Articles by K Subbarao

Rural Poverty and Its Alleviation in India N Kakwani K Subbarao WE wish to respond to recent comments made by Ranade [1991] oh our paper 'Rural Poverty and Its Alleviation in India' [1990, 1991,1992]. His comments are mainly focused on the decomposition methodology used by us. This methodology enables one to separate the impact on poverty of changes in mean consumption and in its inequality. The methodology has also attracted attention from writers such as Datt and Ravallion [1991] and Jain and Tendulkar [1990]. From these writings it appears that there exists a lot of misunderstanding about the decomposition. The recent comment by Ranade [1991] has made further contribution to this misunderstanding.

On the Relevance of Economic Modelling for Analysis of Food Price Policy IT is, by now, well known that any movement in agricultural prices has extraordinarily complex repercussions on the allocation of resources in agriculture and in the rest of the economy, on the levels of income and the incidence of absolute poverty, and on the distribution of income and equity. These repercussions occur differentially across commodities in agriculture, across sectors of the economy, across socioeconomic groups, and over time. Even the best-trained mind cannot be relied upon to trace out the maze of effects and trade-offs involved, even less to place quantitative values to the derived changes. And this is where economists have a role to play. Ever though modelling tools are imperfect and the data base they use is approximate, quantitative simulation of movements in agricultural prices in mpdels that attempt to capture the essential structural features of the economy should be of invaluable assistance to policymakers

Irma Adelman K Subbarao Prem Vashishtha Studies on income distribution have tended to be point observations and throw little light on longer-term movements in relative inequality. Analysis of movement in poverty ratios on the basis of data on rural households collected by the NCAER for three years between 1968 and 1971, using probability models, have led the authors of the paper to conclude that long-term trends are divergent for different states. For seven states

Poverty, Population and Food C H Hanumantha Rao R P Goel K Subbarao India: Occasional Papers, by Montek S Ahluwalia, John Wall, Shlomo Reutlinger, Robert Cassen and Martin Wolf; World Bank Staff Working Paper No 279, Washington, DC, 1978; pp 252.