Surprisingly, even though the government had been presented with the recommendations of gender economists and the Feminist Policy Collective for moving towards Transformative Financing for Women and G...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 18 Feb 2023 Tribute to Gail Omvedt : feminist scholar, dalit and feminist activist died on August 25, 2021
by Vibhuti Patel | On 09 Sep 2021 In 2009, 36 per cent of Karnataka’s population was urban, and 32.7 per cent was poor- higher than the all-India level.This study aims to understand the nature and compute the size of the local public...
by | On 03 Feb 2021 Despite high educational attaintments, educated unemployment is a worrying feature of Kerala. Some of the suggestions made by the Kerala Finance Minister are discussed below. The note suggests that tu...
by Rakkee Thimothy | On 02 Feb 2021 Budget speech by the Finance Minister of India.
by Nirmala Seetharaman | On 01 Feb 2021 During the unlock phase,
demand-side measures have been announced in a calibrated manner. A public investment
programme centred around the National Infrastructure Pipeline is likely to accelerate th...
by Ministry of Finance | On 31 Jan 2021 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major global crisis that requires country, regional, and global intervention, as well as collaboration to mitigate damage to economies and peop...
by Asian Development Bank | On 25 Jan 2021 Kerala Budget presented by the Finance Minister.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 18 Jan 2021 People’s ability to respond to this crisis is coloured by class, caste, gender and religion and the government’s failure to respond adequately to the needs of its citizens, exposing the ugly underside...
by Ravi Duggal | On 26 Oct 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 Vidya Bal was a veteran feminist journalist, author and editor based in Pune. She was also a well-known social activist in the women’s liberation movement in India who dedicated her life to fighting f...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 24 Apr 2020 Gender budgeting is a public policy innovation to transform the gender commitments into budgetary commitments. The political economy process of gender budgeting in India has encompassed four distinct...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 02 Apr 2019 This paper compares the additional gains from higher tax devolution in the post
14th FC period, with the additional burden due to the withdrawal of certain central schemes and the changes in the shar...
by Amarnath H. K. | On 30 Mar 2019 Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IGFT) are, in theory, neither good nor bad for tackling gender inequalities. Fiscal federalism with asymmetry in revenue and expenditure assignments inevitably lead...
by Janet G. Stotsky | On 14 Jan 2019 The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 05 Jul 2018 This paper reviews the methods that investigate the hydrology of springs, with a focus on the Himalayan region. The methods are classified as field-based empirical and desk-based analytical. Field-bas...
by Pennan Chinnasamy | On 27 Jun 2018 This paper discusses the significance of considering climate change responsiveness in the Union
Budget and what are the existing practices and gaps in documenting climate change financing in India.
...
by Jyotsna Goel | On 21 Jun 2018 This study provides insights on how institutional architecture for public fund flows affects budget execution. Using the case of the National Health Mission (NHM) in India, it highlights how the rules...
by Mita Choudhury | On 15 Jun 2018 The Union Budget takes the long needed step of allocating funds specifically for addressing the nutritional concerns of TB patients, taking note of the considerable evidence of the association between...
by | On 30 Apr 2018 Gender budgeting is a fiscal approach that seeks to use a country’s national and/or local budget(s) to reduce inequality and promote economic growth and equitable development. While literature has exp...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 16 Mar 2018 The Finance Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mr. Rajesh Agarwal presented the budget for Uttar Pradesh, for the financial year 2018-19, on 16 February 2018. The total outlay for the year is Rs. 4,28,384.52 c...
by Ministry of Finance | On 12 Mar 2018 Mahrashtra Buget speech Part 2
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 12 Mar 2018 Budget speech of the Finance Minister of Maharashtra.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 12 Mar 2018 Budget presented Chhattisgarh Finance Minister.
by Finance Ministry Chhattisgarh | On 19 Feb 2018 This paper has introduced instability in the budgets and has added to the burden of public debt.
by K.K. George | On 15 Feb 2018 Budget speech Smt. Vasundhara Raje.
by Vasundhara Raje | On 12 Feb 2018 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 09 Feb 2018 FY2018 budget, the budget for final year of the intensive reform period set in the Fiscal Consolidation Plan,
continues to pursue both economic revitalization and fiscal consolidation.
by | On 09 Feb 2018 This is a dreamy and populist Budget talking high numbers while missing out on empirical realities. The irony is that, looked at closely, it has neither pleased the free market theorists nor has it do...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 09 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 estimates of
income, receipts and expenditure for the financial year 2018-19
with respect to the budget “E” (Primary Education) Fund Code –
30, as required under the provisions of section 126C...
