Institution
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Facility•Mumbai, Maharashtra, India•
About: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research is a facility organization based out in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Inflation. The organization has 307 authors who have published 1021 publications receiving 18848 citations.
Papers published on a yearly basis
Papers
More filters
••
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an optimization framework to analyse a sustainable path to meet housing shortages in India, considering that the sustainable path should not be at the cost of engineering design criteria.
13 citations
•
TL;DR: A survey of over 4100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and over 4800 randomly selected users across 100 villages in 20 districts in Maharashtra is presented in this paper.
Abstract: This paper presents the results of a survey of over 4100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and over 4800 randomly selected users across 100 villages in 20 districts in Maharashtra. It has two goals: the first was to verify the existence of the assets and the second was to elicit user perceptions of the problems and benefits they associate with the work. The survey indicates that 87% of the works exist and function and over 75% of them are directly or indirectly related to agriculture. A bulk of the rest constitutes rural roads that connect habitations to farms and provides access to agricultural markets. The study also finds that 92% of the randomly selected users paper that their main occupation is farming; half of them are small and marginal farmers, owning less than 1.6 hectares of land. An overwhelming 90% of respondents considered the works very useful or somewhat useful; only 8% felt the works were useless. There is some evidence that where people feel that have played a part in deciding the type of work, these are more likely to be ranked as useful and well-maintained. Likewise, works on private lands tend to score better in terms of perceived usefulness and in terms of present condition. Overall it appears that the works are supportive of agriculture and of small and marginal farmers. There is however scope to improve the design of assets and to have a more inclusive process of work selection.
13 citations
••
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define inclusion/exclusion for an outcome scenario on broad based growth from three different perspectives, viz., production, income, and consumption distribution, and provide some illustrations based on the National Accounts Statistics and the National Sample Survey consumer expenditure distributions for the year 2004-05.
Abstract: In the wake of the economic reform programme undertaken since 1991, distributional issues have received considerable attention and policy concern. In pursuit of such concerns, the government has worked out an approach to the Eleventh Five Year Plan, which lays emphasis on, though without defining, a strategy of inclusive growth. In fact, this form of pursuit of inclusive growth has become virtually a universal concern with even the UNDP harping on it without knowing answers for what it calls a "million dollar question - what inclusive growth is and how to achieve it?" This paper proposes to define inclusion/exclusion for an outcome scenario on broad based growth from three different perspectives, viz., production, income, and consumption distribution. It also provides some illustrations based on the National Accounts Statistics and the National Sample Survey consumer expenditure distributions for the year 2004-05.
13 citations
••
15 Nov 2013TL;DR: In this article, the extent and causes of farmer exit from contract farming arrangements in southern India using survey data for five schemes: cotton, gherkins, papaya, marigold, and broiler chickens.
Abstract: This paper maps the extent and causes of farmer exit from contract farming arrangements in southern India using survey data for five schemes: cotton, gherkins, papaya, marigold, and broiler chickens. The paper finds that farmer attrition is quite widespread and that poorer farmers from marginalized social groups are more likely to exit these arrangements. While this is an important policy concern, the study also distinguishes between voluntary exit, where the farmer opts out, versus involuntary exit, where the contracting firm drops the farmer as a supplier because of constraints in delivering quality produce, or the firm's interaction with the farmer forces the farmer out. The paper also highlights the episodic nature of farmer participation, wherein farmers leverage opportunities to contract occasionally as part of a dynamic portfolio of alternatives. The paper emphasizes that while involuntary exclusion is of serious concern, voluntary exit and episodic participation are perhaps less important issues f...
13 citations
••
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework to organize criteria in a tree fashion at successive levels, where the weights of a criterion relative to others are determined by following analytical hierarchy process where experts' opinions are considered.
Abstract: The selection of an optimum number of indicators is the key to any sustainable development indicator (SDI) research. Indicators, too less in number, may be inadequate to convey the message and; too many may dilute the purpose. To arrive at an optimum number of indicators from a larger set of potential ones, a set of criteria is applied. In the past SDI-initiatives, emphasis was not laid on structuring criteria; these were invariably considered in a linear way. This paper proposes a framework to organise criteria in a tree fashion at successive levels. For each level, the weights of a criterion relative to others are determined by following analytical hierarchy process where experts’ opinions are considered. For aggregation of scores, ‘displaced ideal’ method is proposed over linear additive model.
13 citations
Authors
Showing all 320 results
Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
---|---|---|---|
Seema Sharma | 129 | 1565 | 85446 |
S.G. Deshmukh | 56 | 183 | 11566 |
Rangan Banerjee | 48 | 289 | 8882 |
Kankar Bhattacharya | 46 | 217 | 8205 |
Ramakrishnan Ramanathan | 43 | 130 | 6938 |
Satya R. Chakravarty | 34 | 144 | 5322 |
Kunal Sen | 33 | 251 | 3820 |
Raghbendra Jha | 31 | 335 | 3396 |
Jyoti K. Parikh | 31 | 110 | 3518 |
Sajal Ghosh | 30 | 72 | 7161 |
Tirthankar Roy | 25 | 180 | 2618 |
B. Sudhakara Reddy | 24 | 75 | 1892 |
Vinish Kathuria | 23 | 96 | 1991 |
P. Balachandra | 22 | 65 | 2514 |
Kaivan Munshi | 22 | 62 | 5402 |