Vibhuti Patel pays a heart-warming tribute to a fellow feminist.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Oct 2021 Unless militant actions are undertaken, workers will find more and more of their rights trampled in the name of fighting the Corona virus. Parties, trade unions, and social movement organisations and...
by Kunal Chattopadhyay | On 25 Apr 2020 This paper is a preliminary attempt to understand globalisation and social transformation in the rural Kerala. It addresses the socioeconomic changes in a village in the mid-land region of Kerala name...
by Mijo Luke | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper employs a multidimensional approach to gauge the degree of regional integration and analyze impact on growth, inequality, and poverty. It constructs a multidimensional regional integration...
by Cyn-Young Park | On 26 Oct 2018 The study examines the survivability of Philippines MSMEs' exports to select countries. The analysis is based on the survival analysis model of Besedeš and Prusa (2006a; 2006b) and Besedeš and Prusa (...
by Mark Edison Bautista | On 20 Sep 2018 The cost of finance has a relatively high impact on the returns and viability of clean energy projects compared with fossil fuel-based energy projects, because the operating costs for renewable energy...
by Purkayastha Dhruba | On 13 Aug 2018 Pakistan-China relations date back to the Silk Route, but the formal ties began in 1950. Pakistan was the first Muslim country to recognize China as People's Republic and Pakistan International Airlin...
by Mahmood A. Khwaja | On 28 Jun 2018 First published in 1999, this video interview of Mythili Sivraman, who was vice president All India Democratic Women's Association, with Gnani, Tamil journalist with English subtitles.Mythily speaks a...
by Gnani Gnani | On 04 Jun 2018 Review of Domestic Workers of the World Unite: A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights by Jennifer N. Fish; Sage Publications; Pp. 320, Rs. 995.
by Aparna Rayaprol | On 28 May 2018 Review of
Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self Defense Movement
By Wendy L Rouse
Sage Vistaar, 2018;
by | On 10 May 2018 The paper examines how the operating performance of the Indian firms changed
after their initial public offerings. It is found that the operating performance does
not deteriorate post IPOs, if a per...
by Avdhesh Kumar Shukla | On 09 Apr 2018 The report says that investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation are listed as key ways of minimizing the drivers that force people from their country of origin – one of the GCM’s central o...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 09 Apr 2018 The report says that the goal is to promote community leadership in strengthening capabilities and resource mobilization.
by National Alliance Risk Reduction (NAADRR) | On 05 Apr 2018 The paper says that the exchange rate is a vital macroeconomic variable and backbone of trade.
by M. Ali Kemal | On 19 Mar 2018 People-to-People Partnership (PPP) is an important and inevitable mode of interactions in the sphere of international relations. In any kind of developmental, diplomatic and cultural interactions and...
by | On 15 Mar 2018 The current paper tries to fill this gap by investigating the impact of floods on pregnancy and birth outcomes across conflict-affected and unaffected districts in Pakistan.
by Baishali Goswami | On 08 Mar 2018 Review of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
By Immanuel Ness;
Pluto Press, 2016;
pp. 240 USD 28.
by Vrijendra | On 21 Feb 2018 The paper takes a look at the past record of vertical transfers viz., transfers from the Centre to the States as a whole.
by K.K. George | On 16 Feb 2018 This report explores how fostering gender diversity at the firm level can be good for business.
by Ruchika Joshi | On 08 Feb 2018 Well friends, let me begin by narrating a short story. In the Indian epic
Mahabharata, dated around one thousand B.C., there is a celebrated fable about Ekalavya, an Adivasi boy; some of you will cer...
by | On 06 Feb 2018 Contemporary India is witnessing a wide number of micro-level social movements struggling
against industrialisation, big dams and other similar development projects. This paper looks at the
tribal m...
by | On 24 Jan 2018 This paper links the foreign economic engagement of India’s states with the literature on
federalism, thereby contributing to an understanding of the political economy of FDI in-
flows in a parliame...
by Chanchal Kumar Sharma | On 22 Jan 2018 Threats of international water conflicts have garnered headlines in many parts of the world including South Asia. Yet, there are almost no examples of outright water war
in history. Instead, national...
by | On 12 Jan 2018 This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor in...
by Peng Zhang | On 28 Nov 2017 This paper discusses the properties of time series data, compares common data analysis methods and presents a methodological framework for time series data analysis
by Dr. Min Shrestha | On 09 Oct 2017 The study finds that a U-shaped relationship exists between farm size and farm / farmer's income. The results also show that both on-farm and
off-farm diversification have an inverted U-shape relatio...
by Varun Kumar Das | On 18 Sep 2017 This review paper examines the ill-health experience of women, and whether it has been adequately explored in a socio-cultural context from a gender perspective. A deeper understanding of the wide ran...
by Annapuranam Karuppannan | On 14 Sep 2017 Labour productivity in an economy or industry may increase due to intrinsic increase in productivity (due to capital deepening or TFP growth) or due to the reallocation of workers to more productive s...
by Rosa Abraham | On 11 Sep 2017 Will women benefit from the rapid automation and digitisation that is set to change the world of work as we know it? How can we ensure that women’s economic interests are brought into focus, and that...
by Becky Faith | On 16 Aug 2017 This study’s framework could serve as an
alternative development paradigm for India and other developing countries.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 14 Aug 2017 The report says that the practice of local democracy has so far mirrored the problems at the national level, with vote-buying, compromised primaries and allegations of vote-rigging in many gubernatori...
by Agnes Cornell | On 10 Aug 2017 This study also describes trade facilitation projects that promote development through deepening regional cooperation and integration.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 The paper says that the government has continued to issue bonds since then with the primary objectives being to finance the annual budget deficit, support social and economic development, and restruct...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 The report say that the Singapore bond market has become one of the most developed open capital markets in Asia with over US$221 billion in total local currency bonds outstanding with an additional US...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 GST also known as the Goods and Services Tax is defined as the giant indirect tax structure designed to support and enhance the economic growth of a country. More than 150 countries have implemented G...
by | On 13 Apr 2017 The situation today is that domestic violence is treated as a `social crime’ when compared with violence by strangers, even though it is much more severe in nature. Why is wife beating considered as a...
by Shalu Nigam | On 21 Feb 2017 As Asia finds itself in the limelight, whether in terms of major power relations, rising insecurity and potential for conflict, or economic governance, it is worth asking, even before broaching the re...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 The speech talks about the nationalist struggle against the British rule led by Gandhi, as well as a range of other contemporary protest campaigns. In particular, this movement is examined in the ligh...
by David Hardiman | On 28 Oct 2016 the last 50 years of feminist activism in India has managed to challenge the 5,000 years of patriarchal order. the main achievements were the deconstruction of violence against women, questioning of m...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 22 Sep 2016 Infrequent but turbulent episodes of outright sovereign default on domestic creditors are considered a “forgotten history” in Macroeconomics. This paper proposes a heterogeneous-agents model in which...
by Pablo D'Erasmo | On 17 Aug 2016 This paper explores the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. It runs regressions of job satisfaction on the share of males in an occupation. Overal...
by Grace Lordan | On 11 Aug 2016 Over the last few decades, systematic critiques of medicine and public health curricula in India
have highlighted many lapses in the inclusion of social determinants of health in medical education.
...
by Priya John | On 09 Aug 2016 This paper analyses changes in China’s relations with socialist countries. It uses Chinese academic publications to add an inside-out perspective to the interpretation of Chinese foreign policy and ou...
by | On 05 Aug 2016 This paper explores the long-run demand for M1 based on a dataset comprising 31 countries since 1851. In many cases, co integration tests identify a long-run equilibrium relationship between either ve...
by Luca Benati | On 01 Aug 2016 The identification of gendered ramifications of migratory processes has meant greater attention has been paid by policymakers and scholars alike than has been done previously. There are a number of re...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 The study conducts a formal analysis of various schools of thought of science. Specifically, the study offers a comparison between historical relativism, scientific realism, logical empiricism, and lo...
by Dheeraj Sharma | On 01 Jul 2016 The paper finds a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more th...
by Michael Jetter | On 28 Jun 2016 The existence of an inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit of land is well documented. However, little research focuses on if and how an inverse relationship between farm size and...
by Klaus Deininger | On 27 Jun 2016 This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous...
by Alexander M. Danzer | On 22 Jun 2016 India’s expanding partnership with Afghanistan has grown into multi-sectoral activities in all parts of Afghanistan. India’s reconstruction and developmental programmes in Afghanistan follow prioritie...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 21 Jun 2016 This paper aims to answer the question of how and under what circumstances civilian control can be established in newly democratised nations. To do this, the paper proposes a new theoretical argument...
by | On 23 May 2016 "Modern energy access” is finally on the international agenda, but the current common definition of 100 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per capita per year is far too low.
To reflect likely demand and historica...
by Todd Moss | On 18 May 2016 The Indian Railway (IR) system is one of the four railway systems in the world that transports more than one billion tonnes of traffic annually.
