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Issue Posts
March 3, 2020
In her recent 2020 budget speech, India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 16-point agenda to kickstart growth in agriculture and farmers’ income. While the agenda makes sense, following the money presents a disconcerting prospect. Less than 10% of the $30 billion budgeted for agriculture will support capital formation or R&D. Economies can’t grow without investment and innovation. This budget provides money for neither.
Issue Posts
February 28, 2020
BY DEEPAK VARSHNEY, ANJANI KUMAR, P.K. JOSHI AND DEVESH ROY India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018,
Event Posts
February 24, 2020
Each year, about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest and before reaching consumers around
Event Posts
February 24, 2020
BY JULIA WILSON For decades, high fish prices contributed to poor nutrition in Bangladesh, placing a key source of protein
Issue Posts
February 18, 2020
BY Sunil Saroj, Devesh Roy and Mamta Pradhan One of the great examples that economists give on the power of
Issue Posts
February 18, 2020
BY MANMEET AJMANI, VISHRUTA CHOUDHARY AND DEVESH ROY In November, India decided to opt out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s newest and
Guest Posts
January 31, 2020
BAU-STR Dryer: An Efficient Technological Solution for Reducing Post- Harvest Loss By Chayan Kumer Saha and Md. Monjurul Alam Drying
Guest Posts
January 30, 2020
Demand and Pricing Policy for Improved Storage Technology By Pallavi Shukla ( Guest blog) Research shows that access to
Event Posts
January 16, 2020
ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025 is in the implementation phase, succeeding the previous 2008-2015 Blueprint. It is progressing through the