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 Budget Speech by Municipal Commissioner
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 Finance Minister, Dr. Amit Mitra presented the West Bengal budget on 31st January, 2018.
by Amit Mitra FM, WB | On 05 Feb 2018 Budget speech of Finance Minister of Kerala.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 05 Feb 2018 Citizens, journalists and policy makers can now find the state of industrial pollution in their areas with a click. They can log on to the MPCB website (http://mpcb.info) to access report cards of in...
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 04 Feb 2018 The paper says that this idiosyncrasy of Korea’s current account surplus seems to be related to increasing saving propensity of households especially among aged people.
by Han Chirok | On 01 Feb 2018 Speech of Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance on February 1, 2018
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 Several states such as Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka raise a majority
of their revenue from their own taxes. On the other hand, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, and Bihar rai...
by Mandira Kala | On 01 Feb 2018 It is not surprising that science and technology finds important mention in the Economic Survey indicating that the upcoming Union Budget may well sharply increase spending on it. But it is disappoin...
by Tanisha Parihar | On 01 Feb 2018 Sound public financial management has been one of the pillars of India’s macro-economic
stability in the last three years. Based on this firm footing, the Government, in partnership with
the States,...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 most of the major policy measures promised by this government to the Indian
farmers have not seen the light of the day. No social security measures have been taken for
farmers above the age of 60 or...
by ASHA Kisan Swaraj Alliance | 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 The Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Shri Raghubar Das presented the Budget for the financial year 2018-19 on 23 January, 2018. Total expenditure for the year is expected to be Rs. 80,200 crore.
by Raghubar Das | On 25 Jan 2018 The Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Shri Raghubar Das presented the Budget for the financial year 2018-19 on 23 January, 2018. Total expenditure for the year is expected to be Rs. 80,200 crore.
by Raghubar Das | On 25 Jan 2018 Budget analysis entails analysis and assessment of budget from the lens of marginalised sections
of population with the objective of prioritisation of public
expenditures and collection of revenues...
by Happy Pant | On 17 Jan 2018 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Haseeb Drabu, presented the State Budget for the financial year 2018-19 on 11 January 2018. The total expenditure for the year is estimated to be Rs. 80,3...
by Haseeb Drabu | On 16 Jan 2018 One of the biggest challenges faced by the Indian education system in the last several decades since Independence has been expansion without a simultaneous assurance of equity in educational opportuni...
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 01 Jan 2018 In this context, a government that is in doubt regarding re-election will give a popular or election-oriented budget and go on a spending spree.
by Dr. Abid Suleri | On 20 Nov 2017 The paper examines the issue of resource adequacy for Right to Education (RTE) by estimating the resource requirement for universalization of elementary education across twelve Indian States. Using RT...
by Sukanya Bose | On 05 Oct 2017 The report narrates about, should India’s national defence budget be discussed and deliberated in public domain?
by Deba Mohanty | On 28 Aug 2017 The report says that the manufacturing sector has significant fiscal policy implications.
by M. Singhi | On 24 Aug 2017 Using quantitative data from a one-time survey followed by ethnographic research in two sites in India (Koraput district in Odisha and Wardha district in Maharashtra), this paper seeks to examine the...
by Amit Mitra | On 16 Aug 2017 Delivering accessible, inclusive and high-quality health services in India is both technically challenging and politically complex. India’s public health services have been highly decentralized for mo...
by Brendan Halloran | On 26 Jul 2017 The purpose of this note is to help development practitioners gather relevant information, conduct analysis, and present both in a standardized diagnostic framework. In addition to the guidance note i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 The report summarizes important lessons learned and policy implications from the first year of Village Law implementation.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Jun 2017 The paper says that the government has already initiated reforms to strengthen the institutional framework for managing contingent liabilities arising from PPP projects. Among these reforms are (i) es...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 Finance Minister of Maharashtra presenting the Budget
by Sudhir Mungantiwar | On 20 Mar 2017 Maharashtra Budget speech by the Honorable Finance Minister.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 20 Mar 2017 The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Virbhadra Singh, presented a budget on 10 March 2017 for the financial year 2017-18. The total proposed budget for the FY 2017-18 is Rs. 35,783 crore.