As against a growth of 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent in t...
by Saurabh Bandyopadhyay | On 09 May 2016 Social media is the primary resource for the information retrieval. Using the text mining field; huge amount of unstructured textual data collected by social media can be converted and displayled as u...
by Nilesh Alone | On 28 Apr 2016 Telangana emerged as the 29th state of the Indian Union from undivided Andhra Pradesh
after a prolonged struggle for statehood for nearly six decades. The social structure in Telangana is uniquely sk...
by Center for Economic and Social Studies CESS | On 31 Mar 2016 India-Bangladesh relations are advancing rapidly in recent times. There are of course some impediments such as non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in trade, and the Teesta water-sharing dispute that need to be...
by Chandrani Sarma | On 21 Mar 2016 Rural-urban linkages are both a cause and a consequence of socio-economic development. Though there is a vast volume of literature on this subject, there are quite a few gaps in our knowledge about th...
by RS Pundir | On 20 Mar 2016 Public finance systems in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have evolved substantially over the last three decades. The evolution is continuing, with wide-ranging reforms in budget and debt managem...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 This paper is intended to contribute in the analysis of the movements of real wages of skilled and unskilled labour in Indian manufacturing over the last two decades and thereby trying to provide plau...
by Alokesh Barua | On 15 Mar 2016 This report is the result of efforts to develop strategies to accelerate the decline of child marriage in India. It breaks new conceptual ground and applies a broad social policy and governance framew...
by Debanita Chatterjee | On 14 Mar 2016 We test the effect of excess money growth on inflation using Threshold Regression technique developed by Hansen (2000). The empirical test is conducted using annual data from India for the period from...
by Saumitra N Bhaduri | On 13 Mar 2016 After conditions of crisis reigning on the Korean Peninsula in the first half of the year, the reopening of the Kaesong Industrial Complex, among other recent developments, heralds renewed hope for be...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 In spite of competing claims over the Spratly and Paracel Archipelagoes and maritime areas in the South China Sea, China and Vietnam have sought, with some degree of success, to manage their tensions...
by Ramses Amer | On 12 Mar 2016 ASEAN plays a proactive role in regard to dispute management in the South China Sea. In spite of this, it is argued here that the Association must overcome problems of internal cohesion to find a unif...
by Ramses Amer | On 12 Mar 2016 While Russia and China are heralding a new “strategic partnership,” this policy brief explores how competition between the two countries may increasingly emerge in regard to Central Asia—a region wher...
by | On 11 Mar 2016 In the post-Cold War era, Vietnam has been successful in expanding relations both regionally and globally. And whereas China remains a strategic challenge for Vietnam in the South China Sea, Hanoi has...
by | On 11 Mar 2016 China is unique among developing countries in achieving sustained economic and social success. So, policymakers in South Asia will do well to factor a robust Chinese economic future into their thinkin...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 11 Mar 2016 The EU has played an instrumental role in negotiating the interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. OzanSerdaroglu argues that while the prospective lifting of sanctions under a final deal brings w...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 Ensuring security of energy supplies and safeguarding sea lines of communication are underpinning increasing maritime ties between the net-energy importers of India and Japan. At the same time, argues...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 This policy brief looks at how North Korea has figured as an issue on the sidelines of the recent APEC Summit in Beijing in the context of developments such as Pyongyang’s release of two American pris...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 Three major objectives of this study are: (i) to understand China’s success against poverty, particularly the mechanism through which, the economic reforms led to poverty reduction; (ii) to give a his...
by G. M. Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 The role of macroeconomic policy in the different varieties of capitalism has been largely ignored. Recent contributions to the literature have argued that nonliberal economies should be expected to h...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 The doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect is a controversial and contentious one in Southeast Asia. It has been largely accepted in principle by most ASEAN states, which are generally supportive o...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Current studies on pandemics explore the links between population mobility and health. These studies usually focus on regular population movement such as those of tourists and legal immigrants. Howeve...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 The diversification of Bhutan’s relations began with its entry into the United Nations in 1971, and while external relations continued to be largely confined to India, the establishment of its relatio...
by | On 02 Mar 2016 This paper joins the growing scholarship on the ontological security needs of states in international relations (IR) literature and explores its relevance to India-China relations. Ontological securit...
by | On 01 Mar 2016 With over a billion people in China, the issue of cultivated land conversion is extremely important both in terms of food security and environmental sustainability. This paper investigates the relatio...
by Shunji Cui | On 01 Mar 2016 Land struggles in countries like Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 29 Feb 2016 This year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the 1994 United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Report, which defined the concept of human security and brought it to int...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 The year 2015 has been notable for bringing to the public eye, situations involving the movements of people. In April and May of this year, news emerged of thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshis stran...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 This paper offers a macro understanding of the dispute resolution methods existing in India. The emerging trend of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) will be the focus of the next section of the pap...
by Jasmine Joseph | On 27 Feb 2016 This paper is an integration of the studies commissioned under the DFA-PIDS memorandum of agreement to explore the priority areas during the Philippines' APEC hosting in 2015 under the theme: "Buildin...
by Erlinda M. Medalla | On 25 Feb 2016 Due to a long history of strained political relations between India and Pakistan, trade possibilities between the two neighbouring countries have rarely been studied [Nabi and Nasim (2001), Mukherji (...
by Abid Burki | On 24 Feb 2016 Abstract: The development of China-ASEAN trade and economic relations within the recent 15 years has of great significance not only for both sides but also for the whole East-Asia region. This paper i...
by Zhao Jianglin | On 24 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia as a region has a unique history, and the evolving relationships between its communities, states, regional organisations and the international community reflect this. Given this context...
by Alistair Cook | On 24 Feb 2016 India and Pakistan must learn that Pathankot and Peshawar were mindless acts of terror, to prevent whose recurrence, there is the need to enhance cooperation, not diminish it. Pakistan must continue t...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury | On 22 Feb 2016 There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and sy...
by Salman Asim | On 21 Feb 2016 In this lecture, Stefan Schurig (World Future Council) talks about the vision of regenerative cities as the greening of the urban environment and the protection of nature from urban expansion, and abo...
by Stefan Schurig | On 19 Feb 2016 The chequered but ongoing political efforts to introduce a uniform Goods & Services Tax (GST) throughout India should actually be seen through a larger economic prism. The current sense of urgency, re...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 Johor’s growth has been both rapid and encompassing, and includes evolving trends in demographic, industrial, transportation and social spheres. Such growth raises significant questions for Singapore,...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 The paper examines the volatility spillover between the stock market and the foreign exchange market in Pakistan. For the longrun relationship we use the Engle Granger two-step procedure and the volat...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 17 Feb 2016 This study extends the analysis of causality by Husain and Rashid (2006) by taking care of the shift in the variables due to the price hikes in the early 1970s. Casual relation between real income and...
by Fazal Husain | On 17 Feb 2016 Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has focused almost exclusively on the effects of human-made pollutants, and has not full...
by Dave Marcotte | On 17 Feb 2016 On the 15th anniversary of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, how far have countries in the Indo-Pacific region come to implement its peace and security agenda?
by | On 16 Feb 2016 This ‘theory in practice’ paper examines the experiences of citizens groups seeking to hold Pakistan’s elected representatives and governance institutions accountable. A sustained period of democracy,...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 Driven by the increasingly important role of supply chains in global production, this paper studies empirical association between global credit-market shocks and firm behavior towards liquidity needs...
by Yothin Jinjarak | On 16 Feb 2016 Developing economies are seeking to promote financial inclusion, i.e., greater access to financial services for low-income households and firms, as part of their overall strategies for economic and fi...
by Peter J. Morgan | On 16 Feb 2016 This study is an attempt to analyse the determinants of private investment in Pakistan over the period 1972-2005. The ARDL co-integration approach is employed to check the existence of a long-run rela...
by Farooq Pasha | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note is an exploratory attempt to verify the popular argument that cost side factors are no less contributory than demand side factors in stimulating inflation in the Bangladesh economy. T...
by Md. Alauddin Majumder | On 15 Feb 2016 This essay, published originally by the National Bureau of Asian Research, discusses the long-term and current relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the intertwined militancy in the two count...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 This is an attempt to empirically investigate the risk and return relationship of individual stocks traded at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), the main equity market in Pakistan. The analysis is based on...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 14 Feb 2016 Intimate partner relationships which are self-arranged, non-marital and non-cohabiting have rarely been a part of the violence against women (VAW) discourse. Such violence comes into the limelight esp...
by Anjali Dave | On 14 Feb 2016 The now-frequent use of decision-making questions in household surveys has greatly enhanced our understanding of intra-household power relations. While much of the research interest in these questions...
by Mitali Sen | On 13 Feb 2016 There are fewer than 1000 days remaining until the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Based on current progress, many will not be achieved. For Transparency Internati...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Intellectual Property and Competition Law is one further contribution of the ICTSD Programme on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development to a better understanding of the proper role of...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Beijing currently has a relatively active policy with regards to UN peacekeeping, especially when compared to its history or the commitment of other major powers. China’s active policy on UN peacekeep...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 Composed of 192 member states, the United Nations (UN) is the largest and most comprehensive international organization as well as the most important international platform for multilateral diplomacy....
