Vibhuti Patel pays a heart-warming tribute to a fellow feminist.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Oct 2021 India’s hockey performance, men’s and women’s, at Tokyo is remarkable in significant ways and may well be a portent of things to come. It's a fitting celebration of the life of Keshav Dutt, hockey vet...
by | On 20 Sep 2021 Shadow States is a truly important work—well written and based on solid research—thatoffers a novel and necessary perspective from which to view the Sino-Indian border dispute in their shared Himalaya...
by Mahesh Shankar | On 01 Aug 2020 In our analysis, high urban proportion and population density were significantly correlated with the COVID-19 burden in districts having the highest burden of COVID-19. It seems COVID-19 is spreading...
by | On 29 May 2020 Policymakers across the developing world are facing the need to make rapid decisions on their COVID-19
response with little available data or guidance. Policies that help deal with the economic cri...
by Jonathan Leape | On 18 May 2020 This paper analyzes the conduct and effects of macroprudential policy in 11 Asian economies. Of these, India, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea frequently used loan-to-value ra...
by Soyoung Kim | On 23 Apr 2019 Indian courts are clogged with large backlogs. Part of the reason for the problem is that cases take a very long time to move through the courts. It slows progress of court cases is harmful for the In...
by Pratik Dutta | On 30 Mar 2019 Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of...
by Chun-Ping Chang | On 28 Mar 2019 Darryl D’Monte, veteran journalist passed away on March 16, 2019 in Mumbai. He was 75.
by | On 24 Mar 2019 This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency – have been integral to microfinance operations in the past, and how innovations in digital technology may be yet anothe...
by Saon Ray | On 04 Feb 2019 The study attempts a comparative assessment of the changing employment situation in major Indian states, measured in terms of worker-population ratios and the distribution of workers into status group...
by A.V. Jose | On 01 Feb 2019 This paper tries to understand the trends and the pattern of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) by Indian firms and the factors that determine OFDI from India through Cross-Border Mergers and Ac...
by P.L. Beena | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper examines the dimension of inequality since our earlier work on poverty and deprivation suggest that social inequality seems to overwhelm all other inequalities in a whole range of indicator...
by K.P. Kannan | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper describes the Indian credit market and presents an argument for the need for personal insolvency law. It provides a brief overview of the provisions on personal insolvency in the IBC. It ma...
by Renuka Sane | On 30 Jan 2019 In various Asian countries, international trade has raised productivity, lowered mark ups through import competition (while increasing them through cheaper inputs that can be imported), raised wages,...
by Devashish Mitra | On 22 Jan 2019 This paper assesses the accuracy of Asian Development Outlook growth and inflation forecasts for 43 Asian economies from 2007 to 2016, against the benchmark of World Economic Outlook projections by th...
by Benno Ferrarini | On 22 Jan 2019 This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of developing Asian economies in manufacturing and services over the 1995–2011 perio...
by Ben Shepherd | On 20 Jan 2019 This paper, confines the focus to a discussion of how inadequate marketing diluted the scheme’s impact. Specifically, several commercial banks could not tailor elements of their marketing mix—includin...
by Talha Nadeem | On 03 Jan 2019 This paper provides 10 conclusions on the policies needed to achieve three goals of agricultural development in India. These are : (1) There is a need for change in the narrative in the new context; (...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Dec 2018 This paper contributes to the literature in two ways: First, it delineates a concrete application of DLTs in the field of green financing, which offers the potential to increase social welfare. Second...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 20 Nov 2018 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 This paper empirically tests conventional wisdom on the stabilizing effect of LCBMs. To do so, it analyses and compare the financial vulnerability of developing countries during two episodes of financ...
by Donghyun Park | On 26 Oct 2018 The paper investigates the changing network of financial markets for six periods from 1995–2016, constructing a network that captures the concepts of the direction of links between markets, the signif...
by Biplob Chowdhury | On 21 Sep 2018 Aging can be harmful to an economy over the long run, as an increase in the share of the elderly population reduces both the labor force and output per adult, and increases the social security burden....
by Hiroko Uchimura-Shiroshi | On 10 Sep 2018 This paper analyzes a critical aspect of expanding private finance to infrastructure by examining the role of bank lending to public–private partnership (PPP) projects through the project finance moda...
by Vivek Rao | On 24 Aug 2018 Asia is a hot spot for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, including those with pandemic potential. At the same time, the region is grappling with growing antimicrobial resistance and the hea...
by Megan Counahan | On 24 Aug 2018 The expansion of green renewable energy has been very limited in all the Asian countries, despite their various differences. The contributing factors are numerous, but, the financial factor has been t...
by Hooman Peimani | On 16 Aug 2018 This working paper assesses the potential of incentive FAR approaches in two Indian cities, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, for leveraging the economic value of urban land. A thorough analysis of Mumbai’s clust...
by Apoorva Shenvi | On 25 Jul 2018 The paper analyses a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is affected by household's ownership of land, and particip...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 25 Jul 2018 A recent WHO database (2018) has identified several of India’s top cities with some of the highest levels of air pollution. Kanpur, Faridabad, Gaya, Varanasi and Patna are the top five most polluted c...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 16 Jul 2018 This short paper has two main sections. The first section presents a more detailed picture and overview of the macroeconomic performance of the Philippines behind the Philippines’ remarkable growth. T...
by Maureen Ane D. Rosellon | On 06 Jul 2018 This paper attempts to understand what drives the public expenditure efficiency among the States. For this, it looks at the role of economic growth as well as quality of governance. The results of inp...
by Ranjan Kumar Mohanty | On 20 Jun 2018 The paper begins with a brief overview of the characteristics of the bands. After that, it presents a review of the approaches different countries have taken while releasing this spectrum, and a secti...
by Suyash Rai | On 20 Jun 2018 In recent years there has been an increased role for health insurance in Indian health care, through government funded health insurance programs and privately purchased health insurance. Our analysis...
by Shefali Malhotra | On 15 Jun 2018 India has experienced a remarkable proliferation of 48 Government Funded Health Insurance Schemes (GFHIS) from 1997 to 2018. The paper places the rise of this policy pathway in historical perspective....
by Ila Patnaik | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper provides knowledge the first analysis of the morbidity cost of PM2.5 for the entire population of a developing country. To address potential endogeneity in pollution exposure, it constructs...
by Panle Jia Barwick | On 12 Jun 2018 The paper identifies key features of International Monetary Fund (IMF)–supported programs following the 2008 global financial crisis. The statistical analysis of a large sample of countries that borro...
by Carlos De Resende | On 09 Jun 2018 Review of
'The Indian Ocean in World History' by Edward A. Alpers, Oxford World History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 172 pp. Illustrations, maps. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-5337...
by | On 06 Jun 2018 Most countries have witnessed a dramatic increase of income inequality in the past three decades. This paper addresses the question of whether
income inequality is associated with the population prev...
by | On 31 May 2018 This study explores the relationship over an extended period of time
between an increase in per capita public health expenditure and
per capita
state’s domestic product (per capita inc...
by Deepak Kumar Behera | On 16 May 2018 The impact assessment of macroeconomic policies on public health
expenditure is very relevant in Indian economy because of tax reform, fiscal consoli-
dation, and expenditure policy reform. These h...
by | On 11 May 2018 Combining agricultural census data from Nepal from 2001 and 2011 with various spatial agroclimatic
data, we show that increase in yield potentials due to the introduction of high-yield technologies
...
by Hiroyuki Takeshima | On 27 Apr 2018 India is at a crossroads. It has the largest young workforce anywhere in the world, and is the fastest growing economy today. At the same time, the economy is not creating enough jobs, and therefore n...
by Samir SARAN | On 27 Apr 2018 This timely report about Nepal’s changing demography reveals the unique position of the country vis-à-vis its demographic transition.
by National Planning (NPC) | On 13 Apr 2018 This briefing specifically refers to international and regional legal and policy frameworks governing
climate-induced displacement.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 12 Apr 2018 The economic growth outlook for developing Asia remains vibrant.
Asian Development Outlook 2018
foresees continued momentum after growth
accelerated to 6.1% in 2017. The region is expected to ex...
by Asian Bank | On 12 Apr 2018 We analyse the evolution of the Indian economy over the past six
decades, particularly identifying structural breaks. We find that usually
there has been a gradual change in the indicators of the ec...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 09 Apr 2018 This paper empirically examines the impact of differences in contract attributes on project outcomes. The hypothesis is to test whether better incentive structure and stricter administrative controls...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the Indian PPP framework, including its bidding process and the standard concession agreement. The paper argues that the existing bidding method (i.e. premium/grant based method) c...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper attempts to find the answer to this question. It examines the contract design of the Indian PPP road contracts and analyzes its strengths and weaknesses to avoid the opportunism or hold-up...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 The report says that the opportunities they have and the choices they make determine the course of human development—nowhere more so than in Asia-Pacific, home to half the world’s population.
by Thangavel Palanivel | On 03 Apr 2018 This study based on the firm level data for eleven industries for the period ranging from
1998 through 2010 makes an attempt to capture the effect of R&D on employment in the
backdrop of the debate...
by | On 29 Mar 2018 In this paper, we analyse the evolution of the task content of jobs in India between 1983 and
2011. Following standard literature, we calculated five task intensities by combining NSS data
with O-Ne...
by | On 28 Mar 2018 The report says that the education scene in Pakistan, during the past four decades, has been characterized by substantial quantitative expansion at all levels.
by Khwaja Sarmad | On 28 Mar 2018 Literature on the relationships and collaborations between universities, government aided
research institutions and industrial enterprises is very rich. However, most of the studies deal
with the Eu...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 26 Mar 2018 The policy says that the fishery has been one of the most ancient but important source of
livelihood for a large population.
by Bharatiya Party | On 26 Mar 2018 This study will focus on the natural hill forests found in the northern region of Pakistan, particularly the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP).
by Lubna Hasan | On 26 Mar 2018 The importance of (early) parental investments in children’s cognitive and noncognitive outcomes is a
question of deep policy significance. However, because parental investments are arguably endogeno...
by Chih Ming Tan | On 16 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 paper says that the recent (2007–09) global financial meltdown and the related economic recession
are seen as the worst since the Great Depression of 1930s.
by S.K. Sasikumar | On 12 Mar 2018 Following the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004,
Tamil Nadu lost about 8,000 people and the
lives and livelihoods of over 897,000 families
were affected. In 2015, Chennai, the capital city
of Tamil Nad...
by | On 09 Mar 2018 The paper examines how Kerala, a demographically and socially well advanced state in India, responded to the high population pressure during the 30 year period from 1975-76 to 2005-06.
by N. Ajith Kumar | On 07 Mar 2018 Between 2002-03 and 2012-13, energy consumption intensity and carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions intensity of Indian manufacturing declined by about 30 percent. During the last 10 to 15 years,
Indian ma...
by | On 05 Mar 2018 This paper presents the business cycle chronology for the Indian economy. Two distinct phases are analysed. The pre-1991 period when the cycles were mainly driven by monsoon shocks. The post 1991 phas...
by Radhika Pandey | On 03 Mar 2018 Liberalization and globalization of Newly Industrialized Economies have
contributed to increased integration of capital markets. This study tests
whether convergence of macroeconomic variables and e...
by | On 27 Feb 2018 This paper evaluates the current status of the Indian Rupee as an international currency using the Chinn and Frankel (2008) framework, and explores the possibility of future Indian Rupee international...
by Shekhar Hari Kumar | On 27 Feb 2018 India's claim that all human rights violations are redressed stands sharply refuted by the report of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) which in its report to UPR2 stated that AFSPA remains i...
by Working Group on Human Rights (WGHR) | On 21 Feb 2018 Migration is a global phenomenon; and it will continue to do so in the
near future. All through human history, it has been a significant factor
influencing population change. Migration involves the...
by | On 20 Feb 2018 The paper finds that the share of education in the State’s budget has reached an all-time low precisely when the State Domestic Product has been recording all-time high growth rates.
by K.K. George | On 16 Feb 2018 There is no sport without television. Television has become
vital to the existence and sustenance of all sport, including cricket.
This paper focuses on the broadcast technologies of television and...
by | On 15 Feb 2018 The paper says that women constitute only a quarter of the total labour force in India though they form nearly half of the Indian population.
by Martin Patrick | On 14 Feb 2018 The paper says that the development experience of Kerala tucked away in the south-western corner of the Indian sub-continent has been rather unique.
by K.K. George | On 14 Feb 2018 India is currently going through a major demographic transition and it is this transition that is
going to make India one of the world’s youngest countries with largest young population. Of
this you...
by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights | On 05 Feb 2018 The report presents a comprehensive analysis of the budgetary provisions for important social sectors and the vulnerable
sections of the population. It also presents an overview of the fiscal indicat...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 05 Feb 2018 The report says that investment in human capital is a prerequisite for a healthy and productive population for nation building.
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The tenth chapter of Economic Survey 2018 has sown that investments in social infrastructure and human development has paid off well. The policies and schemes have also been mentioned in detail. The g...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 31 Jan 2018 Data on the international exports of states (the first in India’s history) suggests a strong
correlation between export performance and states’ standard of living. India’s exports are unusual
in tha...
by Arun Jaitley | On 30 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 Linkages with the native place as well as integration within the city constitute backward and forward linkages of slum dwellers. Remittances are important part of these linkages.
The paper explores t...
by | On 18 Jan 2018 This paper identifies and estimates the impact of firm entry and exit on plant-level productivity in Ethiopia as part of a selection mechanism that might be driving aggregate productivity growth in ci...
by Patricia Jones | On 16 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 ‘Lived place’ refers to the subject perception of place. It is concrete and based on experience. For the tribal communities staying or camping in the forest, it is their ‘lived place’ about which they...
by | On 12 Jan 2018 The paper explored participatory aspects of local democracy in Aceh and some major challenges
in South Aceh for people’s participation in local decision-making processes.
by Leena Avonius | On 08 Jan 2018 The paper shows that a range of institutional innovations are possible in terms of bridging the health equity divide.
by Kalpana Jain | On 04 Jan 2018 This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus on urban informal employment (defined as informal wage employment and self-employment in informal enterprises, as well as informal...
by Martha Alter Chen | On 02 Jan 2018 Using data from more than 6,000 manufacturing firms in India for 1996–2008, we investigate the impact of financial constraints on the exporting behavior of Indian manufacturing firms while also focusi...
by Hiro Ito | On 21 Dec 2017 In recent years, South Asia has received growing attention as a region that is integrating successfully into the global economy. To maximize the benefits in terms of faster growth and poverty reductio...
by Prabir De | On 19 Dec 2017 This paper studies the mechanism through which intellectual property rights (IPR) protection can influence the impact of skilled migration on innovation activities in developing countries. We argue th...
by | On 18 Dec 2017 The paper discusses the changes in the new 2011-12 base year series of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) to ask, whether the new series has improved our under-standing of the growth in the manu...
by Radhika Pandey | On 12 Dec 2017 This study examines the emerging peri-urbanization in the Punjab (Pakistan) in the context of Lahore.
by Qasim Shah | On 30 Nov 2017 Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world’s poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated war...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Nov 2017 The large movements of workers between countries, both within Asia and between Asia and other regions, show no signs of abating. Indeed, six of the world’s top 10 countries of net emigration are in As...
by Asian Development Bank | On 22 Nov 2017 The study analyzes the impact of these programmes over a specific period of six years.
by Junaid Zahid | On 17 Nov 2017 The papers says that there is a need to invest in educational sector to maximize the human capital, which not only helps in economic growth but also contributes to economic development of the country.
by Syed Kazmi | On 17 Nov 2017 India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the
last two decades. However, an acceleration of growth in manufacturing, and a concomitant increase in employment, has eluded I...
by Poonam Gupta | On 17 Nov 2017 On the day when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) finally reported that almost 99% of the proscribed currency notes of ?500 and ?1,000 denomination had returned to the banking system by 30 June 2017, th...
by | On 17 Nov 2017 About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in Self-Help Groups (SHGs). These mostly women’s groups have been promoted by nationalized banks since the early nineties to improv...
by Jean-Marie Baland | On 06 Nov 2017 The EU grant project “Empowering Civil Society for the Protection of Migrants Children (ECPMC)” is implemented by World Vision Foundation of Thailand (WVFT) in collaboration with World Vision UK and F...
by | On 03 Nov 2017 Female foeticide because of preference for boys over girls for a host of reasons is gigantic in India. According to the estimates of Asian Centre for Human Rights, during 1991 to 2011, a total of 25,4...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) | On 26 Oct 2017 This study examines farmers’ enthusiasm towards one of such technologies in four southwestern districts of Pakistan.
by Junaid Memon | On 25 Oct 2017 This paper creates a de novo data-set using publicly available data on cases at the Indian Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT). The paper applies the statistical techniques of hazard models to addres...
by Pratik Datta | On 17 Oct 2017 Iran’s game-changing nuclear deal with the West and imminent ending of the US-led sanctions open a window of opportunity for deeper Indo-Iranian relations. On the sidelines of the BRICS summit in
Ufa...
by Research and Information System for Developing Countries | On 17 Oct 2017 The briefs says that the urban population in India is growing and so are motorisation rates.
by Sujaya Rathi | On 13 Oct 2017 The report narrates that threefold increase in percapita income in urban areas is expected during this period of time.
by S.V. Ranganath | On 12 Oct 2017 This paper investigates the nature of skill formation in Indian Manufacturing. Discussing household, personal,
and labour market characteristics of manufacturing employment in India, the study discus...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 10 Oct 2017 This paper identifies the increasingly dominant role of intra-industry trade (IIT) in India’s total merchandise trade at different disaggregated levels of data during the post liberalization era (1990...
by | On 09 Oct 2017 This paper illustrates the use of information on withdrawals by Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) for improving estimates of public spending for National Health Accounts (NHAs) in India. Using in...
by Mita Choudhury | On 07 Oct 2017 A chapter dedicated to migration in the Economic Survey 2016-17 signals the willingness on the part of Indian policymakers to address the linkages between migration, labour markets and economic develo...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 Oct 2017 This Policy Note addresses this lack of a measure of chronic and transient poverty in the Philippines.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 29 Sep 2017 This paper, however, demonstrates
that the effective history of thinking about political representation in the
form of reservations for women is as old as the women’s movement itself.
Feminist enga...
by Mary E. John | On 28 Sep 2017 This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance.
by Luc Christiaensen | On 27 Sep 2017 This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets.
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 Sep 2017 Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s. South Korea, among the world’s poorest countries in the 1960s,joined the rank...
by Randall Morck | On 25 Sep 2017 This paper introduces a new dataset of orders passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the insolvency cases under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code or IBC. It builds this dataset to atte...
by Sreyan Chatterjee | On 18 Sep 2017 In recent days, the process of federalization within the Indian Union has become more debatable due to the unequal federal development at various levels. In this context, the issues of state formation...
by Susant Kumar Naik | On 14 Sep 2017 Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. B...
by Elizabeth Baker | On 11 Sep 2017 The paper suggests certain measures to reduce the conflicts across conservation, livelihoods and forest rights. National Parks in India are highly vulnerable due to excessive pressure on their ecosyst...
by Subhashree Banerjee | On 07 Sep 2017 Tamil Nadu is the eleventh largest state by area and the sixth most populous state in India with 75 million as per the 2011 census. The state was ranked sixth among the states in India according to th...
by S.Irudaya Rajan | On 06 Sep 2017 Viewers of South Indian devotional films, female viewers in particular, have been known to offer prayers to the gods on screen and even moved to a state of possession while watching a film. Filmmaking...
by Uma Bhrugubanda | On 31 Aug 2017 The study is about estimating the extent to which domestic prices of major Indian agriculture commodities deviate from their corresponding free trade reference prices. The free trade reference prices...
by Shweta Saini | On 23 Aug 2017 The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performanc...
by Shweta Saini | On 21 Aug 2017 This paper quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities that women face in the organized sector of the Indian Labour Market.
by Biju Varkkey | On 21 Aug 2017 With one of the Middle East’s largest economies, a growing population,
and rising incomes, Iran contributes significantly to the region’s agricultural commodity consumption. Iran’s rising food demand...
by Mesbah Motamed | On 18 Aug 2017 This report focused on agriculture, buildings, industries, transport, and power supply – sectors
that account for all the state’s energy requirement and over 70% of its Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
emission...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 14 Aug 2017 This paper details the approaches of other countries when their banking sectors were burdened with unsustainable levels of impaired assets. The paper examines the bad debt situation in India, the circ...
by Jaimini Bhagwati | On 11 Aug 2017 The present paper attempts to explore the macroeconomic implications of the “demonetisation” exercise announced on November 8, 2016, for the Indian economy on three board parameters of growth, distrib...
by Pradymna Rawat | On 09 Aug 2017 The key policy issues in this field pertain to detachment benefits, totalization procedure and ensuring greater coverage under these agreements.
by Atul Tiwari | On 09 Aug 2017 Forest and conservation policy in Southeast Asia is now at yet another crossroads. Despite decades of efforts, the challenges ahead remain formidable. These challenges include: (i) continued deforesta...
by Gary Bull | On 08 Aug 2017 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India submitted a report on the electrification projects in Indian Railways (between 2013-14 and 2015-16) on July 21, 2017. Trains on Indian Railways are hauled...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 07 Aug 2017 This is the eleventh edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness.
by Institute for Economics and Peace | On 04 Aug 2017 Business groups have played an important role in the development of the Indian economy by filling the institutional voids arising from weak markets and institutions. As these economic institutions dev...
by | On 04 Aug 2017 The paper attempts to find out whether the credit risk regulatory capital of Indian banks is commensurate with the default experience associated with ratings assigned by the Indian rating agencies. Th...
by Ajay Kumar Choudhary | On 04 Aug 2017 This paper presents new evidence on pre-mature deindustrialization
being witnessed by India in terms of rising share of imports in final consumption.
Given the compulsions of creation of jobs for 12...
by | On 03 Aug 2017 The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Globally 54 percent population lives in urban areas today (UN 2014). Although Asia is still relatively more rural than the Americas and the Europe, it is...
by Tanuka Endow | On 02 Aug 2017 The international community is increasingly aware of the negative impacts of child marriage on a wide range of development outcomes. Ending child marriage is now part of the Sustainable Development Go...
by Quentin Wodon | On 31 Jul 2017 The report concludes with the strategies that Karnataka should focus on in order to achieve the objectives of 24x7 Power for All.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 31 Jul 2017 The Asia and the Pacific region has the largest number of family farms in the world. It is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population and to 74 per cent of the world’s family farmers, with China al...
by Jingzhong Ye | On 30 Jul 2017 The compendium details the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the different technology options, and also describes the different types of systems formed as a combination of the technolog...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 28 Jul 2017 This paper focuses on the rationale for state-based market interventions to support smallholder production along with some case studies that follow the evolution and impact of what we call ‘institutio...
by Ryan Nehring | On 28 Jul 2017 The current policy climate in India is rightly addressing the challenges of electric buses, providing an
environment to accelerate their adoption and implementation.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 27 Jul 2017 Previous studies have examined how demographic characteristics, education, culture, and labor policy suppress Indian women’s labor supply. However, not enough attention has been paid to the role of po...
by Lei Lei | On 27 Jul 2017 The nature and scale of humanitarian crises are changing. The world is becoming increasingly urbanised – currently, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban environments, which will rise t...
by | On 27 Jul 2017 This annual publication showcases the results of knowledge management initiatives of the East Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank in 2014.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 The report discusses the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific, and the consequences of these changes to human systems, particularly f...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This publication is complemented by critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased productivity, and inclus...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Jul 2017 This report provides an overview of police organisation in India, and highlights key issues that affect their
functioning. Note that the Standing Committee on Home Affairs is also examining two subje...
by Anviti Chaturvedi | On 04 Jul 2017 This report provides an discussion on a range of important issues in the interchange hub design. It also provides a general approach in developing a good interchange hub.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This report will help improve the quality of the workforce; enhance employability, productivity, and remuneration, leading to higher economic growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Jun 2017 This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents cur...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 This report summarizes findings and policy recommendations for the government's 13th Five-Year Plan.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 This study, using an inclusive growth framework, has identified the critical constraints that Fiji needs to address to strengthen investor sentiment even further and achieve inclusive growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 27 Jun 2017 The report says Fiji’s economy has seen 5 years of positive growth since 2010 - one of its few episodes of sustained growth since 1970. Growth averaged 3.3% a year during 2010-2014, which is nearly fo...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 27 Jun 2017 Services have significantly contributed to the structural transformation of Indian economy. Sustained growth of services in India has to an extent broken the myth which has considered acceleration in...
by MC Singhi | On 22 Jun 2017 The report also includes critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased productivity, and inclusive growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jun 2017 The paper says that Sri Lanka has emerged in recent years as one of the most dynamic countries in South Asia. With a rich cultural heritage, an increasingly sophisticated work force, and a strategic l...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 Jun 2017 The report herein provide in-depth analysis of the state of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Nepal.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 Jun 2017 The paper suggests that the impacts of climate change in Southeast Asia may be larger than previously estimated, possibly reaching 11% of gross domestic product by 2100.
by David Raitzer | On 19 Jun 2017 This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment. Examples come from the inclusive business portfolios of the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-A...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 This report narrates that ADB has scaled up its assistance to Papua New Guinea for power infrastructure, with an emphasis on clean energy solutions, in line with the government’s prioritization of pow...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 This report presents current arrangements and initiatives in the country’s skills development strategies. These are complemented by critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportuni...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jun 2017 This report includes proposed measures for Myanmar’s road sector, rail sector, river transport, and policy measures, summarizing the costs and benefits of each, ranked by their benefit-to-cost-ratio.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 02 Jun 2017 Growing demand for public expenditures, limitations in expanding fiscal space and limited scope to deviate from common harmonized tax system under the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime may...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 25 May 2017 It has been observed that even though the Indian economy has achieved remarkable economic growth along with a decline in poverty over the last two decades, improvements in nutritional status have not...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 May 2017 This publication highlights the results of a successful partnership between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Centre for Environmental Management (ICEM) with cofinancing from the...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 The paper states that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is currently undergoing a number of important changes, which have wide-ranging implications for activity in the PRC, the rest of developing A...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 May 2017 The research focuses on financial exclusion in three segments: base of pyramid (BoP); women; and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). From our research, we estimate that addressing this oppor...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 May 2017 This report explores three entry points to the theme of poverty and prosperity: (i) managing
urbanization for inclusive development, (ii) strengthening responses to rural poverty in the context of
t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators
in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its comp...
by B.Sudhakara Reddy | On 03 May 2017 Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in reducing poverty in the majority of countries. In emerging and developing countries, taken as a whole, it is estimated that nearly 2 bi...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 Agriculture sector as a whole has developed and emerged immensely with the infusion of science and
technology. But this latest emergence is not capable of plummeting the ignorance of women labour as...
by Mun Mun Ghosh | On 01 Mar 2017 We derive a non-standard unit root serial correlation formulation for intertemporal adjustments in the labor force participation rate. This leads to a tractable three-error component model, which in c...
by | On 01 Mar 2017 This collection of under review certainly belongs in the latter category. The editor, Kasnik Roy, has a distinguished record of publications on the Indian Army of the Raj, and has assembled an impress...
by | On 20 Feb 2017 This paper analyzes gender differences in reading and mathematics among Indian children ages 8-11 using data from the 2005 India Human Development Survey. Employing descriptive statistics and ordered...
by | On 15 Feb 2017 Budget 2017-18 is placed at an important juncture when there has been a thrust by the government
for a digitised and a consequent cashless economy with the demonetisation of high value currency
note...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 03 Feb 2017 India, with over 300 million people under the age of 15, is home to the 4 largest population of children in the world. This makes Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) one of the to...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 The Union Budget for 2017-18 will be presented on February 1, 2017. In this context, we present data regarding the state of
the Indian economy in 2016-17, across indicators such as gross domestic pro...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 01 Feb 2017 Reveiw of ‘Population, Health and Environment’ Edited by Sayeed Unisa, T.V. Sekher, Chander Shekhar, Abhishek Singh, L.K.Dwivedi and M.R. Pradhan by Rawat Pubslishers.
by Manisha Karne | On 30 Jan 2017 This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is produced from labor and capital by two sectors, dirty and clean. An emission tax c...
by | On 24 Jan 2017 Indian cities are facing the problem of severe air pollution and vehicles are a major source. The economically vibrant cities like Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai provide numerous job opp...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 24 Jan 2017 This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal
spending. Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal
policies and ad...
by Janet G Stotsky | On 23 Jan 2017 The focus of this note is primarily to present the
background of this project, status of various activities undertaken so far and detail out the
way forward in terms of timelines and implementation...
by Bibek Debroy | On 23 Jan 2017 Rapid urbanisation with an increase in urban population from 28.3% (in 1950) to 50% (in 2010) is witnessed in megacities in India. Urbanisation is one of the demographic issues in the 21st century and...
by Bharath H. Aithal | On 16 Jan 2017 The demographic structure of South Asian countries are rapidly transforming, which can greatly influence future rice production and consumption in the region. Literature on the impact of demographic t...
by | On 11 Jan 2017 The paper examines the medium-term fiscal policy (MTFP) and a more conventional medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) adopted in India under the provisions of the fiscal rules. The MTFP and the MTE...
by Pratap Ranjan Jena | On 10 Jan 2017 Indian economy is now trillion dollar economy. After introducing significant reforms in financial sector, we have improved efficiency and stability in our economy. As per most economists we will achie...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 The rampant use of plastic bags in Nepal has led to growing concern in recent years regarding
the impact of discarded plastic bags on the environment. Though a number of different
control measures a...
by Bishal Bharadwaj | On 29 Dec 2016 Climate change mitigation is a global challenge, however its impact will be varied across regions and temperature zones. Small island states will be hit the hardest with sea level rise. In bigger coun...
by | On 28 Dec 2016 India’s juvenile Justice Law started its journey in 1919-20 with Indian Jail Committee’s
recommendation that children be removed from Jails. This mandate remains unfulfilled till date.