by | On 14 Mar 2017 Budget 2017-18 was presented at the time when the global situation is inhospitable, marked with
protectionism and domestic environment is constrained by the twin balance sheet crisis. The investment
...
by M Govinda Rao | On 10 Mar 2017 Finance Minister of Delhi Shri Manish Sisodia presented the budget of Delhi.
by Manish Sisodia | On 10 Mar 2017 Chhattisgarh budget speech by Hon. Finance minister Raman Singh.
by Raman Singh | On 09 Mar 2017 Haryana Budget presented by Hon'ble Minister Capt. Abhimanyu.
by Haryana Government | On 07 Mar 2017 Kerala budget presented by Hon.Finance Minister Thomas Issac.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 06 Mar 2017 This paper explores the “Bill of Rights” in the Justice Verma Committee Report as an analytical framework for gender budgeting in justice. Gender budgeting in justice, as a public good, needs effectiv...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 03 Mar 2017 General Budget of Odisha presented by the Finance Minister.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 01 Mar 2017 The first
part is the Agriculture Budget, which not only covers the
outlay and programmes relating to Agriculture and allied
activities, but also presents the macro-economic outlook
as well as the...
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 01 Mar 2017 The Finance Minister of Assam , MrHimanta Biswa Sarma presented the Budget for Assam for financial year 2017-18 on February 7, 2017.
by Government of Assam | On 09 Feb 2017 The Finance Minister of Assam , MrHimanta Biswa Sarma presented the Budget for Assam for financial year 2017-18 on February 7, 2017. [PRS].
by Arvind Gayam | On 09 Feb 2017 In the context of social
sector and particularly for children, the Union Budgets have disappointed the marginalized
community and the Union Budget 2017-18 further pushed its children to the peripher...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 06 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 While there has been a a big jump in allocations to health overall, there is no indication that it will be sustained and will mark a trend.
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 Feb 2017 These are the latest union budget highlights. Gear up to enjoy subsidies, pay newer taxes and enjoy greater freedom, as that covers a major part of the Union Budget 2017.
by | On 01 Feb 2017 Budget speech by Finance Minister of India, Mr.Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2017 Union Budget 2017-18: Budget Speech by Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 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 Demonetisation is a weapon to stop the black money in the country. But cash is only a small portion of black money. Also the economy has been affected by this step. How will the government tackle this...
by Rakesh Mumbai | On 27 Jan 2017 In India the Community Health Worker has long been a part of health care services for rural populations across the voluntary sector. As far as India?s public health sector is concerned, Community Heal...
by Kavita Bhatia | On 27 Jan 2017 The study attempts to highlight some of the major hurdles in Delhi’s
governance and fiscal policy in ensuring the safety of women in public spaces. Though violence
against women is widespread and oc...
by Kanika Kaul | On 27 Jan 2017 Using government data, this brief reports on trends for SBM-G along the following
parameters:
• Allocations and expenditures
• Physical progress of toilets
built
• Expenditures incurred under
...
by Avani Kapur | On 27 Jan 2017 The 2017 Budget would be special in two ways – first, it would be presented by Finance Minister on 1st February, 2017. Usually, it was presented in the last week of February each year. It will give...
by Amarnath Tripathi | On 25 Jan 2017 The aim of this article is to present that the Positive effect of demonetisation on upcoming budget for national growth. And demonetisation is one of the tools to be used for minimize the counterfeit...
by P Shekar | On 25 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 The core emphasis of rules-based fiscal legislation at the subnational level in India is to
achieve debt sustainability through a numerical ceiling on borrowing and the use of borrowed
resources for...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 23 Jan 2017 Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a harmonized tax regime and it can curb black money through practicing clean "invoices" to redeem input credit. In the Union Budget 2017, central government may announc...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 23 Jan 2017 After the implementation of the Right of Children to
Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) in 2010, states
have brought about some improvement in school education
in terms of infrastructure, enro...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 18 Jan 2017 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2017-18 on January 11, 2017.
