S Subramanian
Biographic Data
| ID | 5723966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Subramanian |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Subramanian |
| SIGNATURE | SUBRAMANIAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Madras Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3701-8258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women’s Labour under Agrarian Stress
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Climate Change and the Limits of Inflation Targeting
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Wl-7114-Middle Class in India: Trends and Patterns
The Middle class in India is an economically significant group that supports and balances the aspirations of the rich and opportunities for the poor. It supports vibrant political democracy and social harmony in a nation. The composition of the middle class is very diverse in every perspective. Researchers often use income as an indicator to identify or measure the middle class. This paper uses consumption as an indicator based on the Purchasing …
Measurement Is Not Everything, But It Does Make a Difference
With the help of the Human Development Index, Mahbub ul Haq demonstrated that by focusing attention away from an exclusive concern with income as the only dimension in which to assess well-being, measurement which also involved a more general concern with other “spaces” of well-being could make a difference to comparative evaluations of, and policy perspectives on, human development. This is an example of the difference which measurement can make…
Hybrid Optimization Algorithms for Maximum Power Point Tracking based Incremental Conductance Techniques with Solar Cell
Nowadays, the modern world has more concern about increasing population as well as environmental changes.Hence using the Renewable Energy Sources (RES), power generation systems have actively developed in many countries.One of the main sources of RES is solar energy.In solar energy system, emitted energy from the sun is directly converted to electricity in Photovoltaic (PV) system.This research focuses on the advanced techniques based Maximum Pow…
The Incidence and Age Distribution of Death: Mortality by Caste, Gender, and Sector of Origin in India in the Mid-2010s
This paper considers the distribution of mortality across social groups classified by caste, gender and sector of origin in India in the mid-2010s: as such, the essay is intended to be both a methodological/measurement-oriented study and a substantive empirical assessment of an important dimension of human functioning in India. The analysis is carried out employing micro-data on the age-distributions of population and death-rates available in the…
Income taxation and progressivity: A measure of equitability
This paper proposes a measure of ‘equitability of taxation’, in the context of progressivity and the income tax. By postulating specifications of ‘extreme equitability’ and ‘extreme inequitability’ of a tax system, the paper advances a measure of tax equitability as the normalised area distance of a ‘tax concentration curve’ from its most inequitable version. The measure is derived, and a procedure is outlined for the decomposition of differences…
Social desirability and under-reporting of smokeless tobacco use among reproductive age women: Evidence from National Family Health Survey
This study argues that the current survey estimates misconstrue the authentic prevalence of tobacco use among women in India, including pregnant and lactating women. Due to social desirability or the presence of a third person during the survey interview, those respondents who do not report their tobacco use status are also more likely to forego essential support for successful tobacco cessation. Survey methodology must be strengthened to avert t…
Measuring Covid Mortality
The most widely used measure of covid mortality is a headcount ratio of deaths due to covid, as captured by the case fatality rate, which is the ratio of covid deaths to covid cases. This is a relative measure of mortality, in contrast to the absolute measure of an aggregate headcount, as captured by the gross or aggregate fatality, which is just the raw (non-normalized) number of covid deaths. The present note examines two elementary principles …
Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate
India's case fatality rate (CFR) under Covid-19 is strikingly low, around 1.7% at the time of writing. The world average rate is far higher. Several observers have noted that this difference is at least partly due to India's younger age distribution. We use age-specific fatality rates from 17 comparison countries, coupled with India's distribution of Covid-19 cases, to “predict” India's CFR. In most cases, those predictions yield even lower numbe…
Inequality, Growth, Poverty and Lunar Eclipses: Policy and Arithmetic
Alleviating poverty, mitigating inequality and achieving growth are all acknowledged goals of development, whatever the degree of success with which these goals might have been addressed in various economies of the world. Apart from questions of resolve and genuine commitment, what makes it hard to engage with these goals is that the pursuit of any one of them does not necessarily secure the ends of either or both of the other two. Such engagemen…
Distributive Justice and Utilitarianism
Inequality and Poverty: A Short Critical Introduction
The Distribution of Household Assets in India: 1991–1992 To 2012–2013
This article is a fairly straightforward quantitative assessment of the distribution of household assets in rural and urban India, based on data available in the All-India Debt and Investment Surveys (AIDIS) over the last three decadal survey years: 1991–1992, 2002–2003 and 2012–2013. The article reviews some limitations of the data base and examines the magnitudes and trends in the levels of average per household assets, it describes the composi…
The Quintile Income Statistic and Distributional Analysis
