R Ramakumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 56804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Ramakumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramakumar |
| SIGNATURE | RAMAKUMAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9090-5780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
GST Reform, Consumption Behaviour, and Revenues across Indian States
This article examines the demand- and revenue-side effects of GST rate reductions in India by focussing on interstate heterogeneity in consumption behaviour. It estimates State-specific marginal propensities to consume and derives corresponding consumption multipliers. The results show substantial variation across States and a statistically significant inverse relationship between MPC and per capita income, implying asymmetric consumption and rev…
The Contentious Legacy of Dr Manmohan Singh
Illegibly legible: Outcomes of a land records modernisation programme in South India
This article analyses an initiative in 2017 to update and digitise textual land records in Telangana, a south Indian state. Its premise is that experiments to modernise land records have not met with pre‐determined standards of success due, primarily, to the historically evolved contradictions around land as a resource and a commodity. In countries like India, the colonial policies on land and the post‐colonial success of landlords to manipulate …
Public Policy and Human-Animal Conflicts: Elephant Deaths in Kerala
Environmental Economics and Policy, Agricultural and Food Policy, Risk and Uncertainty
The legacy of public action and gender-sensitivity of the pandemic response in Kerala State, India
Introduction: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Agriculture and the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Analysis with Special Reference to India
This paper deals with the impact of Covid-19 on the agricultural sector. The analysis is organised at the global level, but it has a specific focus on India. First, it reviews the overall food supply situation in the world and India to assess the possibilities of food crises. The paper finds that while the food situation in April and May 2020 appeared comfortable, there were likely to be widespread food shortages in countries dependent on food im…
Selecting a “Village” in the Malabar Region, Kerala, India: A Note
Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development, Research Methods/Statistical Methods
Moving Out of Cotton: Notes from a Longitudinal Survey in Two Vidarbha Villages
Jats, Khaps and Riots: Communal Politics and the Bharatiya Kisan Union in Northern India
Contrary to the general view that communal riots in India are urban-centred, the rural areas of Muzaffarnagar in the state of Uttar Pradesh were the site of a major communal riot in September 2013. The majority of victims in the riot were Muslim labourers from the lower-caste groups, and the alleged perpetrators were members of the relatively prosperous Hindu Jat households. This paper deals with how the leadership and membership of a 'new farmer…
Aspects of the Peasant Movement in Malabar: An Interview with E. K. Nayanar
Institutional and Behavioral Economics, International Development
In Focus: The Interviews: An Introduction
Bank Credit to Agriculture in India in the 2000s: Dissecting the Revival
Agricultural Finance, International Development
India’s Agricultural Debt Waiver Scheme, 2008
Agricultural and Food Policy, International Development
Land Conflicts and Attacks on Dalits: A Case Study from a Village in Marathwada, India
Dalit households, rural Maharashtra, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
Large-scale Investments in Agriculture in India
Public investment in agriculture has significant poverty-reducing effects. This article attempts to analyse trends in agricultural investments in India between the 1950s and the 2000s. It argues that public investment and expenditure on agriculture in India have grown only slowly and have not decisively increased even after more than 60 years of independence. While public capital formation and expenditure do show a moderate rise in the 2000s, a r…
Agricultural Employment in a Vidarbha Village: Results from a Resurvey
International Development, Labor and Human Capital
Changes in the Number of Rural Bank Branches in India, 1991 to 2008
Agricultural Finance, Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development
Modeling and Assessment of Wind and Insolation Resources with a Focus on Their Complementary Nature: A Case Study of Oklahoma
Energy in wind and incoming solar radiation has been observed to be complementary over time. That is, as one of these resources slackens, the other tends to increase. Considering the intermittency of wind and solar radiation, complementarity provides the potential to better exploit the two resources in combination. How well a hybrid system using both resources can improve the reliability of energy generation is partially a function of their compl…
Expanding Welfare Entitlements in the Neo-Liberal Era: The Case of Food Security in Kerala
Public Action, Agrarian Change and the Standard of Living of Agricultural Workers: A Study of a Village in Kerala
This article describes and analyses the ways in which public action in the State of Kerala in India helped to transform the standard of living of hired workers in agriculture. Specifically, the article analyses the extent of land and asset ownership, access to credit, access to social security schemes and food distribution systems and the conditions of housing and sanitation of households participating in agricultural wage work. The article is ba…
Analysis of birth intervals in India's Uttar Pradesh and Kerala states
Life tables of birth intervals and median birth intervals in two Indian states, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala, were computed for several subgroups of the study population. Multivariate hazards modelling technique was used to examine the net effect of each of the variables studied. The results show a substantial effect of socioeconomic variables in child-spacing after controlling for the major intermediate variables.