One will stil...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 23 Dec 2016 Air pollution has been one of the most pernicious consequences of China’s last three decades of economic transformation and growth. Although Chinese governments—federal, provincial, and municipal—have...
by | On 23 Dec 2016 India is passing through the demographic transition and we hardly have 50 to 60 years more to utilise the demographic dividend. By mid of this century, India will have a huge population of 60 and old...
by Priya Sharma | On 23 Dec 2016 The contemporary discourse on migration and development is starting to consider the agency role of both diaspora communities and highly skilled returnees on equal terms, and we can observe how several...
by | On 19 Dec 2016 India is a major source of migrants, especially of highly-skilled and well-trained workers. This paper attempts to show that even with a high number of Indian talents abroad, India – as well as destin...
by | On 19 Dec 2016 The urbanization is a process which urban social and urban civilization forming gradually. On the way of urbanization, we develop the economy first and improve the quality of people’s life later. Alth...
by | On 14 Dec 2016 This paper discusses the demographic and socio-economic profile
of religious communities (Castes among the Hindus, Sects among the
Muslims and Denominations among the Christians) in Kerala’s three
...
by K. C. Zachariah | On 06 Dec 2016 The State of Kerala in 2012 through a notification stopped issuing new permits
to inter-district buses in Kerala while exempting state run Kerala State
Transport Corporation. This was the beginning...
by Madhu Sivaraman | On 28 Nov 2016 The increasing number of migrants moving to cities, especially from rural areas, has posed a new set of issues for the authorities. In the mid-1990s, it was estimated that China had a floating populat...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 Economists and social scientists have shown considerable interest in recent years to measure the gap between the observable economic activity and the actual economic activity. This has led to the conc...
by | On 09 Nov 2016 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 Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between
benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper
summarizes research finding...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 28 Oct 2016 This paper deals with the evolution of laws, institutions and polices relating to
environmental protection in India. It considers the following questions : (a) whether the
laws are evolved indigenou...
by U. Sankar | On 28 Oct 2016 This study attempts to understand people’s perceptions and their
understanding approaching the 2016 assembly elections and how it influenced the voting pattern
and behaviour while exercising their r...
by D Dhanuraj | On 21 Oct 2016 The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about
population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that
information to advance the well-being of current and futu...
by | On 21 Oct 2016 Numerous studies have explored urban growth and the emergence of the megapolitan phenomenon through increasing growth in the number of cities with over 10 million inhabitants. Similarly, the processes...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura [UNESCO] | On 19 Oct 2016 In this study the hypotheses that the choice between OFDI and export decision of the
firms depends on the firm level productivity is tested. Here, the productivity levels of OFDI
firms vis a vis exp...
by Ronny Thomas | On 03 Oct 2016 Objectives of this paper are to empirically examine the roles of three channels of FDI liked
spillovers in enabling domestic firms (DFs) to take decision to export (DTE). The findings suggest that
c...
by Pradeep Kumar Keshari | On 03 Oct 2016 The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an
understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. [CWDS Working paper].
by Kumud Sharma | On 30 Sep 2016 This research evaluates the performance of free trade agreements by
analyzing the determinants of trade flows of Asian economies for a panel
of thirty-one countries during 2007-2014 using a Gravity...
by Sunder Ramaswamy | On 29 Sep 2016 India can substantially increase her production and yield in
pulses with a strategic emphasis on research in public and private sector, expanding irrigation
infrastructure, provision of MSP to pulse...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 23 Sep 2016 The Indian banks in general, and the Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in particular, are grappling with the huge stock of stressed assets that has piled up in the system over the years. Any amount of discus...
by N.S. Viswanathan | On 19 Sep 2016 The Indian steel industry has made a rapid progress on strong fundamentals over the recent few years. The industry is getting all essential ingredients required for dynamic growth. The government is b...
by | On 19 Sep 2016 The report begins with an overview of the Iron and Steel Industry in the context of its importance to Indian economy and introduces the objective of this study. The status of the industry by productio...
by | On 19 Sep 2016 The poor do not consume as much water as the rest of the population, but despite the promises, despite the bland assertions of politicians and policy makers, they can and frequently do pay for what li...
by | On 16 Sep 2016 According to the Basketball Federation of India, Basketball is now the fastest-growing sport among boys and girls, with five million participants-which they claim is second only to soccer 2 The Indian...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 We study the effect of the world’s largest school feeding program on children’s learning outcomes. Staggered implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating t...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators
in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its comp...
by B.Sudhakara Reddy | On 29 Aug 2016 One of the wealthiest countries in the Middle East, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is also one of the largest exporters of oil, and as such, one of the most influential in the region. Despite this, more...
by | On 25 Aug 2016 Almost half of all households have at least one migrant abroad or a returnee. Estimates of the number of Nepali migrants abroad vary widely, but the most frequently cited estimate, including seasonal...
by World Bank [WB] | On 25 Aug 2016 This paper addresses some aspects related to these two important research questions, and thus builds on the base of knowledge. The paper is organized as follows. First, we discuss the economic growth...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 Domestic strife and civil war frequently produce large population dislocations and refugee flows across national boundaries. Mass refugee flows often entail negative consequences for receiving states,...
by | On 23 Aug 2016 Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. S...
by | On 22 Aug 2016 With the explosive growth of knowledge in the past century and with
the development of handy tools of information and communication technologies as well
as of other scientific innovations, competiti...
by University Grants Commission UGC | On 17 Aug 2016 The economic cost of dealing with the consequences of diabetes is not only a threat to health systems but is a far broader economic and social problem and thus a threat to future long-term sustainable...
by Nicholas J Wareham | On 16 Aug 2016 This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm
time series data for the 1975–2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premari...
by Charles Yuji Horioka | On 16 Aug 2016 A new “Make in India” campaign to “transform India into a global manufacturing hub” aims to use manufacturing as a vehicle for job growth. Is this strategy realistic? This paper helps answer the quest...
by | On 10 Aug 2016 This paper revisits the role of manufacturing and services in economic development in the light of the following new facts: (a) a faster growth of services than that of manufacturing in many developin...
by | On 08 Aug 2016 India being home to the largest number of poor and malnourished
population in the world, the tabling of National Food Security Bill has
renewed the public pressure for universalization of PDS in Ind...
by Sowmya Dhanraj | On 03 Aug 2016 This paper examines the generalizability of internally valid estimates of causal effects in a fixed population over time when that population is subject to aggregate shocks. This temporal external val...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 27 Jul 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 Female migrants face different challenges and opportunities than men as they integrate into their host communities and become development agents for both their countries of destination and origin. And...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 While a lot of experimentation has been done in the realm of financial literacy, it is difficult to point to one standardised method or approach that works best in all scenarios with all kinds of targ...
by | On 20 Jul 2016 This paper proposes a new source of cross-sectional variation that may identify causal impacts of Government spending on the economy. It uses the fact that a large number of federal spending programs...
by Juan Serrato | On 20 Jul 2016 The social sector is usually defined as dealing with social and economic activities carried out for the purposes of benefiting society, and in the main nonprofit, not-for-profit, philanthropic and mis...
by Padmaja Mishra | On 19 Jul 2016 The MDG on hunger requires that the proportion of people suffering from hunger be halved between 1990 and 2015. Behind this apparently simple statement lies much complexity: the food intake required t...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 This paper examines whether “Make in India” policies are constrained by over-regulation or under-regulation in the Indian labour market. Specific labour law provisions and the scope of circumventing t...
by Ajeet Mathur | On 18 Jul 2016 This paper view to locating the growing concern with women’s economic empowerment within its growth research programmes. Inclusive growth,
as defined by IDRC, is growth which ensures opportunities fo...
by Naila Kabeer | On 13 Jul 2016 The recent commodity boom has seriously affected South Asia, particularly due to higher food prices and their impact on the welfare of poor and vulnerable populations. This paper describes the food cr...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 12 Jul 2016 Human beings evolved under conditions of high mortality due to famines, accidents, illnesses, infections and war and therefore the relatively high fertility rates were essential for species survival....
by Planning Commission, India | On 12 Jul 2016 India is expected to become one of the most populous nations by 2025, with a headcount of around 1.4 billion1. The country’s population pyramid is expected to “bulge” across the 15–64 age bracket over...
by | On 11 Jul 2016 The term “Demographic Dividend” is a much talked about subject today. In India, it has also been a cynosure of discussion. It is a population bulge in the working age category and occurs when a fallin...
by Suhas Roy | On 11 Jul 2016 In this paper, the evolution of the corporate insolvency resolution framework, with the objective of linking it back to the policy directive of the time is described. It is concluded that when policy...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 09 Jul 2016 This paper examines the changes in regulation in four G7 countries post the financial sector breakdown of 2008 and suggestions made by the Financial Stability Board with respect to e.g. capital adequa...
by Jaimini Bhagwati | On 07 Jul 2016 By 2030, India will be amongst the youngest nations in the world with nearly 150 million people in the college-going age group. By 2030, the already existing challenges for Indian higher education – a...
by | On 07 Jul 2016 The synthesis report prepared by Professors Lowell and Findlay addresses the issues of the impact of high skilled emigration on developing countries, and the policy mixes and options available to both...
by | On 06 Jul 2016 This paper examines issues with regards to route fixation, choice of technology partner and need for standards, location of stations, choice of grade level, choice of gauge and inter-operability of tr...
by G Raghuram | On 28 Jun 2016 This study has explored the implementation of talent management process in pharmaceutical industry in India through a case study approach. Data was collected from top management and senior managers in...
by Kirti Sharda | On 24 Jun 2016 Small land holders dominate Indian agriculture, and need off-farm income for survival. Analysis shows that for sufficient off-farm income
opportunities, growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or touri...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 Jun 2016 India’s education system turns out millions of graduates each year, many skilled in IT and engineering. This manpower advantage underpins India’s recent economic advances, but masks deepseated problem...
by | On 22 Jun 2016 The Financial Sector Reforms Commission (FSLRC) which was set up in 2011 by the
Ministry of Finance was mandated to study existing legislation and financial sector regulatory
practices in India and...
by Jaimini Bhagwati | On 22 Jun 2016 Labor migration from and within Asia is a key and growing component of international migration flows, and the joint roundtable by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), the International Labour...
by OECD Development Centre’s Social Cohesion Uni Social Cohesion Unit | On 21 Jun 2016 There was a felt to revise the National Forest Policy, 1988
to integrate the vision of sustainable forest management
based on the principles of ecosystem approach,
landscape level planning and the...
by Indian Institute of Forest Management IIFM | On 21 Jun 2016 South Asian women and their status is being assessed here to highlight the similarities in the conditions faced by women despite the diversities stemming from class, religion, culture and locality. Th...
by Preeti Rustagi | On 20 Jun 2016 This technical note describes the data and methodology
used to calculate BWS-China, building on the
methodology described in previous Aqueduct publications
(Shiklomanov and Rodda 2014; Gassert et a...
by Jiao Wang | On 20 Jun 2016 The City of Bengaluru in the Indian state of Karnataka is making progress on rooftop solar PV installations, mainly through its utility implemented net-metering program. Yet, much more needs to be don...
by Sarah Martin | On 17 Jun 2016 The paper analyses income mobility across different social groups in India using data from the
Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) collected in 2004–05 and 2011–12. Indices
signifying different n...
by Thiagu Ranganathan | On 16 Jun 2016 According to the World Bank’s Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016, more than 250 million people, or 3.4 percent of the world population, live outside their countries of birth (Figure 1). The volum...
by | On 14 Jun 2016 Internal displacement continued in many countries to result from failures by parties to armed conflicts to respect the rights of civilian populations, including by taking necessary steps to prevent di...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | On 14 Jun 2016 This paper argues that contrary to popular belief, in the bygone era, there was not one but two Silk Roads in Asia – the Northern and the less well-known South-western Silk Road (SSR). The SSR connect...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 According to a report from the Mckinsey Global Institute, India is set to witness a leap in urban population by almost 25 crore over the next 20 years. That translates to roughly 35,000 more people in...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 The paper examines the effects of political strikes and labour unrest on production in 33 large ready-made garment factories in Bangladesh. We find that the political strikes (hartals) lasting one or...
by | On 08 Jun 2016 The role of one
consumption-based solution: shifting the diets of populations who consume high amounts of calories, protein, and animal-based foods are analysed. Specifically, we consider three
in...
by Janet Ranganathan | On 06 Jun 2016 The ageing of Japan’s population occurred quickly. In 1970, the ageing rate exceeded 7 per cent, the threshold which used to be considered as the onset of population ageing. It took only 26 years befo...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 02 Jun 2016 The Indian economy has entered a phase of high growth in the recent years, after a long period of low growth. Since economic growth itself is not sufficient to achieve economic development, the concer...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 The environmental impacts generated by agricultural activity could be global or regional or national or local. However, they are site-specific and tend to vary with farming systems, technologies used...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 With growing populations and demand for food, farmers in ASEAN member states (except Singapore) are required to produce more and more food from land that continues to decline due to population growth,...
by | On 31 May 2016 The extent of plagiarism in India is yet to be reckoned. Does rote learning encourage plagiarism? Does the lack of training in proper ways of acknowledging sources lead to inadvertant plagiarism? Thes...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 30 May 2016 Climate variability and climate change pose an enormous pressure on population, infrastructure, livelihood, and socio-economic conditions. Evidences of climate change are already visible on many secto...
by Vimal Mishra | On 30 May 2016 This paper describes the status, challenges and scope for strengthening surveillance of chronic disease risk factors, morbidities and mortality in India. Surveillance experience of four selected Stat...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 30 May 2016 People’s Science Institute carried out the first trials of the
System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) during rabi 2006-
07. Starting with systematic research trials on farmers’
fields, SWI practice...
by Ravi Chopra | On 27 May 2016 The gender wage gaps in Indian states and the wage gaps among educated people are shown.
by Lakshmi Priya | On 27 May 2016 Despite its declining contribution to the GDP of ASEAN economies, agriculture remains a major source of employment for rural populations and provides much value add for agrifood industries. The ASEAN...
by | On 27 May 2016 Emerging powers are re-shaping the norms and practices of international development. As the Indian economy continues to grow and the country bids for a seat at the great power table, the ambitions of...
by Tanoubi Ngangom | On 26 May 2016 This paper examines the process of upgrading of the Indian garment industry through a survey of 100 firms in three clusters in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), Tirupur, and Mumbai in 2012. Upgradi...
by | On 25 May 2016 Rapid degradation of peri-urban ecosystems is resulting in a loss of associated ecosystem services. Water provision, storm- and waste-water regulation, along with protection from natural disasters and...
by Rockeffeller Foundation RF | On 25 May 2016 A
primary survey of older adults was conducted in seven
rapidly ageing states including Odisha, West Bengal,
Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil
Nadu, and Kerala (Alam et al. 2012). This...
by Moneer Alam | On 25 May 2016 The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between promoter ownership and capital structure of firms using a sample of Indian publicly listed firms for the period from 2006 to 2013, d...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 23 May 2016 This paper focuses on the automobile industry and examines the nature of global value chains in it with reference to the case of India. The aim is to explore the relation between lead firms, particula...
by Saon Ray | On 23 May 2016 Some politicians argue for the splitting and combining of states to increase government productivity, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the optimal size of a state. Using data from Indian...
by Cornelis Haasnoot | On 18 May 2016 There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empi...
by Grant Miller | On 18 May 2016 The Act covers conservation, use of biological resources and associated knowledge occurring in
India for commercial or research purposes or for the purposes of bio-survey and bio-utilisation. It prov...
by National Biodiversity Authority NBA | On 17 May 2016 There is a growing recognition of the importance of academic
research in India and is being monitored by public institutions. However
the focus in these assessments has remained largely confined to...
by Amit S. Ray | On 16 May 2016 The air pollution in Delhi is shown and how the air quality index is calculated and the health impacts are shown here.
by J.K. Bassin | On 11 May 2016 Mumbai has the potential to become one of the world’s ideal cities in terms of sustainable water management. With abundant natural and perennial water sources around it, the megacity is currently one...
by Dhaval D Desai | On 10 May 2016 Indian trademark law statutorily protects trademarks as per the Trademark Act, 1999 and also under the common law remedy of passing off. Statutory protection of trademark is administered by the Contro...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 09 May 2016 This paper presents a plan
that provides an achievable path toward a global policy on Green House
Gas (GHG) emissions. At the heart of it is a small carbon tax (actually a
GHG tax). The proceeds of...
by Mohana Mondal | On 09 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 The lecture examines the recent developments in the external sector and address some critical issues such as the appropriate level of current account deficit, exchange rate policy, adequacy of reserve...
by C. Rangarajan | On 06 May 2016 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education an...
by Runu Bhakta | On 02 May 2016 The paper examines the role payment systems can play in greater South Asian integration, including intra regional
trade facilitation. As payment systems become more sophisticated and thei...
by | On 02 May 2016 Whether it was the Bofors gun in 1986 or Italian helicopters in 2012, a leak or disclosure at the source overseas is like dynamite, and usually impossible to refute.
by T.N. Ninan | On 30 Apr 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 This is a 2011 Census report on Population, Size and Decadal Change in Kerala
by Census India | On 27 Apr 2016 This report if from the Census of India. It provides information about literacy rates, sex ratio, population in West Bengal of the year 2011.
by | On 27 Apr 2016 The Census of India is a very large administrative exercise, possibly the largest such operation in the entire world. In addition to bringing out the population figures, it is the most credible source...
by Census India | On 27 Apr 2016 Population ageing has profound social, economic and political implications
for a country. The increasing number of older persons put a strain on health care
and social care systems in the country. O...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 25 Apr 2016 Copyright is a bundle of rights given by the law to the creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and the producers of cinematograph films and sound recordings. The rights provided un...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 12 Apr 2016 Diabetes is a serious, chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin
(a hormone that regulates blood sugar, or glucose), or when the body cannot effectively use...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 07 Apr 2016 A gradual moderation in growth is currently underway in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is the result of a combination of factors, including a shrinking working-age population, the natural...
by | On 06 Apr 2016 Using the NSSO Employment and Unemployment Survey Rounds as the basis, this paper
examines questions of unemployment, employment and human capital formation among Indian
youth belonging to various s...
by Rajendra P. Mamgain | On 05 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 Rate of coastal erosion in the Indian Sundarban have been measured to be
about5.50 sq kms / year within the time frame of 2001 - 2009 and eventually it is most
dominant in the south western edges of...
by Sugata Hazra | On 29 Mar 2016 A brief summary by Niti Aayog about the pre and post 2016-17 Indian Budget Analysis.
by Arvind Panagariya | On 28 Mar 2016 As developing countries increasingly open their economies to foreign direct investment (FDI) one of their principal objective has been to achieve technology transfer from foreign firms to host country...
by | On 22 Mar 2016 This paper formulates a conceptual category called the caste-gender system and tends to follow how the institution of caste operates in systematic complicity with discriminatory gender norms. It talks...
by Ritu Sen Chaudhuri | On 21 Mar 2016 The end of World War II marked the advent of Ethnic disputes in the world. The explicit wars for territory converted into implicit wars for identity and recognition; perhaps, because a part of the pop...
by Kalpana Jha | On 21 Mar 2016 This paper examines the pattern of inward FDI at the disaggregated industry level (NIC 3- digit), and test for the industry-specific characteristics that have been significant in attracting foreign in...
by Rashmi Rastogi | On 16 Mar 2016 Foreign banks in developing countries are often found to indulge in cream skimming, a lending strategy that targets only wealthy segments of the credit market and exclude small and marginal borrowers...
by Mandira Sarma | On 16 Mar 2016 The paper is an attempt to unveil the enigma of the ‘Indian model’ of development. After discussing the evolution of India’s development policies over the last six decades, the paper attempts to unfol...
by Amit S. Ray | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper tries to examine and assess the contribution of services towards India’s manufacturing exports at the firm level. The findings confirm that services have contributed to enhanced export comp...
by Sonia Mukherjee | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper presents an economic analysis of science research and knowledge creation in Indian universities. We posit that faculty’s research effort is an outcome of her optimum time allocation decisio...
by Sabyasachi Saha | On 15 Mar 2016 The Metaguidelines for Water and Climate Change were developed by the Asia–Pacific Water Forum (APWF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with the Global Water Partnership (GWP). This pu...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2008 global financial and economic crisis further demonstrated the importance of financial stability. Both crises showed how balance sheets of financial institu...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is poised to continue developing at a significant pace. The subregion is well placed to benefit from the emerging Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Com...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Cambodia has made great strides toward sustained rapid and inclusive economic growth since its political environment stabilized in 1999. Its 7.8% average annual growth since then has dramatically brou...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The education systems in Asia, including technical and vocational education and training (TVET), were well suited at the time to allow Asia to become the world’s assembly line. In simple terms, formal...
by Sungsup Ra | On 15 Mar 2016 ABMI aims to develop efficient and liquid bond markets in Asia, which would enable better utilization of Asian savings for Asian investments. ABMI can also contribute to the mitigation of currency and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Desecuritizing the Kurdish question has become a priority for Turkey’s AKP government as it seeks to enter into a domestic “solution process” with the PKK. However, emerging dynamics in Iraq and Syria...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 This study examines the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth of the preexisting units on a balanced sample for ten years (1998-1999 to 2007- 2008) following the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) technique...
by Santosh Kumar Sahu | On 11 Mar 2016 The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 11 Mar 2016 Mergers and acquisitions (M and A) are common strategies of firms to increase its performance. Although, the motives of M and A are different however, the determinants are discreet. This study tries t...
by Nikita Agarwal | On 11 Mar 2016 Related Party Transactions disclosures in Annual Reports have recently gained more attention of the Indian policymakers. This paper aims at finding out the effect of related party transactions disclos...
by Subhra Choudhury | On 10 Mar 2016 Harnessing Myanmar’s hydropower, while essential for the country’s development, has significant potential to stir social unrest in ethnic states. Trang Do and Elliot Brennan argue that Vietnam’s exper...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 Our study investigates the determinants and use of cash holdings by Indian companies. Using a large sample of manufacturing firms that are publicly traded on Bombay Stock exchange for the period of 19...
by Ekta Selarka | On 10 Mar 2016 The present study ascertains the prevalence and possible causes of overweight and obesity among adult population using Pakistan Panel Household Survey for 2010. The results of the present research sho...
by Maryam Naeem Satti | On 10 Mar 2016 The present study ascertains the possible consequences of overweight and obesity among adult population using Pakistan Panel Household Survey for 2010.
by Maryam Naeem Satti | On 10 Mar 2016 Given the importance of health in overall living standard of people, the present study has attempted to probe into the role of migration in affecting health status and outcomes of population. The heal...
by Shujaat Farooq | On 10 Mar 2016 The neo-classical economics literature incorporated the notion of environment during the mid 20th century, but climate change has found its place in the economics discourse during the early 1980s. Dur...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper analyses whether in developing countries mass education is more growth enhancing than to have a minority well educated elite. Using the Indian census data as a benchmark and enrollment rate...
by Amparo Castelló-Climent | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper investigates the political aspects of the coorperation between China, South Korea and Japan to address transboundary pollution in Northeast Asia. Investigating the motivations, modalities an...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper speaks to the sense of unease by trying to follow the implications of what it might mean to take the sense of threat to liberal values seriously. That is, to attempt identification of the l...
by Mathew John | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper is a preliminary attempt to assess the impact of Christian social activists on issues facing adivasis in the state of Jharkhand in contemporary India. This has been prompted by a few factor...
by Sushil J. Aaron | On 09 Mar 2016 A striking phenomenon of recent global economic change is the emergence of new development actors, with alternative development experiences and development financing capacity. These actors are now cre...
by Stephany Griffith-Jones | On 08 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 An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale rocked Southern Qinghai in China on Wednesday, 14 April 2010. Over 2,200 people have died in the earthquake. The population of the province is largely...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 When the state is unable to provide adequately for the bottom half of the population, should it be giving tax benefits to the well-off?
by T.N. Ninan | On 05 Mar 2016 According to the 2009 HSBC ‘The Future of Retirement’ report, the world’s ageing population will increase from 550 million today to 1.4 billion by 2050. Such a big number directly conjures up images o...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 This Alert examines the role of intergovernmental and non-governmental stakeholders in promoting human security in Cambodia through transitional justice. It maps out the relations between and among th...
by | On 02 Mar 2016 It presents a comprehensive analysis of the priorities and proposals in Union Budget 2016-17, focusing on social sectors (such as education, health, drinking water and sanitation, food security etc.)...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 02 Mar 2016 India at present is under going demographic transition in which the adolescents and youths constitute nearly half of the population. Although adolescence is a healthy stage of life, their sexual and r...
by | On 01 Mar 2016 In the closing decades of the twentieth century there has been an almost complete intellectual triumph of the twin principles of marketization (understood here as referring to the liberalization of do...
by D M NACHANE | On 01 Mar 2016 The share of children in the Union Budget 2016-17 goes up to 3.32% showing a slight increase from 3.26% in the last years Budget 2015.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2016 In this paper we explore an innovative approach to poverty reduction by the introduction of an agro-forestry variant of sustainable agricultural land technology among the rural farming population of a...
by Roger Montgomery | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper we examine incentives to cheat in the Mexican tax system and argue that these are affected by interactions between taxes. We use variation in tax status between Mexican firms and variati...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 29 Feb 2016 The study followed a participatory and interactive approach to critically analyze the situation (state of knowledge demands and supply), stakeholder‘s alignment, consequences, conflicts and areas of c...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 In this report about 90,885 individuals were covered for nutritional anthropometry and clinical examination from 30,390 households. The results indicated that there was reduction in the prevalence of...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 This report outlines the results of the surveys on diet and nutritional status of the populations. The objective is to assess the food and nutrient intakes of individuals in the rural areas of the sta...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 Several sporadic studies carried out in the developing countries, including India have been reporting a steady increase in the prevalence of diet related chronic diseases like obesity, hypertension, d...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper serves as background for a South Asian regional workshop that will bring together adaptation information users and producers to inform likely new investments in the information base for cli...
by Ayesha Dinshaw | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper a new set of measures of labour force, employment and unemployment has been suggested which we believe would be better suited for many purposes than those currently in use. New measures...
by National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorgan NCEUS | On 29 Feb 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper presents an overview of the corporate debt market in India. A study of the structure and the status of the corporate debt market along with the current policies initiated by Securities and...
by M. T. Raju | On 28 Feb 2016 There is growing recognition of the importance of identification for sustainable development. Its role is recognized formally in target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which calls for provi...
by Alan Gelb | On 28 Feb 2016 This paper reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and tim...
by Grant Miller | On 27 Feb 2016 Against the trends of increasing global travel, rapid urbanisation and growing population, the threat of infectious diseases looms large on the horizon. In Asia, the series of health crises brought...
by Gianna Gayle Amul | On 27 Feb 2016 Armed conflicts always have disproportionate consequences on civilian populations. Civilians accounted for 74 per cent of the fatalities in Israel’s bombing of Gaza in the summer of 2014. The high civ...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 2015 marks the end of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), an international disaster risk reduction plan that aimed to en...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Water security is a cross-cutting and multidimensional developmental issue which was nestled within Goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on environmental sustainability. Target 7c of Goal...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Audit committees have received considerable attention globally in recent years. We examine the effects of the Satyam failure on changes in the composition and functioning of Indian audit committees. A...
by R. Narayanaswamy | On 27 Feb 2016 Continuous rise in food prices has been posing a serious policy challenge in India. Milk is a major contributor to the food price rise due to its high growth in demand in the domestic and internationa...
by S. Rajeshwaran | On 27 Feb 2016 Land reforms require urgent attention in emerging market economies, and there is a vast body of literature that deals with the economic impact land reforms, especially land titling (Acemoglu et al., 2...
by Madalasa Venkataraman | On 27 Feb 2016 The Fertile Crescent in the Near East is one of the independent origins of the Neolithic, the source from which farming and pottery-making spread across Europe from 9,000 to 6,000 years ago at an aver...
by Kavita Gangal | On 27 Feb 2016 Farmers’ suicides have become an important socio-economic concern in India that has profound implication on the quality of life of farmers and their families. There are not many epidemiological studie...
by Srijit Mishra | On 26 Feb 2016 While property taxation has existed since ancient times, and the taxation of land has been a mainstay of public finances through the Middle Ages, in both Europe and Asia, it has all but ceased to be a...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Dialogue Centre for Policy | On 25 Feb 2016 Dependent population is defined as that part of the population that does not work and relies on others for the goods and services they consume. In practice, specific population age groups have in thei...
by Rachel Racelis | On 25 Feb 2016 Is Food Aid effective or does it actually lead to other food-related insecurities? This paper examines whether Food Aid in Bangladesh merely addresses the challenge of food supply disruptions induced...
by | 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 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Mustafizur Rahman | On 24 Feb 2016 Despite some recovery in recent years, Central Asian Republics (CARs) remain in difficult economic situation and they present a serious challenge to Asia. It is in the mutual interest of both CARs and...
by Ramgopal Agarwala | On 24 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 24 Feb 2016 South Asian organizations in countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are trying to professionalize management practices in recent years. Inspite of such efforts, employees indiscipli...
by Zafar Qureshi | On 24 Feb 2016 This is a preliminary report for the World Bank regarding emissions of greenhouse gases from hydropower reservoirs in India. The objective of the work, according to the terms-of reference, is, inter a...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 This booklet is aimed at women's groups, activists, students, lawyers, police and all those who are concerned with the debate on violence against women. It provides empirical evidence gathered from po...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 24 Feb 2016 Japan’s small farming represents a puzzle. Currently nearly three-quarters of farmland is operated by farmers whose farm size is well under optimal size. Being too small is the main reason for the hig...
by Yoshihisa Godo | On 24 Feb 2016 We consider a deterministic evolutionary model where players form expectations about future play. Players are not fully rational and have expectations that change over time in response to current payo...
by Massimiliano Landi | On 24 Feb 2016 The Asian financial crisis of 1997 involved significant economic and social costs for the affected economies, but also highlighted fundamental weaknesses in the structure and operations of their finan...
by Kevin Davis | On 24 Feb 2016 Seventy per cent of the world’s population are expected to live in urban areas by 2050. Food production to feed this larger, more urban and richer population will have to be done in the face of changi...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The prospective entry of generic dominated Indian pharmaceutical sector in the ambit of new technologies is likely to give filip to emergence of strong biopharmaceutical sector.It is pertinent in this...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 23 Feb 2016 The paper studies the post-Asian crisis investment performance of crisis affected countries in ASEAN. The empirical evidence clearly indicates that the ASEAN and East Asian countries are emerging from...
by Aekapol Chongvilaivan | On 23 Feb 2016 Transnational activism of the Uyghur diaspora in promoting the rights of their kindred back in China has been the focus of attention of the academia, press and media alike. This paper is a preliminary...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 Growing food demands and escalating environmental stresses create a series of challenges throughout Southeast Asia. Projected population and consumption patterns strongly suggest that food production...
by J. Ewing | On 22 Feb 2016 Feeding Asia’s growing population requires modern agriculture based on the latest science and technology. Asian countries should embrace modern farming techniques and invest in R&D to develop sustaina...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 One oft-neglected strategy to improve food availability is the simple act of reducing waste. Inefficiencies across the entire food supply chain – from ‘farm to fork’ – result in significant food losse...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper discusses the financial landscape of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a region engaged in building an economic community (a “single market and production base”) by 2015....
by Choong Lee | On 21 Feb 2016 Japan's ageing population also has a sort of depth. By “depth,” I mean that within the older population itself the proportion of very old people aged 75 years old and over is increasing particularly r...
by Atsushi Seike | On 21 Feb 2016 Over the last decade, the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) framework has become a workhorse for macroeconomic analysis in both academic and policy circles. Following this emerging trend,...
by Parantap Basu | On 21 Feb 2016 The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on wel...
by Dan Biller | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper discusses the relevance of Basel III to Asian emerging markets. It reviews some of the proposed regulations of Basel III in order to evaluate their likely implications for, and their abilit...
by Tarisa Watanagase | On 21 Feb 2016 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is expected to benefit from the significant growth in the Asia-Pacific payments market. Growth in economic activity would increase the size, scale, a...
by Tanai Khiaonarong | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy challenges when promoting intraregional exchange rate stability. First, there must b...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 21 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia’s food security challenges are multifaceted and complex, with an estimated 14 per cent of the population suffering undernourishment. The recent International Conference on Asian Food Se...
by Sally Trethewie | On 20 Feb 2016 Euthanasia has always been in limelight as a subject matter of debate in the field of medicine and law. The euthanasia debate, being a value debate, seems to have no concrete solution, at least in the...
by Sandeepa Bhat B | On 20 Feb 2016 This NTS Issues Brief outlines themes highlighted at the roundtable workshop on Managing Cross-Border Movements of People in Southeast Asia: Promoting Capacity and Response for Irregular Migration hel...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 19 Feb 2016 In this lecture, Janice Perlman discusses urban informality against the background of 40 years of research in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The lecture lays particular emphasis on how the changes ove...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 Informal builders provide the bulk of affordable housing and define large areas of our cities. Originally created for those long considered as poor and unable to house themselves, over time the result...
by Dr. Reinhard Goethert | On 19 Feb 2016 This lecture focuses on the role of citizens in developing cities, and shows that without the right behaviour and an engaged population even with the best infrastructure, cities will not be resilient....
by | On 19 Feb 2016 The lecture is based on the realization that little attention is being paid to the inexorable increase in urban populations, particularly in very low income countries. Almost all of the world’s next 2...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 The Government has to not only focus on the Indian Economic scenario but also at the World Economic scenario. The Budget will have to focus on both the long term and short term development plans and h...
by Kiron Nanda | On 18 Feb 2016 Asia’s rapid change across socio-economic and political spheres, amid population growth and rising demand for food, feed and energy supplies, is unprecedented. To strike a balance between economic gro...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 In Southeast Asia, rising population and technological advances mean that unfortunately human traffickers have a growing target base online and are making greater use of technology. Nevertheless, crea...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 Despite clear aspirations by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to create an effective framework to facilitate movements among skilled professionals within the ASEAN Economic Community...
