Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar"
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Can biofuels help achieve sustainable development goals in India? A systematic review
Das, Prantika; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Saxena, Satyam; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar (Elsevier, 2024-03)Biofuels are expected to play a pivotal role in developing economies' transition towards net-zero emissions. However, their promotion can cause multifaceted sustainability concerns. National biofuel policies often align ... -
Consumer preference for nutrition front-of-pack-label formats in India: Evidence from a large-scale experimental survey
Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Sanghvi, Rahul; Sahay, Arvind (Elsevier, 2023-09-16)Global policy discourse emphasizes placing front-of-pack nutrition labels (FOPLs) on packaged foods, but debates continue to rage on the appropriate format. There are two key types of label formats, summary and informative. ... -
Consumer preference for nutrition front-of-pack-label formats in India: Evidence from a large-scale experimental survey
Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Sanghvi, Rahul; Sahay, Arvind (Elsevier, 2023-09-16)Global policy discourse emphasizes placing front-of-pack nutrition labels (FOPLs) on packaged foods, but debates continue to rage on the appropriate format. There are two key types of label formats, summary and informative. ... -
Demand for crop insurance in developing countries: new evidence from India
Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Gupta, Shweta; Singh, Vartika; Ward, Patrick S. (Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020-09-29)Determining farmers’ real demand for crop insurance is difficult, especially in developing countries, where there is a lack of formal financial sector integration and a high reliance on informal risk mitigation options. ... -
Informal land leasing in rural India persists because it is credible
Goyal, Yugank; Choudhury, Pranab Ranjan; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar (Elsevier, 2022-08-11)While insecure property rights are considered ‘perverse’ with respect to development, we examine what are the features most amenable for their persistence. Applying a Credibility Thesis framework in the context of rural ... -
Oliver Williamson: the man who reduced the transaction cost of economics
Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Goyal, Yugank (Economic and Political Weekly, 2020-07-11)On 21 May 2020, one of the most cited economists of all time and a key contributor to organisational studies, Oliver E Williamson passed away. His intellectual apparatus of transaction cost economics is a powerful tool to ... -
Participation dynamics in multiple-peril agricultural insurance: insights from India
Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Patil, Vikram; Tank, Nikita (Elsevier, 2022-01-05)Multiple-peril agricultural insurance, although operational in many developing countries, evokes mixed responses among smallholder farmers. In this context, we analyse the farmer-specific characteristics that are most ... -
Pathway to achieve a sustainable food and land-use transition in India
Jha, Chandan Kumar; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Saxena, Satyam; Singh, Vartika; Mosnier, Aline; Guzman, Katya Perez; Stevanović, Miodrag; Popp, Alexander; Lotze-Campen, Hermann (Springer, 2022-09-01)India has committed to reducing the emissions intensity of GDP by 33–35% from the 2005 level by 2030 in alignment with objectives of the Paris Agreement. This will require a significant reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) ...