The State of Subsidies: Small-scale Fisher Perceptions on Subsidies in Karnataka, India

Electricity subsidies for agriculture: Evaluating the impact and persistence of these subsidies in India DRAFT

In India, expenditure on electricity subsidies for agriculture, an input subsidy aimed at improving agricultural productivity and the incomes of the agricultural work force, exceeds that spent on health or education. Yet the benefits and beneficiaries of these policies have been unexplored. This paper develops and empirically tests a model that describes the channels through which these subsidi...

Petroleum Prices, Taxation and Subsidies in India

Agricultural Subsidies in India Boon or Curse

A progressive agriculture serves as a powerful engine of economic growth of any country. It helps in initiating and sustaining the development of other sectors of the economy. In view of this, after independence the Government of India adopted a positive approach and specific programmes like new agriculture technology were introduced. Indian farmers being poor were not in a position to buy thes...

Efficient mechanisms with small subsidies

We address the problem of designing efficient mechanisms that never yield revenue, instead requiring small subsidies. Such mechanisms will be pertinent for settings in which taxing agents is undesirable or impractical—imagine, e.g., a government or private philanthropist that seeks to make a minimal monetary contribution that will allow a group of individuals to reach an efficient decision with...

Public Transport Subsidies and Affordability inMumbai, India

This paper describes the role of public transport and incidence of transport subsidies in Mumbai, India, where public transport is used for over 75% of all motorized trips. On average, expenditure on public transit constitutes a larger share of income for the poor than for the middle class. However, a larger fraction of transit users are middle class. In terms of incidence, the poorest 27% of t...