Age at return marriage and timing of first birth in India's Uttar Pradesh and Kerala states
The study investigates the relationship between age at marriage and the length of first birth interval in two states of India: Uttar Pradesh and Kerala. Life tables of first-birth intervals and median first-birth intervals are computed for several subgroups of the study population. Multivariate hazards modelling technique is used to study the net effect of age at marriage, controlling for a multiple of socioeconomic factors. The result shows that…
Renewable Energy Sources and Rural Development in Developing Countries
Economic and geopolitical constraints on global nonrenewable energy supplies will force many nations, especially the developing countries, to accelerate their use of local renewable energy sources. This paper discusses some of the technical, economic, and socioeconomic aspects of the application of renewable (solar) energy sources for rural development in resource-poor population-rich developing countries. The possible role of educational institu…
Public Action, Agrarian Change and the Standard of Living of Agricultural Workers: A Study of a Village in Kerala
This article describes and analyses the ways in which public action in the State of Kerala in India helped to transform the standard of living of hired workers in agriculture. Specifically, the article analyses the extent of land and asset ownership, access to credit, access to social security schemes and food distribution systems and the conditions of housing and sanitation of households participating in agricultural wage work. The article is ba…
The legacy of public action and gender-sensitivity of the pandemic response in Kerala State, India
Jats, Khaps and Riots: Communal Politics and the Bharatiya Kisan Union in Northern India
Contrary to the general view that communal riots in India are urban-centred, the rural areas of Muzaffarnagar in the state of Uttar Pradesh were the site of a major communal riot in September 2013. The majority of victims in the riot were Muslim labourers from the lower-caste groups, and the alleged perpetrators were members of the relatively prosperous Hindu Jat households. This paper deals with how the leadership and membership of a 'new farmer…
Renewable Energy Sources and Rural Development in Developing Countries
Economic and geopolitical constraints on global nonrenewable energy supplies will force many nations, especially the developing countries, to accelerate their use of local renewable energy sources. This paper discusses some of the technical, economic, and socioeconomic aspects of the application of renewable (solar) energy sources for rural development in resource-poor population-rich developing countries. The possible role of educational institu…
Age at return marriage and timing of first birth in India's Uttar Pradesh and Kerala states
The study investigates the relationship between age at marriage and the length of first birth interval in two states of India: Uttar Pradesh and Kerala. Life tables of first-birth intervals and median first-birth intervals are computed for several subgroups of the study population. Multivariate hazards modelling technique is used to study the net effect of age at marriage, controlling for a multiple of socioeconomic factors. The result shows that…
Analysis of birth intervals in India's Uttar Pradesh and Kerala states
Life tables of birth intervals and median birth intervals in two Indian states, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala, were computed for several subgroups of the study population. Multivariate hazards modelling technique was used to examine the net effect of each of the variables studied. The results show a substantial effect of socioeconomic variables in child-spacing after controlling for the major intermediate variables.
