Research

Academic Publication(s)

1. Kumar, A., & Irfan, Z. B. (2019). Assessment of the Sustainable Livelihood Security of the Ecologically Vulnerable Indian State – Uttarakhand. Asian Journal of Geological Research, 1(3), 1-8.

2. Kumar, A., & Irfan, Z. (2019). Are the New Indian States Ecologically Secured, Economically Efficient and Socially Equitable? (Assessment Using the Sustainable Livelihood Security Index Framework). Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 2(3), 1-9.


Working Paper

The Determinants of Export Intensity in the Indian Processed Food Sector: A Firm-Level Analysis , co-authored with Prof. Madhuri Saripalle. Presented at 17th Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data Conference, Faculty of  Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal (CAED 2021)


Abstract: Many of the world's emerging economies are naturally endowed with agricultural and natural resources which have tremendous scope to exploit their competitive advantage in export markets for these commodities. India being an agrarian economy, has a good production base for the manufacture of food products sector, yet the industry's export performance is lagging. There are no recent studies that analyze the firm-level export intensity and its impact on the food processing industry, a gap this study intends to fill. This study analyses the recent trends and performance of the Indian food processing industry at an aggregate level using the data from Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and analyses the determinants of export at the firm level using a panel data of 536 firms from 1999-2019 taken from the Prowess database of Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). Tobit model is used in the analysis as the dependent variable; export intensity is a censored variable. Size, profits, import, and wage intensity have been found to have a significant positive impact on export of the Indian food processing sector. In the Indian context, there is not much literature that accounts for self-selection while determining the export intensity at the firm level. This study uses the Heckman selection model to address the issue of self-selection.


Keywords: Export intensity, Food processing, Fish, Meat, Tobit, Heckman Selection 


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