by | On 09 Feb 2016 An emerging sea power is usually considered as a critical variable to international power politics. China’s growing sea power in the 21st century is such an example. It has become increasingly importa...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 For Chinese researchers of international relations, to see a security challenge through the lens of conflict prevention and management represents a relatively fresh exploration that has begun to recei...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 The paper explores conceptually the relationship between trust and deception. The author advances five main propositions, which concern deceptive signals of trustworthiness, the suspension of uncertai...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 The dissolution of the standard employment relationship since the 1970s has been paralleled by a destabilization of family relations. The paper, which is a slightly revised version of a plenary lectur...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper assesses whether current trade regulatory frameworks, in particular WTO agreements, adequately support innovation as a policy objective in the context of the knowledge economy and the digit...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas and investigate the r...
by Nancy H. Chau | On 07 Feb 2016 This exercise is envisaged to provide a brief account of the research studies on inter-relationship between remittance inflows from abroad and the poverty levels obtained in the country. This is discu...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 06 Feb 2016 As part of its initial publications, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies will soon issue a book in Arabic, titled The Secession of Southern Sudan: Risks and Opportunities. The book is the...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper is an attempt to analyze the age-old phenomenon of leaks - the deliberate disclosure of secret information - and its relationship with the principle of transparency in a democracy. Secrets...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 The paper examines the dynamic relationship and volatility spillovers between the stock market and the foreign exchange market in Pakistan using weekly data from 02 July, 1997 to 04 July 2012. Johanse...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 In recent years, Central Asia has increasingly come under the focus of the European Union (EU). This development occurred not least due to a series of interruptions in the supply of Russian natural ga...
by Sijbren Jong | On 03 Feb 2016 This research paper aims at studying the elements determining the Turkish position towards the Syrian crisis, especially in the period ranging from the start of the protests in mid-March 2011 to the b...
by Ali Bakir | On 02 Feb 2016 The Tunisian revolution exhibited itself as a popular revolution by all measures, catching the attention of many historians and writers in various fields; for years to come, the revolution will be a r...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 This paper looks the factors which gave birth to a common Coptic identity in opposition to the state. Have the Copts been compelled to adopt this common identification to resist the state's policies t...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 This study analyzes a new type of religiosity that has appeared in force in the streets and public squares during the Arab revolts: youth religiosity. My approach relies on an understanding of religio...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 India’s engagement with Africa through trade, investment, aid and technological collaboration can support growth and structural transformation in African economies. This paper, which is part of a majo...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 02 Feb 2016 Historically, Qataris have strived for autonomy and independence, and have always sought to define themselves apart from others. This has dictated a specifically defined identity in which language sta...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 This study examines Sudan's relationship with Iran in light of the numerous Israeli air raids being launched against it, and explores whether the Sudanese regime has a preference for Iranian or Arab a...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 This essay is not an attempt to provide a comprehensive historical or sociological treatment of the subject of intellectuals and their role in revolution; rather, it is a conceptual contribution that...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 In response to the dearth of academic studies written on the Syrian opposition, this study reviews the various Syrian military organizations that are currently active against the Syrian regime, and di...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 Industrial countries are still struggling, with a few exceptions, to grow. Our fellow BRICS all have deep problems, with confidence about China waxing and waning. India appears to be better in this l...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 01 Feb 2016 There is a renewed consensus on the need to re-regulate international capital movements. But there is a collective action problem, which puts developing countries at a particular disadvantage. Countri...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 India’s presence in the East Asia Summit signals not only a victory for New Delhi’s “Look East” policy but also an implicit “Look West” policy on the part of India’s neighbors to the east. This conver...
by Ellen L. Frost | On 31 Jan 2016 This paper explores how these perceptions and narratives around women’s empowerment have evolved in Bangladesh from 2000 to date. It studies the concepts of women’s empowerment in public discourse and...
by Sohela Nazneen | On 30 Jan 2016 The human capital and growth relationship has been subject to a lot of debate in economic literature. The empirical growth models are beset with problems ranging from theoretical frameworks and statis...
by Verda Salman | On 30 Jan 2016 This study attempts to investigate the empirical relationship between debt and productivity and debt and investment for the Developing Asian Countries over the period of 1984-2007. The study uses two...
by Hasan Shahzad | On 30 Jan 2016 In the Arab world, there has been increased awareness on the instrumentality of education in fostering human and economic development and a realization that quality education contributes to the econom...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 Available literature on regional trade integration in South Asia points to a variety of economic and non-economic factors that have slowed the integration process. The major non-economic factors inclu...
by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment SAWTEE | On 28 Jan 2016 International investment needs are tremendous. This requires that the international investment regime constitutes a framework for increased flows of sustainable foreign direct investment for sustainab...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Of all the nations that border China, its comparison with Bhutan would appear to be a paradox. In comprehensive power terms, Bhutan is almost a nonentity to China. Bhutan’s biggest disadvantage is its...
by Tilak Jha | On 28 Jan 2016 An overview is provided of the state of knowledge on internal migration in developing economies, with particular emphasis on recent contributions to the literature. The overview is divided into five s...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The primary motivation behind this research is the need to accelerate the supply of renewable energy because of the important role that it plays in mitigating climate change and in fostering sustainab...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 This case study explores the relationship between socioeconomic opportunity and exclusion in relation to minority gender and sexualities in Nepal.The study, a component of a wider programme on Sexuali...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 Unpaid care work is relevant to almost all aspects of gender equality and is directly linked to the economic empowerment of women and girls. This report provides background to the issue, giving contex...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 26 Jan 2016 In order to understand the current phase of Naxalism, we need to understand different aspects of organizational transformation that have occurred within the Naxal movement, since the genesis and curre...
by | On 25 Jan 2016 India's Sri Lanka policy since 1991 is one example of how India's foreign policy imperatives, redefined by the end of the Cold War and the introduction of liberal economic reforms, have impacted relat...
by | On 25 Jan 2016 Despite the removal of restrictions and reforms in the banking sector to facilitate the adoption of a market oriented interest rate policy, interest rates are yet to become fully responsive to the mar...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 This note examines recent movements in net domestic asset (NDA) and net foreign asset (NFA) of BB vis-à-vis the proposed monetary program for FY09 and brings out possible policy implications and manag...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 The future political landscape of Asia-Pacific would largely be decided, arguably, by happenings in the East Asian region. It is so because in East Asia, the interests of three important players of wo...
by Sandip Kumar Mishra | On 23 Jan 2016 This discussion paper is a brief assessment of the employment challenge that become manifest in the Indian economy during the past decade. It analyses various available economic indicators and present...
by Shipra Nigam | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper arises out of the findings from a set of research projects carried out under the aegis of the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty (Migration DRC) at the Univ...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 Today, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth...
by United Nations (UN) | On 19 Jan 2016 The recent success of India and Bangladesh in settling the complicated issue of political enclaves in each other’s territories could be traced to the spirit displayed by the leaders of the two countri...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia’s immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter en...
by Stéphane Mahuteau | On 15 Jan 2016 Millions of job seekers in South Asia, including many tribals, are forced by lack of local employment opportunities to migrate towards urban areas. This fieldwork-based study aims to understand specif...
by Rajib Dhar | On 13 Jan 2016 The study of international organizations inevitably leads to consideration of the role of several that have been at the heart of international efforts to promote development after World War II, primar...
by David Malone | On 13 Jan 2016 Afghanistan has long been used as a battleground for strategic wars by larger external powers. This is in part due to its geographic position between the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia. Acco...
by Riaz Hassan | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper will explore India’s influence on Southeast Asia during the 20th century, with a focus on its cultural dimensions. The Indian independence movement in particular played a significant role i...
by Rahul Advani | On 09 Jan 2016 Migration is an important social and historical reality in South Asia. In the past decade, migration from one country to another and internal migration (i.e. migration within a particular country) hav...
by Sanjay Barbora | On 08 Jan 2016 This brief suggests that those seeking an in-depth understanding of the social and political world need to apply a feminist curiosity – that is, a curiosity about the roles gender plays at all levels...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper explores how far the expansion of Banks and Financial Institutions including cooperatives assures the access to finance and its sustainability. The study also explores the worth of financia...
by | On 01 Jan 2016 Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a “non-qualified only” policy to one of almost free movement of labor. To analyze the impact of this policy change on the schooling outcomes...
by Maria Cattaneo | On 01 Jan 2016 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is experiencing a trend toward population concentration in its large coastal cities. However, at the same time, there is also a distortion of city size toward smal...
by Zhao Chen | On 29 Dec 2015 The paper examines ASEAN’s political and security challenges and prospects in the coming two decades. The challenges facing ASEAN could be classified into six broad categories: (1) the shifting balanc...
by Amitav Acharya | On 29 Dec 2015 This study was undertaken on behalf of the Child Protection and Gender-Based Violence sub-working groups in Jordan, established in February 2012 to coordinate prevention and response to child protecti...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 It is only very recently that out-migration of natives of the North East Region to other localities in India became a problem of apprehension. Though the natives of the North East Region are tradition...
by Babu Remesh | On 26 Dec 2015 Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and...
by Mustafizur Rahman | On 23 Dec 2015 This brief explores future policy options for India in Bangladesh. India and Bangladesh share historical, geographical and cultural bonds. Bangladesh has ‘Bengali’ a lingual and cultural attachment wi...