by Demetrios G. Papademetriou | On 16 Feb 2016 Despite being the biggest contributors to climate change and home to majority of the world’s population, cities have so far had little say in global climate negotiations. As the frontlines of climate...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 Japan has reached the limits of conventional macroeconomic policy. In order to overcome deflation and achieve sustainable economic growth, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recently set an inflation target of 2...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 16 Feb 2016 This study examines the effect of the earthquake of October 8, 2005 on the price behaviour and activities of Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Sixty firms are selected from those listed on Karachi Stock E...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 15 Feb 2016 The major challenge facing the Indian economy at this juncture is to provide a big push to the growth momentum while striking a balance between the much-needed capital expenditure and fiscal consolida...
by S.D Naik | On 15 Feb 2016 An examination of the public pension and social security schemes in Pakistan reveals that the provision of regular pensions is limited to formal sector employees only. A number of social security sche...
by Naushin Mahmood | On 14 Feb 2016 How can we make sense of where the United States is in Afghanistan today? A poor country, wracked by 30 years of civil war, finds itself at the mercy of insurgents, terrorists, and narco-traffickers....
by Michael O'Hanlon | On 14 Feb 2016 In “Calibrating Law Enforcement and Its Purpose,” published by Addiction on November 10, 2014, Vanda Felbab-Brown comments on Harold Pollack and Peter Reuter’s article “Does tougher enforcement make d...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 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 Indian income inequality reflects the high values typical of most low and middle income economies, well above those observed for the high income LIS countries. There is also substantial variation in i...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 14 Feb 2016 India has the second largest population of elderly people after China. The living arrangement of the elderly is seen as a parameter of great importance in understanding their plight in developing coun...
by Mitali Sen | On 14 Feb 2016 As the world’s largest democracy and the second most populous country in the world, India has experienced sea change since its independence in various facets of development. However as per public heal...
by Anuj Sabharwal | On 13 Feb 2016 The paper attempts to analyze the role of public policy adjustments in facilitating the medical tourism sector in Asian countries in response to recent global economic events. While falling incomes ma...
by Vinay Singh | On 13 Feb 2016 Two connected observations often loom large in discussions about marriage in India. The first is that marriage for women on the sub-continent often occurs at a relatively early age, and this is cause...
by Lester Andrist | On 13 Feb 2016 Globally, there are 26 ongoing armed conflicts and nearly one sixth of the world’s population lives in so-called ‘weak governance’ zones.1 In 2009 alone, the United Nations estimated that 42 million p...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Globalization has made the free flow of goods and ideas an integral part of modern life. The world has benefited greatly from the accelerated exchange of products, services, news, music, research and...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 With growing urbanization what is required is the ease of transportation. It is now high time that Government Budgets need to have a substantial allocation for this. After all transportation is lifeli...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 11 Feb 2016 The term segregation has a strong connotation with residential neighbourhoods, and most studies investigating ethnic segregation focus on the urban mosaic of ethnic concentrations in residential neigh...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 The existence of medical pluralism has often been understood in terms of cultural differences in the understanding of health and disease, or as predominance of folk models of disease versus biomedical...
by Veena Das | On 09 Feb 2016 A Baseline Study was conducted in 11 cities in early 2012 by the State Health Resource Centre. The survey focused on understanding utilization of maternal and child health services by urban slum popul...
by Priyanka Sahu | On 09 Feb 2016 This paper examined the role of culture in urban health inequity by drawing a case of a basti in Surat (City in Gujarat, India). Like many other Indian cities, Surat is vulnerable in terms of populati...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 How relevant are the risk score calculators based on the Framingham study for India? There are certain limitations for the use of this model in India. The relationship of risk factors to cardiac event...
by Anand Zachariah | On 09 Feb 2016 The census of agriculture is one of the key pillars of a national statistical system, and in many developing countries it is often the only means of producing statistical information on the structure...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 This report updates the global assessment provided in the first report on The State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, published in 2007. It focuses particularly on chan...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expa...
by Dongshu Ou | On 07 Feb 2016 The study analyses market perception about the performance of Pakistani commercial banks due to financial liberalisation and deregulation measures taken by the central bank over the last two decades....
by Kalbe Abbas | On 06 Feb 2016 Since the introduction of rational expectations in the literature, most of the research focus in the area of macroeconomics has been investigating micro foundations of macroeconomic theory and transmi...
by Wasim Shahid Malik | On 06 Feb 2016 Violence against women at the workplace is a major problem, though the statistical evidence is not well developed for many countries. This report aims at gaining a better insight into the extent to wh...
by Kea Tijdens | On 05 Feb 2016 The 2014 Cambodia NIS assessment reveals that overall Cambodia has a weak integrity system. It is not strong enough to uphold the rule of law, ensure sustainable development and a good quality of life...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 This study attempts to explore the impact of foreign aid on the quality of governance and how conflicts, whether internal or external affect the overall situation. Conflicts affect governance directly...
by Unbreen Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 This study empirically investigates the impact of foreign capital and governance on the economic growth by employing country level data from 1984 to 2010 for Asian developing countries. Governance; fo...
by Unbreen Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 Present study is conducted to measure the impact of financial integration on economic growth in Asian developing economies using panel data of twelve Asian countries from 1984-2012. In first part of a...
by Madiha Bashir | On 03 Feb 2016 The issue of imperfect competition in economic theory has been
repeatedly discussed given its importance in the distribution of economic resources. In this study, market power measured by price over...
by Salman Ahmad | On 03 Feb 2016 Although labour force participation in Pakistan has improved from 50.33 percent in 2006-07 to 57.24 percent in 2010-111 as well as employment has increased from 47.65 million to 53.84 million, however...
by Syed Akther Shah | On 02 Feb 2016 The agriculture sector in Pakistan sustains the livelihoods of 45 per cent of the national population. Both the direct and indirect contributions of the agriculture sector to overall growth and wellbe...
by Golam Rasul | On 02 Feb 2016 This study examines the challenges the labor market faces in a number of Arab countries with rentier economies - namely, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. One of the major challenges the lab...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 The 2014 Arab Opinion Index is the third annual survey of Arab public opinion carried out by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. In 2011, the survey was carried out in 12 Arab countries,...
by Arab Center for Policy Studies | On 02 Feb 2016 The aggressive media campaigns by pesticide companies do not comply with FAO guidelines for advertising pesticides. Pakistan adopts FAO guidelines on the issues where Pakistani law is silent. The Paki...
by Shahid Zia | On 02 Feb 2016 Remittances – money sent home by migrants – can help families survive conflicts or natural disasters. However, humanitarian agencies often fail to consider remittances when planning interventions. Thi...
by Paul Harvey | On 01 Feb 2016 In emerging economies like India, banking sector is very important. But banking sector is at 'crossroads'. There are many issues which this sector is facing and research which would generate fresh i...
by S.S. Mundra | On 01 Feb 2016 Girls and boys in developing countries are enrolling in secondary school in greater numbers than ever before, giving them knowledge and skills for healthy, productive lives. While this is good news, m...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 About 2.7 billion people do not have access to modern energy. Without it, they have little chance of achieving a decent living standard. Much more economic progress is needed to lift the living standa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Savings behaviour is important because of the close relation between savings and growth. Further, the direction of causality between savings and growth is of critical importance for development policy...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 30 Jan 2016 Currently, corruption is one of the most discussed topics in the everyday life of Bangladeshi people. They experience it at almost every stage from the top lair of the bureaucracy to the petty grocery...
by Harun Rashid | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper reviews the party declarations, election manifestos, party structures and level of women's presence within five different political parties as mentioned above. The election manifestos and co...
by . BRAC | On 30 Jan 2016 The primary objective of this paper is to find whether or not the governance and institutions matter for enhancing Asia’s trade. In this study, we have performed a comprehensive empirical analysis of...
by Prabir De | 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 This article tries to analyze the multiple aspects of separation barriers built by Israel since its inception in 1948, and evaluate their effectiveness in order to show whether such a policy makes Isr...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 Mountain communities in the developing world are often marginalised from political influence and economic opportunities and generally face high levels of poverty. The ecosystems they dwell in are amon...
by Mirjam Macchi | On 28 Jan 2016 The Survey on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Education in India and South Asia was commissioned by infoDev to be undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers, India. The Survey is a third...
by The Survey on Information and Communication Techno ICT | On 28 Jan 2016 Phobjikha Valley, a wetland situated on the western slopes of Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, is an important wintering habitat for the vulnerable Black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis). One of t...
by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel ICIMOD | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to understand the importance of reducing air pollution and its likely trans-boundary effects, it is important to first review the socioeconomic situation of the South Asian member states. Sou...
by Mahmood Khwaja | On 28 Jan 2016 With increasing urbanization and economic growth, air pollution is becoming an urgent concern in South Asian countries. The study upon which this paper is based has been conducted at SDPI, to look int...
by Mahmood Khwaja | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper enquires into the implications of the technological paradigm
shift for small enterprises. Those who would not consider conforming to the regulatory framework (specifically enlisted under...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 The study finds that a high order of technology and yield gap exists and
indicates that there is enormous scope to accelerate the pace of growth in the production of both oilseeds as well as pulses....
by B.L. Kumar | 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 This note highlights the role of population-based public health; both in preventing disease outbreaks and managing those outbreaks whenever they occur. While its importance is well recognised in devel...
by Monica Das Gupta | On 28 Jan 2016 Rapid urbanisation in India, driven by a globalised economy and its accelerated growth, will increasingly demand attention of policy makers. The objective of this policy note is to throw light on heal...
by Rajeev Ahuja | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper is an attempt to study plausible causal relationship of women’s physiology and behaviour components with fertility in more or less non-industrial rural populations in Orissa, an Eastern Ind...
by Satyajeet Nanda | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper provides an overview of the changing patterns of O-FDI from India over 1975-2001. It shows that the increasing number of Indian TNCs during 1990s has been accompanied by a number of changes...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 28 Jan 2016 While recognizing that education contributes to economic growth, investments in human capital contributed to high economic growth and also to better income distribution in East Asia; and human capital...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The central focus of this paper is to underscore emerging patterns and issues in the availability of and access to physical infrastructure in major Indian states during the two decades since the 1980s...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 The research study highlights the financial inclusion needs of cycle rickshaw pullers in India. These include access to service sectors; improvement of asset base; employment of their women; increase...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 This case study explores the socioeconomic experiences of gender and sexuality minority peoples in India, especially in respect of ways in which sexual and gender ‘difference’ may be correlated to eco...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 Meghalaya is a landlocked and largely agrarian state in northeast India with an approximate population of three million. Various government surveys report that roughly half the state lives below the p...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on a particular aspect of such rural-urban difference, namely nutritional status of children. Over the years it is found that under nutrition among children in India; have declining...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Jan 2016 Early childhood stunting or linear growth retardation predicts poor human capital. While stunting rates in India are unacceptably high, the decline in stunting over the past decades demonstrates that...
by Harshpal Singh Sachdev | On 26 Jan 2016 Ensuring sustainable access to basic services in urban India has continued to remain a major challenge for civic bodies. A fast growing urban population has exerted great pressure on the provisioning...
by Keshab Das | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper gives an overview of international migration from the state of Gujarat, the state with a long history of international migration and significantly large migrant population abroad. Even as s...
by Biplab Dhak | On 26 Jan 2016 The relationship between women’s access to credit and their empowerment is a theme that seems to have lost much of its sheen and sharpness during the phase of commercialization of microfinance in Indi...
by Tara Nair | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper uses the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) to estimate change in total factor productivity (TFP) and its constituent components for software companies in India during 1999–2008. On average...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 24 Jan 2016 A flurry of quick new glances at India from different sections of the international community reflects a surge of interest in a country freshly under Narendra Modi’s leadership of anticipatory asserti...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 The briefing paper primarily focuses on violations of women’s and girls’ reproductive rights and right to be free from sexual violence arising from child marriage in six South Asian countries—Afghanis...
by Center for Reproductive Rights CRR | On 23 Jan 2016 The paper examines the output elasticity of infrastructure for four South Asian countries viz., India,Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka using Pedroni’s panel cointegration technique for the period 19...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 23 Jan 2016 Research suggests that development interventions that do not take mountain specificities into account may threaten rather than facilitate development for the inhabitants in a sustainable mountain envi...
by Brigitte Hoermann | On 23 Jan 2016 Energy remains one of the key inputs to socio-economic progress in developing societies. South Asian nations, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lank...
by Anoop Singh | On 23 Jan 2016 In the recent past, the focus of economic policy in India has shifted to issues of equitable growth. This implies that the economy should not only maintain the tempo of growth but also spread the bene...
by Sabyasachi Kar | On 23 Jan 2016 In many states of India, there are several evidences that indicate a widespread practice of using female birth intervention. As a result, an alarmingly lowest ever sex ratio in the age group 0-6 has b...
by R. S. Bora | On 23 Jan 2016 Using the data available through the Sample Registration System, the present paper employs a decomposition methodology to analyse the transition in fertility in India and in 15 of major states for the...
by Alok Chaurasia | On 23 Jan 2016 The growing demand for public transport in mega cities has serious effects on urban ecosystems, especially due to the increased atmospheric pollution and changes in land use patterns. An ecologically...
by Rashmi Singh | On 23 Jan 2016 India now needs to strengthen and harmonise its institutional mechanisms for development cooperation through clear policy statements. In addition to national foreign policy and economic interests, acc...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | 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 The 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report exposed the hidden crisis of education in conflict-affected countries. Two years later, to mark the birthday of Malala, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Talib...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura UNESCO | On 23 Jan 2016 An econometric analysis of the impact of import liberalization on price-cost margins in Indian industries in the post-reform period is carried out using firm-level data for eight manufacturing industr...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 22 Jan 2016 The present study tries to examine the behaviour of various Indian interest rates such as call money rate, and yields on secondary market securities with maturity periods of 15 to 91 days, 1-year, 5-y...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 22 Jan 2016 This study examines the impact of the principal financial crises in emerging markets in recent years on the incidence of poverty in the countries in question. The growth impact is first identified by...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 India is witnessing rapid growth in the urban centers. Urbanization trend is expected to accelerate in coming decades as well. It is projected that the number of cities with a population of more than...
by Urban Climate Change Resilience UCCR | On 21 Jan 2016 In our research on science policy and inclusion and ethics in S&T policy we identified that in the Indian context Access, Equity and Inclusion (AEI) can be the norms to assess the policy outcomes and...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper provides an analysis of the impact of these reforms on pharmaceutical R&D in India. It looks into the context in which the reforms were introduced, the nature and trends of R&D e...
by Reji K Joseph | On 21 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 discussion paper examines the use of three different technological options in the Indian agriculture. It shows that support to organic farming is increasing but at this stage innovation related i...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 21 Jan 2016 This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for internatio...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 Over one billion people around the world live with a disability. However, disability issues are not included in any of the Millennium Development Goals, targets or indicators, thereby representing a l...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 This report, published by the Population Division, is the third in the series of the analysis of reproductive behaviour worldwide. It discusses levels and trends of fertility, the timing of childbeari...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 Indian children are very short, on average, compared with children living in other countries. Because height reflects early life health and net nutrition, and because good early life health also helps...
by Alessandro Tarozzi | On 20 Jan 2016 The objective of this study is to examine the factors that influence the occurrence of childhood anaemia in North-East India by exploring dataset of the Reproductive and Child Health-II Survey (RCH-II...
by S Dey | On 20 Jan 2016 This article attempts to highlight the prevalence of zinc deficiency and its health and economic consequences in South Asian developing countries and to shed light on possible approaches to combating...
by S Akhtar | On 20 Jan 2016 The World Population Ageing 2009 report, by DESA’s Population Division, which updates the 2007 edition, provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes a series of indicators...
by United Nations (UN) | On 19 Jan 2016 The relationship between poor sanitation, water borne disease, mortality and malnutrition is well documented. Statistics about the number of deaths due to diarrhea as well as stunting caused by malnut...
by Deepak Sanan | On 19 Jan 2016 This collaborative working paper, and the shorter technical briefing note derived from it, discuss hidden dimensions of urban poverty, and the different ways in which they impact men and women. This g...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The issue of Bangladeshi migration in India has become a major concern
for policy makers in recent years. Indeed, India’s eastern border is
facing major illegal activities viz. the influx of illegal...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The Indian Diaspora has a powerful influence on the global community where Indians constitute a diverse and a heterogeneous group that shares Indian origin and intrinsic values. Earlier migration was...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper: (i) examines long-term care (LTC) protection in 46 developing and developed countries covering 80 per cent of the world’s population; (ii) provides (data on LTC coverage for the population...
by Xenia Scheil-Adlung | On 19 Jan 2016 The present paper examines the capital structure adjustment dynamics of listed non-financial corporations in seven East Asian countries during 1994-2002. Compared to firms in the least affected countr...
by Sarmistha Pal | On 19 Jan 2016 What has allowed the Indian print media to grow, while newspapers are declining in the west? The first is literacy. Back in 1981, shortly after India’s magazine market got new life, only 40 percent of...
by T. N. Ninan | On 19 Jan 2016 This report investigates student awareness, interests and aspirations around general and vocational education. Using a survey administered to class 12 students in one district each in Rajasthan, Chatt...
by Megha Aggarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 Anemia is defined as a reduction in the body’s red cell mass 1, reflected in a reduced oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. The World Health Organisation criterion for the diagnosis of anemia is a l...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point
of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education a...
by Runu Bhatka | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, includ...
by Maurice Schiff | On 15 Jan 2016 In this paper, an attempt has been made to understand the general, reproductive, and mental health status of migrant women from Kerala who stay in the working women’s hostels. The present study is bas...
by R. S. Reshmi | On 13 Jan 2016 This article traces the different elements that explain and help understand the phenomena of declining child sex ratios in India along with the debates on the subject, with specific focus on urban loc...
by Preet Rustagi | On 13 Jan 2016 Demographic dynamics have strong repercussions for development and need to be addressed in the definition of the global development strategy for post 2015. Despite divergent trends across countries, i...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 While the unpublished findings of the ‘Caste Census’ in India might not receive serious attention if ever made public, some of the socio-economic data, made available by the same Census, can set the m...
by Ronojoy Sen | On 10 Jan 2016 The success of the new “comprehensive bilateral dialogue”, between India and Pakistan on terrorist strike at an Indian military installation if launched by mid-January 2016 as anticipated, is not ass...
by P S Suryanarayana | On 09 Jan 2016 India’s current trade negotiations have three agreements as top priorities. Two of these the India ASEAN services agreement and the bilateral trade and investment agreement with the European Union (EU...
by Laldinkima Sailo | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper looks at the flow of ideas from the South Asian Diaspora groups to their original homelands. This is occurring in the areas of economic management and political change. As a result of the in...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper throws light on the view that the Indian state has been one that has been perpetrated by injustice irrespective of a series of ground-breaking legislative acts that enshrine a number of soci...
by John Harriss | On 09 Jan 2016 In this paper, the aim is to survey the findings of village studies that have been accomplished over the last two decades the era of economic liberalisation in India together with those of larger-scal...
by J. Jeyaranjan | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper focuses on India’s approach to collaboration on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief with major powers and within various regional initiatives. This paper begins with a brief review o...
by C. Raja Mohan | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper tries to explain the main characteristics of the Indian government and corporate bond markets and what has contributed to the poor development of the latter. It goes on to show that an oppo...
by Chandrani Sarma | 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 The paper reviews the evolution of India’s diaspora policy and examines the possibilities and pitfalls that could arise from Delhi’s new political enthusiasm for overseas Indian communities. Engagemen...
by C. Raja Mohan | On 09 Jan 2016 The Pakistan Army’s ideological hegemony, especially in the country’s Punjabi-speaking heartland, the continuing focus on the state’s narrative of a religion-based unitary identity which is under a co...
by Aasim Akhtar | On 08 Jan 2016 The system of participatory (or joint) forest management was commenced in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan in 1996 through Asian Development Bank's funded project. These forest refo...
by Tanvir Ali | On 08 Jan 2016 The study of geography of poverty and peoples’ changing livelihood and their relation with globalization are some of the major areas of geographic research in the present context (Subedi, 2005). So, P...
by Basant Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 Land is regarded as an important source of livelihoods to many people, especially rural people. For those people, access to and control over land resources is the source of livelihoods. Therefore, lan...
by Samana Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 Understanding the demographic changes that are likely to unfold over the coming years, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they present for achieving sustainable development, is important...
by United Nations (UN) | On 08 Jan 2016 The formation of regional production networks in East Asia has occurred mainly through market forces, without much help from regional institutions in promoting the creation of a single Asian market. W...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 Most projections envision continued rapid growth in the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, ACI) over the next...
by Fan Zhai | On 07 Jan 2016 Cross-border production networks have been playing an increasingly important role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries’ trade in recent years, but micro-level studies are ra...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 Infrastructure connectivity in Northeast Asia — comprising the northeastern People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, and the Russi...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper investigates and analyzes the present status, potential, and prospects of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). The move towards the ASEAN Economic Co...
by Suthiphand Chirathivat | On 07 Jan 2016 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement seems to have reached a crossroads: it could either be a building block toward achieving economic integration in Asia and the Pacific, or trigger the form...
by Inkyo Cheong | On 07 Jan 2016 Motivated by the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia over the last decade, this paper studies the challenges faced by the Asian “noodle bowl” — overlapping, multiple trade rules, reg...
by Richard Baldwin | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It finds that firm-heterogeneity matters in RT...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 Limited statistics on internal migration, international migration, and remittances worldwide prohibit understanding of migration’s role in the agricultural transformation process. Insights from the qu...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper explores the long-term challenges for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The region has emerged as an important production base...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 06 Jan 2016 This paper presents results and findings from a survey aimed at understanding perceptions among Bhutan’s unemployed youth. It also provides analysis of the results and concludes with an eight point pl...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 Japan has suffered from sluggish economic growth and recession since the 1990s, a phenomenon dubbed “Japan’s Lost Decade.” The People’s Republic of China, many countries in the eurozone, and the Unite...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 06 Jan 2016 The unexpected increase in the number of census towns (CTs) in the last census has thrust them into the spotlight. Using a hitherto unexploited dataset, it is found that many of the new CTs satisfied...
by Kanhu Pradhan | On 05 Jan 2016 The paper describes the estimation exercise, i.e. the Urban Infrastructure Per Capita Investment Cost estimation and projection of urban finance requirements for the period 2006-2031 referred to as th...
by Shubhagato Dasgupta | On 05 Jan 2016 The present study was taken up in this context with the objective of examining the land
laws and administration in AP and see how the existing laws are implemented, forced
acquisition of lands is ta...
by Ramachandraiah C | On 05 Jan 2016 Review of The Turn of the Tortoise: The Challenge and Promise of India’s Future
by T.N.Ninan;
Allen Lane by Penguin India, 2015;
Pp 368, Rs 699.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 02 Jan 2016 Economic growth averaging 5.8% since 2010 has helped to lift 3.3 million Indonesians out of poverty. Yet 28 million were still living below the government’s poverty line in March 2014. Indonesia’s nat...
by Priasto Aji Aji | On 01 Jan 2016 While official poverty in Indonesia is relatively low at 12%, an additional 27% of the population live just above the poverty line and small shocks can drive them back into poverty. Poor and vulnerabl...
by Kefei You | On 01 Jan 2016 While official poverty in Indonesia is relatively low at 12%, an additional 27% of the population live just above the poverty line and small shocks can drive them back into poverty. Poor and vulnerabl...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jan 2016 Global capital flows into emerging markets, including those in Asia, continue to be volatile, generating both benefits and costs. The latter are associated with episodes of currency and banking crises...
by Ramón López | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines the trends in urbanization in the People’s Republic of China.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is experiencing a trend toward population concentration in its large coastal c...
by Zhao Chen | On 01 Jan 2016 With many environmental assets, and industrial pressure only beginning to develop, Myanmar could effectively form policies and regulations that ensure sustainable growth and conservation of key natura...
by Sakiko Tanaka | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers. Using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey, we focus on identifying the effec...
by Xiaoxi Zhang | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an empirical general equilibrium model. The model allows for input-output linkages and...
by Jong-Wha Lee | On 30 Dec 2015 The failures of water management have been extensively studied and reviewed and the shortcomings are listed.
by Ravi Chopra | On 29 Dec 2015 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 This paper will address why the Japanese economy has been trapped in a prolonged slowdown and will provide some remedies for revitalizing the economy.
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary | On 29 Dec 2015 Intense climate-related natural disasters—floods, storms, as well as droughts and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. Is there an ominous link between the global increase of these hydrometeoro...
by Ramón López | On 29 Dec 2015 Southeast Asia is vulnerable to climate change, yet is also on a carbon intensive development trajectory.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has analyzed the potential role the region can play in climate...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 In Bangladesh, pourashavas are an alternative destination to large cities. With the influx of urban residents within the next decades, governments and development partners must lead pourashavas toward...
by Norio Saito | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. Findings show that six Asian countries pursued significant legal and judicial reforms follow...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 29 Dec 2015 The purpose of this study is to better understand the likely impact on Asian economies and financial institutions of various recent global financial reforms, including Basel III capital adequacy and l...
by Peter Morgan | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the history of East Asian monetary policy frameworks since 1990; describes current monetary policy frameworks, including issue of price versus financial stability for a central bank...
by Peter Morgan | On 29 Dec 2015 The paper estimates the potential gains to be large, particularly for South Asia, assuming that the policy- and infrastructure-related variables that increase trade costs are reduced via economic coop...
by Fan Zhai | On 29 Dec 2015 Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of...
by Pradumna Rana | On 29 Dec 2015 We estimate the response of Asian stock market prices to exogenous monetary policy shocks using a vector error correction model. In our paper, monetary policy transmits to stock market price through t...
by Farzana Sehrin | On 29 Dec 2015 With closer regional integration there is increasing interest within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and on the part of ASEAN's dialogue partners in the potential gains of closer co...
by Termsak Chalermpalanupap | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper, Mapping Barriers to Trade in South Asia, examines the structural and procedural barriers to South Asian trade. In doing so, it finds many of these barriers are not as rooted in regional ge...
by Sagar Prasai | On 26 Dec 2015 This study examines the relationship between firm characteristics and borrowing from commercial banks by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and five Sout...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 24 Dec 2015 This paper examines the gains for South Asian economies from integratingwith East Asia and India’s role in this process. Evidence of increased pan-Asian integration exists but the process is uneven. B...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 24 Dec 2015 In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated par...
by Duangkamon Chotikapanich | On 24 Dec 2015 India is the global epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previousresearch indicates that the majority of HIV-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner,...
by Priya Lall | On 23 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 Sri Lanka has achieved a high level of financial inclusion compared to other South Asian countries. Its financial sector comprises a wide range of financial institutions providing financial services s...
by Saman Kelegama | On 23 Dec 2015 Employing data for 1992-2012, the article examines the factors affecting the capital structure of publicly listed Indian banks from a corporate finance perspective and compares the findings by exploit...
by Goutam Chatterjee | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper aims at understanding the reasons behind the institutionalization of Indo-French defence cooperation after 1998, and at assessing the future prospects for this collaboration. By retracing i...
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 This paper first describes Mizoram’s Burmese population and its integration in Mizo society. It then examines border trade and its implications, with a particular focus on Aizawl’s central market, Bar...
by Julien Levesque | On 22 Dec 2015 Disaster risk now presents one of the most serious threats to inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development. Coupled with anticipated increases in the frequency and intensity of weather-related...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 The Indian education ecosystem today consists of the government, private sector, and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that have helped provide education to millions of children. The enactment of t...
by Meril Antony | On 21 Dec 2015 Tabled by V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, in Lok Sabha in December 2011, The Right of Citizens for Time Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Redre...
by Amit Chandra | On 21 Dec 2015 Public investment financed by the government's own or borrowed resources do not provide an adequate answer to the problem of relatively low investment.
by T.N. Ninan | On 18 Dec 2015 Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject specific teachers at the senior secondary level, we estimate the importa...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 18 Dec 2015 The success or failure of a company is often ascribed to the behavior of its CEO. Yet little is known about what top managers actually do, whether this matters for firm performance, and why it differ...
by Oriana Bandiera | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper highlights the emerging significance of newer and non-major ports and the consequent changes in the port system, both hierarchical and regional. The relevance of port focused development co...
by Gloria Kuzur | 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 Understanding the demographic changes that are likely to unfold over the coming years, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they present for achieving sustainable development, is important...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 17 Dec 2015 Compared with other demographic processes, remarkably little attention has been given to the way internal migration varies between countries around the world. We set out the rationale for such compari...
by Elin Charles-Edwards | On 17 Dec 2015 Sri Lanka, home to a plethora of ethnically diverse communities, saw horrific
communal bloodshed in July 1983. Over three decades down the line, history seems to be repeating itself as hordes of Budd...
by Chaarvi Modi | On 17 Dec 2015 Major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...
by David E. Bloom | On 17 Dec 2015 Many low and middle-income countries have pluralistic health systems with a variety of providers of health-related goods and services in terms of their level of training, their ownership (public or pr...
by Henry Lucas | On 16 Dec 2015 The article presents the inconsistencies in the revised Draft ART Bill of 2010, particularly with regard to provisions about surrogacy and citizenship of the babies born from a surrogate mother.
by Aastha Sharma | On 16 Dec 2015 Published in February 2012 by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the United Nations Development Programme and the Asian Development Bank, the report focuses on...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 16 Dec 2015 The railways in India would not have been possible without the efforts of a few ambitious and adventurous men, who had dreams, took tremendous risks and had the ability and dexterity to persuade a ran...
by Anuradha Kumar | On 16 Dec 2015 The disadvantaged and marginalized groups in Nepal, and particularly women and Dalits, face grave hurdles to acquire post secondary education. Lack of educational access has deprived the rural and m...
by Pramod Dhakal | On 15 Dec 2015 The thesis that Asian values are less supportive of freedom and more concerned with order than discipline than are Western values and that the claims of human rights in the areas of political and civi...
by Amartya Sen | On 10 Dec 2015 This paper discusses India’s demographic dynamics and
argues that policymakers have the widest window of opportunity with that segment of population which is poised to enter the workforce between 203...
by Ali Mehdi | On 09 Dec 2015 The World Economic Forum along with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) convened the National Strategy Day on India on 3rd and 4th of November to provide a platform to boost economic growth and...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 The immense social, economic and environmental consequences of climate change and loss of essential ecosystems are becoming clear. Their effects are already being felt in floods, droughts, and devasta...
by | On 07 Dec 2015 The global number of forced migrants is currently the highest since the Second World War.
This is a major concern to public health: lack of access to safe water, food, sanitation, and inadequate shel...
by Peter Heudtlass | On 30 Nov 2015 Intense climate-related disasters—floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atm...
by Vinod Thomas | On 30 Nov 2015 The Arctic sea ice has refrozen after a relatively longer summer this year compared with 2011. There are encouraging reports for the shipping industry and it is believed that similar navigation condit...