by Arvind Gayam | On 17 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 This work is a contribution, first, toward measuring and characterizing
some features of rural clientelistic institutions and then toward
exploring its impact on household access to an employment sc...
by Anindya Bhattacharya | On 30 Dec 2016 A bill
to provide for academic autonomy and excellence, adequate
representation through democratic process, transformation,
strengthening and regulating higher education and for
matters connected...
by Higher and Technical Education Dept Government of Maharashtra | On 19 Dec 2016 A health system should be responsive, resilient, self-regulating. It should be able to respond to health emergencies and changing development scenarios. Governments all over the world should see to it...
by Rajeev B.R. | On 14 Dec 2016 Drawing attention to a high dropout rate in upper primary schools, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam today said schools are facing the “biggest crisis” in India.
Delivering the f...
by Tharman Shanmugaratnam | On 08 Dec 2016 State legislatures are responsible for making laws on key subjects like land, police and health. They are also
tasked with approving the expenditure of money for their respective states every year. T...
by Prianka Rao | On 30 Nov 2016 Taking note of the limitations and challenges pertaining to gender budget exercise, the
Government of Karnataka has set up a Task Force constituting of academics working in this
area to review the p...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 29 Nov 2016 Conventional wisdom suggests that, to negate fiscal externalities imposed by provinces which
spend too much and raise lower local resources, central authority should always be a first mover
in the t...
by Bodhisattva Sengupta | On 14 Nov 2016 Can countries with binding budget constraints increase the benefits of school transfers
through better program design? A cost-neutral change is used in the design of India’s
school meal program to s...
by Farzana Afridi | On 20 Oct 2016 The recent changes in the institutional and fiscal architecture of the country following the
constitution of NITI Aayog and release of report of the Fourteenth Finance Commission,
have implications...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 04 Oct 2016 Over the last few decades, systematic critiques of medicine and public health curricula in India
have highlighted many lapses in the inclusion of social determinants of health in medical education.
...
by Priya John | On 09 Aug 2016 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 water crisis already looming large will therefore quite probably trigger significant shortfalls in cereal production and, as a result, a massive global food crisis. But before that the dearth of p...
by | On 24 Jun 2016 The present study has been conducted in the rural and urban areas of 9 districts of 9 commissionaries
in Bihar. A random sample of 375 families is drawn from different socio-economic backgrounds. The...
by CARE India | On 20 Jun 2016 Review of Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural India. Edited by B. S. Baviskar and D. W. Attwood, Sage Publications, New Delh, 2014.
by | On 20 Jun 2016 Budget speech of Pakistan 2016-17.
by Mohammad Ishaq Dar | On 17 Jun 2016 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2016-17 on May 30, 2016.
by Hasseeb A. Drabu | On 13 Jun 2016 This publication gathers a collection of twenty case studies that illustrate how Indian states are creating promising change to ensure the delivery of essential nutrition information, counselling, sup...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 03 Jun 2016 We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India’s school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from pa...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 Public expenditure data has been sourced from the State budget documents, detailed demand for grants of MoHFW and
other Central Ministries/Departments. This document gives in totality classification...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare MoH&FW | On 02 Jun 2016 This report is an outcome of the continuous interaction of YUVA Urban and National
Hawkers Federation (NHF) with the street vendors across different states. They have been a
part of the struggle of...
by Sadaf Zafar | On 31 May 2016 The present handbook is designed to provide United Nations country teams and national and international stakeholders with guidance on the definitions, rationale, concepts and sources of the data for t...
by United Nations (UN) | On 27 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 paper examines the public financial management (PFM) of Sikkim focusing mainly on resources generation effort and budget management practices. We note that any deviation from the Central transfers...
by Pratap R Jena | On 23 May 2016 SIPP is envisaged to facilitate protection of patents, trademarks and design of innovative and interested startups.
