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Invest in Agricultural Productivity to boost Consumption Demand Indian Express, January 2025

The Agricultural Productivity Gap: Informality Matters Ideas for India, November 2024

In-kind Transfers: Deadweight Losses or Gains Ideas for India, October 2024 In-kind Transfers: Deadweight Losses or Gains, October 2024, https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/agriculture/the-agricultural-productivity-gap-informality-matters.html

Introduction to e-symposium: Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets Ideas for India, October 2023

Ashok Kotwal Ideas for India, May 2022

India as Belindia Centre for Economic Data and Analysis, Ashoka University, December 30, 2020.

Video: Farmer Protests: Is Modi Government showing firmness or making a fatal error Mojo Story, December 21, 2020

Interview: Farm laws: Resolving the deadlock Ideas for India, December 18, 2020

Roll Back Law Not Reform Indian Express, December 10 2020

Farm Bills: Liberalization of Agricultural Marketing is Necessary Ideas for India, October 2020

Webinar on a New Economic Imagination CPR & I4I, September 2020

What would make India's growth sustainable India Forum, September 2020

Covid 19: Are we ready for the long haul - Part II Ideas for Idea, April 2020

Covid 19: Are we ready for the long haul - Part I Ideas for Idea, April 2020

Four Concerns Around Cash Transfer Policies ,Ideas for India, 2019

Too late for quick fix: Farm Crisis a Lesson for Next Government Interview to Huffington Post, January 2019

Video: Subsidies and Agricultural Policy - Part I Brookings, New Delhi, January 2019

Video: Subsidies and Agricultural Policy - Part II - Comments and Questions Brookings, New Delhi, January 2019

Video: The Salience of the Demand Side Financing Growth and Diversification of Bihar Agriculture, IGC, 2018

Aadhar that doesn’t Exclude Indian Express, February 2018

What will the Pivot to Agriculture Cost February 2018: Ideas for India Short Version in Mint

Economists' appeal to PM on GM Mustard July 2017

Video: Cash Transfers and Urban Food Security: Tracing the Debate | Part 5: Possible Futures Indian Institute of Human Settlements, 2017

Video: Cash Transfers and Urban Food Security: Tracing the Debate | Part 4: Impact of the National Food Security Act Indian Institute of Human Settlements, 2017

Video: Cash Transfers and Urban Food Security: Tracing the Debate | Part 3: Food Security and Urban Areas Indian Institute of Human Settlements, 2017

Video: Cash Transfers and Urban Food Security: Tracing the Debate | Part 2: Key Arguments for Cash Transfers in Food Security Indian Institute of Human Settlements, 2017

Video: Cash Transfers and Urban Food Security: Tracing the Debate | Part 1: Emergence of Cash Transfers in Food Security Debates in India Indian Institute of Human Settlements, 2017

Hunger and Food Security Concerns for India Chapter 2 in India and Sustainable Development Goals: The Way Forward, 13-19, RIS: New Delhi, 2016

View on Aadhar Bill debate hosted by Ideas for India. May 2016

Modi government’s Vodafone moment in The Indian Express, April, 2016

Protectionism under the guise of food security in Mint, August 2014.

Budget 2014: Has the curtain lifted? in Mint, July 2014.

Composite Development Index: An Explanatory Note forthcoming in Yojana, May 2014.

WTO has a point in objecting to India's Food Security Act in Hindustan Times, January 2014.

Video: The Cost of the Food Security Bill Brookings, New Delhi, 2013

Video: Food Security Event Brookings, New Delhi, 2013

Some Reflections on the National Food Security Act in Yojana, December 2013.

India Should Stand its Ground at Bali in Mint, November 2013.

How Labels Influence the Decision to Buy Genetically Modified Food in Ideas For India, October 2013.

Doing a Number on the Food Security Bill in Ideas for India Reprinted in Financial Express, September 2013.

Correct Costs of the Food Security Bill in Ideas For India, August 2013. Reprinted in Financial Express, August 2013.