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 24 Nov 2015 Indonesia’s rate of birth registration is imprecisely measured but is low, especially among the poorer, rural, population. At the same time, the country has developed a system of population registrati...
by Cate Sumner | On 20 Nov 2015 This Population Bulletin updates a previous Bulletin from 2006, India's Population Reality: Reconciling Change and Tradition. India's population (currently at 1.3 billion) will exceed China's before 2...
by O.P. Sharma | On 18 Nov 2015 For a large variety of data recorded by the Census of India, such as those
on language, age structure, religion, and on individual Scheduled Castes and
Tribes, the district is the lowest level of ag...
by Hemanshu Kumar | On 17 Nov 2015 It is often emphasised that seigniorage financing of public sector deficits is technically a “free
lunch” if the economy has not attained the full employment levels. However, conservative
macroecono...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 16 Nov 2015 This study measures the nutritional status (using Body Mass Index or BMI) of TB patients before, at two months, and after completion of TB treatment (DOTS) to study the changes during treatment and it...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 29 Oct 2015 Employment of children amounts to denial of rights of future generation and depriving children of their opportunities to growth. Moreover, working at tender age in hazardous conditions exposes childre...
by Helen Sekhar | On 26 Oct 2015 This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and incre...
by Samik Chowdhury | On 20 Oct 2015 Narendra Modi is the first PM after Indira Gandhi with the power and possibly the intention to change the Indian system.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Oct 2015 As the Indian Ocean region increasingly becomes a more important geopolitical space, global powers and smaller states are laying down their stakes. This paper examines the military build-up of major I...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapi...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 This paper is an attempt to expand the debate on the impact that the South Asian Diaspora groups are having on the countries of their origin. It goes beyond the discussion of the quantum and structure...
by | On 08 Oct 2015 This paper examines the impact of changing population age structure on economic growth in China and India. The paper present various theoretical perspectives and supporting evidence to emphasis the si...
by William Joe | On 06 Oct 2015 This paper examines the trafficking of vulnerable populations in Southeast Asia and the effectiveness of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in combating human trafficking in the region. Human...
by | On 29 Sep 2015 This paper argues that the state is an important institution for initiating economic reforms in India. Ideas held within the state are especially important. When the state reposed faith in a closed ec...
by | On 28 Sep 2015 This paper investigates the determinants of energy and emission intensities of manufacturing firms in India, from 2000 to 2014. Given that Indian manufacturing sector is one of the world’s most pollut...
by Santosh K. Sahu | On 25 Sep 2015 South Asian countries like India and Pakistan had in the beginning placed the State at the “commanding heights of the economy”. Later, the State was justifiably displaced from that high pedestal. Howe...
by | On 24 Sep 2015 The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors tha...
by United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-Habitat | On 23 Sep 2015 Although India’s plans for market reforms and opening up agriculture with earnest optimism and anticipation, every step on the way was laced with caution and deliberation and every action was weighed...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 21 Sep 2015 Review of Death Wasn't Painful: Death Wasn’t Painful: Stories of Indian Fighter Pilots from the 1971 War by Dhirendra S Jafa, New Delhi, Sage Publications; 2014. pp. 268, Rs. 445/-. ISBN-13: 978-81321...
by SK Sriharsha | On 19 Sep 2015 Research on India's counterinsurgency practice is divided into two categories. One emphasizes moderation in the use of coercive power, while the other highlights its wanton abuse. This paper attempts...
by Kaustav Dhar Chakrabarti | On 18 Sep 2015 Categories that capture the Indian sub-continent-origin population – ‘Indian’, ‘Pakistani’, ‘Bangladeshi’ – have been included on all the British census forms (1991, 2001, 2011) that have asked about...
by | On 17 Sep 2015 Increasing literacy in the Indian states is possible by increasing enrolments in elementary education. This study explores the later by primary and upper primary enrollments for nineteen major Indian...
by Brijesh C. Purohit | On 14 Sep 2015 Review of Christmas in Calcutta: Anglo Indian Stories and Essays by Robyn Andrews;
Sage Publications, 2014; pp 208, Rs. 695.
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 10 Sep 2015 After generations of wanderlust, that often snapped ties with their roots, Goans from far and near are returning with renewed interest to trace their origins. And they may be the lucky ones. Goa with...
by Frederick Noronha | On 09 Sep 2015 Cross-border population movement, an indispensible feature of the current phase of globalisation, has led to significant changes in the migration landscape. Factors like temporisation of labour flows,...
by | On 09 Sep 2015 In India, Basel III capital regulation has been implemented from April 1, 2013 in phases and it will be fully implemented as on March 31, 2019. Do we need Basel III for a country like India? What are...
by N.S. Viswanathan | On 08 Sep 2015 In India, research on human development has received considerable importance from both the academic and policy point of view. However, all the previous studies on human development mainly focused on t...
by Swati Dutta | On 04 Sep 2015 This report presents the industrial cluster development policy of the Republic of Korea and draws lessons from that experience for South Asia. It briefly reviews Korean industrial policy since the 196...
by Jong-il Kim | On 31 Aug 2015 If there is one thing the Census 2011 shows, it's that India will remain overwhelmingly Hindu forever
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 Aug 2015 This study aims to shed light on the industry that profits from the recruitment of women from South Asian countries into domestic work employment in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Banglad...
by Katharine Jones | On 27 Aug 2015 This paper argues that India’s foreign economic policies were shaped to a substantial extent by developmental ideas within the Indian state and by the international context of the Cold War. Individual...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 How is the RBI helping the government to create the conditions for a sustainable growth? Structural reforms will help
strengthen this growth – two weeks ago, the Government announced Indradhanush, la...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 25 Aug 2015 the paper provides an overview of the growth and status of Indian tea plantation sector delineating the trends
in economic performance in the global context in a historic perspective. It then examine...
by Viswanathan P K | On 25 Aug 2015 The paper highlights that performance assessments should account for non-linear dynamics of progress, whereby an improvement at a higher level represents greater achievement than an equal improvement...
by William Joe | On 21 Aug 2015 In a period not longer than 10 years (2002 – to present), 13 provinces at the common border of Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV Development Triangle) have cooperated for common development and achieved a lo...
by Hoang Thi My Nhi | On 19 Aug 2015 Against the post-New Industrial Policy (1991) growth witnessed in large-scale industries, a corresponding boom in the small and mid-sized domestic industry has been conspicuously absent. The paper see...
by Amit Chandra | On 13 Aug 2015 The National Policy on Biofuels sets an indicative target of 20per cent blending of biofuels by 2017 to tackle the twin problem of energy security and climate change. Although biofuels seem to be the...
by Gopinath Reddy | On 13 Aug 2015 In 2014 our previous study ‘Future Diets’ (Keats and Wiggins 2014) described how across the world an increasing share of the population is overweight and obese, with the rate of increase particularly...
by Rafael Moreira Claro | On 12 Aug 2015 India’s urban transition has the potential to shift the country’s social, environmental, political and economic trajectory. Urbanisation will interact with the country’s ongoing demographic evolution...
by Indian Institute for Human Settlements | On 12 Aug 2015 This publication highlights the relevance in India and the multiplicity of entry points of the right to the city as a vehicle for social inclusion and sustainable social development for Indian cities....
by Centre de Sciences Humaines CSH | On 12 Aug 2015 Asian Societies with linguistic diversity have faced serious problems of loss or decline of vernacular and indigenous languages in modern times. Globalisation and urbanisation have brought a sea chang...
by P. Ishwara Bhat | On 10 Aug 2015 The emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a global component of business-society relationships has triggered many controversial debates in which CSR is either advocated as a source of...
by Damien Krichewsky | On 07 Aug 2015 Social Sector performs an effective function in human resource development and hence it is very important to study how the
economic reforms are influencing social sector expenditures. Any economic re...
by Runa Paul | On 03 Aug 2015 China and India have approached trade negotiations very differently: the former with confidence, the latter in a defensive crouch.
by T.N. Ninan | On 25 Jul 2015 Amidst calls for reform of international financial institutions and failure of existing development banks to satisfy the development financing needs of developing countries in general, and BRICS in pa...
by | On 16 Jul 2015 The report presents the (i) safeguard systems of Bhutan, India and Nepal; (ii) differences in national safeguard laws and institutional processes with the Asian Development Bank’s safeguards policy; (...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 13 Jul 2015 In an era where development issues concerning human security, health, and the environment transcend national boundaries, international cooperation has become more crucial than ever. This issue of the...
by Atty. Raphael Lotilla | On 10 Jul 2015 This paper attempts a welfare comparison of population where only ordinal information is available at the micro level in terms of multi-dimensional discrete well-being indicators. This does not involv...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 08 Jul 2015 This paper offers a regional overview of the mechanisms and consequences of the growing gender imbalances, as observed today in Asia. The extent and timings of the trend towards more masculine populat...
by Christophe Z. Guilmoto | On 02 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 case study is about an intervention by MSSRF for the development of livelihoods, as well as food and nutritional security, to address the issues of poverty and malnutrition among the women and ch...
by Chandrika C S | On 30 Jun 2015 The right to acquire/rent property anywhere in the nation is a fantasy fostered by the Constitution and the rhetoric of modernisation and urbanisation.
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 28 Jun 2015 This paper attempts to capture how India embraced the world
economy against the backdrop of the evolving domestic and international economic policy environment. It began with a brief overview of the...
by | On 24 Jun 2015 As India has embarked upon economic reforms during the 1990s, published data from the 2001 Census provides an opportunity to study the country's urbanization process with reference to regional inequal...
by R. B. Bhagat | On 23 Jun 2015 Politicians have continued taking people for granted and managed to stay above the law.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Jun 2015 This economic outlook by NCAER, analyses expected growth, inflation, balance of payments, fiscal balances, savings and investment trends, and covers the state of important sectors of the economy, inc...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 15 Jun 2015 Faster economic growth of some of the backward states like Bihar, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh in the post 2004-05 compels us to think if it is any indicative of convergence among states of India. How...
by Anjali Masarguppi | On 10 Jun 2015 The study attempts to analyse congestion problem with emphasis on having a policy incorporating
realistic solution for having affordable, accessible, reliable and acceptable mobility. It has been fou...
by Tarun Mittal | On 09 Jun 2015 The present study discusses the trends and patterns in agricultural growth at the national and sub-national levels in India. Data on important variables like area, production, input use and value of o...
by Elumalai Kannan | On 04 Jun 2015 Direct mail is in danger of being vanished from this country. Mismanagement and lack of interest from the government bodies has made mail’s future precarious, finds out PrintWeek India.
by PrintWeek India PWI | On 28 May 2015 This report mainly focuses on agricultural research and education so as to make the system demand-driven, enhance technology flow to farmers and bring transformational changes in Indian agriculture. T...
by Planning Commission | On 28 May 2015 The India Development Update for April 2015 has two main aims. First, it reports on the key developments over the past six months in India's economy, and places these in a longer term and global conte...
by World Trade Organisation | On 18 May 2015 This report provides disaggregated information about operational holdings at the national level and for states/UT. The present report which is an outcome of the first phase of agriculture census 2010-...
by Agriculture Census Division GoI | On 14 May 2015 This study has taken up two seemingly different but connected aspects of Indian agriculture, the first part dealing with the analysis of agricultural instability at the national and state levels and t...
by Ramesh Chand | On 13 May 2015 This policy brief documents the participation of youth in Bihar in civil society, the extent to which they uphold secular attitudes and
their perceptions about and participation in political processe...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 12 May 2015 The publication ‘Children in India 2012 – A Statistical Appraisal’, analyses the conditions of children in the fields of child survival, child development and child protection. The publication include...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 28 Apr 2015 This Report examines: human development index and profile for India and its states; economic attainment of the population, especially in terms of the two major sources of income-employment and assets;...
by | On 27 Apr 2015 This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic....
by | On 24 Apr 2015 This reports reflects development in the fields of population, Human development index, labour and houses, employment, prices, agriculture, industry.
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 24 Apr 2015 This joint study of the Asian Development Bank and the International Labour Organization examines the impact of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) on labor. It highlights the challenges and opportunit...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Apr 2015 This report provides key messages on the relationship between population dynamics and sustainable development. It was prepared in the lead-up to Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable De...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 21 Apr 2015 Maharashra Government, State Economy, Population, State income, Prices & Public Distribution System, Public Finance, Institutional Finance
& Capital Market, Agriculture & Allied Activities, infrastru...
by Government of Maharashtra | On 09 Apr 2015 This study projects government spending on education, health care, and social protection in developing Asia up to 2050 as a result of demographic changes and economic growth.
by Sang-Hyop Lee | On 06 Apr 2015 An ongoing debate on the shape of the Indian aggregate supply curve (AS) raises interesting econometric and policy issues. Systematic steps were taken to improve the estimation. On adding better vari...
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 Apr 2015 According to the Asian Development Outlook 2015, India is forecast to overtake China in terms of economic growth as the initial phase of government efforts to remove structural bottlenecks is lifting...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Apr 2015 Understanding the link between financial inclusion, poverty, and income inequality at the country level will help policymakers design and
implement programs that will broaden access to financial serv...
by | On 27 Mar 2015 Evidence regarding the relationship between married women’s autonomy and risk of marital violence remains mixed. Moreover, studies examining the contribution of specific aspects of women’s autonomy in...
by | On 26 Mar 2015 This document studies the Trade Policies and Institutions of BRICS, India and BRICS: issues of trade and technology; and examines the scope for deepening cooperation in services among BRICS members. T...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 The paper examines the policies of the central as well as state governments with respect to the agricultural market, specifically in rice and wheat markets, analyses their shortcomings and argues for...
by Dr Anandi Subramanian | On 23 Mar 2015 The paper intends to revisit this argument, particularly in the light of the change in deficits and surpluses in the world economy. The paper tries to trace the genesis of BWII to the debates which or...
by Krishnakumar S | On 10 Mar 2015 Expanding women’s access to the labour market and enhancing their employability, apart from all its other impact, contributes to the GDP substantially. It is important to generate creative partnership...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 10 Mar 2015 Uma Chakravarti reminisces about the historian and feminist scholar Dr Meera Kosambi who carved her own distinctive space within a legendary family.
by Uma Chakravarti | On 09 Mar 2015 The way population issues are taught in schools, colleges and universities can have a profound impact on the development of students’ worldviews, particularly regarding the root causes of poverty, mal...
by Betsy Hartmann | On 01 Mar 2015 Open defecation and improper garbage disposal are a reality of public spaces in India, not just due to poverty or a lack of initiative on the government, but social acceptance of attitudes which disr...
by Poorva Awasthi | On 24 Feb 2015 Table of Contents The euro area’s secular stagnation and what can be done about it 2 Leon Podkaminer Six core assumptions for a new conceptual framework for economics 17 Gustavo Marqués The Federal...
by PAER Post Autistic Economic Review | On 19 Feb 2015 This document provides an overview the current state of the Indian economy; lists the issues related to investment and finance for various Indian industries; finally makes a list of suggestions for th...
by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry | On 19 Feb 2015 With no financial capacity to save and invest, a dismal record of use of bank accounts and the severe lack of trust in the current model of using business correspondents, it is extremely difficult to...
by | On 16 Feb 2015 There are many contours that would define the Indian banking sector in the coming days. It would be important for the banks to keep track of emerging trends and be prepared not only to negotiate thro...
by S.S. Mundra | On 12 Feb 2015 The experience of displacement - of single and multiple evictions and resultant resettlement or homelessness - has defined the process of inhabitation for a vast majority of the poor in Delhi. Analyse...
by | On 09 Feb 2015 Review of Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. viii + 366 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-06684-7.
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 09 Feb 2015 A preliminary analysis of the spatial determinants of firms’ export activities by Indian states has been undertaken in this study. Thus, the present study attempts to fill the gap by focusing on issue...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 06 Feb 2015 A key measure of the social and economic development of a country is the health of its population. This year, in the India Infrastructure Report (IIR) series, it discusses some of the issues and chall...
by | On 05 Feb 2015 The study has been conducted to collect first hand information about population settled in Delhi in JJ clusters and unauthorised colonies. The major objectives of the study are to assess the migration...
by Urban & Regional Planning | On 04 Feb 2015 Do we really have the time to waste on controversies like what ancient India did or did not achieve by way of scientific discoveries? This is when there is the huge unfinished agenda to use the best o...
by Sunita Narain | On 03 Feb 2015 What are the new challenges before the Indian nation, its new government and the people's movement? (In Hindi)
by Abhay Kumar Dubey | On 29 Jan 2015 The paper mainly discusses the issues and policies relating to inequality in Southeast Asia. Policies to reduce inequality include more efficient fiscal policies, improve infrastructure and generating...
by Josef Yap | On 29 Jan 2015 This paper locates the rationale for franchising in agribusiness from global literature and from the Indian smallholder agricultural context where other ways of reaching small farmers or linking them...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 23 Jan 2015 Formerly entitled Global Employment Trends, the World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2015 includes a forecast of global unemployment levels and explains the factors behind this trend, includin...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 22 Jan 2015 Across the great Eurasian plate these days, one can find leaders dispensing with truly competitive politics. But traverse the Himalayas to South Asia and the climate is different: Democracy is on a w...
by Chandrani Sharma | On 13 Jan 2015 China's one-child family policy has had a great effect on the lives of nearly a quarter of the world's population for a quarter of a century. When the policy was introduced in 1979, the Chinese govern...
by | On 13 Jan 2015 Savarkar’s chief claim from the outset is that the Revolution was the manifestation of deep underlying principles. Indeed this sense of the underlying principles can alone justify such massive loss of...
by Nikhil Govind | On 27 Dec 2014 This paper tries to argue that local governments constitutionally
mandated to ‘plan for economic development and social justice’ at the
local level are eminently qualified to take up the task of wor...
by Oommen M A | On 17 Dec 2014 This paper shows that high temperatures may reduce manufactur-
ing output by lowering worker productivity via heat stress. Using an
annual panel of manufacturing plants in India, and daily primary m...
by E. Somanathan | On 01 Dec 2014 A
bill
to declare certain institutions of information technology to be institutions of national
importance, with a view to develop new knowledge in information technology and
to provide manpower o...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 26 Nov 2014 Historically, urbanization has been a great force of economic transformation, modernization and social change in the developed world. On the flip side, migration has been blamed for the woes of modern...
by Ram Bhagat | On 21 Nov 2014 Young people matter. They matter because an unprecedented 1.8 billion youth are alive today, and because they are the shapers and leaders of our global future. They matter because they have inherent h...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 19 Nov 2014 In this study how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture
over the last four and a half decades are traced. Two features which stand out in our results are that not a...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 14 Nov 2014 Migration and urbanization are direct manifestations of the process of economic development in space, particularly in the contemporary phase of globalization. Understanding the causes and consequences...
by Amitabh Kundu | On 11 Nov 2014 This paper makes in-depth study of the level of literacy among females and the extent of gender disparity in
literacy in different districts of rural and urban Maharashtra. This paper also shows imp...
by Asha A. Jindal | On 11 Nov 2014 This book originates from a conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils and contains writings and research reports on Youth in Transition in the Asia and Pacific region. Th...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 Oct 2014 The impact on the Indian labour market of the slowing down of global economy is a complex issue. It is evident that women have become 'shock absorbers' in the overall functioning of labour market dyna...
by Michael Levien | On 14 Oct 2014 The present speech analyses the significant role which can be played by the financial sector in spurring growth and expanding financial inclusion in NER. [CII Banking Collagium in Kolkata].
by P. Vijaya Bhaskar | On 13 Oct 2014 These Notes are mainly about three interconnected themes; i) the international and Indian
‘take’ on control over land (and water); ii) the distinction between an agricultural crisis and
an agrarian...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 01 Oct 2014 An evaluation of the country’s buffer stock policy reveals gaps and inefficiencies.
Large quantities of food grains have accumulated in the godowns of the Food Corporation of
India (FCI) and its nom...
by Shweta Saini | On 26 Sep 2014 The intention of this paper is to examine the impact of Indian Rupee depreciation on Bangladesh Economy. The empirical results obtained from OLS for the sample period from
2007:10 to 2013:10 show tha...
by Sayera Younus | On 25 Sep 2014 With a population of 1.43 billion people, one-third of whom live in poverty, the South Asia developing members of ADB face the challenge of achieving and sustaining rapid economic growth to reduce pov...
by Sanjay Upadhyaya | On 19 Sep 2014 Civil society in Independent India has perhaps never been as active as it is today, except in the years before and during the emergency. The author explores the role it has played in strengthening and...
by Trilochan Sastry | On 18 Sep 2014 The Handbook is intended to provide a bird's eye view of the present status of Indian women. The various tables indicate the primary data sources and the key facts are presented in bullet points at th...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 15 Sep 2014 Migration is a process that gets intensified with the process of economic development. Population mobility from rural to urban areas is a common feature in India. Interestingly, this rural-urban migra...
by Debasis Chakraborty | On 11 Sep 2014 The WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water and Sanitation, which tracks progress towards the water and sanitation targets of the Millennium Development Goals, estimates that 36% of the wo...
by Clarissa Brocklehurst | On 10 Sep 2014 Over the past 40 years, China’s population has been aging at a rate that took more than 100 years in developed countries. In 2010, the number of people over 60 years old reached 178 million in China,...
by World Bank | On 09 Sep 2014 The National Population Policy, 2000 (NPP 2000) affirms the commitment of government towards voluntary and informed choice and consent of citizens while availing of reproductive health care services,...
by Government of Odisha | On 09 Sep 2014 Gives an overall view about the literacy rates of youth and adolescents in India.
by A.K. Samal | On 06 Sep 2014 Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. I...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 06 Sep 2014 Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock is investigated that resulted from the...
by Jenna Nobles | On 02 Sep 2014 More attention to the promotion and protection of the rights and the socio-economic needs of young people needs to be an essential element of a country’s efforts to eradicate poverty. Young people (de...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 22 Aug 2014 From 2003, the Indian economy enjoyed a boom in growth coupled with moderate inflation for five years. The economy grew at a rate close to 9 percent per year, until it was punctured by the global fina...
by Pankaj Kumar | On 19 Aug 2014 The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country,...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2014 In the American animated television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA), a visually Asian-influenced world of humans, animals and spirits plays out a history of violence, trauma and resistance....
by Gayatri Viswanath | On 24 Jul 2014 The paper reviews the calculation of Indian wholesale and consumer price indices and suggests improvements in the light of past experience and international best practices. It confirms that food infla...
by Kirti Gupta | On 22 Jul 2014 The focus of the paper is to suggest an alternate methodology for
horizontal devolution from divisible pool of Central taxes and
disbursement of grants. Tax devolution criteria suggested are populat...
by R. Mohan | On 16 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 Railway budget 2014-15.
by D.V. Sadananda Gowda | On 09 Jul 2014 The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD leve...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 24 Jun 2014 The publication Sustaining Progress on Population and Development in Asia and the Pacific: 20 years after ICPD contains an analysis of the ICPD beyond 2014 Global Survey in Asia and the Pacific and th...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 24 Jun 2014 The relationship between market value and innovation in the context of manufacturing firms in India was analysed, using data for 2001-2010. In a milieu where most firms do not patent, the concern was...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 10 Jun 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 The concept paper is conceptualization of a well-structured LMIS to assist planning and delivery of training for NSDC. The report is structured into key sections which unfold the blueprint for buildin...
by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) | On 23 May 2014 This report presents data and analysis to better understand the factors driving the expansion in undergraduate and graduate education across Asia. By looking at the system as a whole, the authors eval...
by David W. Chapman | On 16 May 2014 This position paper identifies that there is a strong need for a new and forward-looking education agenda that completes unfinished business while going beyond the current goals in terms of depth and...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 May 2014 It is estimated that by 2030, only 60 per cent of the
world's population will have access to fresh water supplies. This would mean that about 3 billion people would be living without reliable source...
by Wilson John | On 15 May 2014 Mobile phones have facilitated connectivity in the north eastern region of India in terms of Information and Communication technology (ICT). The convergence of Mobile phones and social networking site...
by Kaikho Paphro Chachei | On 13 May 2014 Gender equality is one of the six goals of the global Education for All campaign that UNESCO leads. This was launched in 2000, when the countries of the world agreed to “eliminate gender disparities i...
by Edward B. Fiske | On 12 May 2014 The 2013 Human Development Report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World looks at the evolving geopolitics of our times, examining emerging issues and trends and also the new actors...
by Khalid Malik | On 06 May 2014 During the last six decades or so Indian agriculture has made remarkable progress with food grain production growing five fold from about 50 MMT in 1950 to more than 250 MMT in 2012. Despite the incre...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 29 Apr 2014 This research report, which examines the effects of research and development on productivity in India, finds that India is still benefiting from these investments. The report shows that the public ben...
by Robert E Evenson | On 29 Apr 2014 In India, public policies for human development are politically contested for many reasons like
diverse political interests, commitment to specific social bases by political regimes etc. They have
r...
by Shyam Singh | On 10 Apr 2014 The paper analyzes causes of movements in Indian wages for rural unskilled male laborers, and
assesses their impact on inflation. Theoretical priors derived from an analytical framework based on the
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 10 Apr 2014 A quick look at the manifestos of the five national political parties, Indian National Congress (INC), Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Aam Admi Party (AAP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) and S...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 10 Apr 2014 Review of the book 'Indian Youth and Electoral Politics - An Emerging Engagement' edited by Sanjay Kumar; Fellow at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS); April 2014; pp 180; Rs 450.
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 07 Apr 2014 The paper examines two questions:
(i) do population trends impede agricultural
productivity? or
(ii) it promote agricultural productivity or
both? [BIDS}.
by Rafiqul Huda Chaudhury | On 04 Apr 2014 The study seeks to understand women’s land rights by documenting how women acquire land, their feelings about tenure security to that land, exploring their knowledge of their land rights, and the exte...
by UN Women | On 14 Mar 2014 This paper focusses on the interaction between fossil fuels and farming in India, to capture total intensity of fossils in farming and offer some evidence on inflationary impact of fossil fuel price i...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 13 Mar 2014 Explains how the social difference between the caste system and different tribes was contained even through the caste system was officially abolished. Presents a general model of social mobility based...
by Panizza Philipp | On 28 Feb 2014 To gain a better understanding of the changes in the numbers of cultivators and Agricultural labor (marginal or main), it is useful to read them with the change in the number of agricultural holdings...
by Rahul Goswami | On 28 Feb 2014 The biggest challenge facing India's policy makers is the persisting high incidence of poverty. One of the reasons for the high incidence of poverty in India is its backward agriculture, whose produc...
by Ursula Grant | On 27 Feb 2014 Review of
Hugh J. M. Johnston's Jewels of the Qila, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2012. 336 pp. $35.95
(paper), ISBN 978-0-7748-2217-6.
by Shezan Muhammedi | On 12 Feb 2014 In this paper, the
phenomena of online promotions is examined, its impact so far and its promise as we go forward. The paper
traces the origins of the concept and its evolution and progress in India...
by Nidhi Mathen | On 29 Jan 2014 This paper focuses on the Indian T&A sector and on non-patent IP rights, such as trademarks, industrial designs, copyrights, and geographical indication as well as informal protections to examine whet...
by Suparna Karmakar | On 28 Jan 2014 With the decentralization process of the 1990s, linked to economic liberalization, there emerged new decisional scope for regional governments to shape their own policies. But the decentralization pro...
by Kim Robin | On 24 Jan 2014 "About 167 million children under five years of age —almost one-third of the developing world's children —are malnourished. If they survive childhood, many of these children will suffer from poorer co...
by Lisa C. Smith | On 22 Jan 2014 With 2014 designated as the “Year of Friendly Exchanges between India and China”, the two mega-state Asian neighbours will commemorate later this year the 60th anniversary of the enunciation of Five P...
by P S Suryanarayana | On 22 Jan 2014 Structural changes in the Indian economy have precipitated changes in the patterns of demand for industrial labour. Recent trends in the composition of employment indicate that the Indian workforce is...
by Sandhya Srinivasan | On 22 Jan 2014 This paper seeks to explain the idea of linking Northeast India to Southeast Asia, which gained popular imagination following the release of the North Eastern Region Vision 2020 document in 2008. Howe...
by Laldinkima Sailo | On 22 Jan 2014 This report first briefly delves into the historical context within which India's development cooperation must be seen and the role, objectives and the functioning of the DPA is explained. The report...
by Vivan Sharan | On 21 Jan 2014 This Paper tries to paint a numbers- and chart-based picture of the current scenario of India’s Cities and Towns by taking five states into consideration- NCT Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatti...
by prashant kumar | On 21 Jan 2014 Gender equity is one of the five drivers of change in the Asian Development Bank(ADB) Strategy 2020. ADB recognizes that without harnessing the talents, human capital and economics potential of women,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jan 2014 Indian Penal Code (IPC, ) is the main criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code, intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law. The Code has since been amended several times and...
by Lawyers Collective | On 20 Jan 2014 This paper puts forward the argument that the living arrangement of a
disabled individual, or her/his marital status in particular, can be taken
as a proxy for some very important functionings that...
by Achin Chakraborty | On 20 Jan 2014 This paper focuses on two different types of malnutrition and then looks at the links between poor nutrition and agriculture.Malnutrition is one of the most devastating problems worldwide and its dire...
by Kevin Cleaver | On 16 Jan 2014 Using the case of Delhi and drawing on
examples from other metropolitan cities, this paper attempts to understand the
factors that have led to the rise of middle class neighborhood associations an...
by Poulomi Chakrabarti | On 16 Jan 2014 The paper is concerned with the high levels of infant and child illness and death amongst poor urban
slum communities in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Ur...
by Maya Unnithan Kumar | On 15 Jan 2014 The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course of the agricultural production cycle. It is shown theoretically that a forecast o...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 13 Jan 2014 The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across
states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and
commodities across state borde...
by Samarjit Das | On 27 Nov 2013 This research was undertaken to understand how information about a new agricultural technology is transmitted through social networks, and what effect information gained through social networks has on...
by Nicholas Magnan | On 26 Nov 2013 The Government of India has recently announced that Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal are
fiscally unsound at the level of general category states. The study reviews this projection
and assesses their...
by Nimai Das | On 26 Nov 2013 This
paper is an attempt to compute Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission from
fossil fuel consumption for firms in Indian manufacturing sector from
2000 to 2011 by adopting the IPCC Reference Approach. Th...
by Santosh Kumar Sahu | On 26 Nov 2013 The paper calls the attention of policymakers to address critical constraints affecting the effective utilization of free trade agreements, growth, trade facilitation and customs administration, servi...
by Gilberto M. Llanto | On 15 Nov 2013 Preliminary report on the extent of slum population to the total population in India, 2011. According to the preliminary reports, the share of slum population has increased in the last decade with Mah...
by Planning Commission, India | On 12 Nov 2013 According to the Census data for 2011 which was released recently, India's population growth will steadily decline as indicated in stabilisation of Total Fertility Rate (TFR) by 2025.
The report esti...
by Government of India GOI | On 07 Nov 2013 This paper focusses on two Indian laws that seek to guarantee socioeconomic rights: the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an important example of India’s
recent history of legislation...
by Reetika Khera | On 25 Oct 2013 The gruesome murder of Dabolkar, who had been spearheading a movement against superstitions in Maharashtra, has plunged all people of rationalist disposition in shock. Voices are rising that laws sho...
by Oscar F Picazo | On 22 Oct 2013 India’s leaders have long said they are committed to employment, but have shown little stomach for the economic upheaval rapid job creation entails.
The economy will soon have a fifth of the world’s...
by Anonymous | On 17 Oct 2013 China and India are in the vanguard of a wave of urban expansion that is restoring the global prominence that Asia enjoyed before the European and North American industrial revolution.
Never before i...
by Richard Dobbs | On 15 Oct 2013 Age is one of the core topics in Census. In Census 2011, for the first time data on both date of birth and age has been recorded. [Census 2011].
by Registrar General, India | On 11 Oct 2013 The gendered division of household labour, stigma attached to paid labour and status production
has precipitated withdrawal from paid work as a strategy to reduce the double burden of women. Upward s...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 09 Oct 2013 One third of the population of India are children below the age of 18 years. They are citizens of this country. Even though they do not vote, they have all rights as equal citizens of the country. How...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 07 Oct 2013 In this paper the application of ICTs to the improvement of state-citizen relations in a developing country context. To maximise the responsiveness of the government, ICTs need to target the structura...
by Silvia Masiero | On 07 Oct 2013 India’s Unique Identification (UID) project offers important lessons for other countries. UID’s performance data show that large
countries can implement biometric ID
programs with low levels of excl...
by Alan Gelb | On 07 Oct 2013 National Food Security Bill (NFSB) aims to make food easily accessible at affordable prices to people. But there are operational and financial difficulties in implementing this.
by Sweety Thomas | On 07 Oct 2013 In this paper it is examined whether a favourable fiscal rule had impact on fiscal balance but what lies behind a particular outcome in a rule based fiscal regime. Often time it is argued that fiscal...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 30 Sep 2013 The film, MAdras Cafe, offers us an opportunity to revisit memory and ask important questions as to what happened in the early years of the civil war in Sri Lanka. An introspection that is necessary i...
by Aaranya Rajasingam | On 13 Sep 2013 Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of...
by Karthik Muralidharan | On 06 Sep 2013 Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to
test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal
migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to...
by Ingrid Dallmann | On 06 Sep 2013 For agricultural subsidies to be efficient in improving farmers’ incomes and eradicating hunger, holistic policy intervention is required. Complementary policies such as increased access to credit and...
by Maria C.S. Morales | On 30 Aug 2013 Newly-available Indian panel data is used to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. [BREAD Working Paper No. 392]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/pa...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 16 Aug 2013 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 This paper uses the lens of culture to develop propositions on how customer attitude towards celebrity endorsements is a function of cultural parameters in emerging countries like India. [W.P. No. 201...
by . Abhishek | On 08 Aug 2013 This paper is an attempt to understand the emerging migration patterns in India and issues underlying it. With globalisation, urbanisation and accompanying changes in socio-economic conditions, migran...
by Sandhya Rani Mahapatro | On 07 Aug 2013 Using individual-level data from the National
Sample Survey for 1999-2000 and 2009-2010, theur paper has done an empirical assessments of
their socio-economic condition of OBCs, SC-STs. [CDE Working...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 05 Aug 2013 Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Jul 2013 The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) is designed so as to apply to all sharable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by...
by Ministry of Science and Technology GOI | On 30 Jul 2013 The report deals with the estimation of poverty and identification of poor – differences in approach. It also describes the characteristics and trends of urban poverty. The vulnerability of urban poor...
by Planning Commission, India | On 29 Jul 2013 The international trade in Afghan drugs is one of the most significant transnational threats emanating from Central Asia.
Exacerbated by weak border management, corruption, and lack of income-generat...
by Lars-Erik Lundin | On 26 Jul 2013 This study raises some relevant issues and examines them from an economic perspective. To begin with, it would examine how did the Indian approach, official in particular, to defining and measuring po...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 26 Jul 2013 Labour regulations like employment protection legislation in India are size-dependent rules and
therefore constitute a basis for threshold effects. Firms could use non-permanent workers to stay below...
by K.V. Ramaswamy | On 23 Jul 2013 This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existenc...
by Kaivan Munshi | On 22 Jul 2013 16 July, 2013, New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India today rejected the Maharashtra Government’s decision to forbid dancing in beer bars, calling the ban unconstitutional. The ban dates back to August...
by Lawyers Collective | On 17 Jul 2013 To provide for promotion and development of sports and welfare measures for sportspersons, promotion of ethical practices in sports (including elimination of doping practices, fraud of age and sexual...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 12 Jul 2013 Migration literature has always considered environmental constraints as one of the prime movers of populations, especially from dry regions, where water rather than land is the primary limiting factor...
by Amita Shah | On 28 Jun 2013 This paper analyses the complementarities between land productivity
and conservation investments in the context of river embankment
maintenance in the Indian Sundarbans.[SANDEE]. URL:[http://www.san...
by Prasenjit Sarkhel | On 06 Jun 2013 This study explores the three way linkage between weather variability,
agricultural performance and internal migration in India at state and
district level using Indian Census data.[MSE].
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 06 Jun 2013 The present study attempts
to, (a) analyse the broad patterns of temporary and permanent migration
in India; and (b) explore the determinants of temporary and permanent
migration with special focus...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 06 Jun 2013 Recently, it has been argued that political competition may have similar effects on economic performance as market competition. This study empirically examines this proposition by linking political co...
by Bharatee Bhushan Dash | On 05 Jun 2013 On the 20th of March 2013, the Honorable Chief Minister of Delhi presented her budget to the Legislative Assembly. What did she have in it for children? The budget has to be analysed in the light of t...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 03 Jun 2013 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 23 May 2013 This booklet explains the SECC,2011, as it relates to rural India,
and details the entire process in simple language. [Ministry of Rural Development]. URL:[http://rural.nic.in/sites/downloads/general...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 02 May 2013 Statistics, laws, acts and court cases related to street vendors. [NASVI]. URL:[http://nasvinet.org/newsite/statistics-the-street-vendors-2/].
by National Association of Street Vendors in India NASVI | On 30 Apr 2013 The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages, in the same district administration of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. [ODI Working Pa...
by Caroline Wilson | On 26 Apr 2013 To explore how much coverage is given by Leading
Indian newspaper to 2G Scam and
Common Wealth Games during the period of study.
To explore what kind of image of India is famed by all four newspape...
by Daniel Drache | On 25 Apr 2013 This paper assesses the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture covering a cross section
of crops, seasons and regions based on existing literature. The study notes that the impact of
climate...
by K N Ninan | On 24 Apr 2013 Land acquisition, which refers to the process of a government forcibly acquiring private property for public purpose, has been the cause of over a third of the legal conflicts in India in the past dec...
by iGovernment. in | On 19 Apr 2013 This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in
raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier methodology for
panel data for the period 2000-2009. [MSE WORKING PAPER 70/2012]. URL: [...
by Prachitha J | On 16 Apr 2013 This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, b...
by Harsh Mander | On 10 Apr 2013 A bill further to amend the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the Indian
Evidence Act, 1872 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [PRS]. URL:[http://www...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Apr 2013 In this paper, the building blocks of a sustainable
innovation eco system have been identified. The concept of National Innovation System
[NIS], which ignored the knowledge of informal sector, has b...
by Anil K Gupta | On 20 Mar 2013 The ambitious development plans for the Lancang-Mekong River Basin (LMRB) could have serious environmental, social, cultural and even geopolitical ramifications that could in turn destabilise the Meko...
by Apichai Sunchindah | On 15 Mar 2013 Asset quality of banks has come under increasing pressure with rising NPAs and Restructured loans. The Gross NPA ratio for the banking system, which was 2.4% in March 2011, increased to 3.6 per cent b...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 07 Mar 2013 The case of Bhubaneswar vending zone perfectly qualifies the theme of making market
work for the poor. This is a pioneering lead taken to develop an exclusive market for the vendors
which presents a...
by Randhir Kumar | On 01 Mar 2013 Is the Finance Minister going to do a salvage operation? [BS week end ruminations].
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Feb 2013 Modernization, encouragement to PPP, integration of MGNREGA, has been given importance in the railway budget.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 27 Feb 2013 Nagaland’s population decreased during 2001–11 after growing at abnormally high
rates during the past few decades. This is the first time since independence that a state
in India has witnessed an ab...
by Ankush Agrawal | On 21 Feb 2013 Why has the economy landed in a trough of growth and high inflation and does not look like getting out of it in the year ahead?
by Sumita Kale | On 14 Feb 2013 Indian Railways have to be investor friendly. The railway budget will have to deal with core issues such as mobilizing resources, controlling costs and offering competitive freight structure with an e...
by Sachin Bhanushali | On 14 Feb 2013 In the megacities of developing Southeast Asia, the informal sector plays an important role in supporting economic development.
Yet, in discussions of the ramifications of climaterelated
natural haz...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 13 Feb 2013 Using a 30-year dataset on district level yields with more than 200 districts and pairing it with a newly available gridded weather data set this paper estimates the impact of climate change on major...
by Chandra Kiran B Krishnamurthy | On 12 Feb 2013 As population and human activities expand they exert heavy environmental pressure through the resource requirement, their production and consumption. Hence, it is important to understand the resource...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 12 Feb 2013 According to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, most of the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Report (21st Report) on the Companies Bill, 2009 have been accepted by the Government...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 12 Feb 2013 The provision
by Tribeni Gogoi | On 18 Jan 2013 Review of the book Food Security in Asia, by Amitava Mukherjee Sage Publications India 2011
pp. xix+392, Rs 895/-.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 04 Jan 2013 Review of the book 'Migration of Women Workers from South Asia to the Gulf' By Rakkee Thimothy, S.K. Sasikumar, UN Women, 2012
by R. S. Reshmi | On 24 Dec 2012 An attempt has been made to understand the paradoxes of Kerala's development like the state's per capita consumer expenditure is more than
the per capita state domestic product. But the nutritional i...
by K.K. George | On 18 Dec 2012 Essayist, journalist and novelist Pankaj Mishra was at Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) September 19, 2012, to discuss his new book From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Agains...
by Pankaj Mishra | On 07 Dec 2012 Review of the book 'Peace is Everybody's Business: Strategy for Conflict Prevention' by Arjun Ray. Number of pages: 264, Price Rs. 495/-.
by Irfan Engineer | On 03 Dec 2012 This study analyzes the impact of government policy regime on the
learning and capability acquisition of firms over time. Through a case
study analysis of the Indian automotive industry, the study d...
by Madhuri Saripalle | On 19 Nov 2012 A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led t...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 15 Nov 2012 What are the response of voters to candidates who have reported that they have criminal charges against them? A analysis within the framework of a simple analytical model which assumes that criminal c...
by Bhaskar Dutta | On 02 Nov 2012 In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58–67, it was
noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian
states participated in the Gr...
by Chetan Ghate | On 02 Nov 2012 The Lok Sabha (the Lower House of the Parliament) has, on 3 September 2012, passed the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2012 (Bill). The Bill now r...
by Trilegal Bulletin | On 01 Oct 2012 This study aims at analyzing
the differentials across rich and poor states and across rich and poorer
strata and rural urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study
indicates that besides ind...
by Brijesh C Purohit | On 28 Sep 2012 A historical narrative of Bihar is provided context to much of its current state, Focus is given on its contemporary economy in the past three decades to better understand the moribund state of its ec...
by Arnab Mukherji | On 28 Sep 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. [WP-2012-023]. URL:[http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-023.pdf].
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Sep 2012 This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India,
bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses a...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 20 Sep 2012 This paper focuses on the assessment of energy savings potential in seven highly energy consuming industries. The paper estimates the energy savings potential for each of these industries using unit l...
by Manish Gupta | On 17 Sep 2012 India is perhaps the first country to set up, at the national level, a commission to study the problems and challenges being faced by what in India is called the unorganized economy - or the informal...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 05 Sep 2012 A brief outline of the economic and financial structure of the State and the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank is highlighted. But there are some policy challenges in s...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 03 Sep 2012 What is the cause of deteriorating services from MTNL? Suggestions are given to improve its services.
by Alex George | On 03 Sep 2012 Even though the economic and social benefits of thriving entrepreneurship and innovation are evident, it is critical to recognize that these benefits will only accrue if the key gaps in the ecosystem...
by Planning Commission | On 31 Aug 2012 This paper discusses the scope of the many challenges and sets out a long-term strategy for overcoming them and putting the Japanese economy on a stable growth path. [Working Paper No. 376]. URL:[http...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 24 Aug 2012 Spot fire disputes have sparked across Asia, with the winds of nationalism spurring them on. If one
flares up it could ignite a region. Escalating tensions should have mediators vigilant and with pai...
by Elliot Brennan | On 24 Aug 2012 The objective of this report is to share a market level overview of the early stage progress of (Mobile Financial Services) MFS in Bangladesh up through the first quarter of 2012. A series of short s...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 23 Aug 2012 The economic and financial structure of Odisha is highlighted. Various financial inclusion initiatives are taken by the Reserve Bank with a particular reference to Odisha. The macroeconomic policy cha...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 22 Aug 2012 Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift f...
by Azad Singh Bali | On 20 Aug 2012 The paper examines the debates and makes specific policy recommendations by which regionalism, the engagement of small states (through the role of Singapore and the 3-G coalition), and the expansion o...
by Andrew F Cooper | On 09 Aug 2012 The proportion of elderly in the world population is increasing. Health systems across the globe are ill prepared to meet the needs of aging populations. The needs of the elderly are different from t...
by Arlene S Bierman | On 08 Aug 2012 This study aims to explore the impact of improved cook stoves (ICS) on fuel
expenditure (consumption), smoke emission, and health of women (cook) in rural
households of Bangladesh. In the follow-up...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 06 Aug 2012 Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing and is a risk for type 2 diabetes. Evidence supporting screening comes mostly from high-income countries. Prevalence and outcomes in urban Viet Nam ar...
by Jane E Hirst | On 03 Aug 2012 What is ‘good’ governance?
Can the quality of governance be measured? And how do state
governments in India measure up by such a measure?
[Working Paper no. 104]. URL:[http://www.nipfp.org.in/neww...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 02 Aug 2012 This paper explores the evolution of two dedicated freight corridors in
India (covering a distance of around 3300 kilometers), and critique them from the perspective of
delivering the intended rail...
by Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla | On 31 Jul 2012 The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific,
amid the specter of climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable
and ext...
by Vinod Thomas | On 26 Jul 2012 India is having large population, a fast growing economy with
national focus on inclusive growth and an urgent need to develop a vibrant and
stable financial system, it is all the more necessary to...
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 20 Jul 2012 A randomized evaluation of a school library program on children’s language skills is conducted. The program had little impact on students’ scores on a language test administered 16 months after implem...
by Evan Borkum | On 09 Jul 2012 This study examines the reliability of the Census of Nagaland between 1981 and
2011 by testing the internal consistency of Census population estimates. It also tries to
validate the Census estimates...
by Ankush Agrawal | On 06 Jul 2012 In 2007, the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out the Aarogyasri health
insurance to reduce catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.” The program...
by Victoria Fan | On 05 Jul 2012 The objective in this
paper is to estimate the role played by such factors in determining the
utilisation of formal health care to cure diarrhoea and certain respiratory
illnesses plaguing young ch...
by Anindita Chakrabarti | On 02 Jul 2012 Shallow groundwater with high arsenic concentrations from naturally occurring sources
is the primary source of drinking water for millions of people in Bangladesh. It has resulted in a
major public...
by Imran Matin | On 28 May 2012 The paper investigates the profitability of 78 Islamic banks in 25 countries for the period of 1992-2009. The Fixed Effect Model (FEM) used to analyse profitability shows that profit efficiency is pos...
by NOR HAYATI BT AHMAD | On 24 May 2012 Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 22 May 2012 The wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures
required of all candidates since 2003 are studied. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points hi...
by Raymond Fisman | On 18 May 2012 Effective urban policy making and implementation in Pakistan is impeded by the problem of integrating data containing incompatible spatial references. There is great heterogeneity across spatial units...
by Sohaib Khan | On 16 May 2012 Efforts to strengthen capacity in health research have, so far, concentrated on
countries where there is existing capacity rather than those where it is almost
completely lacking.
Judged by absolut...
by Martin McKee | On 10 May 2012 This brief reviews recent evidence, examines main research challenges in identifying migration–climate links and discusses the policy options for formalizing migration as an adaptation mechanism to cl...
by Jean-François Maystadt | On 09 May 2012 The estimation of capacity utilisation (CU) derives its significance from the fact that, if properly assessed, it may provide a reliable indication of incipient inflationary pressure in an economy. Me...
by Atri Mukherjee | On 09 May 2012 The paper analyzes the state of reforms in Myanmar and the need to increase the pace of these reforms
by Kyaw San Wai | On 02 May 2012 A broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam is provided. An anal...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Apr 2012 This study examines the contribution of Bt cotton adoption to long- term average cotton yields in India using a panel data analysis of production variables in nine Indian cotton-producing states from...
by Guillaume P Gruere | On 25 Apr 2012 India's trans-boundary riparian policies affect four countries - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - on three river systems - the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra-Mehgna. China's riparian pol...
by Gopal Siwakoti Chintan | On 25 Apr 2012 This study examines how the changing demographics in Pakistan,
resulting primarily from fertility transition, would affect educational attainment
of school-age population during the next two decades...
by Naushin Mahmood | On 23 Apr 2012 India’s experience with exporting services is examined. The country’s experience is distinctive in that services, especially modern tradable
services, comprise a significantly larger share of GDP tha...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 23 Apr 2012 Review of the book 'Re-visioning Indian Cities: The Urban Renewal Mission' by Christopher Manickam. Author of the book: K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, published by Sage, New Delhi.
by Christopher Manickam | On 23 Apr 2012 The Philippine domestic
economy shrunk to
3.7 percent in 2011, after a growth of 7.6 per cent in 2010. Outlook for 2012 is
relatively sanguine with
the government hinging
its optimism on robust
...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 20 Apr 2012 The study focused on the factors and forces behind the participation of women in
Panchayat Structure specially after the seventy third Constitution Amendment Act. The
role performance, role awarenes...
by Dilip Kumar Sarkar | On 20 Apr 2012 The National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy reaffirms the commitment of the Government of India to provide integrated services for holistic development of all children, along the con...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 20 Apr 2012 Th is study, which is supported by the ministries of fi nance and
the central banks of the BRICS, focuses on synergies and complementarities
between the economies, highlighting their role as growth
...
by Ministry of Finance | On 18 Apr 2012 The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It
identifies the factors that significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions.
Moreover, i...
by Maria Teresa C Sanchez | On 18 Apr 2012 This paper discusses what is longevity risk, why it is important, approaches used by the West to manage longevity risk and what lessons can be learnt by Asian countries from the experiences of the Wes...
by Amlan Roy | On 18 Apr 2012 Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to
developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s,
but foreign brides...
by Daiji Kawaguchi | On 16 Apr 2012 This paper provides a synthesis of the experiences of six countries (Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and Nigeria) in enhancing food security of their population. Approximately 46 per cent of t...
by Pooja Sharma | On 16 Apr 2012 Speech by Amit Mitra, Minister of Finance. [Government of West Bengal]. URL:[http://www.wbfin.nic.in/writereaddata/Budget_Speech/2012_English.pdf].
by West Bengal Government | On 13 Apr 2012 The main objective of this paper is to explore the potential role of social pensions and other noncontributory schemes in Asia, informed by insights from theory and international experience. The paper...
by Armando Barrientos | On 13 Apr 2012 The paper gives an analysis and description of the quantity and quality of the Iban population of Sarawak. The information about the pattern and trends of change of the population over time is also sh...
by Lam Chee Kheung | On 09 Apr 2012 The single row facility layout is the NP-Hard problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. Owing t...
by Uma Kothari | On 09 Apr 2012 The link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes are analyzed using a
newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the
distribution of income a...
by Norman Loayza | On 09 Apr 2012 Interviewed at the Guardian's Open Weekend festival, Indian economist Jayati Ghosh says aid from Britain benefits the UK more than it does India, and makes a negligible difference to relieving poverty...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 07 Apr 2012 The populous, fast growing emerging economies of Brazil, China, Egypt, India and South Africa face daunting challenges on the energy, environment and climate change fronts. These five countries accoun...
by Kirit Parikh | On 02 Apr 2012 Budget Speech
of
PU H.LIANSAILOVA
HON’BLE FINANCE MINISTER. [Government of Mizoram]. URL:[http://mizoram.nic.in/budget/Interim%20Budget%20Speech%2012-13.pdf].
by Finance Minister Mizoram | On 29 Mar 2012 The burning of agricultural field residue, such as stalks and stubble,
during the wheat and rice harvesting seasons in the Indo-Gangetic
plains results in substantial emissions of trace gases and pa...
by Ridhima Gupta | On 28 Mar 2012 This study examines whether the allocation of public expenditures of
the Indian states are significantly influenced by government specific political
characteristics. Three types of government specif...
by Bharatee Bhusana Dash | On 27 Mar 2012 Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 27 Mar 2012 Since the elections of 2010, Myanmar’s political landscape has changed significantly;
the old military junta has officially been dissolved and a new
civilian government, led by President Thein Sein,...
by Christopher O’Hara | On 27 Mar 2012 In many developing countries plastic bags are a significant environmental
problem. This is particularly true in the city of Delhi, which faces rapid
development with un-matched and inadequate waste...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 20 Mar 2012 Over the last two decades, community-based forest management has
graduated from being an experimental strategy to becoming a much more
mainstream approach. In developing countries, an estimated 22 p...
by Priya Shyamsundar | On 19 Mar 2012 The transfer system in India is discussed and analyses expenditure
needs of States to provide essential health infrastructure. It also analyzes the fiscal space for
health care in terms of stimulati...
by M Govinda Rao | On 19 Mar 2012 Major shifts in the policy initiated in the electricity sector are well documented, only then the effect of the policy change can be analyzed, especially from the point of view of laying down future p...
by Planning Commission | On 19 Mar 2012 What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Mar 2012 The Minister of Railways, Dinesh Trivedi, presented the
Railways Budget 2012 to Parliament on 14th March. In
his address, he commented on the performance of
Railways in 2011-12 and laid out his bud...
by Rohit Kumar | On 16 Mar 2012 There is in urgent need for modernization and generational
Change need to be done in the Indian railways to assure safety, improve productivity, take advantage of advanced technology, respond to ever...
by Ministry of Railways | On 14 Mar 2012 The report reviews the status and performance of agriculture, especially
during the last two decades, and also presents what could be the way forward, given
our objectives of accelerated growth, inc...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 14 Mar 2012 The main objectives of this seminar has been to contribute to the
understanding of the development processes and problems related to water security and climate
change; to focus on studies relating t...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 12 Mar 2012 Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in
India. Estimates suggest that more than 25 million women are
"missing". Sex selection at birth and the mistreatment of
young g...
by Siwan Anderson | On 09 Mar 2012 In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian
economy in general and corporate sector in particular, the present paper attempts to assess how
the...
by Rakesh Basant | On 07 Mar 2012 The developing economies of Asia are confronted by serious environmental problems that threaten to undermine future growth, food security, and regional stability. This study considers four major envir...
by Stephen Howes | On 06 Mar 2012 A Working Group on Child Rights was constituted by the Planning Commission to recommend priorities and strategies for children in the 12th Five year Plan 2012-17. Five Sub Groups of the Working group...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 06 Mar 2012 How much does it cost to make a pancake in India? The Economist had this fun infographic/chart where it charts the cost of ingredients that are used in making a pancake. A comment
by Sriram Vadlamani | On 01 Mar 2012 The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a
billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of eviden...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Mar 2012 Livestock sector is an integral part of India’s agriculture and an important part of the whole economy with reference to employment, income and earning of foreign exchange for the country. The growth...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 01 Mar 2012 Outward-oriented economies seem to grow faster than inward-looking ones. Does the literature on convergence have anything to say on this? In the dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, with factor-pr...
by Partha Sen | On 28 Feb 2012 Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized t...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 27 Feb 2012 Review of
Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915. by Nile Green.
Cambridge University Press, New York
2011. xvi + 327 pp. $90.00 (cloth),
ISBN 978-0-521-76924-2.
by Fahad A. Bishara | On 26 Feb 2012 This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net
gain and loss from trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and
South...
by Mohammad Masuduzzaman | On 23 Feb 2012 What Mumbai needs as a starting point is a city administration that is accountable to the city's residents, and a directly elected mayor, as in all great cities of the world. [BS Weekend Ruminations]....
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Feb 2012 This paper argues that the collective action in Asia by its regional organizations has historically
suffered from a “capability–legitimacy gap”: a disjuncture between the capability (in terms of
mat...
by Amitav Acharya | On 17 Feb 2012 A stated objective of Myanmar is to become a modern developed nation that
will stand shoulder to shoulder – proud, dignified and tall – with the countries
of the world. How far has Myanmar come in a...
by U Myint | On 15 Feb 2012 There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are ofte...
by Nandini Dube | On 14 Feb 2012 Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing
countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and...
by A. Mushfiq Mobarak | On 10 Feb 2012 This paper describes business and growth rate cycles with special reference to the Indian economy. It uses the classical NBER approach to determine the timing of recessions and expansions in the India...
by Pami Dua | On 10 Feb 2012 A prototype incentive system is developed for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. The proposed Tropical Forest Protection Fund (TFPF) is a cash-on-delivery system that...
by David Wheeler | On 09 Feb 2012 The aim of this paper is to compare the technical efficiency of Indian Banks operating
abroad and foreign banks operating in India and to investigate the effect of openness of the
country, ownership...
by Vivek Kumar | On 08 Feb 2012 Earlier studies have documented an “identifiable victim effect”: people donate more to help individual people than to groups. Evidence suggests that this is in part due to an emotional reaction to the...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 03 Feb 2012 A large number of studies in Nepal have been conducted to identify the factors responsible for
inflation based on the different theories of inflation. Although these studies provide insight
into the...
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | On 02 Feb 2012 Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across
rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is
therefore impo...
by Brian Duncan | On 31 Jan 2012 This essay examines the trajectory of India?s fiscal policy with a focus on historical trends, fiscal discipline frameworks, fiscal responses to the global financial crisis and subsequent return to a...
by Supriyo De | On 31 Jan 2012 This report investigates how more and
better jobs can be created in South
Asia. It does so for two reasons. First,
this region will contribute nearly 40 percent
of the growth in the world’s workin...
by Reema Nayar | On 30 Jan 2012 Home to over 25 per cent of the world’s hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indi...
by Sally Trethewie | On 27 Jan 2012 The Growth outlook has weakened as
a result of adverse global and domestic factors
that have been mentioned above. Business
and consumer confidence has been impacted.
Professional forecasters now...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 25 Jan 2012 Measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal 6, including estimates of, and time trends in, the
number of malaria cases, has relied on risk maps constructed from surveys of parasite prevale...
by Richard E Cibulskis | On 25 Jan 2012 This paper has tried to address some key research
questions like will India and Andhra Pradesh achieve the Millennium Development
Goal of Sanitation ? Are the TSC targets realistic? What is coverage...
by M Snehalatha | On 25 Jan 2012 Production costs and crop incomes in drought years are analyzed to test a simplistic theory of risk based
on first principles. A mixed-methods framework is employed to draw inferences by combining da...
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 24 Jan 2012 The short term and long term stock price volatility changes around bonus
and rights issue announcements have been examined using historical
volatility estimation and time varying volatility approach...
by Madhuri Malhotra | On 24 Jan 2012 While studying the economic growth of the two rising giants of Asia (India and China) it is seen that India is far behind China in many aspects. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ni...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jan 2012 This paper analyses gender dimensions in rural to urban migration (age
10 years and above) in Pakistan. The study is based on Labour Force Surveys
1996-2006. The findings of the study show that over...
by Shahnaz Hamid | On 20 Jan 2012 The present paper explores the nexus between gender-energy-poverty, highlights areas of gender
concern, and suggests actions. It is analyzed how women from rural areas and low income
households are...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 19 Jan 2012 This paper assesses the sources of risk for Indian banks in the context of their history, structure, level of development, and policy environment and draws out implications for global and domestic pol...
by Ashima Goyal | On 18 Jan 2012 The State Focus Paper (SFP) consolidates the PLPs of all the 30 districts and highlights the potential
for flow of credit to various sectors in agriculture and rural development. The credit potential...
by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Devt NABARD | On 06 Jan 2012 Based on the variable rate of gross domestic product per capita growth and its sources, this
paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan,
and Korea: M...
by Masahiko Aoki | On 04 Jan 2012 Review of the book Post-Hindu India: A Discourse on Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution, Kancha Ilaiah
SAGE India, New Delhi
2009, Rs 295/-, pp 340.
by Vaijayanta Anand | On 03 Jan 2012 This paper uses a large panel database to investigate the determinants of forest clearing in
Indonesian kabupatens since 2005. The study incorporates short-run changes in prices and demand
for palm...
by David Wheeler | On 28 Dec 2011 This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s governme...
by Kaushik Basu | On 27 Dec 2011 The Reserve Bank has stepped up its efforts in recent years to enhance the penetration of the formal financial sector and promote financial inclusion with a view to improving the well-being of our soc...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 26 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Economic Reforms and Social Exclusion: Impact of Liberalization on Marginalized Groups in India', by K S Chalam, Sage Publications, New Delhi, India.
by Rajesh Komath | On 26 Dec 2011 This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water
sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states
of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the...
by Viswanathan P K | On 26 Dec 2011 Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive...
by Gharad Bryan | On 20 Dec 2011 One of the methods of measuring the effectiveness of monetary policies is via inspection of
monetary neutrality in the economy. It is a concept from classical economics and it suggests that
changes...
by Mukesh Khanal | On 16 Dec 2011 With a vast and diverse SME sector India’s industrialization owes much to the
technological dynamism of enterprises. Various institutional interventions have
been made to promote innovativeness in t...
by Keshab Das | On 13 Dec 2011 A series of common-pool-resource field experiments were conducted
in eight indigenous communities in India that have very long traditions of
shared norms and mutual trust. Two experimental designs a...
by Rucha Ghate | On 02 Dec 2011 The objective of this policy is to ensure safe, affordable, quick, comfortable, reliable
and sustainable access for the growing number of city residents to jobs, education, recreation
and such other...
by Ministry of Urban Development GOI | On 30 Nov 2011 This paper analyses the impact of the retail FDI policy on Indian consumers and make policy recommendations for the Indian government. Based on a primary survey of Indian consumers, the paper examines...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 28 Nov 2011 A closed model DSGE model of the Indian economy is developed and it is estimated
by Bayesian Maximum Likelihood methods using Dynare. A model is build up in stages to
with a number of features impo...
by Vasco Gabriel | On 28 Nov 2011 This
Report covers developments in implementation of the Convention in India
from 2006 to 2011. The harmonised guidelines for preparation of Common
Core Document and the reporting Guidelines of the...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 25 Nov 2011 Betsy Hartmann discusses the roots of apocalyptic thinking in American and global environmentalism.
by Betsy Hartmann | On 21 Nov 2011 The outward FDI from emerging economies to developed countries is of great interest to
international business researchers and policy makers, also with regard to their location and sectoral
patterns....
by Haiyan Zhang | On 21 Nov 2011 While the arrests of dozens of juveniles during the mass uprising in the Kashmir valley from June to September 2010 brought the abuse of the Public Safety Act against the children in conflict with the...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 16 Nov 2011 This paper evaluates the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework for measuring development and, subject to qualifications arising from that evaluation, assesses how India is doing in terms o...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 11 Nov 2011 In analyzing this phenomenon for Indian manufacturing industries, this study tries to find out the determinants of profitability of firms based on three energy clusters (natural gas, petroleum, coal)...
by Santosh Kumar Sahu | On 10 Nov 2011 This paper examines the socio-economic condition of women in India. The paper begins by delving into different forms of violence faced by women in India,
giving special attention to the work sphere a...
by Susana Barria | On 09 Nov 2011 This paper discusses Asia’s infrastructure needs and its
corresponding financing needs and challenges. It proposes ways to address financing gaps by identifying potential
financing sources and instr...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 09 Nov 2011 Review of the book 'Locating Cultural Change Theory, Method, Process'
Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda (eds.)
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2011, 279 pp, Rs.795/.
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 04 Nov 2011 As markets deepen and interest elasticities increase it is optimal for emerging markets to shift towards
an interest rate instrument since continuing monetization of the economy implies money demand...
by Ashima Goyal | On 04 Nov 2011 The brief is based on the experience and the success of a hospital
based Crisis Centres for women facing domestic violence in Mumbai - Dilaasa.
It is a joint initiative of the MCGM and CEHAT, establ...
by ... CEHAT | On 02 Nov 2011 Physical spaces may significantly shape social interaction. This study has explored how
the residential provisions (Dormitories) for students at IIM-Ahmedabad impact their
social life. This paper ad...
by Arvind Shatdal | On 21 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 the book 'Population, Gender and Reproductive Health'.
F Ram, Sayeed Unisa and T V Sekher (eds.), Rawat publications, 2011, 416 pp, Rs 925
by K.S. James | On 20 Oct 2011 This essay attempts to look beyond the long-standing qualitative-quantitative
tug of war in studying society. It takes as an example one approach, the case study,
that often acts as a bridge between...
by Ipsita Sapra | On 19 Oct 2011 Book review 'The Green pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia' by
Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha (eds)
Sage, 2010, page 312, Rs 395.
by Vrijendra | On 19 Oct 2011 With a review of the historic role of India as a supplier of Antiretrovirals (ARV) medicines the paper outlines some of the key rulings in Indian courts as the interpretation of the new patent laws ar...
by Cassandra Sweet | On 19 Oct 2011 The Indian national program of agriclinics and agribusiness centers, started in 2002, aims to provide farmers with a reliable alternative to the private input dealer by subsidizing technically trained...
by Claire J Glendenning | On 14 Oct 2011 In this study, a comparative analysis of the role of knowledge flows in capability formation among firms in the Indian Information Technology sector (IT sector) across cluster and non-cluster location...
by Rakesh Basant | On 13 Oct 2011 The Indian economy has shown considerable resilience to the global economic crisis by maintaining one of the highest growth rates in the world. The services sector accounted for around 88 per cent of...
by Abhijit Das | On 13 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 Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2...
by Selim Raihan | On 04 Oct 2011 The
automobile industry in the ASEAN countries has expanded rapidly
over the last few years. The growth potential of the ASEAN auto
market and its now very major absolute importance for the industr...
by Eric Heymann | On 03 Oct 2011 This paper starts by examining some of the variables that have been considered important
determinants of openness and how views of these have changed over the last twenty
years. It then considers th...
by Kenneth E Jackson | On 29 Sep 2011 The growth of East Asia’s intra-regional trade is driven largely by increased component
trade within global electronics production networks. Data on both electronics trade and
production elucidate a...
by Byron Gangnes | On 29 Sep 2011 Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will b...
by Kaushik Basu | On 28 Sep 2011 The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To
capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 27 Sep 2011 Income originating within geographical boundaries of urban and rural areas of Gujarat is estimated
for three benchmark years – 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05 - at current prices following the broad
me...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 26 Sep 2011 The New Pension System in India and the
progress that has been made since its introduction in 2004 is described. It then identifies the
challenges ahead. It also documents the state of military pens...
by Renuka Sane | On 26 Sep 2011 The foundation of the new policy, known as the “National Policy for Senior Citizens 2011” is based on several factors. These include the demographic explosion among the elderly, the changing economy a...
by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment GOI | On 19 Sep 2011 This paper examines the competitiveness of the Indian garments industry vis-à-vis the other
South Asian countries Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Under the SAFTA agreement, many of the
garment i...
by Saon Ray | On 16 Sep 2011 Certain trends in agricultural productivity, agricultural finance are outlined. Recommendations for improving agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 12 Sep 2011 In preparing the Approach Paper, the Planning Commission has consulted much more
widely than ever before recognising the fact that citizens are now much better informed and
also keen to engage. Over...
by Planning Commission, India | On 12 Sep 2011 This paper investigates the effects of plants' dynamics on productivity growth in the Indian pharmaceutical industry across five regions: north, north-west, west, south and the rest of India, during t...
by Atsuko Kamiike | On 06 Sep 2011 Over 160,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The correlates of
survival are examined using data from the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery
(STAR), a population-representative...
by Elizabeth Frankenberg | On 06 Sep 2011 This paper focuses on macroeconomic linkages with agriculture. From an extensive
literature review the question that emerges is: is there a structural constraint in Indian
agriculture or does Indian...
by Munish Alagh | On 02 Sep 2011 The project aimed to
find the reasons for bottlenecks in the present system that deprive the
tribal community of the benefit of schemes. Five villages from each block have been selected to
make tot...
by Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan Jaipur | On 02 Sep 2011 In this paper agriculture’s role in the Indian enigma is reassessed by exploring two key pathways, an income–consumption pathway and an employment–time use pathway, linking agricultural conditions to...
by Derek Headey | On 29 Aug 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 This paper examines the strategy for obtaining adequate resources for the
Indian State, where the goals of the State comprise the provision of public
goods (which, by de nition, bene t everyone) and...
by P.V. Srinivasan | On 24 Aug 2011 The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007–2009 has called the export-led growth model of Asian economies into question. This paper describes the contribution that macroeconomic policy can m...
by Peter Morgan | On 23 Aug 2011 The contribution of technology to the Indian banking industry, the role played by IDRBT and the significance of banking technology awards, in fostering the technological developments of banks. Issues...
by Anand Sinha | On 23 Aug 2011 In this paper, the potential impacts of trade and investment-related policy reforms on India’s agro-processing sector is explored. The direct effects of policy reforms within the processing sector, an...
by A. Ganesh-Kumar | On 22 Aug 2011 This paper analyses key aspects of the changing economic relationship between the European Union (EU) and Asia, and explored the potential economic ramifications of deeper EU-Asian economic cooperatio...
by Michael Plummer | On 22 Aug 2011 The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, an...
by Arup Mitra | On 19 Aug 2011 This article looks into the role of land reform in comparison to concentric ef fort
to augment agricultural GDP. Redistribut ive land reform policy aims to improve
land endowments of poor, though va...
by Debdatta Pal | On 18 Aug 2011 A key queestion is:
which groups should receive priority in a situation of constrained
resources? Ideally the twin dangers of leaving out malnourished
groups from the purview of the policy, and cov...
by Gopalakrishna Kumar | On 17 Aug 2011 The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated
with agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, a...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 17 Aug 2011 The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillov...
by Pami Dua | On 12 Aug 2011 On the basis of a survey conducted in three cities viz., Delhi,
Mumbai and Amritsar the paper examines the characteristics of firms engaged in Indo-
Pakistan trade. It also estimates the transaction...
by Nisha Taneja | On 11 Aug 2011 This study attempts to identity the major determinants of bond market development in Asian economies, through examining its relationship with selected key financial and economic factors, and to provid...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 10 Aug 2011 The role played by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the banking system in India in strengthening education system. Realizing the importance of education for the economic development and the overall liv...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 10 Aug 2011 This brief examines options for a (Cash on Delivery) COD Aid contract
in Pakistan’s education sector and its potential benefits for improving the
relationship between official donors and the governm...
by Wren Elhai | On 08 Aug 2011 This paper is a review of the different coping mechanisms adopted by the households in
different dryland area of India. The primary focus of the present paper is to understand
the coping mechanisms...
by Nikhil Govind | On 05 Aug 2011 As per UNSNA recommendations, valuables as a separate item had been introduced in the
expenditure side of GDP. Since India is one of largest importer and user of gold for various purposes,
this trea...
by Rakesh Kumar | On 04 Aug 2011 This paper attempts to examine technical efficiency and productivity performance of Indian scheduled commercial banks, for the period 1979-2008. A model is constructed using multiple output/multiple i...
by S S Rajan | On 03 Aug 2011 This paper compares different
approaches to the short term forecasting (nowcasting) of real GDP growth in India and
evaluates methods to optimally gauge the current state of the economy. Univariate
...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 02 Aug 2011 National Competition Policy is necessitated, as an overarching Policy framework, in continuation
of the 1991-reforms, to infuse greater competition across sectors, and unleash fuller growth potential...
by Ministry of Corporte Affairs GOI | On 01 Aug 2011 The ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) control programme of BRAC has been in
operation for the last few years. No independent evaluation has so far been
conducted to explore how far the objectives of...
by Qazi Shafayetul Islam | On 28 Jul 2011 TRAI has initiated this consultation paper suo-motu focusing on future looking regulatory framework for provisioning of Mobile Value Added Services. URL:[http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/trai/uplo...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) | On 26 Jul 2011 Review of
Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India. Edited byNalini Iyer, Bonnie Zare,Rodopi, Amsterdam. 2009. 248 pp. $71.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-420-2519-6.
by KumKum Chatterjee | On 23 Jul 2011 This study investigates the impact of global crisis shocks on India’s trade and industry. Both panel data modeling and vector autoregression techniques are used to understand the dynamic effects of gl...
by Prabir De | On 22 Jul 2011 The rural-urban distribution of the population is shown. URL:[http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/india/paper2_1.pdf].
by | On 21 Jul 2011 Return migration and health has received
little attention in policy and research.
This article will focus on the risk
factors and social determinants of health
during all phases of migration that...
by Anita A Davies | On 20 Jul 2011 The general perception that dentistry is expensive keeps many people away from
seeking treatment from registered professionals and make them hostage to the
services of non-registered lay practitione...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 20 Jul 2011 The Union Law Minister recently launched the ‘Mission Mode Programme for Reduction of
Pendency of Arrears in Courts’. According to media reports, the programme aims to dispose of
40 per cent of the...
by Rohit Kumar | On 15 Jul 2011 This paper analyses the impact of domestic and external shocks on the Indian economy.
A macro-modelling framework is developed that evaluates the impact of two
domestic shocks (rainfall shortfall an...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 15 Jul 2011 A documentation of different aspects of human deprivation in the old age other than the
measurement of income poverty is done. Aspects of economic, health and social aspects of
deprivation and how i...
by Syam Prasad | On 14 Jul 2011 The empowered group of ministers on food on Monday approved the draft National Food Security Bill, bringing the ambitious social security programme that guarantees highly subsidized food grains to abo...
by Economic Times ET | On 12 Jul 2011 The study highlights interlinkages amongst district level poverty, socioeconomic developmental indices, RCH-care utilization and fertility. Thereby the study formulates a recursive model to highlight...
by S C Gulati | On 11 Jul 2011 BRAC has long been working to empower people and communities in situations of
poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. In recent years, BRAC has extended
its activities to include the urba...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 11 Jul 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 This paper
focuses on the Don Sahong Dam (DSD’s) potential impacts on fish and fisheries, and particularly the project’s
regional implications in relation to fisheries, including its possible impact...
by Ian Bird | On 08 Jul 2011 Board interlocks and corporate elites are an engaging field of ongoing academic and policy research around the world, especially because of the concentration of economic power in few individuals or en...
by Bala N Balasubramanian | On 08 Jul 2011 Review of
Political Economy of Communications in India: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Pradip Ninan Thomas;
Sage, India; 2010, Rs 650.
by Vrijendra | On 07 Jul 2011 This paper gives information on global wheat market developments, price transmission and impacts on Indian domestic markets, as well as an assessment of public policies to manage domestic prices. This...
by Dipak Dasgupta | On 06 Jul 2011 This paper is an attempt to revisit the pioneering work of Riazuddin and Khan (2002). A complete
business cycle has been elapsed (2002-2010) since their study, so there is need to review the results
...
by Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari | On 05 Jul 2011 This paper considers how exchange rates affect East Asian trade. The evidence indicates that exports produced within regional production networks depend on exchange rates throughout the region while l...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 01 Jul 2011 Pegging in a coordinated way to a regional basket currency is considered by many as optimal for east-Asian countries. By contrast, according to existing empirical studies, these countries have most of...
by Eric Girardin | On 29 Jun 2011 A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per
capita income are highly significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset. This
paper shows that the com...
by Markus Brückner | On 27 Jun 2011 After Independence, the managers of the Indian economy took very
cautious steps. They found the world sharply divided into two blocs: the one led by the
capitalist economies (the US in particular) a...
by S.K. Mishra | On 24 Jun 2011 The the population dynamics of the 21st century is shown here.
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 21 Jun 2011 The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada,...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 21 Jun 2011 Indian public foodgrains management, perhaps still motivated by the experiences of the 1960s to attain and maintain self-sufficiency in foodgrains to achieve food security, has outlived its’ usefulnes...
by A. Ganesh Kumar | On 16 Jun 2011 In a television interview not so long ago when the interviewer painfully and persistently asked Husain yet again, why he had chosen Qatar over Hindustan, he said laughing, playfully invoking and twis...
by Shuddhabrata Sengupta | On 15 Jun 2011 Given that the 74th amendment to the Indian Constitution stipulates
that the water supply service is to be transferred to the city/urban
governments this note analyses the institutional economics of...
by Centre for Global Development | On 15 Jun 2011 Adopting a micro-level framework of impact of FDI in an industry, this study empirically
examines the following three issues in the context of Indian machinery industry (IMI) -
division 28 of Nation...
by Pradeep Kumar Keshari | On 14 Jun 2011 The June issue of World Rivers Review is overflowing with ideas on on how to maintain healthy flows in rivers, for their health and our own. If a river's flow is its heartbeat, then we humans have bec...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 13 Jun 2011 Census figures show that the child sex ratio has gone down. There are several reasons for this. The issue is serious and issue should be dealt immediately.
by Anwesha Sen | On 10 Jun 2011 The
importance of non-financial reporting in the overall assessment of a company's
performance, its risk-return trade off is steadily gaining ground, both globally and in
India. [Address by Dr K. C...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 10 Jun 2011 India has been facing rapid urbanization. There is a two-fold increase in urban population
during 1971-2001, registering a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.8%. Among all the problems
caus...
by Sudhakar Yedla | On 03 Jun 2011 Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in
weathering the external shocks of recent globalization crises—the 1997-98 Asian
financial crisis and the 2008-09 great...
by Philip Abbott | On 02 Jun 2011 The present paper is a study of the impact of salinity ingress on the rural households in the coastal regions of Gujarat. The paper throws up some important insights which appear policy relevant.
by Jyothis Sathyapalan | On 02 Jun 2011 In a new CGD report, U.S. and Pakistani development experts urge a substantial revamp of the U.S. approach to Pakistan, saying that U.S. efforts to build prosperity in the nuclear-armed nation with a...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 02 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply
side or a demand side issue? School attendance and total human capital
investment time (time in school plus travel ti...
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 Jun 2011 The objective of this paper is to examine right to food in the Indian context. The
right to food is analysed in terms of availability, accessibility, adequacy and sustainability. These are
examined...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 27 May 2011 This paper presents the statistical statement of the Ministry of Railways, India. URL: [http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/stat_econ/Stat_0910/Annual_Statistical_Stateme...
by Ministry of Railways | On 26 May 2011 Bangladesh is a poor country with nearly half (48%) of the population living on the wrong side of the poverty line. The health status of the population has remained poor. The socioeconomic inequality...
by Abdullahel Hadi | On 25 May 2011 The Indian economy was in the mode of globalization and liberalization. But global
financial melt down and consequent economic recession in developed economies have clearly
been a major factor in...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment | On 24 May 2011 In India, today too, majority of educated women are unaware of their true self and still stuck in the process of self realisation. Moreover, there are some women who are aware of their self, their rig...
by Sachin S. Bhumbe | On 09 May 2011 The policy of free hiring and firing, leading to a high labour turnover is in nobody’s interest: employers lose industrially accumulated useful skills while workers lose jobs and incomes. Yet job secu...
by Snehal Barai | On 09 May 2011 This paper presents the Statement Delivered by Mr. Krishna Hari Baskota, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance in the 44th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development in the capa...
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 09 May 2011 Review of Policy and Practice in Asian Distance
Edited by Belawati Tiawati and Baggaley Jon Education,
Sage, Publications, India 2010, 260 pages, Rs. 650/-
by Madhu Parhar | On 06 May 2011 In May 2009, the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR)
warned of growing threats to sustainable peace in Nepal.
Since that time, Nepal’s politics have continued to polarize.
Nepal still has two ar...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights | On 04 May 2011 This Statement sets out the Reserve Bank’s assessment of the current macroeconomic situation and projections. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/notification/PDFs/APS030511F.pdf].
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 03 May 2011 This study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between environmental quality and per capita NSDP i.e., (Environmental Kuznets Curve, EKC) of four major Indian States in the light of their ve...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 02 May 2011 In most cases, energy use in the production of a given desirable output results in the generation
of undesirable output also as a by-product. Thus, the aim of this paper is to estimate energy use...
by Sabuj Kumar Mandal | On 02 May 2011 In this study, two types of aid transfers - boats and houses are examined- that were made to
rehabilitate tsunami-affected fishery households in Sri Lanka. The goal is to investigate the
distributio...
by Asha Gunawardena | On 20 Apr 2011 Part I of the Budget speech by Finance Minister
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 This paper tries to
focus on the method to assess the magnitude of short/seasonal migration
based on its broad characteristics. It attempts to analyse the contrasting
characteristics of short durat...
by Vijay Korra | On 18 Apr 2011 The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up;
family size is stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex rati...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2011 Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus upon the problem
of regulation in the field of micro-finance. This paper delineates the
three distinct aspects where government needs to play a role...
by Renuka Sane | On 13 Apr 2011 Focusing on corporate governance, which many see as a critical part of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and which is also seen as unresponsive to calls for change, this paper argues that such harmoniz...
by Richard W Carney | On 12 Apr 2011 A discussion about the declining sex ratio in India is given. The various reasons for declining sex ratio are outlined.
by Anwesha Sen | On 09 Apr 2011 An
attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the financing pattern of
Indian corporate sector during 1990-2009. This paper further seeks to
identify the pattern of resource mobilisation of Ind...
by P L Beena | On 08 Apr 2011 The agricultural sectors of developing Asian countries are
experiencing two important new developments: the growth of
organic agriculture (OA) and the increasing use of land to grow
energy crops...
by Anil Markandya | On 01 Apr 2011 For decades until the crisis hit in mid-1997, East Asian economies led
the developing world in achieving high rates of economic growth,
accomplishing what had come to be known as the East Asian Mira...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Mar 2011 The purpose of this paper is to reopen policy debates on the role of
agricultural mechanisation in rural development. The paper examines
very different and diverse patterns of agricultural mechani...
by Stephen Biggs | On 29 Mar 2011 Large publicly-held corporations or business groups in developing Asian
economies are typically controlled (and managed) by families, and tend to
suffer from poor corporate governance. Even though s...
by Sang-Woo Nam | On 29 Mar 2011 As countries in South Asia ready
themselves for climate change and the possibility
of increased frequency in natural disasters, it is
useful to understand how well post disaster
operations work to...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 28 Mar 2011 Large publicly-held corporations or business groups in developing Asian economies are typically
controlled (and managed) by families, and tend to suffer from poor corporate governance. Even
though s...
by Sang-Woo Nam | On 24 Mar 2011 State income, public finances, agriculture and animal husbandry, education, health, population etc are given importance in the economic survey. URL: [http://mahades.maharashtra.gov.in/files/publicatio...
by Maharashtra Government | On 23 Mar 2011 Interest in the uncertainties prevailing at the macroeconomic level has
always been well known in economic literature. This paper analyses the
effect of firm level and macroeconomic uncertainty on t...
by Mrinal Kanti | On 22 Mar 2011 Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self by Laura Bear. The Culture of History Series, Columbia University Press, New York 2007. 360 pp. $49.00 (cloth...
by David A. Campion | On 22 Mar 2011 This article estimates the proportion of grain "diverted" from the Public Distribution System (PDS) to the open market, using the well-established method of matching state offtake figures published by...
by Reetika Khera | On 21 Mar 2011 The population and poverty nexus is not new but remains an important development issue for many countries. Recent research has added the crucial dimension of vulnerability to poverty to the debate on...
by Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr. | On 21 Mar 2011 Bank-based systems of corporate governance are certainly an alternative in many Asian economies.
In spite of the great efforts directed to strengthening corporate governance along the Anglo-
America...
by Sang-Woo Nam | On 18 Mar 2011 A very basic and core issue for the Indian banking system and that is the challenge of achieving Financial Inclusion. Without being inclusive, financial and economic stability cannot be sustainable. F...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 17 Mar 2011 March 15, 2011: The 16-member Dr Rajinder Kumar committee, constituted by the Department of Health Research to evolve guidelines for accreditation of health research organisations has submitted its re...
by | On 15 Mar 2011 Given the importance of agriculture to the well being of a
large percentage of India’s population, it becomes important to
study how improvements can be made in the productivity of this
sector. Thi...
by K. R. Shanmugam | On 15 Mar 2011 PRC’s economic emergence over the last two decades, and in particular its
recent WTO accession initiative, portend a dramatically changed landscape
of East Asian trade. This has aroused concern arou...
by David Roland Holst | On 15 Mar 2011 There are large
variations among the G20 countries in their deceleration experiences, transmission
mechanisms and their current macroeconomic outlook. Hence, this paper argues that
each country nee...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 14 Mar 2011 Although the Asian Crisis has brought consensus on the necessity of
strong domestic financial systems, there is less agreement as to the role of
foreign banks in achieving the goals of economic grow...
by Heather Montgomery | On 10 Mar 2011 This paper makes an attempt to provide a broad overview of the salient aspects of the
growth story of Indian Railways (IR) since independence. More specifically, the study
aims to analyse the trends...
by G. Alivelu | On 10 Mar 2011 Poor corporate governance is viewed as one of the structural
weaknesses responsible for the outbreak of the Asian crisis in late 1997.
Controlling family owners could pursue private interests with r...
by Sang-Woo Nam | On 09 Mar 2011 The Corporation has decided to implement various schemes for females within the framework of its obligatory and discretionary
functions as laid down in the M.M.C. Act. A step towards it, is a separat...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 07 Mar 2011 Despite some commendable efforts and achievements of the Indian state, it is an explicit fact that the majority of children in India are suffering, deprived of basic resources and needs for an average...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2011 Railway Budget 2011-12.
by Mamata Banerjee | On 25 Feb 2011 Bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha to constitute and regulate the national authority and enable the providing of unique identification to every citizen of India.
by Unique Identification Authority of India UIA | On 23 Feb 2011 All proposals and policy measures in the forthcoming Budget may best be summed up as efforts to improve the sustainability of growth. Specific objectives are likely to be lowering inflation and defici...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Feb 2011 Supply response to price changes is likely to increase with the increasing liberalization of
the agricultural sector in India. Past studies revealed a weak supply response for Indian
agriculture. No...
by G. Mythili | On 21 Feb 2011 In the context of the low levels of regional cooperation among South Asian countries
when compared with the successful results from cooperation in East Asia (consisting of
South East and East Asian...
by Ramesh Chandra | On 18 Feb 2011 This paper examines the strategy for obtaining adequate resources for the
Indian State, where the goals of the State comprise the provision of public
goods (which, by defi nition, benefi t everyone)...
by Vijay Kelkar | On 17 Feb 2011 The paper is a study of the family suicide cases in Kerala. The aim of the study is to gather information about demographic details, method adopted and causes of suicides that happened in Kerala durin...
by K Praveenlal | On 16 Feb 2011 The world over, the financial sector is faced with adjustment problems of facing up to rapid changes in the environment. The Indian financial system cannot be immune to this universal phenomenon. What...
by S.S. Tarapore | On 16 Feb 2011 Ten years have passed since the Asian financial crisis that
devastated not only the currency values and the financial
systems of Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, and
Thailand, but also t...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 16 Feb 2011 While there are many path-breaking elements in the Programme document, the stress is on a top down programme that leaves little room for accommodating regional needs. Nor is there much emphasis on enc...
by Syam Prasad | On 15 Feb 2011 Increasing life expectancy in South Asia is resulting in a demographic transition that can, under the right
circumstances, yield dividends through more favorable dependency ratios for a time. With ag...
by Michael Maurice Engelgau | On 10 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 Broad ranging economic reforms were introduced in the Indian economy in the
early 1990s. Yet there was no evidence of a statistical break in the rate of growth of the
Indian economy during the ninet...
by Arvind Virmani | On 08 Feb 2011 The Presidential address to parliament at its first session of the year pays tribute to the heroes and martyrs of the nation, elaborates on Bangaldesh's achievement in industry, agriculture, education...
by Zillur Rahman | On 08 Feb 2011 This submission to the UNCRC Committee is primarily addressing the right to be heard in
judicial processes. It analyses the space available within the legal system that ensures that
children are giv...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 07 Feb 2011 The key features of Indian finance is summarised. With
a growing savings rate and a growing share of private corporate capital forma-
tion, and with a high growth rate of GDP, Indian finance is rapi...
by Ajay Shah | On 03 Feb 2011 This paper considers how the official poverty line in India would have to change, if it were to be set at a level that allowed urban households to afford minimally adequate accommodation. It discusses...
by S. Chandrashekar | On 02 Feb 2011 The Indian Council of Medical Research, an autonomous agency within the
Ministry of Health, was the apex organization responsible for guiding, supporting
and conducting medical research in the c...
by Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR | On 30 Jan 2011 Since the early nineties the Indian economy has been subjected to a process of stabilization-cum-structural adjustment. Stabilization involves short-term demand management through monetary and fiscal...
by K.J. Joseph | On 28 Jan 2011 In this paper is a study of trend of voluntary contribution for community services in the Indian Himalayan region. The study is done by using an experimental game method of face-to-face communication...
by Sujoy Chakravarty | On 25 Jan 2011 Life expectancy and other indicators of health status have, on average, increased markedly across the world during the last century. At the same time, however, health inequities within and between pop...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 20 Jan 2011 ICDDR,B is an international health research institution. It is equipped with necessary research
facilities including excellent field study areas. The field areas are specifically designed for
resear...
by Abbas Bhuiya | On 14 Jan 2011 This study seeks to derive lessons from the French nuclear energy experience that can be
used to guide the Indian programme as it steps on the pedal to fast track nuclear expansion. [Occasional Paper...
by Manpreet Sethi | On 13 Jan 2011 The pentavalent vaccine and many other combination vaccines waiting to enter Universal
immunization Programme (UIP) have brought into sharp focus the gaping gap between
lofty slogans of ‘evidence ba...
by Y Madhavi | On 05 Jan 2011 This paper aims to analyse urban mobility patterns and consequent impacts on energy and environment
in India. We investigate the quantity of energy use in 23 metropolitan regions for the period 1981–...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 03 Jan 2011 Bangladesh is popularly described in the literature as a ‘test case for development’ in view of the
complex nature of its socioeconomic and cultural problems, coupled with severe resource constraints...
by Mushtaque Chowdhury | On 29 Dec 2010 Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the
composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to
prenatal care and the design of...
by Charles Blackorby | On 28 Dec 2010 An analysis of the
innovation in the Indian pharmaceutical industry is done. This section traces the
origins, the strengths and weaknesses of the innovation system in the pharmaceutical sector in In...
by Padmashree Gehl Sampath | On 17 Dec 2010 Using the non parametric approach of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) this paper examines
the input and output efficiencies of the Indian pharmaceutical firms for the period 1991 to 2005.
by Subhash C Ray | On 17 Dec 2010 Health evidence confirms that the
burden of disease associated with inadequate
Hygience, Sanitation, Water (HSW) is overwhelmingly (although
not exclusively) carried by the poor and
disadvantaged...
by Jamie Bartram | On 16 Dec 2010 The paper examines the asymmetric features in Indian
federalism and evaluates its contribution. There are discussions on the special
arrangements in the Indian constitution to accommodate special ca...
by M Govinda Rao | On 14 Dec 2010 The paper defines financial liberalization, distinguishing between liberalization of domestic financial
markets and capital account convertibility. It then examines the stages and the strategy of Ind...
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 Dec 2010 This paper explores a plausible channel through which exporting could have made both a substantial and a persistent contribution to export-oriented economic growth in Korea and by extension other East...
by Sanghoon Ahn | On 10 Dec 2010 This paper will discuss the major factors, which affect Indonesia’s industrial competitiveness, specifically the determinants of its industrial technology development, which is crucial to raising Indo...
by Thee Kian Wie | On 09 Dec 2010 This paper begins with a short review and discussion of the literature on policy complementarities and their implications in terms of (sustainable) growth strategies and the possible emergence of a ne...
by Bruno Rocha | On 09 Dec 2010 Agribusiness is the single largest sector of the economy in many developing countries and is growing fast. The present paper examines the situation of agribusiness in different countries of South Asia...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 09 Dec 2010 Adolescents (10-19 years) constitute about one fourth of India's population and young
people (10-24 years) about one third of the population. This huge section of population
represents a great 'demo...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 08 Dec 2010 Using information in the public domain and data from a pilot study, this paper
argues that adoption of life-cycle cost approaches (LCCA) could play a significant role in rectifying this
situation by...
by V Ratna Reddy | On 08 Dec 2010 For studying the analytical characteristics of a distribution, ideally one should have a random sample of observations from the corresponding population. Such a sample makes it possible for us to di...
by N. Krishnaji | On 07 Dec 2010 The paper argues that if the Chinese economy had failed, mainstream economics would have described this as completely predictable, given the extent and nature of involvement of the Chinese state in th...
by Kaushik Basu | On 06 Dec 2010 This paper is all about speculations on growth, disparity and Capital reorganisation in Indian Economy. [Working Paper No. 124]
by Sudipto Mundle | On 06 Dec 2010 Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries,
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and
intra-regio...
by Swapan K. Bhattacharya | On 06 Dec 2010 The present system of making Census has many advantages such as, taking stock of Indian situation with detailed data regarding the wide diversity of our people and the finding of conditions of life ha...
by Rajesh Komath | On 01 Dec 2010 This consultation paper aims to seek the views of stakeholders to assist TRAI in arriving at a
framework by which interconnecting service providers may be fairly compensated for
Intelligent Network...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 30 Nov 2010 The aim of this paper is to derive some important lessons in economic philosophy
from two recent Indian films. The two films, Mani Ratnam’s Guru (2007) and
Madhur Bhandarkar’s Corporate (2006), are...
by Tejas A Desai | On 29 Nov 2010 Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded support without any appeal to global climate considerations. However, even relativ...
by David Wheeler | On 29 Nov 2010 This paper puts forward the case for Thailand’s commercial banks to move towards more
sustainable banking practices that proactively contribute towards socially and
environmentally sustainable and j...
by Carl Middleton | On 25 Nov 2010 This paper discusses the trends in India's outward FDI over the last decade and then
attempts to identify the driving factors for the same. The aim is to provide policy makers
with insights regardin...
by Ravi Subramanian | On 24 Nov 2010 A considerable proportion of the Indian population is generally believed to suffer from under-nutrition and malnutrition. The proportion of India's population falling below the minimum level of nutrit...
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 19 Nov 2010 This paper is a look at the food balance sheet of Kerela, the extent of undernutrition and malnutrition in Kerela. For ths purpose, 57 items of food normally available in the State were taken into acc...
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 19 Nov 2010 A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian
Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers.
Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 17 Nov 2010 This paper describes approaches to the measurement and explanation of income-related
inequality and inequity in health care financing, health care utilization and health and
considers the applicab...
by Eddy van Doorslaer | On 16 Nov 2010 A decomposition in the ownership of shares
by foreigners is offered into three parts: the change in insider shareholding,
the change in market capitalisation and the change in the fraction of
outsi...
by Ajay Shah | On 16 Nov 2010 This paper analyses the determinants of fixed investment in the
Indian Private Corporate Manufacturing sector for the period 1973-2002,
using Annual Survey of Industries Data. It is argued that econ...
by V.R. Prabhakaran Nair | On 16 Nov 2010 American jobs are being lost because of outsourcing, to places like Bangalore. So, unlike many other visiting dignitaries, President Obama is going to give that city a careful miss during his three-da...
by T.N. Ninan | On 11 Nov 2010 Using a unique panel data set on Indian firms, some basic but important and often neglected aspects of technology licensing agreements and their effect on the licenses have been analysed. [Working Pap...
by Robert E Evenson | On 11 Nov 2010 The privileging of internal resources over external finance is not
only the most democratic but also the most politically desirable option.
The implications of the ADB loan for Kerala is situated ag...
by K. Ravi Raman | On 09 Nov 2010 This paper analyzes the impacts of the 1998 and 2008 financial crises on the Korean labor market. They study the historical background of the Korean Employment Insurance System and the change of labor...
by Sung Teak Kim | On 04 Nov 2010 The present paper examines the cultural orientation of foreign students who secured
admission in Osmania University (Andhra Pradesh, India) in terms of time
orientation and event orientation, dichot...
by S. V. Satyanarayana | On 03 Nov 2010 The current account surplus of the Republic of Korea (henceforth Korea) increased significantly in the immediate recovery period after the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis. Since then the surplus has...
by Joonkyung Ha | On 03 Nov 2010 This paper is an attempt to understand the relationship between the labour and energy
intensity for firms drawn from pulp and paper industries in Indian manufacturing. Pulp and paper industry account...
by K. Narayanan | On 29 Oct 2010 Remittances are increasingly becoming an important source of external financing for the developing countries. For some of the developing countries, it forms almost 40-50% of their GDP. Though there is...
by Rashmi Banga | On 29 Oct 2010 “Open Skies,” in general, refers to the liberalization of aviation markets that can be pursued
on a bilateral, regional, or multilateral basis. At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN)...
by Siew Yean Tham | On 29 Oct 2010 The Asian region has experienced substantial growth over the past several decades. Indeed,
a quarter of all world exports now come from East Asia. Strong infrastructure underpinnings
have often been...
by Susan Stone | On 28 Oct 2010 For most people the story of Indian reforms starts in the nineties, following the
BOP crisis of 1990-91. There was a detectable increase in the rate of growth of the
Indian economy in the 1980s aris...
by Arvind Virmani | On 26 Oct 2010 This paper reviews the status of the external sector of the Indian economy. It is divided into 5 broad
sections. Section I gives the trends of imports and exports, as well as the composition and dire...
by Archana S Mathur | On 26 Oct 2010 It has taken two crises—the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 and the global financial crisis of 2007-2009—for the international community to seriously focus on the reform of the international finan...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 23 Oct 2010 Mail questions addressed in this paper are: What is the cognitive perception of Muslim women on their own status in their community?
How do the Muslim women perceive their status when compared to the...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 20 Oct 2010 This paper conducts an in-depth analysis of the impacts of the global financial crisis on the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It also provides relevant policy...
by Xiangfeng Liu | On 15 Oct 2010 There is an urgent need to study the social compulsions/ factors that lead parents to marry off their daughters to NRIs who ruin their lives completely. It is also to be examined whether any safeguard...
by M.K. Jabbi | On 13 Oct 2010 This paper surveys studies of the importance of Central Asian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the economy and their experience during the Russian financial crisis. It also uses survey dat...
by Gloria O. Pasadilla | On 13 Oct 2010 This paper discusses the role of state intervention for prevention, containment, and resolution of financial crises based mainly on the Korean experience during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Crises...
by Yoon Je Cho | On 12 Oct 2010 This paper makes an attempt
at understanding why inequalities continue to exist in the educational profile
of the population despite high literacy, universal enrollment in schools and
relatively be...
by Suma Scaria | On 12 Oct 2010 The paper examines the recent European crisis management programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to see how the lessons of Asia were applied. Compared to the Asian programs of 1997, the Euro...
by Shinji Takagi | On 11 Oct 2010 The present paper looks at the various dimensions of contributions by
forests in the context of the Indian economy. Based on a detailed review of
literature on importance and valuation of forests, s...
by Archana S Mathur | On 08 Oct 2010 The global economic crisis has affected the East Asian economies via trade and investment. The export-led model which had been responsible for the “East Asian Miracle” now must redirect the basis of g...
by Siow Yue Chia | On 08 Oct 2010 After house price bubbles burst in many OECD countries, investors are keeping a very watchful eye for price developments on asset markets that signal a bubble.
by Steffen Dyck | On 08 Oct 2010 The paper attempts to capture the construction of 'community' in Indian communication research. This paper attempts to trace the genealogy, interrogates its usage in Indian communication studies and s...
by Biswajit Das | On 05 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 A major reform process in the Indian economic policy regime away from a four-
decade-long inward orientation has been under way since July 1991 in response to a serious
macro-economic crisis. The n...
by T.A. Bhavani | On 05 Oct 2010 East Asian countries were seriously affected by the 2008 global crisis through a steep fall in exports. This experience exposed the vulnerability of the East Asian growth model and emphasized the impo...
by Mahani Zainal Abidin | On 05 Oct 2010 This study examines a range of crossborder infrastructure development issues related to the
Asian countries. Despite active pursuit of private investment in infrastructure by most
developing count...
by Prabir De | On 01 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 Over the last few decades, the Indian economy has experienced both classical business
cycles and the cyclical fluctuations in its growth rate known as growth rate cycles. In the
years since the li...
by Pami Dua | On 01 Oct 2010 This paper considers the choices facing the Asian tiger economies regarding growth
strategies that foster trans-Pacific rebalancing. A review of historical data spanning 2000 to
2008 reveals only...
by Hwee Kwan Chow | On 30 Sep 2010 This essay reviews important demographic trends expected to occur between 2010 and 2050, indicates some of their implications for economic and global development, and suggests some possible policies t...
by Joel E. Cohen | On 29 Sep 2010 It is being acknowledged that a macro prudential perspective is critical in designing and pursuing micro prudential regulation of institutions and markets. Two distinct but highly inter-related constr...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 28 Sep 2010 This paper traces the effects of the “East Asian Miracle,” the 1997–1998 Asian Crisis, the recovery, and the 2008–2009 global financial crisis on ASEAN countries. It also considers how ASEAN countries...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 28 Sep 2010 An issue that has attracted surprisingly little notice is the size and growth of the trade deficit. Even more worrisome is the flat trajectory for exports — which escapes notice because comparisons ar...
by T.N. Ninan | On 24 Sep 2010 The Indian Railways (IR) have grand plans. They would like to leapfrog to a higher growth trajectory during
2010-20. Towards this, they would like to see a total investment of Rs 14,00,000 crores (cr...
by G. Raghuram | On 23 Sep 2010 The notion that the backwardness of Indian Agriculture may be explained in terms of the institutional, and more particularly, the market structure within its functions, is not wholly novel one, elemen...
by Sumit Guha | On 20 Sep 2010 The pharmaceutical industry in India has provoked much debate and sharp criticism, on account of its insensitivity towards the health needs of the Indian people. The vulnerability of the indu...
by P. Mohanan Pillai | On 20 Sep 2010 The objective of this research was to examine if the growth in health facilities within the cities have kept pace with growth of population. The methodology used was geographic information and mapping...
by Anandi Dantas | On 17 Sep 2010 This study undertakes impact analysis of remittances on poverty in developing countries at two levels. Firstly, it estimates the impact of remittances on poverty in 77 developing countries; Secondly,...
by Rashmi Banga | On 17 Sep 2010 Long before Independence, the theme on which Gandhiji wrote repeatedly, was the
need to improve the status of Indian women. He drew attention to the fact that the
woman was ‘not only.... condemned t...
by Lotika Sarkar | On 14 Sep 2010 Labour income is often a major source of income not only for landless rural households but also for the 'small' farmers in Asian agriculture. Fluctuations in labour income can be quite marked, owing t...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 10 Sep 2010 In this paper, the influence of stronger intellectual property protection on technology transfer into developing countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-20...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 09 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 The primary focus of the paper is to analyze the Indian Tiger Conservation program –
Project Tiger. The circumstances that lead to and the conditions under which the program
was launched are discuss...
by Varun Khandelwal | On 03 Sep 2010 The paper aims at bringing out and explaining the problems faced by tribals. The paper also analyzes various laws made for protecting the tribals and giving them justice.
by Ketan Mukhija | On 03 Sep 2010 The Indian software industry is at the bottom of knowledge hierarchy, where the bottom is highly segmented. The political process that successfully thwarted the automation of Indian manufacturing sect...
by Pradosh Nath | On 20 Aug 2010 This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s
organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment
generation in the labour intensive sect...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Aug 2010 This paper explores issues relating to informal trade in the SAARC region.
It spells out the reasons underpinning illegal trade in the South Asian
region. Further it focuses on the estimated size an...
by Nisha Taneja | On 10 Aug 2010 The world changed on July 2, 1997 when Thailand floated the baht.
Explanations abound on the origins of the crisis - indeed it is a growth industry.
This study is part of that explosion. It has seve...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 10 Aug 2010 Information plays a vital role in lives of individuals/groups for development and growth. Just information does not serve the purpose, but accurate information does. The sources/tools/techniques used...
by Rajanish Dass | On 06 Aug 2010 This paper explains importance of human capital skilling, the relation between the FDI and Human Capital development besides the experiences of these two in different regions of the world i.e., Asian...
by P. Srinivas Subbarao | On 04 Aug 2010 This lecture series begins with a discussion of the reforms that have undertaken in the IMF since the mid-1990s, and particularly since the start of the Asian economic crisis. It concludes with a disc...
by Stanley Fischer | On 04 Aug 2010 Youth constitutes the largest segment of the Indian population and being the primary productive human resources, the socio-economic development of youth directly linked to the development process. Thi...
by Joydeep Goswami | On 03 Aug 2010 Indian pharmaceutical sector is currently witnessing faster introduction of new
drugs, with shorter life cycles, given the intense competition. Often, pharma
companies fail to strategically align th...
by Basant Kumar Purohit | On 02 Aug 2010 With the alarming rate of growth in vehicle population and travel demand, the energy consumption has increased significantly contributing to the rise of GHG emissions. Therefore, the development of a...
by P. Balachandra | On 30 Jul 2010 This paper analyses the determinants of competitiveness of auto industry in India, based on a field survey and a quantitative analysis of secondary data. It highlights that all segments of Indian auto...
by Badri Narayanan G. | On 29 Jul 2010 The depth and breadth of the East Asian financial crisis has
added a sense of acute urgency for some concrete and credible
measures by policy-makers to revitalise the Japanese economy.
While steps...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 23 Jul 2010 The paper is based on the 8 Input – Output (I-O) tables for the Indian economy
available over a period of 36 years from 1968-69 to 2003-04. The technical
progress (TP) in the context of the I-O tabl...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 22 Jul 2010 This paper looks at the current challenges faced by the SME’s in the Indian IT industry and formulates hypotheses on how an intermediary can create an ecosystem to ensure the sustenance and evolution...
by Prashant John | On 21 Jul 2010 The currency crises of the 1990s, particularly the one that
hit Southeast Asia since the devaluation of the Thai baht on July
2, 1997, are suggestive of the relevance and pervasiveness of
contagion...
by Chang Li Lin | On 21 Jul 2010 The world over, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, private sector units were of a laissez-faire
variety i.e., the private sector was completely free of state interference. Private enterprise...
by Anupriya Singhal | On 16 Jul 2010 The takeover of substantial number of shares, voting rights or control in a listed Indian
company attracts the provision of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers)
Regulations 1997. T...
by Sandeep Parekh | On 14 Jul 2010 Despite signs of recovery from the global financial crisis, the GDP growth rate for the
Indian economy is likely to be between 5.8 to 6.1 per cent in 2009-10, below the 6.7
per cent recorded in fisc...
by Mathew Joseph | On 14 Jul 2010 This paper presents an overview of school education in Delhi. [Working Paper No. 0068]
by Soumya Gupta | On 13 Jul 2010 To make Asia more economically sustainable and resilient against external shocks, regional economies need to be rebalanced toward regional demand- and trade-driven growth through increased regional co...
by Biswa N Bhattacharyay | On 09 Jul 2010 This study estimates supply response for major crops during pre and post reform periods using Nerlovian adjustment cum adaptive expectation model. Estimation is based on dynamic panel data approach wi...
by G. Mythili | On 06 Jul 2010 This working paper discusses the dependence of Indian agriculture on uncertain rains.
In addition the farmers experience other production risks as well as marketing risks
related to different crop e...
by Gurdev Singh | On 06 Jul 2010 Enormous trade surpluses are problematic for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the
rest of the world. They primarily stem from processing trade. This paper investigates how
exchange rate ch...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 30 Jun 2010 This paper looks at the possible impact of ongoing tariff negotiations on South Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, at an aggregate level or at the Multilateral T...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 21 Jun 2010 Vietnam's (re) discovery in recent years by the international investor community gives the country a second chance to become and Asia tiger. The article looks into the economic, social, political, per...
by Tamara Trinh | On 16 Jun 2010 The paper excavates how the advent of commercial audiography, through 'Recording Expeditions' between 1902 and 1907, shaped configurations of the nascent business in, and culture around, 'music on rec...
by Vibodh Parthasarathi | On 16 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 seeks to explain certain
cultural differences that may have contributed to this imbalance between the
Indian and American higher education systems.[W.P. No. 2009-04-03]
by Tejas A. Desai | On 08 Jun 2010 This paper addresses the question of affordability to finance poverty reduction programs in a dynamic context. In doing so, it stresses the need for approaching the problem from a human rights perspec...
by Omar Haider Chowdhury | On 04 Jun 2010 This paper discusses the case of Indian nurses who take up their
profession as part of a family strategy, where planning for education and
migration are intrinsic to the whole process. In effect, th...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 03 Jun 2010 We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent l...
by Quy-Toan Do | On 02 Jun 2010 This paper talks about the programme Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/ Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) that has been initiated to help the most disadvantaged population.
by Farhana Haseen | On 02 Jun 2010 Without a better
understanding of the interactions between international players, households and public sector, it will be difficult for climate negotiators and donor institutions to
determine the...
by Brian Blankespoor | On 01 Jun 2010 This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global r...
by Gerard Postiglione | On 27 May 2010 The objective in this paper is to shed some empirical light on a claim often made by critics of affirmative action policies: that increasing the representation of members of marginalized communities i...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 26 May 2010 A simple evolutionary model is used to understand the critical rate of environmental change beyond which a population must decline and go extinct. The model is used to highlight the major determinants...
by Luis-Miguel Chevin | On 21 May 2010 Is Asia a cohesive analytical unit in any practical sense?
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 May 2010 This study analyzes the content, usability, interactivity and connectivity of Indian executive
blogs. Results indicate that among the Indian CEOs and top executives who blog, most are
associated wit...
by Smeeta Mishra | On 14 May 2010 The paper examines the factors that influence energy intensity in Indian industries. It has
two parts. In the first part, trends in energy intensity are analysis and cross-industry panel
data (taken...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 13 May 2010 The paper seeks to
prove the point that the Indian OTC derivatives markets, unlike many other
jurisdictions, are well regulated. Only contracts where one party to the contract is an
RBI regulated e...
by Dayanand Arora | On 03 May 2010 The present study attempts a quantitative assessment of the impact of recently signed ASEAN-India FTA
(AIFTA) for selected plantation commodities (coffee, tea and pepper) in India. Partial
equilibri...
by C. Veeramani | On 20 Apr 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 This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global r...
by Gerard Postiglione | On 12 Apr 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 08 Apr 2010 Stricter regulatory surveillance in emerging market economies (EMEs) largely insulated their
financial systems from the crisis. Development and convergence of regulatory apparatus has
been rapid. In...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Mar 2010 The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is,
domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) a...
by Deepita Chakravarty | On 25 Mar 2010 The paper raises some hard questions that need to be answered before one can conclude that events such as Common Wealth Games has a positive effect on the host community. Can the financial requirement...
by Vinayak Uppal | On 23 Mar 2010 This paper examines the basis upon which rural and urban areas are classified as such. It looks into various criteria for the above all over the world and re-iterates the Indian definition of an ‘urba...
by V.K. Dhar | On 22 Mar 2010 The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 22 Mar 2010 This paper examines migrants choice of destination conditional on migration. To this
end, an empirical strategy is designed which remedies both migration selection and unobserved
heterogeneity probl...
by Marcel Fafchamps | On 18 Mar 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 04 Mar 2010 This paper investigates a series of questions that explore this topic: What kind of
information do farmers value the most to improve agricultural productivity? Do
mobile phones and mobile-enabled ag...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 03 Mar 2010 Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive” Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.6...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 Mar 2010 Female work participation in West Bengal is one of the lowest among all
the states in India. However, it varies widely across the state’s 341
blocks. An analysis of some block level characteristics...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 26 Feb 2010 The implications of sea-level rise and storm surges for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities with populations greater than 100,000 are explored. Combining the mos...
by Susmita Dasgupta | On 25 Feb 2010 West Bengal is not among the best performing states with regard
to NREGA. The performance of all districts in the state
is not equally discouraging. Some districts, in fact, have done well in
gener...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 Feb 2010 The paper studies the socio-economic impact of the shift of slum dwellers to new rehabilitation site of Chandivali. It also discuses the issue of availability and choice of employment as a key driver...
by Damien Vaquier | On 18 Feb 2010 This paper is about deconstructing the middle class
perception of the domain of the ‘folk’ in this region. With these questions,
the paper sets out an agenda for writing the history of rain and weat...
by Sadan Jha | On 16 Feb 2010 The manufacturing sector in India is crucial for two main reasons: It has significant potential to provide modern
employment to a growing labour force, especially that of less skilled type and second...
by Arvind Virmani | On 09 Feb 2010 This paper aims to examine the policy debates on women's education and highlight some of the
basic issues affecting the progress of women's education since the introduction of planned
development in...
by Balaji Pandey | On 08 Feb 2010 Climate change impact studies on agriculture can be broadly divided into those that employ
agro-economic approaches and those that employ the Ricardian approach. This study uses the
Ricardian approa...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 05 Feb 2010 The competitiveness among the firms in Indian automobile industry has been assessed by understanding the factors that determine its competitive advantage. The efforts have been made to construct a com...
by G Burange | On 05 Feb 2010 The utilization of coaches on the parameters per cent of runtime, kilometers per day,
and average speed of rakes servicing express per mails and passenger trains in the South Central Railway (SCR), t...
by G. Raghuram | On 04 Feb 2010 Capital account openness and exchange rate flexibility in 11 Asian countries are examined. Asia has made slow progress on de jure capital account openness,
but has made much more progress on de facto...
by Ila Patnaik | On 04 Feb 2010 Physical energy intensity indicators for Indian manufacturing sector is developed and analyzed.
Energy consumption in five industrial sub-sectors, namely, iron and steel, aluminium, textiles,
paper...
by Binay Kumar Ray | On 02 Feb 2010 To find out whether our government is spending an astronomical amount of
taxpayer’s money publicising itself rather than disseminating information, facts and figures were assimilated.
By tracking f...
by Kumar Gaurav | On 29 Jan 2010 The Reserve Bank has pursued an accommodative monetary policy beginning mid-September 2008 in order to mitigate the adverse impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy. The measures ta...
by D Subbarao | On 29 Jan 2010 In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform,
with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
by Arvind Virmani | On 28 Jan 2010 The purpose of this study was to explore the role and importance of human resources for the
scaling up of health services in low income countries. In the case studies, the following have been analyze...
by Christoph Kurowski | On 28 Jan 2010 This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level
detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some
households h...
by Naila Kabeer | On 28 Jan 2010 The record of different post reform governments in meeting their targets and improving both delivery and finances is assessed. A variety of indices are constructed, and consistency checks devised to m...
by Ashima Goyal | On 27 Jan 2010 This paper estimates
the storm protection benefits due to mangroves during the super cyclone of 1999 in Orissa.
By combining GIS data with census information, the paper examines the mangrove mediate...
by Saudamini Das | On 25 Jan 2010 This study investigates the nature of relationship between price and trading volume for 50 Indian
stocks. Firstly the contemporaneous and asymmetric relation between price and volume are
examined. T...
by Brajesh Kumar | On 25 Jan 2010 This collection of 19 new essays written by civil
society activists, trade unionists and other water
practitioners, presents examples of ongoing
struggles against water privatization and
commercia...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 22 Jan 2010 A review of the various primary measures of inflation with a particular reference to the divergence between WPI and CPI. Focus is also given on different secondary (derived) measures of inflation, par...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 21 Jan 2010 The paper first gives a brief history and comparison of Japanese foreign direct investment
into India and other Asian countries, highlighting the fact that Japanese investment into India
is quite lo...
by Srabani Roy Choudhury | On 19 Jan 2010 India has an elaborate system of capital controls which impede cap-
ital mobility and particularly short-term debt. Yet, when the global
money market fell into turmoil after the bankruptcy of Lehman...
by Ila Patnaik | On 19 Jan 2010 India is a stable democratic political system with rising economic fortunes and global ambitions make it a potential power that could play a very important role in world affairs. But India has to tack...
by Teresita C Schaffer | On 15 Jan 2010 This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is
demonstrated to be an impediment to sustained economic development. It is argued that problems of rural infrastruct...
by Suman Bery | On 15 Jan 2010 The Indian media has wrongly compared Bihar's (that is, 11.03per cent) average annual growth during the period 2004-05 to 2008-09 with that of Gujarat (that is, 11.05per cent). While the media has quo...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 14 Jan 2010 This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in pr...
by John Kurien | On 14 Jan 2010 Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component
projects under the RACHNA program, INHP-II and Chayan. Of the two, the INHP interve...
by CARE India | On 24 Dec 2009 Discusses about the different poverty measuements.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Dec 2009 Kerala’s success in human development demonstrated that efficient functioning of government
health care delivery system opens the doors of prosperity for the poor and vulnerable sections
of the popu...
by Varatharajan D | On 21 Dec 2009 In many parts of rural India the use of wood for fuel is the cause of significant environmental and health problems. Efforts to help people switch to cleaner fuels have not been effective and fuelwood...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 18 Dec 2009 What is m-banking, Basic characteristics of m-commerce/e-commerce, Evolution of electronic financial services (e-banking/e-commerce/m-banking/m-commerce), Role of non-banks in Indian Payment Scenario....
by Chakrabarty K C | On 14 Dec 2009 Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsa...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 14 Dec 2009 This paper presents some of the findings of our recent study on women’s representation and participation in panchayats. Some of the findings of the study (Buch; 1999) of women in panchayats after the...
by Nirmala Buch | On 04 Dec 2009 China and India have both attempted distorting the exchange rate in order to foster exports-led growth. This is described as the Bretton Woods II framework, where developing countries buy bonds in the...
by Ila Patnaik | On 30 Nov 2009 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 speech covers the macro setting for GenNext banking by way of discussing the demographic composition of India’s population and the nexus between low dependency ratio and saving. It also provides...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 30 Nov 2009 The study uses an assessment of visitors’ travel costs to estimate the annual
recreational value of the Sundarban. It calculates this to be at least INR
15 million (US$ 377,000) for domestic visitor...
by Indrila Guha | On 27 Nov 2009 This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and explores policy options for strengthening their livelihoods through a combinatio...
by Amita Shah | On 27 Nov 2009 This paper addresses issues related to public private partnerships that can enable delivery
of comprehensive health care to rural communities.
by Prachi Shukla | On 25 Nov 2009 Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons of health across widely different settings challenging. Less data exist on the hea...
by Peter Byass | On 24 Nov 2009 The time may have come to stop thinking of five-year plans, and to focus instead on 10- and 20-year scenarios.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Nov 2009 This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-villa...
by Manuela Angelucci | On 23 Nov 2009 No reponse form the policies that the government is announcing
by T.N. Ninan | On 20 Nov 2009 This paper aims at discussing some of the important issues relating to sustainable urban form that would lead to sustainable urban development with possible references to India. The paper is based on...
by Basudha Chattopadhyay | On 17 Nov 2009 The Chiranjeevi Yojna is considered to be a successful PPP model and has also received a prestigious Asian Innovations Award by the Wall Street Journal. It is a flagship scheme of the Gujarat state mi...
by Akash Acharya | On 13 Nov 2009 This paper presents summary of findings from research
conducted in the Indian diamond industry over a period of last four years. Insights about the remarkable rise, growth and the unique working of t...
by Indu Rao | On 10 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 Before 1997, women experiencing sexual
harassment at workplace had to lodge a complaint under Indian Penal Code,
1860, ss. 354 and 509. But the Supreme Court, applying Convention on the
Elimination...
by Mahalaxmi Tiwary | On 09 Nov 2009 Evolution of the financial sector regulation in India, particularly focusing on the elements of the policy framework which have contributed to the broader stability in the financial sector is depicted...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 05 Nov 2009 The main thrust of this paper is: Why should women go to these courts to
settle matrimonial disputes while there are provisions for them in secular
courts? Do women face less harassment and get quic...
by Sabiha Hussain | On 05 Nov 2009 The paper analyzes and enumerates the various causes for accidents in Delhi and also suggests possible solution solution to counter the problem and bring down accident rates.
by Arjun Bhattacharya | On 21 Oct 2009 The methodology had two parts - secondary data analysis and a descriptive cross sectional study. Secondary date analysis was carried our using a sample of 1,028 men and 1,028 women in the reproductive...
by Pratibha Esther Singh | On 16 Oct 2009 The objective of the paper is to i) understand and document the morbidity profile, ii) examine utilisation of health services, and iii) estimate approximate expenses on health care by th...
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 07 Oct 2009 The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that th...
by Steffen Dyck | On 06 Oct 2009 This new report discusses the experience with environmental standards and how it can be useful for new financiers. It contains ten papers written by experts from civil society, financial institutions...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 01 Oct 2009 The study seeks to answer two very basic
questions in the Indian context: first, are there economies of scale and
scope in Indian banking? In other words, are bigger banks better for India?
And, se...
by Pradeep Srivastava | On 23 Sep 2009 The Doha Declaration provides for access to medicines particularly by simplifying the compulsory licensing (CL) clause. This paper tries to provide a comprehensive review of the working of CL in the d...
by Lalitha N | On 21 Sep 2009 The present study
attempts to capture chronic poverty in Sri Lanka by examining general information on poverty and drawing conclusions on those who are likely to be among the chronic poor.
Certain p...
by Indra Tudawe | On 17 Sep 2009 Options for monetary policy arising from interactions
between it and Indian foreign exchange (FX) markets. A brief survey covers
recent rapid changes providing a snapshot of current microstructure,
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 Sep 2009 This paper based on Indian and international documents assesses existing definition, criteria and methodologies for estimating employment and income generated in the informal economy in India. [NCEUS...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 02 Sep 2009 The paper examines the present condition of tribals in India with a demographic perspective.
Construction of a long-term demographic perspective on India’s
tribal population rests on the premise...
by Arup Maharatna | On 28 Aug 2009 This paper analyses the pattern of growth observed in the city economy of
Ahmedabad, a metropolitan city in the industrially developed state of Gujarat. The
growth of this city is placed in the cont...
by Jeemol Unni | On 17 Aug 2009 This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form. Duality between cost function and input d...
by Surender Kumar | On 17 Aug 2009 This paper argues that with the recent economic reforms, an efficient and active debt market, particularly in long-term private debt instruments, is essential for the
country to realize the full bene...
by Pronab Sen | On 13 Aug 2009 The recreational demand for the Indian Sundarban, which is a World Heritage
site and a complex mangrove ecosystem that borders India and Bangladesh is estimated. Two alternative methodologies exist f...
by Indrila Guha | On 13 Aug 2009 The swine flu has come to India also. What measures have been taken by the government to fight against the pandemic?
by Rajeev Mavani | On 12 Aug 2009 An attempt is made to compute the aggregate productivity growth using the Domar aggregation technique. Building up from the Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) estimates for 3-digit industries, we...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 12 Aug 2009 Lack of full regional connectivity is one of the major constraints hindering regional growth and integration in Asia, as well as with the rest of the world. One of the conclusions of this paper is tha...
by Biswa N Bhattacharyay | On 11 Aug 2009 This study analyzes the factors leading to the emergence of these Indian IST firms as multinationals in
the global market. Applying the theoretical framework of national innovation system (NIS), the...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 07 Aug 2009 The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pra...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Aug 2009 The article describes the constitution and functions of Village Development Boards (VDBs) in NAGALAND where VDBs are considered as “Financial Intermediaries” or “Non-Banking Financial Intermediaries”....
by Karmakar K G | On 06 Aug 2009 The paper attempts to appraise the extent of the constraint of credit relations on agricultural production and its differential impact across peasant classes. Additionally, the analysis of the structu...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2009 This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic
attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. A unique data set on
individuals who placed matrimon...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 28 Jul 2009 The article describes the important role played by Marine fishereis in the Indian economy. It elaborates the issues associated with value addition of this sector with special reference to optimum capa...
by Karmakar K G | On 27 Jul 2009 An analysis of the Asian Development Bank-funded Khulna Jessore Drainage Rehabilitation Project by the Bangladeshi NGO Uttaran.
by Shahidul Islam | On 24 Jul 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 In the context of the formation of G-20, the paper points out the absence of reform in the global financial architecture (GFA) after the East Asian crisis, and assesses factors that can improve the ch...
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Jul 2009 This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and
methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term,
poverty and processes of migration. The paper...
by Uma Kothari | On 13 Jul 2009 Access to clean water should be declared a basic human right for three reasons. First, access to clean water can substantially reduce the global burden of disease caused by water-borne infections. Sec...
by PLoS Medicine | On 09 Jul 2009 The paper is aimed at exploring as to how such co-operatives (i) function and deal with members while delivering micro finance; (ii) mobilise funds, and (iii) get shaped and reshape the contents of me...
by Gagan Bihari Sahu | On 09 Jul 2009 Railway Budget 2009-10
by Mamata Banerjee | On 06 Jul 2009 If recent survey data are to be believed, Indians are among the most optimistic people on earth.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jun 2009 The present study has been an attempt to examine spatial distribution of various forms of crimes in Mumbai city (Municipal Corporation) and find out their correlates. More specifically the attempts ha...
by Abdul Shaban | On 23 Jun 2009 Owning a house has become very costly now. If more land were thrown into the market, home ownership will not be a deam for the majority.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Jun 2009 This paper presents a lecture delivered by the author under The Pravin Visaria Public Lecture in GIDR. India has made considerable demographic progress since 1947; however it seems that the country’s...
by Tim Dyson | On 16 Jun 2009 At this moment, the world is undergoing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1930s. It is not clear exactly which factors instigated the crisis, but there are many candidates; the f...
by H. N. Thenuwara | On 15 Jun 2009 Can young people help to increase awareness about climate change and its impacts working through local bodies? A perceptive and informative presentation by the UN-HABITAT Youth Advisory Board Member a...
by John Anugraha | On 15 Jun 2009 The global economy is passing through its deepest financial and economic crisis of our time. Protecting the Indian economy from the worst impact of the crisis has been a big challenge for the governme...
by D Subbarao | On 08 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 During the global financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, no major derivative clearing house in the world encountered distress while many banks were pushed to the brink and beyond. An important reason for...
by Jayanth R Varma | On 26 May 2009 Speech is about the role of IT in the Indian financial sector [Keynote address at the Banking Technology Awards 2008 of the Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad].
by D Subbarao | On 25 May 2009 This paper investigates the determination of inflation in the framework of an open economy forward-looking as well as conventional backward-looking Phillips curve for eight Asian countries- Japan, Ho...
by Pami Dua | On 22 May 2009 This paper reports the European experience with a basket currency, the ECU. The ECU was initially introduced as a reference unit and later became the anchor of the European Monetary System. Public pol...
by Girardin Eric | On 22 May 2009 This paper introduces the setting up of a Geographical Information System on Delhi for studies in the Social Sciences. Through an explaination of their methodological procedure and demonstration of t...
by Pierre Chapelet | On 20 May 2009 Papers and Proceedings of The Third Annual Himalayan Policy Research ConferenceSession Chairs and Discussants
Session 1A: Conflict Resolution and Democratic Transitions
Chair: Christopher Can...
by Vijaya R. Sharma | On 19 May 2009 This paper offers a review of the concepts and definitions used in the NSS Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS, for short) which have remained virtually unchanged since they were introduced in the NS...
by K. Sundaram | On 15 May 2009 This paper analyzes Singapore’s multi-pronged approach to managing prolonged low fertility which has led to population aging, labor force shortages, increasing elderly dependency ratios, and feminizat...
by Mukul. G Asher | On 15 May 2009 The Indian states have been the standard unit of analysis for research on India that uses official data sources. For many empirical questions, states are a natural starting point because state governm...
by Hemanshu Kumar | On 15 May 2009 Firms differ in the effects that foreign direct investment liberalizations have on their businesses, and in the responses they make to adjust to the liberalized business environment. In this study th...
by Stanley Nollen | On 15 May 2009 Review of John W. Hood. Beyond the World of Apu: The Films of Satyajit Ray.
New Delhi Orient Longman, 2008. xi + 476 pp. $36.95 (paper),
by Sakti Sengupta | On 15 May 2009 A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regiona...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 13 May 2009 This paper will hopefully provide an important methodological tool for all
researchers who may be attempting to analyze and explain the growth of the service
sector and its share in the Indian GDP o...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 08 May 2009 To understand how gender, women’s rights and citizenship intersect with innovation in SouthAsia, one must begin by considering some of the main features of life for South Asian women, about a half of...
by Sujata Byravan | On 06 May 2009 This paper talks of good outcomes of Globalisation which needs to be further inproved wherein Institutional response mechanisms should be designed to address any problems that may arise in specific ar...
by Jagdish Bhagwati | On 03 May 2009 This paper details the procedures adopted by the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation in procuring and supplying essential drugs to the government health care which is a positive measure in ensurin...
by Lalitha N | On 22 Apr 2009 The paper examines the division of tasks required between politicians and bureaucrats to run an effective rural employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits.
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Apr 2009 Using exogenous variation in the salaries of local legislators across Brazil’s municipal governments this paper examines whether higher wages attract better quality politicians and improve political p...
by Claudio Ferraz | On 16 Apr 2009 Communal riots have become an annual feature
of Indian life, although their number varies from year to year. A situation has come to pacs where maddening communal
violence, arbitrary actions of exe...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 16 Apr 2009 This paper introduces the setting up of a Geographical Information System on Delhi for studies in the Social Sciences.Through an explanation of their methodological
procedure and demonstration of the...
by Pierre Chapelet | On 27 Feb 2009 The impact of economic crisis on India has been analysed in the speech. [Speech delivered at the Symposium on 'The Global Economic Crisis and Challenges for the Asian Economy in a Changing World'].
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 24 Feb 2009 For a country like India that contains a large number of Urban Agglomerations (UAs), suburbanisation has drawn little attention of the literature. I focus on this sparsely studied issue in this work....
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 20 Feb 2009 Examines whether there are any funds for children related activities.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Feb 2009 The paper examines the basic reasons and feasible remedies for organizational
weakness, and the possible contribution of ownership, industry and management
structure, leadership, social norms, and i...
by Ashima Goyal | On 12 Feb 2009 The paper attempts to construct political influence variables and explain discrepancies in fund disbursement through proper econometric specification in the Indian context.
by Rongili Biswas | On 21 Jan 2009 An analysis of the economic implication of judicial
activism of the apex court of India in the regulation of automotive air
pollution is analysed. It estimates the health damage cost of urban air po...
by Ramprasad Sengupta | On 16 Jan 2009 The speech tries to underline some lessones that be drawn from the financial crisis relevant to regulation, financial markets and the market infrastructure and to reflect on these. [Annual Conference...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 15 Jan 2009 The focus of this study is to analyze the pattern and costs
of services in four areas, which critically affect most households in Kerala .
The major concerns of this paper include answers to questio...
by Zachariah KC | On 12 Jan 2009 An attempt has been made to discuss various aspects of unpaid household work such as its treatment in the system of National Accounts, and the methodologies of its valuation. With the help relevant da...
by R N Pandey | On 09 Jan 2009 Whether timing of the elections leads to riots or not within India. In other
words, does timing of elections instigate riots? Using time series crosssectional
data for 16 major Indian states for the...
by Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati | On 09 Jan 2009 Written comments on the issues raised for consultation may please be furnished to Principal Advisor (FN), TRAI by 30th January, 2009. The comments may be sent in writing and also preferably be sent in...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 08 Jan 2009 To understand the development process of Indian Railway’s over the past twenty years, the study covers issues and strategies related to financial and physical aspects of revenue generating freight and...
by G. Raghuram | On 06 Jan 2009 In order to examine if the impact of oil price shocks depends on the structure of an economy, a vertical (VSC) and a horizontal (HSC) long-run supply curve identification are successively imposed on a...
by Ashima Goyal | On 05 Jan 2009 The paper has two objectives. One, to analyse the pattern of energy usage in India and
the implications thereof for carbon emission; two, to examine whether pricing and taxation
policies have any ro...
by Samantak Das | On 24 Dec 2008 Perspective on the current global turmoil, its impact on India, the outlook for the Indian economy and the challenges that lie ahead for the Indian banking system, in particular. [Speech delivered at...
by D Subbarao | On 19 Dec 2008 The main objectives of this report are to identify and propose policies,
factors and conditions that could mitigate or avoid double mismatches. policies here means any course of action pursued and ad...
by Khee-Giap Tan | On 19 Dec 2008 The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in Kenya, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. A population-based case–control study was...
by Hannah Kuper | On 18 Dec 2008 This is a continuation of an earlier paper (2005) by the author which dealt with policy implications based on the work done by CPRC in India. There is no map of chronic poverty in India, but have an a...
by N C B Nath | On 16 Dec 2008 The pharmaceutical industry is expanding worldwide. For some years now, it has been benefiting from the particular dynamics of the Asian economies as both purchasers and producers. It is not only the...
by Uwe Perlitz | On 12 Dec 2008 The speech mainly throws light upon the impact of financial crisis on emrging economies particulary India. [Speech delivered at Reserve Bank of India at the RBI-BIS Seminar at Hyderabad].
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 05 Dec 2008 This paper quantifies the impact of terrorism and conflicts on income per capita growth in Asia for 1970–2004. Transnational terrorist attacks had a significant growth-limiting effect. An additional t...
by Khusrav Gaibulloev | On 05 Dec 2008 Politicians face high-powered electoral pressures while bureaucrats face longer-term, low powered incentives. Given constitutional constraints, what incentives do politicians employ to control bureauc...
by Lakshmi Iyer | On 02 Dec 2008 The report highlights the following aspects:
1. the inability of the legal system to recognise the unique unequal ,
2. position of women;
3. the perception of women as peripheral to economic develo...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 01 Dec 2008 This paper focuses on the role of fiscal and monetary policies in the evolution of the Indian economy over the years, with particular attention being given to the reforms undertaken in these policies...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 28 Nov 2008 A broad overview, from the Indian perspective, of the factors underlying the credit market crisis in the west, the implications of the crisis for the financial sector,
lessons learnt from it, the var...
by Leeladhar V | On 25 Nov 2008 The present paper tries to empirically examine the changing profile of distribution and ownership of livestock across different regions of India and specifically for Gujarat. Besides, primary data col...
by Amita Shah | On 21 Nov 2008 The structure and extent of interlocking directorates within Indian business groups is studied and analyses the performance effects of such interlocks. It finds that large groups tend to have more int...
by Bikram De | On 21 Nov 2008 This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty...
by Li Shi | On 18 Nov 2008 The paper provides a comprehensive description of GZB (Ghaziabad) goods shed, including facilities, traffic flow, customer interface, processes, etc. In this context, the paper raises questions regard...
by G. Raghuram | On 12 Nov 2008 The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The
first section briefly summarizes key macroeconomic developments regarding
economic growth, inflation, external bala...
by Shankar Acharya | On 02 Nov 2008 Specific policy issues linked to renewable energy development with recommendations for future strategies and measures have been discussed in the article. [CSH WP no. 3]
by Debyani Ghosh | On 07 Oct 2008 The objective of the paperis to obtain the inputs of stakeholders and to generate a discussion on the appropriate policy relating to cross media and ownership restrictions in India. The comments of al...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 03 Oct 2008 The paper analyzes the determinants of internationalisation, defined in terms of export intensity and overseas investments, of the IT firms in India. In particular, the paper examines the role of tech...
by Narayanan K | On 01 Oct 2008 The paper carries the reader across and over great spans of space and time, with an Indian feminist woman academic journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 17...
by Bagchi B | On 01 Oct 2008 This article presents the findings of a survey conducted in 2000 in the Calcutta
Municipal Corporation (CMC), where quotas – 33 per cent of seats - for women have been implemented since 1995. [CSH Oc...
by Stephanie Tawa Lema-Rewal | On 30 Sep 2008 Demographic transition is a global phenomenon; population growth is inevitable in the initial phases of the transition. For India the current phase of the demographic transition is both a challenge an...
by Prema Ramachandran | On 26 Sep 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 This paper is an account of the main streams discussed in an international conference, held in New York in April 2008,
organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and
Global Policy Forum, which cons...
by James A. Paul | On 24 Sep 2008 The study is taken up in the state of Andhra Pradesh with the following objectives:
1. To study the opportunities and challenges in processing of rice, fruits and
vegetables, oilseeds and livestock...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 17 Sep 2008 It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a thres...
by Rama Joglekar | On 15 Sep 2008 This study examines the contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in a remote island village of the Indian Sundarbans.
by Indrila Guha | On 18 Aug 2008 This study is an inter-sectoral analysis of state domestic product data to
understand the determinants of the services sector growth in India during the
recent years. It is a demand side analysis wh...
by Deepita Chakravarty | On 11 Aug 2008 A broad overview of the achievements and progress made by the Indian
banking sector in the last two decades and the emerging frontiers of the Indian banking system, in the post-reform era. [Address d...
by Leeladhar V | On 11 Aug 2008 Since 1978 Bangladesh government has been providing free food rations to plain settlers to sustain the conflict, make indigenous Jumma peoples a minority in the CHTs and eventually destroy their disti...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 07 Aug 2008 This paper analyses the determinants of growth and profit behaviour of the Chinese and Indian IT Software firms.
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 30 Jul 2008 This paper investigates certain macro data on the Indian economy to draw inferences on the sustainability of the economic growth experienced over the last couple of decades. Interpreting sustainabilit...
by Purnamita Dasgupta | On 24 Jul 2008 From the early 1990s, India embarked on easing capital controls. Liberalization
emphasised openness towards equity flows, both FDI and portfolio flows. In particular, there are few barriers in the fa...
by Ajay Shah | On 24 Jul 2008 Women's Reservation Bill
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 24 Jul 2008 The financial crisis of 1997 gave the Asian region a very hard lesson on the importance of financial stability. The severity of the crisis and the failure of IMF in assisting these countries became a...
by Titik Anas | On 17 Jul 2008 The purpose of this study is to review the changes that have taken
place recently in water supply and sanitation services and examine
the role of various stakeholders involved in urban governance in...
by Agnes Huchon | On 15 Jul 2008 In the mid 1990s the issue of adult fertility was of great concern for those who were working on the adolescence issues. Particularly fertility outside marriage. As an international scientific organi...
by Population Council | On 04 Jul 2008 This article is an attempt to look at debates in the light of the Assemblies' tryst with panchayats. It should be noted that it is not an evaluation of what transpired in the state Assemblies. In view...
by Girish Kumar | On 03 Jul 2008 The declining of Parsi population has become a serious question before India in general and Parsi community in particular. Since 1990 questions were started being raised about this decreasing populati...
by | On 12 Jun 2008 The important elements of inclusive growth are: agricultural growth,
employment generation and poverty reduction, social sector (health and education) and
reduction in regional and other disparities...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 31 May 2008 The paper is an analysis of food aid, rising food prices and its implications.
by Laurrie Garrett | On 31 May 2008 For many decades, macro-policy in India was conducted in an environment
with five key elements: ˆ Agricultural shocks rather than a conventional business cycle; A closed economy; deeply distorti...
by Ajay Shah | On 13 May 2008 An important method of managing resources to finance consistent and
balanced human development lies in the reprioritisation of current
expenditure in accordance with the urgent needs and shortfalls...
by Tapas K. Sen | On 13 May 2008 The government of India has appointed many committees to look into the issue of agrarian distress in India. An Expert Panel was constituted by the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development...
by Satish Chander | On 12 May 2008 Inflation impacts on the social and political life and it is the poor who bear the consequences most. There can be no room for tardiness in taking measures to control inflation.
[See synopses of par...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 21 Apr 2008 Risky products cause two types of costs for society; the accident costs and the
insurance costs. Liability rules allocate these costs between the parties involved. The expansion in the scope of produ...
by Ram Singh | On 14 Apr 2008 The financial sector has built capabilities such that, with appropriate policy changes, it can grow tremendously, both domestically and internationally. the report touches upon two reasons for financi...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 Apr 2008 The impressive growth of the Indian media is largely taking place outside of the voting classes, ensuring that the media are not playing a significant public service role. Ultimately, the author sugge...
by James Mutti | On 11 Apr 2008 The Planning Commission constituted a high level committee for comprehensively examining the different aspects influencing the performance of the services sector and suggest short-term and long-term p...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 09 Apr 2008 A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the conditions for successful innovations. To assess the role of innovations in the Indian...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 03 Apr 2008 Reliability of audience measurement reports both from the perspective of viewers and competitive relations between broadcasters have been of concern to the Regulators in most countries. Internationall...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 01 Apr 2008 Budget presented by Goa finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Goa Government | On 01 Apr 2008 Considering the reproductive health information and service needs of adolescents and youth, the Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) Program, in collaboration with the Min...
by Laila Rahman | On 12 Mar 2008 An analysis of the various parameters of manufacturing competitiveness of the Indian economy is provided. The paper notes that India is one of the leading producers and exporters of a number of commod...
by Lakshmanan L | On 19 Feb 2008 A review of the overall macroeconomic performance in India since independence, the prospects for the coming five years and finally the issues that need to be addressed for sustaining the growth of the...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 16 Feb 2008 It is proposed to amend the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957 (SCRR) to make provisions to implement the proposals as suggested at Para 11 in the paper. The comments on these proposals are...
by Ministry of Finance | On 05 Feb 2008 This manual is intended to help local governments to uphold the human rights of women, by involving them in identifying their needs and with their participation, to find possible solutions and move to...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 04 Feb 2008 The report of the Expert Committee provides a broad overarching framework for guiding the policies governing the production and use of different forms of energy from various sources. It makes specific...
by Planning Commission, India | On 10 Jan 2008 Management of capital accounts in the global context and in the Indian context. [Inaugural address delivered by Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the Annual Conference of the Indian...
by Y V Reddy | On 08 Jan 2008 KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run,...
by Ramanjaneyulu G V | On 05 Jan 2008 With the 19th century drain, no one was certain if the benefit exceeded
the cost and since the rulers were foreign the suspicion was that any investment they made was not beneficial. But the lesson f...
by Lord Meghnad Desai | On 25 Dec 2007 Whether energy use drives economic growth or vice versa in the Indian context during the period 1970-71 to 2004-05 is examined. Utilizing the Granger causality test, the study suggests that it is the...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 17 Dec 2007 The growing importance of India and other emerging economies in the globalized world are given in this lecture. This group of economies is not easy to define. However, some reflections on the implicat...
by Jean-Claude Trichet | On 30 Nov 2007 Not only has the state outsourced its duty to protect its citizens but has also permitted human rights violations without any accountability. Such state action cannot be justified at any cost. Will th...
by Aditya Swarup | On 28 Nov 2007 Asia’s Bill of Health:
A REVIEW Focus On Health Care
Pakistan’s Last Bid for Democracy
By Colum Murphy
Pakistan:
Defusing Pakistan’s Tribal Rebellion
By Shaukat Qadir
Taiwan:
The Father of Tai...
by FEER | On 27 Nov 2007 The success of an immunisation programme in any country depends more upon local realities and national policies. This is particularly true for a huge and diverse developing country such as India, with...
by Yennapu Madhavi | On 12 Nov 2007 Performance Budget for 2005-2006 of Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH).
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 06 Nov 2007 The Reserve Bank, as the regulator of the banking sector, has been actively engaged, from the very beginning, in the review, examination and evaluation of customer service in the banks. It has been re...
by Leeladhar V | On 26 Oct 2007 Review of
Sex- Selective Abortion in India –Gender, Society, and New Reproductive Technologies
by Tulsi Patel; Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2007.
by Sayeed Unisa | On 25 Oct 2007 The attempt is to draw upon public sphere debates in Malayalee society in the immediate post-independence decades, more specifically on speech and writing accruing around the distinctiveness of Malaya...
by J Devika | On 23 Oct 2007 Recognising the growing activity in the non deliverable forward (NDF) market in the recent years, the paper attempts to present a detailed analysis of the NDF market with special focus on Indian rupee...
by Sangita Misra | On 22 Oct 2007 The rapid growth in banking indicators in the North Eastern region of India following nationalisation of 14 major banks in 1969 and another six in 1980 based on social banking was sustained or not are...
by Amarendra Sahoo | On 16 Oct 2007 The ways in which the public learns about the histories of transport and travel are explored. The role of displays put on by museums and by heritage transport attractions - organisations such as steam...
by Colin Divall | On 11 Oct 2007 In a globalising economy, regional or national benchmarks do not suffice any more. Be it technology or business method or practices, Indian small scale entrepreneurs will have to benchmark their curre...
by Anil K Gupta | On 10 Oct 2007 Since the early 1990s the Indian economy has seen a considerable relaxation of controls, as a consequence of which it has witnessed unprecedented growth. This is especially remarkable in the external...
by Partha Sen | On 04 Oct 2007 In popular belief, Bhagat Singh and Gandhi occupy two antipodes in India's struggle for freedom – the former representing the young generation impatient to overthrow foreign rule by any means necessar...
by Niranjan Ramakrishnan | On 03 Oct 2007 During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of fema...
by Sharad Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2007 A review of the recent developments in the Indian Economy. Review of the trends in monetary policy challenges globally and for emerging market economies (EMEs) in particular. The monetary policy frame...
by Y V Reddy | On 10 Sep 2007 Agriculture as a source of growth was sorely neglected in the early development strategies of the currently developing countries. Realisation of this shortcoming prompted public policy in these countr...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 06 Sep 2007 NABARD is a key participant in the micro finance sector and has been closely associated with one of the two prevailing modes i.e. SHG-bank linkage mode of delivery of micro finance services. The devel...
by Mukul Asher | On 04 Sep 2007 With the abolition of prohibition on forward trade in all the commodities at the beginning of 2003, the commodity derivativesmarket has been totally liberalized. The Ramamoorthy Committee set up by SE...
by Ministry for Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Dist MCAFP | On 26 Aug 2007 India's has been a unique path of economic development—internally decided in a
democratic framework, constantly debated between different ideologies and
interest groups, and increasingly engaging wi...
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 21 Aug 2007 The past and present of India can be seen in many different perspectives. There is a case for focusing particularly on the long history of the argumentative tradition in India, and its continuing rele...
by Amartya Sen | On 17 Aug 2007 This paper evaluates the real-time performance of the growth rate of the DSE-ECRI Indian leading index for exports for predicting cyclical downturns and upturns in the growth rate of Indian exports. T...
by Pami Dua | On 14 Aug 2007 Financial contagion is dangerous because you don’t know where it will hit, and how hard. Every country has to remmber this and make arrangements so that a criris does not repeat as happenend in 1997 (...
by T.N. Ninan | On 13 Aug 2007 On 14 August 2007, the United Nations Committee on the International Convention Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) is tentatively scheduled to examine the situation of...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 11 Aug 2007 An overview of domestic and global macroeconomic developments [Valedictory address at the High Powered Macroeconomic Workshop organised by the State Bank of India].
by Rakesh Mohan | On 08 Aug 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 06 Jul 2007 A brief introduction to Reserve Bank of India, followed by glimpses of the Indian economy. A detailed account of reforms in India’s financial sector, in particular, the banking sector, and financial m...
by Y V Reddy | On 05 Jul 2007 This draft chapter of a reader on Health Care Case Laws in India addresses the following issues: Have reproductive rights been recognized in India? What has been the approach of the courts towards rep...
by Vijay Hiremat | On 04 Jul 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 The global population covered by some kind of health welfare measure is miniscule. The need to expand coverage can be addressed by a pragmatic strategy rationalizing the use of health financing mechan...
by Xenia Scheil Adlung | On 19 Jun 2007 Liberalisation initiatives have been taken by India with a view to improve the efficiency of manufacturing industries and achieving faster GDP growth. The present
paper investigates the influence of...
by C Veermani | On 01 Jun 2007 Analysis is made to the extent of barriers to entry in Indian manufacturing by empirically quantifying the height of these barriers. Econometric estimation of the height of the barriers for 1991 and 1...
by M Suresh Babu | On 28 May 2007 Review of: Alternative Discourses in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentricism by Syed Farid Alatas; Sage Publications, New Delhi.
by Vedapushpa | On 08 May 2007 The Budget does not sufficiently recognize the need for re-balancing the role of the state and the market, and of the public and the private sectors for managing increasingly complex economic and stra...
by Mukul Asher | On 07 Mar 2007 Indian Railways (IR), which was declared to be heading towards bankruptcy as per the Expert Group on Indian Railways in 2001, is today the second largest profit making Public Sector Undertaking after...
by G. Raghuram | On 27 Feb 2007 Theoretical literature identifies two variants of crowding out in an economy–real and financial. The real (direct) crowding out occurs when the increase in public investment displaces private capital...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 17 Feb 2007 A Technical Expert Group on Patent Law Issues was set up by the Government of India, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion to examine whether it would be TRIPS c...
by R.A. Mashelkar | On 14 Feb 2007 Kriebish had, for a long time, cherished a dream of setting up a learning and documentation centre dedicated to the study of oral literature, village religion and customs, music and dance, traditional...
by Leena Pascal | On 12 Feb 2007 This mid-year review reports developments in the economy in the first half of 2006-
07, with a particular focus on Central Government finances, outlining the performances
in the real sector, economi...
by Ministry of Finance | On 06 Feb 2007 The changed survey methodology of the 55th round (and the consequent furore that has ensued) has demonstrated that there is indeed uncertainty surrounding estimates of poverty. The uncertainties conce...
by David Williams | On 30 Jan 2007 This study estimates the work participation rates in Madhya Pradesh (including Chhatisgarh, prior to 2000) using both Census data and NSSO for relevant periods and compares these trends in the same wi...
by Sheetal Verma | On 29 Jan 2007 This note considers income distribution at two points in time where the population has also changed in some way, constructing three scenarios—population growth, population decline, and a constant popu...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 04 Dec 2006 There is a glaring paradox in all commonly used measures of poverty.
The death of a poor person, because of poverty, reduces poverty according
to these measures. This surely violates our basic intui...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 Nov 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 Over 75% of the annual estimated 9.5 million deaths in India occur in the home, and the large majority of these do not have a certified cause. India and other developing countries urgently need reliab...
by Prabhat Jha | On 31 Oct 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 Investors in today’s India should not need to seek escape from poor infrastructure and irrational labour laws, in special zones; rather, the underlying problems should be tackled in the country as a w...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 The world economy is slowing down, the commodity sector is headed for bleaker times, the downswing phase of the business cycle could see problems emerge that are hidden during the good times, protecti...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 If business gains at the expense of other stake-holders (consumers, the tax department, farmers), economic benefits get captured by a small minority at the top of the pyramid. Even without skewed poli...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 If one might attempt a hypothesis, it would be that India’s communist parties would like to adjust to the reality of the day by giving up their old identities and becoming social democratic parties, b...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 This paper will examine the network of consitutional and penal
provisions on the question of social exclusion and will explore the
implications of these realities for an understanding of criminology...
by S.R. Sankaran | On 29 Aug 2006 Reforms in water and sanitation sector intended to make stakeholders part of the implementation process. In the process beneficiaries share partial capital cost and meet 100 per cent of operation and...
by Veerashekarappa | On 12 Aug 2006 This paper examines the patterns of loan utilisation and repayment among micro-finance group members for Wayland district of Kerala. It argues that 100 per cent repayment by members need not always in...
by Emil Mathew | On 12 Aug 2006 This paper aims to bring out the need to incorporate cultural sensitivity to ensure the principle of essentiality in research processes while undertaking research among tribal populations. The author...
by Sajitha O.G | On 24 Jul 2006 Proliferation of sub-national innovation networks, a relatively new concept, promises to be an alternative to centralized national innovation system. To be an independent entity, its growth must come...
by A.S. Rao | On 03 Jun 2006 The Indian software industry has grown very rapidly for more than a decade. In this study we report the results of a multivariate statistical analysis of the determinants of sales revenue growth and p...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 03 Jun 2006 Editorial: Samita Sen, Shamil Jeppie, Carlos Degregori
Articles:
Hlonipha Mokoena: The Making of a Kholwa Intellec-
tual: Introducing Magema Magwaza Fuze.
Iman Kumar Mitra:The Economics of Sex in...
by SEPHIS | On 23 May 2006 The main aim of this study is to develop an accounting framework that
reflects the real contribution of agricultural land and pastureland to
society. The more specific objectives are to: 1 estimate...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 23 May 2006 Accounting for forest wealth is an important ingredient in creating a
framework for analysing policy trade-offs. This study describes forestry-related stocks and flows in terms of land area (under fo...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 15 May 2006 Population aging is primarily the result of past declines in fertility, which produced a decades long period in which the ratio of dependents to working age adults was reduced. Rising old-age dependen...
by David N. Weil | On 03 May 2006 *The IUD: An Important Method with Potential
Programmatic challenges and safety concerns have held back IUD use
in many countries.Most recent research finds that serious complications
are rare with...
by | On 25 Apr 2006 India is in a favourable demographic phase, which has the potential to increase its trend rate of growth and depth of its financial and capital markets.
These effects however are not likely to be au...
by Mukul Asher | On 17 Apr 2006 The paper addresses three main issues: The nature of economic reforms and how growth is segregated within the sectors; secondly, limitations of the poverty line approach to estimate the development of...
by Saji M. | On 31 Mar 2006 This paper presents some features of the contradictions in Andhra Pradesh’s economy today: the fast growth of IT and other technology-intensive industries in Hyderabad, and the alarming levels of dist...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 30 Mar 2006 This paper tries to examine the sustainability aspect of the rate of growth (rog) in recent years, designated as ‘the second phase of liberalisation’. This paper is based on the Keynesian framework wh...
by Anamitra Roychowdhury | On 29 Mar 2006 A SWOT analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) in the WTO regime
reveals that the much acclaimed IPI’s expertise in process development skills
were made possible by the amendments made...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Mar 2006 With liberalization of foreign technology import policy in the 1990s, India has
seen declining R&D intensity at national level. This has generated a general
concern on how Indian industries are doin...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 28 Mar 2006 During the recent period, many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host cou...
by Subash Sasidharan | 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 This paper draws on a study on functioning of public distribution system in Orissa based on secondary data as well as primary data. The first section of this paper discusses in brief the policy change...
by Rajshree Bedamatta | On 26 Mar 2006 This paper deals with the agrarian distress experienced in parts of rural Kerala from the latter half of the 1990s, and the ways in which the distress affected the livelihoods of cultivating household...
by R. Ramakumar | On 26 Mar 2006 This study on agricultural wages shows that states like West Bengal and Gujarat have performed well in providing gender equal wages to men and women. Kerala’s performance in maintaining gender equal w...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 26 Mar 2006 Amidst massive ethnographical and anthropological literature on India’s tribes, patterns of their demographic behaviour (e.g. fertility and mortality) have received relatively little attention. Howeve...
by Arup Maharatna | On 14 Mar 2006 The Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. Budgets garner resources th...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 09 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 There has been a perception that since the introduction of what have derisively
been called “neo-liberal” reforms, the social sectors i.e. those dealing with
education and health, have suffered. Is...
by Ajit Karnik | On 07 Mar 2006 Growth, or more accurately, the quality of growth, is intricately linked to inequality and so the Finance Minister and the government need to do more by addressing problems of governance as well.
htt...
by Errol D'souza | On 06 Mar 2006 Growth, or more accurately, the quality of growth, is intricately linked to inequality and so the Finance Minister and the government need to do more by addressing problems of governance as well.
by Errol D'souza | On 06 Mar 2006 'Mahinda Chintana' : Towards a New Sri Lanka
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Tax Proposals and Administration
Summary of Budget 2006
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Economic Review of Developments in 2005 and Prospects for 2006. Presented before the Budget for 2006.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Union Budget 2006-07 breaks new ground in many areas, and continues on the
path of modernizing the tax system. It also gives deserved recognition to
key allocation priorities. But its legacy will be...
by Mukul Asher | On 05 Mar 2006 The bulk of the resources must go to the UPA Government’s eight flagship programmes: Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mid-day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Total Sanitation Campaign, National...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2006
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 27 Feb 2006 Social Sectors
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Infrastructure
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Agriculture
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Industry
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 External Sector
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Prices and Food Management
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Securities Markets
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Monetary and Banking Developments
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Public Finance
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 General Review
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Closing Gaps to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals: Roles
by Indian Council of Medical Research | On 08 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 There are several themes which emerge from the comparative analysis of social security systems in Southeast Asia. Each country will need to address the limitations of their respective system in relati...
by Mukul Asher | On 06 Feb 2006 This paper deals with the challenges of fiscal federalism in
planned economies. Planned economies through their various policy instruments to
control the resource allocation introduce several source...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 06 Feb 2006 The robust performance of the Indian economy continued during the second
quarter (July-September) of 2005-06. According to the Central Statistical
Organisation (CSO), the economy recorded a real GDP...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 02 Feb 2006 The increase in direct taxes has not been able to offset the decline that resulted from the reduction in customs tariff and decline in excise revenue. The task facing the policymakers now is to explor...
by Amaresh Bagchi | On 01 Feb 2006 When analyzing the appropriate response for monetary policy during a currency
crisis it is important to keep in mind two distinct channels: (a) the impact of raising
interest rates on exchange rates...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 27 Jan 2006 Contents
I. The Real Economy -- 1
Agricultural Situation
Industrial Performance
Business Expectations Surveys
Services Sector
II. Fiscal Situation 14
Combined Government Fi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 25 Jan 2006 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 Inherenet weaknesses in AFTA and AEC and the need to counter regionalism in other parets of the world are some of the important reasons for evolving an East Asian Community. However, there are severa...
by Joseph Yap | On 23 Nov 2005 The concept of ‘agricultural biotechnology’ covers two main categories of activities, one of which is characterised by genetic modification using recombinant DNA techniques (GM-technology), while the...
by A. Indira | 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 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 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 Large dollar reserves in Asian EMEs accompany large U.S. fiscal and current account deficits. Analysis of strategic sales by Asian EMEs suggests that an attack on the dollar is not certain but is poss...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Nov 2005 In his early years, B S Minhas, who passed away recently, enriched economics with his valued theoretical contributions that are today an integral part of economic literature. These were both acknowled...
by Deena Khatkhate | On 21 Nov 2005 Without trust-building, an East Asian community remains unrealized. The vision of an Asia-Pacific community offers a more attractive and viable option. A sound paradigm is community building and the w...
by David S. Hong | On 08 Nov 2005 EU's response to the East Asian community has to take account of several dimensions including Issues and dynamics of East Asian regional cooperation and integration; Scenarios of regional Community-bu...
by Willem vd Geest | On 08 Nov 2005 China, as the most populous country in the world, is ageing rapidly. Against the background of dramatic demographic changes in this century, China’s current pension system is badly structured, and not...
by Yu-Wei Hu | On 22 Oct 2005 The book opens new debates relevant to post-apartheid South Africa, in particular the relationship of Indians and Africans. Contemporary discussion of this sensitive issue is always framed with refere...
by Goolam Vahed | On 22 Sep 2005 Countries that have universal or near universal access to healthcare have health financing mechanisms which are single-payer systems in which either a single autonomous public agency or a few coordina...
by Ravi Duggal | On 24 Aug 2005 Motivated by the commitment to strengthen intra-SAARC economic cooperation to maximise the realization of the region's potential for trade and development for the benefit of their people, in a spirit...
by Anonymous | On 13 Aug 2005 The entire project of SAARC is dependent on India’s capacity to bind the neighbouring states in multiple networks of ties to promote regional cooperation. India not only shares frontiers with all the...
by Rajen Harshe | On 13 Aug 2005 Introduction to the issue on Revitilising Science, a symposium on the importance of science and technology in our society.
by Anonymous | On 08 Aug 2005 This paper attempts to discuss the implications of the European slave trade in the Indian Ocean from 15th century onwards; duplicity of the European policy of slave trade; the conflict of interests am...
by Aparajita Biswas | On 08 Aug 2005 Indian society is a product of long and complex historical process. The seven major events contributed to the formation of this process are Aryan `advent', the emergence of Indian Protestant religion...
by T Oommen | On 05 Aug 2005 This paper has tried to study and compare the efficiency of Major Ports in India. It also tries to make the comparison of Indian Ports to that of the Ports like Singapore and other developed countries...
by Atul Deskmukh | On 05 Aug 2005 |