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Econmic Liberalization and its effect on Economic Growth

31 Tuesday Jan 2012

Posted by paragwaknis in economic reforms, growth

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economic liberalization policies, indian economy, poverty in india

A quite exhaustive survey of the extensive research on the economic liberalization policies and its effect on economic growth and poverty in India appeared in JEL’s December 2011 issue. Written by Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami and Wilima Wadhwa, it is a definite read for anyone interested in current state of the Indian economy.

Weather shocks and Indian GDP

28 Saturday Jan 2012

Posted by paragwaknis in Uncategorized

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Everyone knows that the amount of rainfall the Indian economy receives every year is an important determinant of livelihood of lot of people. I was looking for some measure of importance of rainfall shocks and interestingly, I came across these couple of graphs in Cowen and Tababrrok’s Modern Principles: Macro-a text I use for my principles classes.

Not surprisingly, the agricultural output co-varies quite closely with rainfall as you can see in Panel A. But if you see Panel B, after 1995 the covariance with overall GDP shows reduction. This simply reflects the fact that the Indian economy seems to have diversified after the economic reforms of 1991.Important questions arise out of these pictures: Post liberalization, agriculture output continues to be at mercy of nature’s vagaries. This sector still employs significant proportion of working population (58%) compared to the non-agricultural sector(42%). If the overall GDP shows less sensitivity to rainfall shocks after 1995, then a relatively smaller section of working population seems to be insured from these shocks. This inequality in terms of insuring against real shocks and its implications for effective policy design are definitely worth exploring.

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