by Sanjay Bhardwaj | On 23 Dec 2015 Many developing countries use tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment, sacrificing immediate revenue from foreign capital, even though the effects of tax incentives on investment, growth,...
by Quan Li | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper examines the domestic sources of the internationalization of national oil companies (NOCs) in China and India. It argues that – counter to notions of state-led internationalization – the go...
by Jonas Mecklinga | On 23 Dec 2015 The intention of this study is to analyze lending rate behavior in Bangladesh and also to determine the factors that mostly affect the lending rates. For this purpose, a set of macro and bank specific...
by Shahana Nasrin | On 22 Dec 2015 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require high levels of productive private and public sector investment, which in turn requires a suitable investment climate. This paper provide...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 The primary aim of this paper, however, is not to account for the historical/political rise of Shiaism or of Iran, or even debate the existence of the so-called ‘Shia Crescent,’ but to examine instead...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper will reexamine the role of the Sikh Diaspora in the Sikh separatist movement, commencing in the 1980s, that loomed over
the political, security, social, and humanitarian makeup of the Indi...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 In order to understand the current phase of Naxalism, there is a need to understand different aspects of organizational transformation that have occurred within the Naxal movement, since the genesis a...
by Rajat Kumar Kujur | On 18 Dec 2015 India's Sri Lanka policy has built upon economic engagement to cooperate on initiatives of strategic importance. The lesson one can learn from this is the potential of economic linkages to overcome a...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper makes an attempt to map the Maoist conflict in its present state of affairs and while describing its present manifestations, the past links have always been revisited. The paper also attemp...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 This report examines the political predicament that confronts governments and other political actors when they address the issue of irregular migration. Primarily, it sets out the rights, and claims t...
by | On 10 Dec 2015 This paper sets forth the main lines of the ideology of the Islamic State and carefully follows its historical trajectory. Part I, Doctrines, takes up the group’s fundamental religious and political b...
by Cole Bunzel | On 22 Nov 2015 While a good deal has been written and said about the threat posed by terrorism in Southeast Asia, there has been little work analyzing the impact of terrorism and the war on terror on Asian regional...
by Amitav Acharya | On 22 Nov 2015 This brief highlights that Malnutrition in all of its forms – undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – imposes unacceptably high economic...
by Food and Nutrition Division FAO | On 25 Sep 2015 This paper discusses the different agreements and
decisions reached in the Bali Ministerial Conference and the potential implications for the post-Bali work
program. The results of the Bali Minister...
by Eugenio Díaz Bonilla | On 16 Sep 2015 Domestic violence is identified as a public health problem. It is associated with adverse maternal health. This study examined the prevalence and determinants of domestic violence among women in urban...
by C.P. Prakasam | On 09 Sep 2015 Humanities departments in public universities are under attack across the country for their potential to spawn dissent. We need them to take the fight to the powers that be. [Transcript of a talk pres...
by Brinda Bose | On 07 Sep 2015 Three cross-cutting developments, namely the rise of regional political parties, globalisation and liberalisation of the economy and judicialisation of the federal process have deeply influenced the m...
by Niranjan Sahoo | On 07 Sep 2015 The benefits of strengthening physical connectivity in a geographically contiguous region are increasingly being recognised. These links are expected to increase economic activity and people-to-people...
by Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury | On 07 Sep 2015 This brief provides an overview of civil society in Sri Lanka. With a view to strengthening ADB cooperation with civil society organizations, the NGO and Civil Society Center periodically prepares rep...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Sep 2015 This brief provides an overview of civil society in Myanmar. With a view to strengthening ADB cooperation with civil society organizations, the NGO and Civil Society Center periodically prepares repor...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Sep 2015 This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of international development. It draws out the continuous threads running...
by Naila Kabeer | On 01 Sep 2015 Review of Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 304 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16768-0.
by Nathaniel Isaacson | On 13 Aug 2015 Review of Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. 496 pp. Rs. 2268/- Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8131-4564-8.
by J. Simon Rofe | On 15 Jul 2015 This paper seeks to understand the trends in Centre-State relations in post-Independence India in their varied manifestations over time, across space, and along the specific context of issues. The dyn...
by | On 06 Jul 2015 If the entry of foreign banks results in a concentrated banking sector, as has been the case in several Central and Eastern European countries, then the goals of achieving financial inclusion are adve...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 05 Jul 2015 Review of The Oxford Companion to Pakistani History ed. Ayesha Jalal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 558 pp. Rs. 4,488.75. ISBN-13: 978-0195475784.
by Rohit Wanchoo | On 02 Jul 2015 This research responds to the growing demand by mass organizations, for better documentation of women’s migration in India amid reports from activists of great increases in and new and more vulnerable...
by Indu Agnihotri | On 08 Jun 2015 India and China, two of the world's oldest civilisations, have had little historically relevant interactions with one other. Separated by the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, neither of...
by Himanil Raina | On 04 Jun 2015 This publication highlights a range of pertinent issues primarily focusing on social sectors (such as education, health, drinking water and sanitation, food security etc.) and the responsiveness of th...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 02 Mar 2015 Jasodhara Bagchi, feminist scholar, activist and leader of the women's movement and a pioneering women's studies academic passed away on January 9, 2015 after a brief illness in Kolkata, India.
by | On 11 Jan 2015 A short post on PosterWomen that first appeared in July 25, 2011 in which Jasodhara Bagchi, the late feminist scholar and activist talks about her involvement with the women's movement in India.
by Jasodhara Bagchi | On 11 Jan 2015 This brief discusses China's political, economic, territorial, and security relations with North Korea. It suggests that although China remains North Korea's most important ally as well as its biggest...
by | On 26 Dec 2014 The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to richer countries and on immigration policies in industrial countries. This perspective...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 India’s recent development cooperation activities with the South have provoked global curiosity. Two factors shape this interest. First, the strong growth of some countries like India, China and Brazi...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 18 Sep 2014 The paper aims to capture the synthesis and popular reconstruction of one of independent India’s earliest instances of large-scale violence over the emotive issue of language, i.e. the January 1965 Ma...
by Sriram Mohan | On 24 Jul 2014 Book Review - Understanding India: Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials discusses Indian Television Commercials in the context of marketing interests and visual culture. The author exa...
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 09 Jul 2014 This paper examines the role of organised labour in India in a structural and historical context. It attempts to trace the economic, political and social effects of the trade union movement and its st...
by Debashish Bhattacharjee | On 23 May 2014 In China’s foreign affairs and security studies, the concept of the ‘neighborhood’
(zhoubian) has a special meaning that has changed gradually over time. As China has developed, its leadership has be...
by Zhang Chi | On 12 Aug 2013 Obituary: Veena Mazumdar (1927-2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 31 Jul 2013 This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under c...
by V. J. Varghese | On 26 Jun 2013 Journalism in South Asia is facing many challenges with physical security being a major issue in most of the region. Several countries may have improved relatively due to decisions to reduce the risks...
by International Federation of Journalists IFJ | On 04 Feb 2013 To understand the ageing in India, a primary survey was carried out in seven states – Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal – having a higher percentage of...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 08 Jan 2013 This article discusses the
cultural basis and origins of the idea of this strategy from the point of view
of China’s traditional culture and historical development and analyzes the
the reality of C...
by Wang Dewen | On 27 Sep 2012 F rom its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to its estuary in Burma, the Salween River
supports over ten million people. For many decades, it was the longest free-flowing
river in Southeast Asia. It...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 17 Jul 2012 This paper explores the interplay between two neighbors that have been
victims of history, Japan and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
(DPRK, also known as North Korea). [ISDP Asia Paper]. U...
by Bert Edström | On 05 Jul 2012 Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 22 May 2012 In this paper, a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies is provided. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on bette...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 24 Apr 2012 The protests against the Pak Mun Dam are amongst the longest running in the world. The dam is also one of the
most studied, in part because it had all the features of a failed development policy: no...
by Katie Jenkins | On 18 Apr 2012 Jetz and Fine that we are in the midst of the sixth
mass extinction event on this planet and
the cause is us. By achieving greater
understanding of the underlying causes
and correlates of current-...
by Jonathan Chase | On 29 Mar 2012 The implications of the rule of Chiang
Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo in Taiwan (1950–1988) for the Taiwan
Strait Crises is examined, especially the third one af??ter the Cold War and potenti...
by Lu Jinghua | On 05 Mar 2012 This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses
the problem of the endogenous pl...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 02 Mar 2012 The main objective of the study is to investigate whether there is any evidence to support the
view that the disbursement of micro finance to women reduces the incidence of domestic
violence, and if...
by Institute of Social Studies Trust ISST | On 23 Feb 2012 This article focuses on the Open
Knowledge Definition and the Panton
Principles for Open Data in Science. Some of the tools the group has
developed to facilitate the generation and
use of open dat...
by Jennifer C Molloy | On 03 Jan 2012 Review of the book 'Debt and Death in Rural India: The Punjab Story' by
Aman Sidhu and Inderjit Singh Jaijee
Sage Publications India, New Delhi,
2011, Rs 750/-, pp 360.