This chapter discusses a seemingly very elementary indicator of welfare called the ‘quintile income statistic’ whose maximization has been advanced by Kaushik Basu as one plausible and important goal of an economy’s development. Some possible interpretations of the statistic and the uses to which it can be put in distributional analysis—with particular reference to the conceptualization and measurement of money-metric poverty and inequality—are e…
The Changing Dynamics of the Global Intellectual Property Legal Order: Emergence of a ‘Network Agenda’
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) had sought to augment intellectual property (IP) enforcement practices, to counter the proliferation of counterfeit and pirate goods and to regulate digital infringements. This paper examines the collapse of ACTA and challenges the traditional orientation of the debate concerning the tension between the ‘enforcement’ and ‘development’ agendas. The ACTA negotiating partners, mainly developed states, c…
Inequality Aversion and the Extended Gini in the Light of a Two-person Cake-sharing Problem
This brief note aims to communicate, in simple terms, the "meaning" of the family of "Extended" Gini coefficients of inequality, in terms of the shares accruing to the agents in an elementary two-person cake-sharing problem. In the process, a natural notion of the "potential fairness" of a distribution, as well as the notion of "distribution sensitivity", are sought to be explicated in easily accessible terms
Assessing Inequality in the Presence of Growth: An Expository Essay
In a great deal of empirical work on distributional analysis, the only sorts of inequality measures employed are ‘ relative’ ones. The present paper argues the case for a more plural approach to inequality measurement, in which both ‘absolute’ and ‘intermediate’ conceptualizations of inequality are admitted. In particular, it is suggested that there is a strong case for the employment of intermediate measures of inequality in assessing over time …
Demographic and health surveys: A profile
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are comparable nationally representative household surveys that have been conducted in more than 85 countries worldwide since 1984. The DHS were initially designed to expand on demographic, fertility and family planning data collected in the World Fertility Surveys and Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys, and continue to provide an important resource for the monitoring of vital statistics and population health in…
Hardiness and Personality as Predictors of Military Enlistment Intention among the Indian Youths
An aspect of variable population poverty comparisons
EU Obligation to the TRIPS Agreement: EU Microsoft Decision
In Microsoft v. Commission, Microsoft was ordered by the European Court of First Instance (CFI) to license interface information to its competitors on reasonable terms and to supply a fully functioning version of Windows Personal Computer Operating System without Windows Media Player. Microsoft claimed that the remedies infringed the minimum standards of IP protection provided by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rig…
India's Household Wealth Distribution Data: A Critical Assessment
The Arrow paradox with fuzzy preferences
Externality and Literacy: A Note
Kaushik Basu and James Foster (1998 Basu, K. and Foster, J. 1998. On measuring literacy. Economic Journal, 108(451): 1733–1749. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) have opened up an interesting approach to the measurement of literacy, in which the phenomenon of externality has an important role to play. The externality these authors examine is what one may call a ‘material’ externality, and they demonstrate that reckoning such an e…
Horizontal and Vertical Inequality: Some Interconnections and Indicators
Measuring literacy: Some extensions of the Basu-Foster framework
An aspect of variable population poverty comparisons
Assessing Inequality in the Presence of Growth: An Expository Essay
In a great deal of empirical work on distributional analysis, the only sorts of inequality measures employed are ‘ relative’ ones. The present paper argues the case for a more plural approach to inequality measurement, in which both ‘absolute’ and ‘intermediate’ conceptualizations of inequality are admitted. In particular, it is suggested that there is a strong case for the employment of intermediate measures of inequality in assessing over time …
Assessing the `femaleness' of a population
Income taxation and progressivity: A measure of equitability
This paper proposes a measure of ‘equitability of taxation’, in the context of progressivity and the income tax. By postulating specifications of ‘extreme equitability’ and ‘extreme inequitability’ of a tax system, the paper advances a measure of tax equitability as the normalised area distance of a ‘tax concentration curve’ from its most inequitable version. The measure is derived, and a procedure is outlined for the decomposition of differences…
Out of School and (Probably) in Work: Child Labour and Capability Deprivation in India
This article explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a household to keep its children out of school and put them to work in the cause of the household's survival. In exploring the link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the article advances the view that the nature of the connection is more readily apprehended if both the variables under study are defined more…
Statistical Summary of the Social and Economic Trends in India (in the Inter-War Period)
Economic Progress in the Nehru Era
Creative Process and Innovative Performance among Scientists
Alienation among Industrial Entrepreneurs and Industrial Workers
Foundations of Economic Justice
Part 1 Property Rights, Object Powers and the Problem of Theft: Property Rights and Property Defined Property Rights Triggers or Elicitors Scope of Property Rights Property Rights Versus Object Powers Theft Defined and Illustrated. Part 2 Production and Property Rights: Production and Property Feelings Natural Objects and Productive Activity Settlers and Indians in New England - A Case Study Locke's Mixing Methaphor and Proviso Social Contracts a…