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 20 May 2016 Various mining projects have been proposed in the Sindhudurg district of
Maharashtra. The proposed mining area seeks to destroy about 200 sq km. in the
Western Ghats part of the Sawantwadi and Dodam...
by | On 18 May 2016 The Budget Session 2016 was scheduled from February 23 to March 16, and from April 25 to May 13, 2016. However, during
the recess period, Parliament was prorogued to allow the government to issue an...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 May 2016 The Budget Session was originally planned to be held in two parts: from February 23 to March
16 and April 25 to May 13. However, at the end of March, the government decided to convert
these into two...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 May 2016 The report of a high level committee led by Vijay Kelkar to promote balanced development in Maharashtra has several important recommendations. But will it all come to nought because of its failure to...
by | On 11 May 2016 Using original data collected about growers, traders, processors, markets, and village communities, the situation in four states – Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa is compared. The w...
by Marcel Fafchamps | On 06 May 2016 Although significant, the share of education in total provincial budgets is declining
except for Balochistan. This year, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has
allocated the highest share of its p...
by Institute of Social and Policy Sciences I-SAPS | On 29 Apr 2016 The report considers the question of taxes as price versus tribute for contemporary India and makes three points. First, if the accounting cost of services provided exceeds the economic cost (the min...
by | On 15 Apr 2016 The PAISA for Panchayats research project extends AI’s PAISA methodology to track fund flows and implementations processes at the Panchayat level. By focusing on understanding the state of fiscal devo...
by | On 13 Apr 2016 Empirical findings across a swathe of countries, advanced and emerging, confirm that the composition of government expenditure can have perceptible growth implications.
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 12 Apr 2016 The 2016 Budget reaffirms the belief that no one should be left behind as
the country progresses.
by Strategic Communication Unit Philippines | On 11 Apr 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 06 Apr 2016 A study was undertaken by the Council for Social Development with the sponsorship of Planning Commission, Government of India with the following specific objectives to analyse the impact of NFSM initi...
by Ankita Goyal | On 05 Apr 2016 Speech by Donkupar Roy, Finance Minister of Meghalaya.
by Donkupar Roy | On 31 Mar 2016 Budget speech of Chhattisgarh 2016
by Raman Singh | On 30 Mar 2016 Budget speech of Uttarakhand finance minister.
by Finance Minister Uttarakhand | On 30 Mar 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Manish Sisodia.
by Manish Sisodia | On 29 Mar 2016 Speech by the Financial Secretary.
by Hon John C Tsang | On 28 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of 2016 by Finance Minister of Singapore.
by Heng Swee Keat | On 28 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 Budget Speech of Finance Minister of Haryana.
by Capt. Abhimanyu | On 22 Mar 2016 Budget speech of the finance minister of Uttar Pradesh.
by Uttar Pradesh Government UP | On 22 Mar 2016 Part II of the Budget speech of the finance minister.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 21 Mar 2016 Budget Speech by Pradip Kumar Amat.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 21 Mar 2016 This study was undertaken under the aegis of the Sukhi Baliraja Initiative (SBI), funded by Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) and Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) in six high distress districts, which has holi...
by Surinder Jaswal | On 21 Mar 2016 Budget speech
by Sudhir Mungantiwar | On 18 Mar 2016 Budget Speech by Finance Minister of Maharashtra
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 18 Mar 2016 Public finance systems in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have evolved substantially over the last three decades. The evolution is continuing, with wide-ranging reforms in budget and debt managem...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 Economic Survey of Maharashtra 2015-16.
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Mar 2016 Using the method of optimal control, when an incumbent politician derives utility from voting support and dis-utility from budgetary deficit, the equilibrium time paths of both voting support and budg...
by Ganesh Manjhi | On 17 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of finance minister of Telangana.
by K Chandrashekar | On 17 Mar 2016 The Union Budget has failed to allocate substantiate funds. With less gender mainstreaming and with lack of assurance of safety to women the budget fails to make an impact in this regard.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 17 Mar 2016 Budget speech of finance minister of Gujarat, Saurabh Patel.
by Saurabh Patel | On 16 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of Yanamala Ramakrishnudu Minister of Finance.
by Yanamala Ramakrishnudu | On 16 Mar 2016 In the 1990s, Japan was the world’s top donor. This position was lost in 2001, after a prolonged economic slump, a deteriorating fiscal situation, and increasingly critical public view of ODA made the...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 Speech of Finance Minister, 2016.
by West Bengal Government | On 14 Mar 2016 The allocation of scarce budgetary resources away from ‘alternative’ channels of social security underscores interlocking concerns: a) the financial drain that marriages of girls pose to families and...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 09 Mar 2016 Budget speech by Vasundhara Raje.