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 13 Dec 2011 Possible scenarios for China and the world economy until
2015 is looked at. In all of them, China will continue to accumulate FX reserves, so that
reserve assets will remain the largest component of...
by Catherine Shu Ling Tan | On 08 Dec 2011 The paper explores how inter-organizational relationships foster
organizational learning process through experiential and vicarious learning. The paper further
explores various factors that impact t...
by Vijayta Doshi | On 08 Dec 2011 The policy brief explores the evolving discourse on water issues in Pakistan where the process of political articulation, securitization and mobilization which often links water to Kashmir is studied....
by Medha Bisht | On 24 Nov 2011 It is widely agreed by economists and political scientists that the middle class is vital to progress
because of its many virtues. But it is difficult to define a middle class by income in a manner t...
by Charles Kenny | On 16 Nov 2011 The object world of the social sciences is complex, historical and self-reflexive. It generates
nonlinear effects, it is unique, and it is able to understand the theories developed
about it and resp...
by Sandra Mitchell | On 01 Nov 2011 Restrictions imposed by the Government of India on the
emigration of women in ‘unskilled’ categories such as domestic work
are framed as measures intended to protect women from exploitation.
Specia...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 24 Oct 2011 This study focuses on gender equality and democratic governance in the five largest states of the South Asian region, namely, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Beginning with a general...
by Seema Kazi | On 20 Oct 2011 Review of Nandanar’s Children: The Paraiyans’ Tryst with Destiny Tamil Nadu 1850—1956, Raj Sekhar Basu,
Sage India, New Delhi,
2011, 492 pp, Rs 895
by Rajesh Komath | On 11 Oct 2011 The paper provides estimates of workers residing in rural (urban) India and commuting to urban (rural) areas
for work. These estimates are based on National Sample Survey Organisation’s survey of Emp...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 19 Sep 2011 How does innovation impact on development?
How, and under what conditions,
do entrepreneurs in developing
countries innovate? And what can be
done to support innovation by entrepreneurs
in develo...
by Wim Naude | On 16 Sep 2011 This paper deals with migration into India from adjoining neighbours and its impact on security and other issues of national interest. Unlike other studies on migration, it focuses on the ethnic ident...
by Subhakanta Behera | On 26 Aug 2011 Stock futures offer leveraged positions and are expected to attract informed traders. Many
researchers have found that the information share of the stock futures is surprisingly small; the equity
sp...
by Jeffrey Vincent | On 24 Aug 2011 This paper defines business and growth rate cycles and describes the importance of key coincident indicators and reference chronologies, following reflections on the definition of a recession. The rob...
by Pami Dua | On 18 Aug 2011 In this paper, the phenomenon of 'two types of industrialisation' in Orissa is documented
where a fast growing resource based manufacturing sector has co-existed with a stagnant
non-resource based...
by Alivelu G | On 11 Jul 2011 New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data ana...
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 08 Jul 2011 Theory of allocation of time revealed that historically market-time
has never consistently been greater than the non-market time and
therefore the allocation and efficiency of latter may be equally...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 29 Jun 2011 The Jubilee 2000 movement, which called for the cancellation of the foreign debts of the poorest nations, reached its zenith in the late 1990s and 2000—and then, by design, shut down. In the space of...
by David Roodman | On 22 Jun 2011 Globalization of production has created an environment for labor-management relations that
involves international actors and spans countries, going beyond the boundaries of the traditional
workspace...
by Arianna Rossi | On 10 Jun 2011 Review of
Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai
Movement by Tulasi Srinivas. Columbia University Press,New York, 2010. 448 pp. $89.50 (cloth), IS...
by Hanna H. Kim | On 05 Jun 2011 The movement of terms of trade would determine the real wins from trade given a historically chosen path of regional specialisation. Kerela economy specialises in a variety of export oriented commerci...
by Thomas Isaac | On 02 Jun 2011 This paper examines the relationship between women’s vulnerability to poverty and their management of domestic natural resources. It finds that gendered experiences of poverty often derive from discri...
by Jessica Espey | On 01 Jun 2011 This policy brief provides some fresh perspectives on the relationship between entrepreneurship and development, and considers policy design issues. It reports on the UNU-WIDER two-year research proje...
by Wim Naudé | On 30 May 2011 One of the main conflicts prevailing in South Asia today is that of the row over Kashmir. The
long history of the conflict, the states involved in the conflict and its geo-political position has...
by Khalid Wasim Hassan | On 26 May 2011 Great novelists through their writings placed the history of the Indian national and social awakening movement in literature.The context of this article is great three novels of three great littérat...
by Sarmistha Ghoshal | On 09 May 2011 Today there is no credible alternative facility available to a grower to meet the risks of price movements and the art of price risk management is unknown to the small growers. (In this entire report,...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 02 May 2011 An event of great political and
historical significance occurred on 11
February 2011 inside the dense forests
of Abujhmad in Chhattisgarh with the
CPI (Maoist) releasing five policemen of
Chhatti...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 29 Mar 2011 This paper reviews the state of knowledge about relationships between schooling
and adolescent reproductive health. With the spread of mass schooling and the growing
share of adolescents who attend...
by Cynthia B. Lloyd | On 17 Mar 2011 This paper describes the so-called technical relations in agriculture. [Working Paper No. 35] URL: [http://www.cds.edu/]
by Krishna Bharadwaj | On 11 Feb 2011 Based on the recent experience of several Asian developing countries and interviews in Vietnam, Indonesia and Laos with aid practitioners from donor institutions and Non Government Organizations (NGOs...
by Caroline Brassard | On 10 Feb 2011 In the debate over the role of civil society under authoritarian regimes, the spread of transnational web-based media obliges us to rethink the areas in which the societal voice can be raised --- and...
by Bert Hoffman | On 10 Feb 2011 Through over a century-long history, the women’s movement in India has been engaged with law as an
instrument with which to negotiate women’s rights. To a great extent this strategy has been successf...
by Centre for Women's Development Studies | On 31 Jan 2011 This is a analysis of relationship between the Central Bank of Sir Lanka and the Sri lankan Government. It views the relationship in context of emerging economic environment and global economy.
by P. B. Jauasundera | On 30 Jan 2011 Using a CGE model, PRCGEM, with an updated 2002 I/O table, this paper explores
how earnings will be affected in each of 40 separate industries across 31 regions (or 8
regional blocks) of China for...
by Jiao Wang | On 05 Jan 2011 The paper argues
that while Bangladesh is reported to have more NGOs per capita than other
developing countries, those organisations have gradually abandoned social mobilising and collective action...
by Naila Kabeer | On 14 Dec 2010 The 1990s will be the first decade after the revolutionary upheavals in the world
economic and political system following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of
the Cold War. Democracy ha...
by Arjun Sengupta | On 13 Dec 2010 A major drawback of the plethora of regional studies in India is that most of them tend to treat regional development as an autonomous process of regional productive forces and relations of production...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 15 Nov 2010 Against the backdrop of financial liberalisation, this paper
examines India’s financial integration, both on the domestic and
international fronts. Preliminary analysis of the secondary data shows
...
by Gargi Sanati | On 29 Oct 2010 The Indian economy has recently grown at historically unprecedented rates and is now one of the
fastest-growing economies in the world. Real GDP per head grew at 3.95 percent a year from
1980 to 2...
by Angus Deaton | On 05 Oct 2010 Chronic poverty trends cannot be examined without considering the impact of various social conflicts afflicting a region. It is true that all forms of poverty cannot be explained by conflicts as much...
by N.R. Mohanty | On 04 Oct 2010 Kerela is a region that is deeply integrated with the Indian and the world economy through various ways such as commodity flows, financial movements, labour migration and operations of national and in...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 01 Oct 2010 The political role of women as a subject for research is of recent origin in India. It is significant
that there are so few studies of women's role in the nationalist movement or of the implications-...
by Leela Kasturi | On 17 Sep 2010 The women’s question, like the untouchability question or the communal question,
emerged during the national movement as a political question that had to be solved
to give shape to the vision of a f...
by Vina Mazumdar | On 16 Sep 2010
This paper reviews (critically and selectively) the literature on the link between
economic development, the environment and international trade (and capital
flows). In particular, how stricter...
by Partha Sen | On 16 Sep 2010 The objective of this paper is to analyse the determinants of the growth of firms in the
Indian automobile industry during the period 1980-81 to 1995-96. It re-examines certain issues
that have a...
by K. Narayanan | On 09 Sep 2010 This paper analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 03 Sep 2010 This paper identifies and focuses on a specific type of environmental development
called discontinuity. Discontinuities in the forms of rapid technological innovations,
regulatory reforms, instituti...
by M. R. Dixit | On 24 Aug 2010 In this paper they study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that
enjoy benefits upon a bilateral agreement. We explore the strategic implications of this th...
by Paola Manzini | On 10 Aug 2010 This paper explores the modification of a discourse in the context of emergence of social movement from a single issue professional campaign through a framework of Habermasian communicative action the...
by Muhammad Anwar | On 22 Jun 2010 In this paper there is an attempt to bring in some theoretical analysis on the development process and women's roles in it as seen and advocated by the women's movements and later on by the State and...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 22 Jun 2010 Pakistan has historically received large volumes of aid but it has also faced an increasingly difficult task of aid coordination. In 2007, Pakistan received more than U.S.$2.2 billion in Official Deve...
by Abdul Malik | On 18 Jun 2010 The Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project – a dam and diversion project under construction in Central Laos – violates the Equator Principles and Lao law, according to this report. It documents how Lao villa...
by Ikuko Matsumoto | On 17 Jun 2010 This paper intends first to give a brief overview of the rise and growth of some of those separatist groups, with a special focus on the Nagas, the Mizos and the Assam movement.
