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May 8, 2020
Economic and Political Weekly Podcast Why India’s One-size-fits-all Food Security Programme Fails to Address the Needs of Beneficiaries. In this
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April 6, 2020
While rural India is poorer than its urban counterpart, in the COVID-19 crisis, it is the urban poor who are
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March 12, 2020
Lately, India’s trade policy seem to lack a vision. After actively pursuing it for over a decade, India decided against joining RCEP at the eleventh hour. The official version is that India runs a large trade deficit with RCEP countries, and was expecting specific protection for its industry and farmers from a surge in imports, especially from China.
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.
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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,
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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
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February 18, 2020
BY Sunil Saroj, Devesh Roy and Mamta Pradhan One of the great examples that economists give on the power of
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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
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January 15, 2020
A new podcast series highlights the ways in which IFPRI research can create impacts on the ground. Episode 1 features