of growth was also the period
of the sharpest fall in the share of the unorganised
sector in GDP. Although this change is to be welcomed,
the concern is that it has not been accompanied by any
increase in the organised sector's share in total employment. |
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| Budget
2012: The price of reform |
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| Mar
28th 2012, C.P.
Chandrasekhar |
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| By
hiking indirect taxes that would be passed through to
buyers, and slashing subsidies that would raise the
prices of petroleum products and fertilisers, the Finance
Minister has exposed a nation already reeling under
the effects of a prolonged price rise to another bout
of cost push inflation. |
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| An
Inequitable Path: The ritualistic exercise in fiscal management
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| Mar
23rd 2012, Amiya
Kumar Bagchi |
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Ignoring
all the evidences of the fact that growth does not trickle
down, the Budget 2012-13 has emphasised the target of
raising the rate of growth at any cost without bothering
about the majority of Indian population. Instead what
was needed for managing the economy was a progressive
system of taxation, employment creation and universalisation
of the public distribution of food grains. |
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| Food
and Agriculture: Trends in India into the early
Twelfth Plan period |
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| Apr
23rd 2012, Rahul Goswami |
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| The
transformation taking place in India's agriculture
and crop cultivation choices is brought about
by a few key factors that have begun to heavily
influence the patterns of crop cultivation, the
movement of food through India and the effect
of these on nutrition on different income classes
in rural and urban habitats. In this view, foreign
direct investment in multi-brand retail and the
influence of the retail food industry is linked
with climate change impacts and the proposed genetic
engineering solutions; the combining of agriculture,
health and nutrition is aided by pro-technology
policies and consumption geared for urbanising
India; and the domination by the USA of the crop
science, research agenda and market reform process
is still evident. These factors are responsible
for the repetition of the misdiagnosis of impending
hunger in the country by the Government of India
as being a consequence of a lack of food, to be
tackled today, and tackled exclusively by technological
means. |
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| National
FDI Concepts: Implications for investment negotiations |
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| Jun
4th 2010, Smitha Francis |
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| Free
trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties
make privileges for and treatment of foreign direct
investors legally binding. Thus, apart from the
concerns of being able to capture the ''real''
financial and economic contribution of foreign
direct investment inflows, FDI definitions are
also about protecting the ''rights'' of the so-defined
investors in the host country. Keeping this in
mind, the article analyses India's current FDI
policy and warns that if we define FDI within
our national regulatory framework too broadly
to allow instruments and flexibility that were
earlier resisted, we would have already lost most
of the leverage in investment negotiations at
the regional and multilateral levels. |
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| Report
on the State of Food Insecurity in Urban India |
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| Feb
28th 2012 |
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| This
report is an update of Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban
India that was developed by the M.S. Swaminathan Research
Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP)
in October 2002 and a companion exercise to the Report
on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India of 2001.
Reviewing the relative position of the major states
with respect to food security, the Report reveals an
alarming situation of a permanent food and nutrition
emergency in urban India. Hence in order to promote
food and nutrition security for all, the Report offers
certain policy recommendations emphasizing that urban
food security is impacted by the macroeconomic policies
and therefore, economic reforms needs to be re-formed
to provide inclusive urban development. |
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| India's
New High Growth Trajectory: Implications for demand, technology
and employment
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| Oct
12th 2011. C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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| Evidence
on trends in surplus generation and utilisation suggests
that India's recent transition to a high-growth trajectory
has been accompanied by and partly based on tendencies
towards profit inflation and increased inequality. This
paper offers an explanation as to why the net implications
for employment and conditions of work of this growth
trajectory have been adverse.
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