Why the Food Security Bill is Neither Populist Nor Unaffordable in Economic Times, June 2013.

Grain Stocks: Is it a Problem of Storage Capacity? in Ideas For India, April 2013. Reprinted in Mint, April 2013.

Video: Food Security in India Lecture in Green College's thematic series "Public Health Law and Policy in Asia", University of British Columbia, October 2012.

Interview in Eostre, a Student Journal of Delhi School of Economics, 2012.

It Simply Can't Fail in Hindustan Times, February 2012.

Food Security Must Delegate Complete Freedom on Subsidy Targetting to States in Economic Times, December 2011.

Food Security Act: Economists Letter to Sonia Gandhi Economic Times, 2011

For Rich or for Poor? in Hindustan Times, November 2011.

Security Leakages in Indian Express, October 2011.

Intent, Design and Compatibility Pivotal Deccan Herald, August 2011.

Too Bad to Swallow in Indian Express, March 2011.

This is not a Pipeline in Hindustan Times, February 2011.

Don't Water Down Food Security in Indian Express, January 2011.

Feeding the Problem in Indian Express, September 2010.

Replacing the PDS in Indian Express, March 2010.

Role of Enabler is Tough to Perform in The Telegraph, February 2010.

The Fragility of Agricultural Policy Reforms Indian Commodity Year Book, NCMSL, November 2009.

Rural Welfare: An Exclusive View to Inclusive Growth in Mint, July 2009.

How Not to Feed the Poor in Financial Express, May 2009.

Going Beyond the Tried and Failed: A Challenge for Agricultural Policy in India in Transition, Centre for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, May 2009.

Book Review, Institutions and Markets in India's Development, Essays For K. N. Raj, edited by A. Vaidyanathan and K. L. Krishna, Oxford University Press; and States, Markets and Inequalities: Human Development in Rural India, edited by Abusaleh Shariff and Maithreyi Krishnaraj, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2008.

The Real Cost of Surviving with J. Huang, S. Rozelle and U. Lelle. Mint, July 2008.

Why Shoot the Messenger? in Mint, May 2008.

The Loan Waiver is an Admission that We Can't Fix the Farm's Problems in Mint, March 2008.

How to Spend a Million Bucks in Mint, February 2008.

DEBATE: food coupons are a better alternative in Financial Express, July 2007.

The State and the Market in Mint, June 2007.

Bad Ideas are Back with M. Murugkar, June 2007.

Monopoly and Wheat Imports with M. Murugkar. Economic Times, May 2006.

Book Review, India Untouched, by A. M. George, 2005.

A Proposal for Food Stamps in Maharashtra with M. Murugkar. (Talk), 2005.

FAQs about Maharashtra Food Stamp Program with M. Murugkar, September 2005.

Getting the Job Guarantee Plan Act Right with W. Wadhwa. Economic Times, March 2005.

Book Review, Globalization and Development Studies, edited by F. J. Schuurman, Vistaar Publications; and Globalization Unmasked, edited by J. Petras and H. Veltmeyer, Madhyam Books, 2004.

Ending the Glut of Hunger. Invited Comment in Outlook Magazine, March 2002.

Are Some Indians Getting Poorer? in Economic Times, February 2002.

The State as a Grain Hoarder, September 2001.

Book Review, Food Policy and The Indian State: The Public Distribution System in South India, by J. Mooij, Oxford University Press; and Weakening Welfare: The Public Distribution of Food in India, by M. Swaminathan, LeftWord Books, 2001.

Surplus Food: What's to be Done? in Economic Times, September 2000.

Cutting Food Subsidies: Wrong for the Right Reasons? in Economic Times, May 2000.

Panel Discussion on Reforms and After, Business India, Issue No. 458, September 25-October 8, 1995.

Conservation of Historic Housing: Is the Market the Enemy? with Arunava Sen, September 1995.

Chip off the Old Block? in Busines Standard, April 1995.

A Shift in Perspective in Busines Standard, February 1995.

Essential Commodities Act: Essential? in Economic Times Standard, January 1994.