Analysis of food demand in assam evidence and application from primary and secondary data

Abstract

The thesis addresses the issues related to food demand estimation for the Indian state of Assam through exploiting both official NSSO as well as survey data Motivation for taking up this research is twofold First although there are many types of research related to pan India level concerning computations of various demand elasticities studies that are based on a single region or a state are somewhat rarer Such pan Indian studies do not do justice to the diversities that are natural to a c...