An analysis of the de...
by Renaud Egreteau | On 10 Jun 2010 This paper studies the impact of services trade liberalization under the currently negotiated EU-India
FTA on women’s lives in India and tries to delineate the concern areas. Relevant sectors of int...
by Ranja Sengupta | On 25 May 2010 It is argue that the so-called cultural‘ (and spatial‘) turn that has remodelled so many other areas of the humanities and social sciences over the last two decades might help answer Armstrong‘s plea...
by Colin Divall | On 21 May 2010 Over 330 million people live in India’s cities; 35 cities have a population of over a
million and three (Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata) of the 10 largest metropolises in the world
are in India. India’s...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 21 May 2010 This paper aims at touching on the main divisions of fisheries management, with an insight into the state mechanism and the extra legal systems in place. The principal focus is the history of Indian m...
by Rohan Dominic Mathews | On 16 Apr 2010 In this paper, an attempt is made to enquire into the politics of the government and
business relation and how it affects the industrial development in general and expansion
of manufacturing sector...
by Alivelu G | On 02 Mar 2010 Most standard indicators suggest that India’s reserve stock is more than adequate. The rapid stockpiling of foreign exchange reserves implies that the RBI has been leaning-against-the-wind to keep dow...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 25 Jan 2010 The essay is begun with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi
news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The complex and turmoil-ridden and
...
by Vasanthi Raman | On 21 Jan 2010 A detailed historical review of the research to date spanning more than 50 years, and includes a perspective on the impact of climate change on the glaciers. The Ministry invites comments on the Paper...
by V K Raina | On 30 Nov 2009 The present paper deals with the discourse of the rights of Muslim women in
the pre- independence period with particular reference to the Shariat Act
1937 and the Muslim Marriage Dissolution Act 193...
by Sabiha Hussain | On 20 Nov 2009 This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 10 Nov 2009 This paper on political sociology of poverty in India is based upon the assumption that
a) the caste system and economic inequality complement each other in the case of the poorer sections of Indian...
by Anand Kumar | On 10 Nov 2009 RGNIYD planned to develop a workbook on Life Skills which would help adolescents to both understand the concepts of the ten core Life Skills and practice them. The workbook has been carefully designed...
by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Developme RGNIYD | On 19 Aug 2009 There are various historical water conservation structures and water-mills in the Rispana valley near Rajpur. There are some of the more important structures and discusses the possibility of preservin...
by William Stichter | On 12 Aug 2009 To explore the relationship between government and BRAC in the
implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme this
qualitative research was undertaken. This involved purposive samp...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 06 Aug 2009 A report on violation of people's rights during the Salwa Judum campaign in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh.
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 23 Jul 2009 This paper analyzes the effects of capital controls and crises on financial integration, using stocks from emerging economies that trade in both domestic and international markets. The cross market p...
by Eduardo Yeyati | On 27 Jun 2009 It is critical to emphasize that intergovernmental fiscal relations must be thought of as a system and that all the pieces in the system must fit together if decentralization is to work properly. Vari...
by Richard.M. Bird | On 16 Jun 2009 This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South Asian feminist scholarship. The historical circumstances in their respective countr...
by Uma Chakravarti | On 03 Jun 2009 India’s foreign policy has had an anomalous quality since the time Jawaharlal Nehru resolutely attempted to steer clear of Cold War alliances. This continues to be so given India’s unique situation of...
by Sushil J Aaron | On 21 May 2009 Social movements in Hong Kong have begun to challenge the law and the judicial system for the purpose of challenging government policies or at least making their claims highly visible before the publi...
by | On 19 May 2009 This inaugural piece addresses a fundamental problem of communication – how to effectively talk about an issue. It’s not as simple as it seems. Its always known that people did not always “hear” what...
by Joseph Grady | On 05 May 2009 Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven by Green Revolution technology, has made a significant dent on aggregate supply...
by Amita Shah | On 02 May 2009 History matters, and it matters in important and interesting ways for policy
today. But it is not just actual events in the past. It is how they are recorded, interpreted,
and the interpretation...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 22 Apr 2009 This paper provides a cradle-to-grave model for political union between two unequally endowed states. The main contribution of this paper is to highlight the role of technology gap and unequal distrib...
by Vikas Kumar | On 10 Dec 2008 The ongoing global financial turmoil represents an end of an era of exuberant financial capitalism. But the transition to a more sedate and scaled down financial sector will be traumatic for the world...
by Mukul Asher | On 15 Oct 2008 This paper reviews India’s experience to understand how services sector
liberalisation can generate (welfare) gains for developing countries, in particular vis-à-vis its employment generation potenti...
by Suparna Karmakar | On 14 Oct 2008 This paper applies theoretical pluralism to studies of poverty. However in order to be more specific it takes as a case study some competing studies of Indian rural tenancy relations. In the paper, sp...
by Wendy Olsen | On 25 Sep 2008 Is there not a worse situation today than during the Emergency? There was no colonization of the country by the foreign powers, with agriculture, industry, education, defense, health and trade being a...
by P.B. Sawant | On 05 Sep 2008 Given the strategic long run character of the nuclear deal, the decision on it should nor be hurried. Nor is it one that can be taken without seeking wider public consensus than is available
to the...
by Arun Kumar | On 21 Jul 2008 The paper tell the story of women in Nellore, Anantpur districts of Andhra Pradesh who came together, saved one rupee each day and used it for their production and consumption purposes. They started b...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 19 Jun 2008 The introduction of the Chairman to the Draft presented for discussion based upon the 2006 text and to move the negotiations forward by proposing specific outcomes, not rehearsing everyone’s position,...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 Submitted to Trade Negotiations Committee in response to request of members for language of full modalities on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations. As a result of the failure of the neg...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 The revised text is the product of his bilateral and plurilateral consultations of the February meeting and builds on the July 2006 text “Towards NAMA modalities”, and the Hong Kong Ministerial Declar...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 This paper describes in some detail, an important, innovative movement in recent years, of the dam-oustees and the drought affected people in south Maharashtra, to assert their right to influence the...
by Anant Phadke | On 21 May 2008 The transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre
for the History of Medicine at UCL, London on March 12, 2002. Edited by D A Christie and E M Tansey.
Rachel Carson’s 'Silent Spr...
by Wellcome Witness WW Seminars | On 15 May 2008 Many developing countries assert a claim to the privilege of managing world order on a shared basis but exhibit a strong reluctance to accept the responsibility flowing from such privilege, for exampl...
by Ramesh Thakur | On 14 May 2008 On 10th July, 1979, India - by ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) - became a State party to this treaty body. Reporting guidelines of the Covenant re...
by Peoples Collective PCESCR | On 10 Apr 2008 Social networking is about more than just friends reunited; it’s a framework for
understanding even the most basic of biological processes. Two papers in the month of March PLoS Medicine illustrate t...
by PLoS Medicine | On 26 Mar 2008 The role of economists in trade debates is especially pernicious because there is no area of economics in which economists have been less honest about what their models show. They have consistently ex...
by Dean Baker | On 17 Mar 2008 Review of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manel
For the full issue please see http://www.lrb.co.uk
by Pankaj Mishra | On 24 Feb 2008 Pankaj Mishra reviews
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manela
[Available on eSS]
Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
And more
...
by London Review of Books LRB | On 24 Feb 2008 Pankaj Mishra reviews
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manela
[Available on eSS]
Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
And more
...
by London Review of Books LRB | On 24 Feb 2008 A historical survey of transport to demonstrate that transport has always been recognised as of paramount importance for the wellbeing of the whole community, that a combination of collective and indi...
by Ralph Harrington | On 01 Feb 2008 This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social” (or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it....
by Michael Woolcock | On 25 Jan 2008 Review of The Social and the Symbolic edited by Edited by Bernard Bel, Jan Brouwer, Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Guy Poitevin; Sage, New Delhi; 2007, pp 481, Rs 895.
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 22 Jan 2008 ‘Health movement’ as an area of social work has been comparatively a newer tradition that has emerged during last 25 years. In India, today about 10 million people are pushed below the poverty line an...
by Anant Phadke | On 28 Dec 2007 Some of the historical milestones of the Indian women's movement and some of the challenges for the future are pointed out. Such questions are vital, for the current fluid socio-economic and political...
by Veena Poonacha | On 27 Dec 2007 That Sen, in May, chose to return and face the law should have been reason enough for any court to grant him bail.