by Vasundhara Raje | On 09 Mar 2016 Situation of children in Assam in 2016.
by Melvil Pereira | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper reflects on the changing scope of the Union Budget
and the Finance Minister’s speech and assesses the evolving content
of these policy instruments in recent years. The analysis undertaken...
by | On 08 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 India’s latest Budget focuses on the rural sector and the economically vulnerable sections and makes large allocations for agriculture and social sector programmes without compromising on fiscal disci...
by Amitendu Palit | On 04 Mar 2016 The Finance Minister of Bihar, Mr. Abdul Bari Siddiqui, presented the Budget for Bihar for the financial year 2016-17.
by Arvind Gayam | On 03 Mar 2016 The Finance Minister of Bihar, Mr. Abdul Bari Siddiqui, presented the Budget for Bihar for the financial year 2016-17.
by | On 03 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 The Union Budget has failed to deliver on the needs of the marginalised section of population. The spending has been much lower than what was budgeted.
by Paul Divakar | On 01 Mar 2016 Disappointingly, the new health policy that appeared to be robust one, has received little support in the Union Budget.
by | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper examines the fiscal instruments available to different levels of government and their interactions to enhance the effectiveness of public policies for the poorest and hungry groups. Address...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 The Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister, Mr. Jayant Mallayya, presented the Budget for Madhya Pradesh for the financial year 2016-17 on February 26, 2016.
by Arvind Gayam | On 01 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of Finance Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
by Finance Minister of MP Govt of MP | On 01 Mar 2016 Trends regarding the central government’s sources of financing including tax revenue, disinvestments, and its revenue and capital expenditure, including subsidies. Estimates are presented in the 2016-...
by Mandira Kala | 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 Existence of structural and social inequality with growing poverty and shrinking livelihoods and other factors forced to people or entire families to migrate towards cities in search of means of survi...
by | On 01 Mar 2016 Regardless of the allocations for healthcare, there is a systemic reluctance to spend on health care. This trend needs to be reversed and a more transparent citizen-centred process of budget-making...
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 Mar 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Feb 2016 Has Narendra Modi re-set his political sights? What's there in the Budget?
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 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 In the Union Budget 2015-16, there was a reduction in the allocation for school education on account of more untied funds being given to States following the 14th Finance Commission recommendation. Ho...
by Provita Kundu | On 26 Feb 2016 An analysis of the railway budget.
by Manoj Singh | On 26 Feb 2016 The Minister of Railways, Mr. Suresh Prabhu, presented the Railway Budget 2016-17 to Parliament on February
25, 2016. In his address, he commented on the performance of Railways in 2015-16 and laid o...
by Prachee Mishra | On 26 Feb 2016 Speech of Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu introducing the Railway
Budget for 2016-17.
by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on Indonesia’s trade policies after the economic crisis. It examines the trend towards protection and addresses the issues of competitiveness. The concluding part briefly discusses...
by M. Basri | On 25 Feb 2016 Campaigns against big pulp and palm oil producers in Indonesia appear to be driven by local activists on the ground. In reality, they are facilitated by huge budgets and shaped by agendas emanating fr...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The Budget Session of Parliament will be held between February 23, 2016 and May 13, 2016.
The session will have a recess from March 17 to April 24, when the Standing Committees will
examine the Dema...
by Kusum Malik | On 23 Feb 2016 Budget speech by the Hon’ble Minister for Finance and Public Works, Government of Tamil Nadu
by O Panneerselvam | On 22 Feb 2016 It is true that India is having improvements in the economic fronts. But what are the real numbers? Why does the government say exaggerated numbers?
by T.N. Ninan | On 20 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 The present study reviews the framework
on adaptation in India and provides an estimation of the public resources devoted to
this sector.
by Kaushik Ganguly | On 18 Feb 2016 Rise in the underground economy creates problems for the policy-makers to formulate economic policies, especially the monetary and fiscal policies. It is found that if there was no tax evasion, budget...
by M. Ali Kemal | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is important sector for Indian economy. The agricultural growth output and rural income has to increase, only then can we think of an all-inclusive development of the economy. The problems...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, but how do emissions differ among countries? The relative contribution of agriculture to countries’ emissions budgets can infor...
