Food and Agriculture – Page 7

Revisiting Rural Indebtedness

February 5, 2015
C. P. Chandrasekhar
Economy and Society, Food and Agriculture
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If Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan is to be believed, efforts to help Indian farmers by providing them with cheap(er) credit and relieving them of an unsustainable debt burden only harms them in the long run. In his…

November 17, 2014
Biswajit Dhar
Food and Agriculture, Political Economy, Trade and balance of payments
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After months of impasse, India finally agreed to relent on its opposition to allow progress on the post-Bali work programme of the World Trade Organization (WTO), after concluding a “bilateral agreement” with the United States. According to the terms of…