Reposted with permission from Tehelka Magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 50, December 29, 2007
by Apoorvanand | On 24 Dec 2007 Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) will be an integral and significant part of global financial and capital markets even in the medium term. It is important for India to put in place domestic safeguards ag...
by Mukul Asher | On 12 Dec 2007 There is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach, the study finds that the export potential from India to Pakistan is to the tune of US$ 9.5 bill...
by Nisha Taneja | On 29 Nov 2007 Anthropology is a science of inquiries about the origins and continuities of the patterned differentiation of human beings into distinguishable groups. During
the last hundred years, most such inquir...
by Sidney W. Mintz | On 04 Oct 2007 Reports have been pouring in that the Burmese soldiers today used baton and tear gas against the Buddhist monks and civilian protesters at Shwedagon pagoda, the holiest Buddhist place in Rangoon. The...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 26 Sep 2007 Many companies have realized the need to talk of, and do something about, corporate social responsibility (CSR), but in many cases this is merely CPR: corporate public relations. The correct thing for...
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 Sep 2007 23 years after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there is still denial that the virus is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The Internet has served as...
by Tara C Smith | On 11 Sep 2007 This study has two closely related objectives: to evaluate post-Uruguay Round market access conditions and to contribute to a clarification of the stakes in the ongoing process of multilateral trade n...
by Marc Bacchetta. | On 27 Aug 2007 There are various conceivable links between services liberalization and poverty reduction, including the efficiency effects associated with increased competition in intermediate (infrastructural) serv...
by Rolf Adlung | On 27 Aug 2007 Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism by Jyoti Hosagrahar; Routledge,New York; 2005. xiii + 234 pp., $43.95 (paper).
by Amita Sinha | On 23 Aug 2007 The recent arrest of Binayak Sen of the PUCL-Chattisgarh has brought to the fore the important question as to what democracy means when it is practised under the ever present shadow of state repressio...
by Hasan Mansur | On 08 Aug 2007 The Budget is an important tool in the hands of the state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce e...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 03 Aug 2007 The problem of corruption has become very important in recent thinking on development policy. But corruption is only a part of the more general issue of economic governance, and of more general policy...
by Avinash K Dixit | On 17 Jul 2007 India has clearly achieved a large sustained level of remittances. Policy initiatives by the government and banking institutions have achieved two significant results. First, most remittances flow tho...
by Muzaffar Chisti | On 11 Jul 2007 The historical development of statistics in India is outlined. The application of statistics in RBI and the areas where statisticians can contribute significantly are also given [Speech delivered on T...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 10 Jul 2007 Review of Writing the Women’s Movement: A Reader
Edited by Mala Khullar;
Zuban (in collaboration with EWHA Women’s University Seoul).
by Veena Poonacha | On 05 Jul 2007 The September 2007 annual summit of APEC to be hosted by Australia will witness the ending of the decade long moratorium on membership. A major anomaly of the APEC is that while the three largest econ...
by Mukul Asher | On 26 Jun 2007 The relationship between Indian macro-economic factors and economic growth has been analyzed by a number of empirical studies. This paper re-examines the sources of variability in the Indian economy f...
by Bharat Chadha | On 26 Jun 2007 Stalemate in agricultural negotiations at the WTO has persisted with a continued lack of convergence on most important issues of trade-distorting domestic support, market access and related flex...
by Linu Mathew Philip | On 08 May 2007 This paper argues that IBSA( India, Brazil, South Africa) as opposed to IBSAC (with China) is a far more coherent group when it comes to WTO negotiations as its interests coincide given the agenda tha...
by Debashis Chakraborty | On 25 Apr 2007 This article analyses the importance of international commercial service transactions relating to both trade and investment, which form an essential element of analyzing production fragmentation and e...
by Mukul Asher | On 17 Apr 2007 Approaching maturity, Fair Trade faces challenges at both ends of the supply chain, reflecting the dual roles of Fair Trade as a business and development instrument. Who should supply the Fair Trade...
by Anne Tallontire | On 12 Mar 2007 The report intends to provide general and specific recommendations to both provider and recipient nations that they should take into consideration while undertaking any TA programme in a recipient nat...
by Rajesh Sagar | On 25 Feb 2007 This paper investigates the relationship between capital account openness and
inflation since the 1980s. It argues that widespread capital account liberalization
during the last two decades appears...
by Abhijit Sen Gupta | On 23 Feb 2007 This paper, one among a series for the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan addresses the issue of the impact of globalisation on health. How has globalisation affected different countries and who are the winners an...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 25 Jan 2007 The Seventh National Conference of the Women’s Movements in India was unique in several ways. For one, women’s groups worked relentlessly over the last eight years to make this conference happen. Sinc...
by Meena Gopal | On 16 Jan 2007 This paper explores the behaviour of the forward premia for US$ vis-à-vis INR
during the five-year period of September 2000 to September 2005. Indian forex market
experienced a peculiar phenomenon i...
by Anil Kumar Sharma | On 10 Jan 2007 The paper reviews the experience of select countries - both advanced and emerging markets - in regard to capital account liberalisation (CAL). The advanced countries' experience with regard to CAL is...
by Mohua Roy | On 10 Jan 2007 This paper contends that the general understanding that precedent system does not apply in the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. The author argues that the drafters or the negotiators always wanted to...
by Sheela Rai | On 09 Jan 2007 The 2nd and 3rd NGO Alternative Report on CEDAW -- INDIA has just been submitted to the UN CEDAW Committee and is coming up for review in January 2007 in New York. Each of the chapters in the Reports...
by National Alliance of Women | On 06 Jan 2007 The EU Commission argues that radical changes to he origin rules will both simplify processes and make them more development friendly. Will they? There are different opinions on what Rules of Origin s...
by Christopher Stevens | On 06 Jan 2007 This report brings out again sharply the perennial question, which the poor in the country are asking – Development for Whom? A big business company has been allotted land disproportionate to the requ...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 26 Dec 2006 Taking into account the latest data of exports of textiles and clothing to the European Union from South Asia and China, a year-end assessment of the impact of the Generalised System of Preferences (...
by C. Satapathy | On 14 Dec 2006 Introduction: Regional integration in Asia editorial by Ramkishen S. Rajan
Production fragmentation and trade integration: East Asia in a global context by
Prema-chandra Athukorala and Nobuaki Yamas...
by The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | On 05 Nov 2006 Malaysia is finding it difficult to translate current favourable macro-economic environment, and the commodity boom into sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and services and to cope wit...
by Mukul Asher | On 03 Nov 2006 Malaysia is finding it difficult to translate current favourable macro-economic environment, and the commodity boom into sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and services and to cope wit...
by Mukul Asher | On 03 Nov 2006 A comprehensive inventory of bilateral FTAs on a global scale, with sections on Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. It highlights the key points of e...
by Bilaterals.org | On 03 Nov 2006 Given the divergence in economic and institutional structures in the region, any attempt to create a common currency absent macroeconomic policy coordination and mechanism for automatic intra-regional...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 30 Oct 2006 The most critical factor for maintaining regional stability in East Asia over the next few decades is the relations between the three great powers in the region: China, Japan and the United States. Th...
by Ezra F.Vogel | On 24 Oct 2006 As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in the country and its international economic policies has increased among internati...
by Lee Branstetter | On 13 Oct 2006 While talk of a 'China-India axis complete with 2.4 billion people' is no doubt fanciful, the progress in relations over the seven years following the nuclear crisis of 1998 is claiming the close atte...
by David A. Kelly | On 03 Oct 2006 * The Future of Economic Policy Making by Left-of-Center Governments in Latin America by Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Igor Paunovic (United Nations, Mexico)
* Latin America: The End of an Era b...
by Post-Autistic Economics Movement | On 02 Oct 2006 Review of Vincent C. Peloso(ed) Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century
Latin America, Jaguar Books on Latin America Series.
The book is obviously designed for those teaching courses on 20t...
by Peter Blanchard | On 25 Sep 2006 By tracking adivasi protest movements on threat of eviction and loss of
livelihood, since 2000 and situation of the urban slum dwellers in one
city – Delhi the paper analyses legislative and judicia...
by Seema Misra | On 29 Aug 2006 Volume 31, Issue 1, Winter 2006
The Rise of Cohabitation in Quebec: Power of Religion and Power over Religion
by Benoît Laplante
Refeudalizing the Public Sphere: 'Manipulated Publicity' in the Can...
by University of Toronto Press | On 16 Jul 2006 The growing labour force participation of women with small children in both the U.S. and Canada has led to calls for increased public financing for childcare. The optimality of public financing depend...
by Michael Baker | On 13 Jun 2006 simple schedule of governmental contributions, of paying for global public-goods and common purposes: use of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); the United Kingdom’s International Finance Facility (IFF...
by Anthony Clunies-Ross, | On 02 Jun 2006 This paper dwells on the essential requirements of economic
development and the role of international credit,. It is also an incursion into
the operational principles and strategies of the World Ba...
by Musa Jega Ibrahim | On 01 Jun 2006 The aim of this paper is to analyse India's anti dumping behaviour.