Public Action, Agrarian Change and the Standard of Living of Agricultural Workers: A Study of a Village in Kerala
This article describes and analyses the ways in which public action in the State of Kerala in India helped to transform the standard of living of hired workers in agriculture. Specifically, the article analyses the extent of land and asset ownership, access to credit, access to social security schemes and food distribution systems and the conditions of housing and sanitation of households participating in agricultural wage work. The article is ba…
Expanding Welfare Entitlements in the Neo-Liberal Era: The Case of Food Security in Kerala
Agricultural Employment in a Vidarbha Village: Results from a Resurvey
International Development, Labor and Human Capital
Changes in the Number of Rural Bank Branches in India, 1991 to 2008
Agricultural Finance, Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development
Modeling and Assessment of Wind and Insolation Resources with a Focus on Their Complementary Nature: A Case Study of Oklahoma
Energy in wind and incoming solar radiation has been observed to be complementary over time. That is, as one of these resources slackens, the other tends to increase. Considering the intermittency of wind and solar radiation, complementarity provides the potential to better exploit the two resources in combination. How well a hybrid system using both resources can improve the reliability of energy generation is partially a function of their compl…
Land Conflicts and Attacks on Dalits: A Case Study from a Village in Marathwada, India
Dalit households, rural Maharashtra, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
Large-scale Investments in Agriculture in India
Public investment in agriculture has significant poverty-reducing effects. This article attempts to analyse trends in agricultural investments in India between the 1950s and the 2000s. It argues that public investment and expenditure on agriculture in India have grown only slowly and have not decisively increased even after more than 60 years of independence. While public capital formation and expenditure do show a moderate rise in the 2000s, a r…
India’s Agricultural Debt Waiver Scheme, 2008
Agricultural and Food Policy, International Development
Aspects of the Peasant Movement in Malabar: An Interview with E. K. Nayanar
Institutional and Behavioral Economics, International Development
In Focus: The Interviews: An Introduction
Bank Credit to Agriculture in India in the 2000s: Dissecting the Revival
Agricultural Finance, International Development
Moving Out of Cotton: Notes from a Longitudinal Survey in Two Vidarbha Villages
Jats, Khaps and Riots: Communal Politics and the Bharatiya Kisan Union in Northern India
Contrary to the general view that communal riots in India are urban-centred, the rural areas of Muzaffarnagar in the state of Uttar Pradesh were the site of a major communal riot in September 2013. The majority of victims in the riot were Muslim labourers from the lower-caste groups, and the alleged perpetrators were members of the relatively prosperous Hindu Jat households. This paper deals with how the leadership and membership of a 'new farmer…
Selecting a “Village” in the Malabar Region, Kerala, India: A Note
Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development, Research Methods/Statistical Methods
Introduction: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Agriculture and the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Analysis with Special Reference to India
This paper deals with the impact of Covid-19 on the agricultural sector. The analysis is organised at the global level, but it has a specific focus on India. First, it reviews the overall food supply situation in the world and India to assess the possibilities of food crises. The paper finds that while the food situation in April and May 2020 appeared comfortable, there were likely to be widespread food shortages in countries dependent on food im…
Public Policy and Human-Animal Conflicts: Elephant Deaths in Kerala
Environmental Economics and Policy, Agricultural and Food Policy, Risk and Uncertainty
The legacy of public action and gender-sensitivity of the pandemic response in Kerala State, India
Illegibly legible: Outcomes of a land records modernisation programme in South India
This article analyses an initiative in 2017 to update and digitise textual land records in Telangana, a south Indian state. Its premise is that experiments to modernise land records have not met with pre‐determined standards of success due, primarily, to the historically evolved contradictions around land as a resource and a commodity. In countries like India, the colonial policies on land and the post‐colonial success of landlords to manipulate …
The Contentious Legacy of Dr Manmohan Singh
GST Reform, Consumption Behaviour, and Revenues across Indian States
This article examines the demand- and revenue-side effects of GST rate reductions in India by focussing on interstate heterogeneity in consumption behaviour. It estimates State-specific marginal propensities to consume and derives corresponding consumption multipliers. The results show substantial variation across States and a statistically significant inverse relationship between MPC and per capita income, implying asymmetric consumption and rev…
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