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Discipline wise list of recent selected publications
Mar
23
2015

Understanding Leakages in the PDS

By Reetika Khera
In this note, we present updated estimates of PDS leakages using the latest data available — not only from the NSS but also from the IHDS surveys and related sources. For the first time, a relatively clear picture emerges. The decline is particularly clear in states that are known to have undertaken serious PDS reforms, confirming the effectiveness of these reforms
The decline is particularly clear in states that are known to have undertaken serious PDS reforms, confirming the effectiveness of these reforms
Mar
19
2015

Elusive Empowerment: Price Information and Disintermediation in Soybean Markets in Malwa, India

By Richa Kumar

Lack of information and multiple intermediaries have been seen as major obstacles preventing farmers from obtaining a higher price for their produce. Thus, providing information on market prices to farmers and removing intermediaries from the supply chain, have often been considered means to empower farmers. This article argues that intermediaries are integral to any market exchange and notions of disintermediation mask processes that are replacing one form of intermediation by another, usually a corporatized or more vertically integrated one.

Jan
14
2015

Explaining the ‘jobless’ growth in Indian manufacturing

By Jayan Jose Thomas

In Indian manufacturing, which accounts for only 12.2% of the country’s workforce, a few technologically advanced sectors coexist with a vast informal sector. The growth of Indian manufacturing is characterized by ‘joblessness’, and during the post-1991 years, by large yearly and industry-wise variations. While a few capital- and skill-intensive industries recorded fast rates of growth of value added, employment generation occurred largely in the unorganized sector, mainly in export-oriented industries such as garments and textiles.

Dec
16
2014

Intimate gifts and ‘bad’ deaths: Reflections on organ transplants, state and society in Gujarat

By Farhana Ibrahim
Discursive strategies around organ donation in India, as elsewhere, are bio-medical as well as religio-moral in nature. Given that cadaver transplants remain a largely untapped resource in India, this paper is concerned with the relative medical success and social acceptance of this mode of transplant among certain communities in contemporary Gujarat. Why is Gujarat a privileged site for this ethnography?

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