Agrarian Distress in India apt title of the latest book by agricultural economists BC Barah & Smita Sirohi would not have come out at a more appropriate time when the government is grappling with rising cost of food items which not only cause lots discomfort to consumers but also policy makers and analysts who have failed to anticipate the trend.

The book acknowledges that the macro economic sc

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FOOD INFLATION, WHICH HAD TOUCHED 18.3% in the week ended December 25, 2010, is playing a spoiler in the otherwise robust overall GDP growth of more than 8.5%.

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India, which is currently at the 11th position, would become the third largest economy in the world by 2050, well ahead of Japan and not too far behind the US, says a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report.

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Riding on a strong performance by the agriculture and services sectors, the Indian economy posted a better than expected growth rate of 8.9 per cent for the second quarter of the financial year 2010-11 and raised expectations that it could touch 9 per cent overall GDP growth for this year.

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