by Meryl Richards | On 17 Feb 2016 in order to ensure the inclusion and social security of children, the Central government must pay attention to the concerns raised by Sates and the upcoming Union Budget must include some of the point...
by Kumar Shailabh | On 15 Feb 2016 Budget speech by Oommen Chandy.
by Oommen Chandy | On 15 Feb 2016 Using micro-level household data for rural and urban Pakistan, this study estimates Engel equations for 22 commodity groups with quadratic spline specification, in which the number and locations of kn...
by Eatzaz Ahmad | On 14 Feb 2016 This publication spells out how the vision of Special Cell may be taken forward. What began as an experiment in Bombay fanned out across Maharashtra to Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh, and now takes root...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 14 Feb 2016 Budget is the major economic policy document of the government for a particular year and perhaps beyond. Therefore, it is imperative to study the processes, institutional mechanisms, and decision-maki...
by Muttukrishna Sarvananthan | On 13 Feb 2016 Public procurement impacts people’s lives and accounts for a big share government budgets. The large monetary transactions involved make the risk of abuse high and the need for anti-corruption safegua...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 The Union Budget falls on February 29- this being a leap year. An online opinion poll on a leading media website reads: “Should Arun Jaitley prefer growth or fiscal deficit?” As India emerges as the...
by Tulsi Jayakumar | 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 forthcoming union budget 2016-17 faces several fiscal challenges and it will be tough task for the government to provide positive signals to revive the private investment while pursuing the fiscal...
by Pratap Jena | On 11 Feb 2016 In absolute terms, the MCGM has presented a budget for the year 2015-16 wherein its income is Rs. 33,000 crores and expenditure is Rs 31,000 crores. Out of this expenditure, it has allotted Rs. 2,552...
by Sadanand Nadkarni | On 09 Feb 2016 India has a number of policies that contribute to climate mitigation but what is required to implement these into action is proper planning and allocation in the budget
by T. V. Ramachandra | On 09 Feb 2016 Regardless of the allocations for healthcare, there is a systemic reluctance to spend on health care. This trend needs to be reversed and a more transparent citizen-centred process of budget-making...
by Ravi Duggal | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper traces the process of recognition of children’s budget and the introduction of
Statement 22- Budget Provisions for Schemes for the Welfare of Children in the Expenditure Budget Volume 1. I...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Feb 2016 Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called...
by Uttara Balakrishnan | On 07 Feb 2016 One way to do a reality check on the official numbers will be to develop a desi version of what came to be called the Li index in China.
by T.N. Ninan | On 06 Feb 2016 Statement of Municipal Commissioner.
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2016 Budget at a glance as prepared by Municipal Commissioner.
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 05 Feb 2016 This report is a compilation of examples of the budget work undertaken by nongovernmental
organizations from around the world. Although many of these organizations are
new to budget analysis, they h...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 01 Feb 2016 Pakistan’s economy has witnessed occasional spurts in economic growth, unfortunately, the economic growth has not been sustainable. One of the culprits often cited for haphazard growth experience of P...
by Ahmed Waqar Qasim | On 30 Jan 2016 Economists and experts have been batting for bringing the fiscal
federalism, the activist fora has been criticizing the newly brought in fiscal arrangements between Centre and States. This contradict...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 28 Jan 2016 To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both...
by Robert Anderson | On 26 Jan 2016 This brief outlines the context, current proposals and concerns around the proposed carbon tax and summarises the recommendations of the Davis Tax Committee on the carbon tax, which were released as p...
by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies TIPS | On 19 Jan 2016 The paper reviews the changing nature of politics in the state of Maharashtra – an important subnational state in India. Politics in the state underwent a shift in 1978 and later again in 1990s. The p...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 India has highly populated states and a highly devolved budget; in fact, over half of all India’s public expenditures are through state budgets, including a large share of development expenditures on...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 13 Jan 2016 From around 2000 onward, donors and recipient governments embarked upon a new aid paradigm. The most important elements include increased selectivity in the aid allocation, more ownership of recipient...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The attempt of the present thesis has been to examine the incidence of agricultural labourers in the state of Maharashtra. It primarily aimed at analysing changes in the size of the labour force in ag...