India has become a major user of anti dumping measures, initiating more
than 300 cases against many of its trading partners. After...
by Nandana Baruah | On 23 May 2006 The focus here is on the agency that produces religious forms and associated repertoires of action/conduct---the entire gamut of socio-religious networks of mobilization built around these forms, the...
by Sasheej Hegde | On 15 May 2006 On November 28, 2003, roughly 300 grassroots activists, people affected by
large dams and representatives from NGOs gathered in a small village in Rasi
Salai district in Northeast Thailand. They met...
by Susanne Wong | On 25 Apr 2006 This paper assesses the impact of India’s unilateral tariff reductions and lowering
of quantitative restrictions since 1991. It then evaluates the WTO commitments on nonagricultural market access in...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 21 Apr 2006 Kanak Dixit was arrested in Kathmandu on Saturday, April 8, with a host of other professionals for defying curfew to press for democratic rights in Nepal. He remains in detention still. This column wa...
by Kanak Mani Dixit | On 14 Apr 2006 This essay studies the domain of politics of development constituted by the state, and attempts to plot the emergence of the voluntary sector, NGOs in particular, as a representative in this contested...
by Swagato Sarkar | On 31 Mar 2006 The paper examines two of the most pressing concerns in Delhi: housing and the environment. The paper reviews the activities of Resident Welfare Associations, Sajha Manch, and Delhi Janwadi Adhikar Ma...
by Sanjeev K. Routray | On 14 Jun 2013 Results of Greatest Twentieth-Century Economists Poll
Towards a Concrete Utopian Model of Green Political Economy by John Barry
Economics Is Structured Like a Language by William Kaye-Blake
...
by Post-Autistic Economics Movement | On 26 Mar 2006 Neo-liberal economic policies have threatened land security, security of employment opportunities and food security. In the background representatives of the peasantry have to transform themselves int...
by Vijoo Krishnan | On 26 Mar 2006 Policy makers are particularly concerned about the extent and speed of exchange rate pass-through into domestic prices. However, in recent times there seems to be a growing degree of disconnect betw...
by Amit Ghosh | On 14 Mar 2006 Now that the nuclear deal has been struck, there is a real danger of India now settling comfortably into a de facto NWS status within a welcoming international non-proliferation architecture. This wil...
by D.Raghunandan | On 14 Mar 2006 This paper examines the degree of de facto exchange rate flexibility for India over the last two decades. While there is a diversity of methods that measure de facto exchange rate regimes, none indivi...
by Tony Cavoli | On 08 Mar 2006 Technological development in Asia is driven by government policy, and that policy is motivated in large part by technonationalism, or the desire of Asian states to free themselves from dependence on W...
by David Kang | On 07 Mar 2006 Wishing away a Condition: Issues of Concern in the
Control and Treatment of Leprosy - Jan Swasthya Sahayog(JSS)
How to Count the Poor Correctly versus
Illogical Official Procedures - Utsa Patnaik...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 04 Mar 2006 Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government policies have helped nurture domestic capabilities in consumer electronics and oth...
by Dani Rodrik | On 04 Mar 2006 Why are we – people who feel that there ought to be some space for disagreement in a democratic society, and more so in a dialogue between the world's two largest democracies -- so completely, unequiv...
by Ananya Vajpeyi | On 03 Mar 2006 India has much to gain from the Nuclear Deal. But if India places its breeder programme under international safeguards, then its research will come under public scrutiny, exposing all of India’s advan...
by D.Raghunandan | On 28 Feb 2006 The main objective of the paper is to explore the role of Japan in the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Technical Cooperation (BIMSTEC). The analysis suggests that BIMSTEC-Japan cooper...
by Mukul Asher | On 26 Feb 2006 Despite numerous empirical studies examining various facets of the topic, the degree of intraregional financial integration in East Asia remains a matter of vigorous debate. This paper offers a select...
by Tony Cavoli | On 07 Feb 2006 As India continues to pursue calibrated globalisation and expand external linkages, this is an opportune time to develop robust economic partnership with Taiwan, an economy with a GDP of over US$300b...
by Mukul Asher | On 02 Feb 2006 There has been a very rapid rise since the early 1990s in foreign reserves held by developing countries. These reserves have climbed to almost 30 percent of developing countries' GDP and 8 months of i...
by Dani Rodrik | On 27 Jan 2006 Report of the Expert Group
by Ministry of Finance | On 20 Jan 2006 The twin concepts of a federal arrangement – a structure for a multi-tiered
form of government with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, as well as
active citizenship are like the two strands...
by Ramesh Ramanathan | On 12 Jan 2006 In tribute: Gautam Chattopadhyay's life and times.
by Kunal Chattopadhyay | On 11 Jan 2006 This paper attempts to delineate the dialectical relationship between feminism and philosophy, and begins by tracing the rise of feminist consciousness. This is because ideas do not exist in abstract...
by Veena Poonacha | On 04 Jan 2006 This paper analyses the opportunities in services trade that may arise out of the India-ASEAN Economic Cooperation to makes an assessment of the net gains that could arise from liberalisation of the c...
by Suparna Karmakar | On 24 Dec 2005 Though Paul Kennedy and other scholars of National Security, Diplomacy and
Foreign relations have emphasized the importance of the economy in National Power, not many economists have taken an interes...
by Arvind Virmani | On 24 Dec 2005 The next major boost to world trade is expected to come from greater trade in
services. And this is possible only when greater liberalization in services is achieved which in turn depends on the prog...
by Rajeev Ahuja | On 24 Dec 2005 Revised Minsterial text adopted at the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference
by World Trade Organisation | On 20 Dec 2005 The Draft document circulated at the beginning of the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong, China, 13–18 December 2005.
by World Trade Organisation | On 19 Dec 2005 This paper gives insights into the possible trade creating effects of service trade liberalization via Mode 4. In particular we expect that temporary movements of persons, like permanent movements, h...
by Marion Jansen | On 19 Dec 2005 This paper analyzes the risks of preference erosion arising from MFN trade liberalization in manufactured products. It focuses on developing countries that receive non-reciprocal preferences in the m...
by Patrick Low | On 19 Dec 2005 The Cotonou Agreement introduces new fundamental principles with respect to trade between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries relative to the Lomé Convention: in particula...
by Alexander Keck | On 19 Dec 2005 The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach t...
by Rolf Adlung | On 19 Dec 2005 This paper analyses the present state of play of WTO negotiations and evaluates how effective the current WTO provisions will be to reduce domestic subsidies in developed countries. The findings sugg...
by Parthaprathim Pal | On 12 Dec 2005 This paper looks at how the term ‘dumping’ is understood by the economists, trade and trade officials and multilateral bodies like the WTO and traces the origin and evolution of antidumping measures...
by C. Satapathy | On 12 Dec 2005 This paper is a literature survey of some relevant issues arising from environmental quality provision and eco-labelling schemes. First of all it is shown how the two topics are strictly related. Firm...
by Laura Valentini | On 11 Dec 2005 There is a growing need to a more institutionalized economic arrangement in East
Asia. East Asia Economic Community might be an ideal form of such institution.
However, the road is still long and...
by A Damuri | On 23 Nov 2005
by ICRIER | On 22 Nov 2005 The Asian Age is coming and these are some of the factors aiding it. The reduction of the domestic market (decrease in population, development of service economy and increase in imports); Dissolution...
by Akira Yamasaki | On 22 Nov 2005 In order to advance regional integration in East Asia, there needs to be a rapid expansion of FTAs. The obstacles in promotion of FTAs need to be resolved. Some of the features in realising FTAs are:...
by Shujiro Urata | On 22 Nov 2005 An East Asian community(EAC) is an idea now being seriously pursued in spite of significant challenges. Proliferating bilateral deals in Asia could emerge as building blocks towards the EAC, provided...
by Rahul Sen | On 22 Nov 2005 To make the Customs Union in East Asia happen, what is needed the most now are political will and concerted efforts. FTAs should not be the end of economic cooperation in Asia. Instead, the onsolidati...
by Nipon Poapongsakorn | On 22 Nov 2005 The enterprise of building an East Asian Community has already begun. The
process will indeed be long-term. Malaysia, from the beginning , has been
steadfast in not giving up on the concept. Despite...
by Stephen Leong | On 22 Nov 2005 Ignoring historical arguments on issues such as market, political economy, capital, and labour has great potential danger. The currently pervasive connotation of ‘liberalisation’ to mean virtually onl...
by Arup Maharatna | On 12 Sep 2005 Little is known about the mechanisms underlying the transfer of economic status between generations. This paper addresses the question of whether inter-generational correlations in health contribute t...
by Janet Currie | On 09 Sep 2005 This paper attempts to assess the research done in the field of industrial sociology during the period 1987 and 2002. Only published work have been noted. The review does not cover unpublished M. Phil...
by Sharit Bhowmik | On 01 Sep 2005 Despite its many limitations, the processes of mobilization of socially diverse groups representing diverse constituencies and interests itself manifest a democratic practice at the lower level. Metho...
by Mukta Singh Lama | On 29 Aug 2005 This note attempts to analyse the social and political environment in which the various social movements, including the Maoist struggle, have emerged.
by Arjun Karki | On 29 Aug 2005 Malaysia's vulnerabilities are exacerbated by itsinexplicable reluctance to pursue inclusive economic diplomacy as exemplified by its reported opposition to include even India in the first “East Asia”...
by Mukul Asher | On 12 Aug 2005 |