Revathi Ellanki

Centre for Economic and Social Studies | CESS · Department of Economics

The book analyses the soybean crop cultivation in major soybean cultivating states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and newly cultivating state of Telangana. It assesses the impact of soybean technology i.e. varieties and package of practices developed by the ICAR's All India Coordinated Research project and State Agriculture Universities...

Education being a public good calls for higher public investment. In India, there is a growing trend towards private expenditure on education. The present article examines the trends of private expenditure on education based on the NSSO-Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) and Social Consumption on Education (SC-E) survey estimates for the period 1986...

This paper draws on the results of telephone surveys conducted to assess the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the young people of two longitudinal cohorts (aged 19 and 26 years old at the time) of the four countries that participate in the Young Lives research programme: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. We first revie...

Coronavirus pandemic caused concern to access and quality of school education due to the closure of all educational institutions since the last week of March 2020. This paper is an outcome of the study '‘Interrupted Education in India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana): Support for the students during Covid 19 school closures’, supported by 'Gendered Y...

Objective To provide evidence on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of young people who grew up in poverty in low/middle-income countries (LMICs). Design A phone survey administered between August and October 2020 to participants of a population-based longitudinal cohort study established in 2002 comprising two cohorts born i...

This paper while critically looking into the recent National Educational Policy (NEP) of 2020, analysed the educational development in Telangana state and examined the process and challenges in implementing the NEP 2020 at all levels of education in the state.

Objective To provide evidence on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of adolescents and young adults who grew up in poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Design A phone survey implemented August-October 2020 to participants of a population-based cohort study since 2002 comprising two cohorts born in 1994-5 and 200...

Provision of better early childhood learning environment plays an important role in shaping the path of educational attainment of children which in turn help in leading a productive life in future. The students belonging to socially and economically marginalised communities like SCs and STs often face difficulties in accessing better learning envir...

This is a review article of the book - 'Legitimation in a world at risk: The case of genetically modified crops in India, authored by by E.L. Desmond, (2018). Publishers: Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. 345 pages. ISBN: 978-981-10-6064-9.

Land Rights and Land Access to Women in Andhra Pradesh

This paper examines the situation of public expenditure on education in India and carries time-trend analysis for the past three decades. The focus of this note is on the Centre-State contributions in financing the education in the country.

‘Inclusive development’ continues to dominate development discourse and policy debate in the context of many countries around the world, including India. This is not only because of the outstanding issues and challenges of past policies but also because of the emerging opportunities and prospects for promoting inclusive development through ongoing...

This book explores inclusive development in the Indian context, not only within each of the country’s major economic and social sectors, but also across countries in the particular context of globalization. In the emerging scenario of most expanding economies, including India, this topic remains particularly significant. The book’s sixteen chapters...

This book emphasizes the need for adopting an integrated approach to understand the concepts of subalternity, exclusion and social change in India. It also explores the dynamic relations between these three concepts, instead of treating them as unconnected and discrete social facts. The contributors address some important questions of political eco...

This chapter presents an account of farmers' suicides in the state of Andhra Pradesh starting in 1996. Based on a survey of several studies, it shows that farmers' distress in the state can be attributed to the increasing fragility of resources, particularly the groundwater resources, as well as unsustainable and inappropriate cropping practices, n...

The movement for a separate state of Telangana reflects a longstanding demand for autonomy in social, economic and political matters, a call that has been denied for over half a century even as the region has continued to suffer within the larger state of Andhra Pradesh. Many myths and counter-arguments are being peddled by those wanting to retain...

An oligopolistic market, fluctuating market conditions, inadequate modernisation and the subordinate Status of hired workers have contributed to the poor living conditions of workers in Sircilla, a powerloom centre of Andhra Pradesh. The State and central governments need to intervene in a more organised fashion to end the distress. In the short ru...