Biochemical evaluation of the antiulcerogenic effect of Cauvery-100 (an ayurvedic formulation) in rats
Assessing the `femaleness' of a population
Capability Failure and Group Disparities: Some Evidence from India for the 1980s
This paper advances a particular measure of deprivation - called the Capability Failure Ratio (CFR) - on the dimensions of longevity, knowledge and income, and suggests how an (inequality-) 'adjusted' version of the CFR may be derived. These measurement concerns are explored in the context of relevant State-wise data for the Indian Union. The paper thus makes an attempt to enrich the analysis of human predicament by sensitising 'measures of centr…
Measuring literacy: Some extensions of the Basu-Foster framework
Assessing the ‘Agedness’ of A Population
Horizontal and Vertical Inequality: Some Interconnections and Indicators
Out of School and (Probably) in Work: Child Labour and Capability Deprivation in India
This article explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a household to keep its children out of school and put them to work in the cause of the household's survival. In exploring the link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the article advances the view that the nature of the connection is more readily apprehended if both the variables under study are defined more…
Externality and Literacy: A Note
Kaushik Basu and James Foster (1998 Basu, K. and Foster, J. 1998. On measuring literacy. Economic Journal, 108(451): 1733–1749. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) have opened up an interesting approach to the measurement of literacy, in which the phenomenon of externality has an important role to play. The externality these authors examine is what one may call a ‘material’ externality, and they demonstrate that reckoning such an e…
Adjusting Headcount Deprivation for Horizontal and Spatial Inequality: Some Illustrative Examples Using Census Housing Data
India's Household Wealth Distribution Data: A Critical Assessment
The Arrow paradox with fuzzy preferences
EU Obligation to the TRIPS Agreement: EU Microsoft Decision
In Microsoft v. Commission, Microsoft was ordered by the European Court of First Instance (CFI) to license interface information to its competitors on reasonable terms and to supply a fully functioning version of Windows Personal Computer Operating System without Windows Media Player. Microsoft claimed that the remedies infringed the minimum standards of IP protection provided by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rig…
An aspect of variable population poverty comparisons
Demographic and health surveys: A profile
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are comparable nationally representative household surveys that have been conducted in more than 85 countries worldwide since 1984. The DHS were initially designed to expand on demographic, fertility and family planning data collected in the World Fertility Surveys and Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys, and continue to provide an important resource for the monitoring of vital statistics and population health in…
Hardiness and Personality as Predictors of Military Enlistment Intention among the Indian Youths
Inequality Aversion and the Extended Gini in the Light of a Two-person Cake-sharing Problem
This brief note aims to communicate, in simple terms, the "meaning" of the family of "Extended" Gini coefficients of inequality, in terms of the shares accruing to the agents in an elementary two-person cake-sharing problem. In the process, a natural notion of the "potential fairness" of a distribution, as well as the notion of "distribution sensitivity", are sought to be explicated in easily accessible terms
Assessing Inequality in the Presence of Growth: An Expository Essay
In a great deal of empirical work on distributional analysis, the only sorts of inequality measures employed are ‘ relative’ ones. The present paper argues the case for a more plural approach to inequality measurement, in which both ‘absolute’ and ‘intermediate’ conceptualizations of inequality are admitted. In particular, it is suggested that there is a strong case for the employment of intermediate measures of inequality in assessing over time …
The Changing Dynamics of the Global Intellectual Property Legal Order: Emergence of a ‘Network Agenda’
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) had sought to augment intellectual property (IP) enforcement practices, to counter the proliferation of counterfeit and pirate goods and to regulate digital infringements. This paper examines the collapse of ACTA and challenges the traditional orientation of the debate concerning the tension between the ‘enforcement’ and ‘development’ agendas. The ACTA negotiating partners, mainly developed states, c…
The Quintile Income Statistic and Distributional Analysis
This chapter discusses a seemingly very elementary indicator of welfare called the ‘quintile income statistic’ whose maximization has been advanced by Kaushik Basu as one plausible and important goal of an economy’s development. Some possible interpretations of the statistic and the uses to which it can be put in distributional analysis—with particular reference to the conceptualization and measurement of money-metric poverty and inequality—are e…
The Distribution of Household Assets in India: 1991–1992 To 2012–2013
This article is a fairly straightforward quantitative assessment of the distribution of household assets in rural and urban India, based on data available in the All-India Debt and Investment Surveys (AIDIS) over the last three decadal survey years: 1991–1992, 2002–2003 and 2012–2013. The article reviews some limitations of the data base and examines the magnitudes and trends in the levels of average per household assets, it describes the composi…
Economics (24 works) · Mathematics (19 works) · Political science (14 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Inequality (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Demography (11 works) · Econometrics (10 works) · Economic growth (10 works)