Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute

BHARAT RAMASWAMI

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE

RESEARCH

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The Percolation of Public Expenditure: Food Subsidies and the Poor in Indian and the Philippines,
(with S. Jha).

Status, Caste and the Time Allocation of Women in Rural India, (with M. Eswaran and W. Wadhwa),Forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change.

The Spread of Illegal Transgenic Cotton Varieties in India: Biosafety Regulation, Monopoly and Enforcement,(with N. Lalitha and C. Pray), World Development, 2012, 40 (1), 177-188.

Economic Liberalization and Indian Economic Growth: What s the Evidence?, (with A. Kotwal and W. Wadhwa), Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49:4, 1152-1159.

PDS Forever? (with A. Kotwal and M. Murugkar), May 2011, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI (21), 72-76.

The Public Distribution System, in The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India,ed. K. Basu and A. Maertens, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012, 567-571.

Unemployment, Measure of, (with W. Wadhwa), The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, ed., K. Basu and A. Maertens, 2012, 718-721.

Impact of Bt Cotton: The Potential Future Benefits from Biotechnology in China and India (With C. Pray, L. Nagarajan, J. Huang, R. Hu),in G. Moschini, C. Carter and I. Sheldon (ed.,)Frontiers of Globalization: Genetically Modified Food and Global Welfare, 83-114.Emerald Books, 2011

Labels for GM Foods: What Can They Do?, (with S. Bansal), 2010, Economic and Political Weekly:Review of Agriculture, XLV (26/27), 167-173.

Product Proliferation in India's Cotton Seed Market: Are There Too Many Varieties?, with M. Murugkar and M. Shelar), 2009, Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization:Vol. 7 : Iss.1, Article 2, 1-15.

Grower Heterogeneity and the Gains from Contract Farming: The Case of Indian Poultry (with P. S. Birthal and P. K. Joshi), 2009, Indian Growth and Development Review, 2 (1): 56-74

Sectoral Labour Flows and Agricultural Wages in India, 1983-2004: Has Growth Trickled Down?,(with M. Eswaran, A. Kotwal and W. Wadhwa), 2009,Economic and Political Weekly, 44 (3), 46-55.

India's Experience with Bt Cotton: Case Studies from Gujarat and Maharashtra (with N. Lalitha and P. K. Vishwanathan),in R. Tripp, (ed) Biotechnology and Agricultural Development:Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-Poor Farmers, Routledge, London, 135-167, 2009.

Biofortified Crops and Biotechnology: A Political Economy Landscape for India, 2007, AgBioForum,The Journal of Agrobiotechnology Management and Economics, 10 (3): 170-77

Hedging and the Emergence of Commodity Futures: The Soya Oil Exchange in India (with J. B. Singh),Review of Futures Markets, 2007, 16 (1), 33-54.

Competition and Monopoly in the Indian Cotton Seed Market, (with M. Murugkar and M. Shelar), (2007), Economic and Political Weekly, September 15-21, 62 (37): 3781-3789.

Pesticide Use Pattern among Cotton Cultivators in Gujarat (with N. Lalitha), Frontiers of Agricultural Development in Gujarat, ed., R. H. Dholakia, Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, 2007, pp 77-98.

Genetically Modified Crops and the Poor: Can India Realize the Potential? (with C. Pray), The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development, ed. S. Fukuda-Parr, Earthscan, London, 2007, pp 156-174.

Costs and Enforcement of Biotechnology Regulations in India and China, (with C. Pray, J. Huang, P. Bengali, R. Hu and H. Zhang), 2006, International Journal of Technology and Globalization, 2 (1/2), 137-157.

Benefits And Costs Of Biosafety Regulation in India and China (with C. E. Pray, J.Huang, R. Hu, Q. Wang, and P. Bengali), in R.E. Just,. J.M. Alston, D. Zilberman (Eds.) Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics and Policy, Springer: New York, 2006.

The Size and Growth of the Agribusiness Sector in India (with J. B. Singh), in B. Debroy and A. U. Khan (ed) Agribusiness and the Small Farmer, 75-83, New Delhi: Angus & Grapher, 2006.

The Cost of Biosafety Regulation: The Indian Experience, (with C. Pray and P. Bengali), 2005, Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, 44 (3): 267-289.

Reducing Subsidies on Household Fuels in India: How will it Affect the Poor?, (with S. Gangopadhyay and W. Wadhwa), 2005, Energy Policy, 33 (18), 2326-233

Aggregation in Area Yield Crop Insurance: The Linear Additive Model (with T. Roe), 2004, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86 (2): 420-31.

Reforming Food Subsidies: Estimating the Gains from Self-targeting in India (with B. Dutta), 2004, Review of Development Economics, 8 (2): 309-324.

Labor Income and Risky Investments (with H. Andersson and B.S. Ramamurtie), 2003, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 50, 477-493.

Food Prices and the Efficiency of Public Intervention: The Case of the Public Distribution System in India(with P. Balakrishnan), 2002, Food Policy, 27, 419-436.

Understanding the Seed Industry: Contemporary Trends and Analytical Issues, 2002, Indian Journal ofAgricultural Economics, Conference Number, 57 (3): 417-429.

Efficiency and Equity of Food Market Interventions, 2002,Special Article, Economic and Political Weekly, 37 (12): 1129-1135.

Dissemination of Private Hybrids and Crop Yields in the Semi-Arid Tropics of India,(with C. Pray and T. Kelley), 2002, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 57 (1): 39-51.

The Impact of Economic Reforms on R&D by the Indian Seed Industry (With C. Pray and T. Kelley),2001, Food Policy 26 (6): 587-598.

Liberalization's Impact on the Indian Seed Industry: Competition, Research and Impact on Farmers (with C. Pray), 2001, International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 2 (3/4): 407-420.

Targeting and Efficiency in the Public Distribution System: Case of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra,(with B. Dutta),2001, Special Article, Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVI (18), 1524-1532.

Forecasting Errors in the Absence of a Futures Market: Assessing the Speculative Efficiency of the Indian Wheat Market,June 2000, Review of Development Economics, 4 (2), 184-193.

Analysing Public Intervention in Foodgrains Markets, (with P. Balakrishnan), N. Krishnaji and T. N. Krishnan (ed) Public Support for Food Security, pp 117-143, New Delhi: Sage, 2000.

Economic Reforms of Agriculture and Rural Growth (with A. Kotwal), 1998, Journal of Policy Reform, 2, 369-402. A slightly different version appears in J. D. Sachs, A. Varshney and N. Bajpai (ed), India in the Era of Economic Reforms, pp 121-159, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

The Quality of the Public Distribution System: Why it Matters (with P. Balakrishnan), 1997, Special Article,The Economic and Political Weekly, XXXII (4), 162-165.

Public Intervention and Private Speculation: The Case of Wheat Procurement (with P. Balakrishnan), 1995, Journal of Quantitative Economics, 11, (2), 59-83.

Supply Response to Agricultural Insurance: Risk Reduction and Moral Hazard Effects,1993, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 75: 914-925.

Production Risk and Optimal Input Decisions, 1992, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 74: 860-69

Crop Insurance in Incomplete Markets (with T. Roe), 1992, in Contributions to Insurance Economics,291-306, Ed. G. Dionne, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

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