This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social status of village politicians, and how …

, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean … energy in India in the next six years. In a country that generates more than 60 percent of its power by burning coal, and … country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set …

India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support … production by 20 MMT over the subsequent five years. The results: India contained food inflation below 7 per cent in 2007 … robust production and stock levels, rice exports surged when India freed up its exports in September 2011, making it a world …

The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …

and Korea, or now emerging economies like China and India. The type of support, of course, varies widely across countries …. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone … and a sizeable portion of budgetary support goes towards fertiliser subsidy. Fertiliser subsidy in India has succeeded in …

, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean … energy in India in the next six years. In a country that generates more than 60 percent of its power by burning coal, and … country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set …

Farmers in India are exposed to large agriculture risks due to vagaries of nature. One of the most effective mechanisms … Solution (CBS) and crop insurance is need of the hour giving information on real time basis. India's prowess in Information …

wages. In last 20 years (1998-99 to 2017-18), wages of India's farm labourers increased at an average annual rate of 9.3 per …

India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and … minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …