There is a huge disparity between the compensation packages of the board level functionaries of central public sector enterprises and their private sector counterparts. For making these public...
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The 2007 National Policy on the Voluntary Sector aims at creating an enabling environment for voluntary organisations and facilitating their partnership with the government. But it suffers from a...
Many organisations campaigning on behalf of the Tibetan community persist in seeking some form of independence, self-determination or autonomy. In light of the evolving position of China in the world...
The Hindutva cases regarding corrupt electoral practices, decided by the Supreme Court in 1995, can be seen as events with many symbolisms, narrated differently from the perspectives of the liberal,...
The Indian state has treated a few refugee communities reasonably well but has not formulated a well-defined refugee law and judicial interventions have been case specific. The absence of clearly...
This paper presents an assessment of the progress and effectiveness over the past decade of the citizen's charter initiative that is an effort to make public service providers more open, citizen-...
Estimates of the costs of achieving intermediate or long-term global development goals are subject to uncertainties that go well beyond those in applied economic contexts, and exceed the level that...
An analysis of futures trading in mentha oil suggests that excessive speculative interests lead to spurious price discovery and distortion in spot prices. Initiatives towards a judicious balance...
Restructuring, cost-cutting and other associated trends in Indian industry in recent years have had a major impact on workers in organised industry in India. This article presents the results from a...
In the course of public contestation and debate, political parties in India have attempted to garner acceptance for their respective positions on the Indo-US nuclear deal by drawing on key historical...
This article examines the approach of the government of Tamil Nadu towards drug procurement and supply, which is undertaken through an autonomous agency. This agency has formulated detailed...
India is the unique domain of the economic adviser, which goes back to the legendary Kautilya, minister to Chandragupta Maurya. The pioneer economic adviser of modern India, however, was a little...
This article argues that the loss in competitiveness of the Indian cotton farmer after the opening up of India's agricultural economy in the mid-1990s was a major reason for the increase in farmers'...
This note presents an analytical review of the Basel I capital adequacy regime and the current level of the capital to riskweighted asset ratio (CRAR) of India's banking sector. Under Basel I, the...
Not much is known about the distribution of land and tenancy among the various social groups, especially in rural India. This article examines recent National Sample Survey data on house ownership...
