The paper evaluates government price policy in controlling food price variability using monthly indices of wholesale prices of wheat, rice and coarse-grains. Annual price analysis showed that inter-year variability in annual nominal prices declined for both wheat and rice in the nineties as...

This paper examines the incidence of consumption smoothing or risk sharing among the above and below poverty households in India. The results suggest partial risk sharing activities between households either within the same village or within their same ethnic groups. The results of insurance...