by Awanish Kumar | On 08 Jan 2016 The Indonesian school system is one of the largest and most diverse in the world, with more than 50 million students, 4 million teachers and more than 250,000 schools. Over the past 15 years, the gove...
by Norman LaRocque | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congr...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 01 Jan 2016 Banana (Musa sapientum) is an important fruit crop in India. Bananas are grown in more than 150 countries, producing 105 million tonnes of fruit per year. The global production of banana is around 102...
by Agricultural Marketing | 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 addresses the issue of disability and its public health implications within the human rights framework. It also throws light on people with physical disabilities at least get noticed but th...
by Leni Chaudhari | On 21 Dec 2015 Bangladesh has had impressive growth in exports, remittances and foreign exchange reserve in recent year. By analyzing the liberalizing regime from 1979 to this date by adopting a comprehensive approa...
by Abdul Wahab | On 18 Dec 2015 Budget Private Schools (BPS) are privately-run schools that charge very low fees, operating among the poorer sections of the society and have become relevant to the education discourse of India. This...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 18 Dec 2015 This essay examines India’s position in international negotiations on climate change and domestic mitigation actions, based on scientific evidence and equity. It is argued that India’s stance has larg...
by D Raghunandan | On 17 Dec 2015 Developing countries are increasingly aware of the need to design and implement improvements in public systems for providing pensions to the elderly. Such systems may aim to smooth consumption and thu...
by David Bloom | On 17 Dec 2015 The paper makes use of newly developped information on unemployment dynamics. On the basis of a matching model of the labour market the paper analyses the economic, institutional and policy determinan...
by Ekkehard Ernst | On 16 Dec 2015 The SkyShares model helps policy-makers explore a range of diffe ent policy scenarios. It enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this...
by Owen Barder | On 11 Dec 2015 Budgets are the most solid expression of a government’s priorities, performances, decisions and intentions both at the national as well as the level of the states. This budget for children (BfC) in Me...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Dec 2015 Post-7th Pay Commission recommendations, the pay being offered now should not be a disincentive for public-spirited people with ability. Can the government afford this hike?
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Nov 2015 If the surge in tax collections is sustainable, the finance minister has the elbow room to shoot for a fiscal deficit that is significantly lower than the Budget's 3.9 per cent of GDP, or to bump up.
by T.N. Ninan | On 13 Nov 2015 Despite lack of infrastructure and facilities, studies over the past decade
has shown that learning outcomes in these schools are equal to or better than those of far more resourcefu...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 Oct 2015 What the government needs to do, perhaps, is to spell out an action agenda for the next four months, in the run-up to the 2016 Budget.
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Oct 2015 The Government of India has proposed the National Health Assurance Mission (NHAM) to move the country rapidly towards universal health coverage (UHC), by providing all citizens with specified drugs, d...
by Indrani Gupta | On 30 Sep 2015 Women in the communities make efforts to seek allocation under appropriate budget heads to identify streams of revenue, available revenue and the required expenditure. Town planners, policy makers and...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 28 Sep 2015 This report is an effort to understand
the health status of Muslims in Maharashtra. The report is based on analysis of National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), District Level
Household Surveys (DLHS)...
by Sana Contractor | On 25 Sep 2015 Open and participatory budget making is imperative for good
governance; yet by international standards India fares badly
on this count. This article analyses the process of budget
preparation and...
by Vinod Bhanu | On 11 Sep 2015 More than half of Rural Maharashtra defecates in the open. The main issue to understand is the nexus between the access to water and adoption of sanitation practices. It is also interesting to underst...
by Parliamentarian's Group for Children PGC | On 09 Sep 2015 There are basic methodological and conceptual problems with recent research that ends up arguing that private school education is more effective than public education. Such findings have obvious polic...
by | On 17 Aug 2015 During the last two decades international trade in healthcare services has expanded under the GATS. Increasingly it has acquired new dimensions with application of advanced information and communicati...
by T.P. Bhat | On 23 Jul 2015 This report is an outcome of the field study conducted to assess the rural water supply schemes In rural Maharashtra. The aims of the study are to understand the water supply systems and their functio...
by S. Ramesh Sakthivel | On 26 Jun 2015 Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organiza...
by Ajay Tandon | On 25 Jun 2015 Politicians have continued taking people for granted and managed to stay above the law.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Jun 2015 The statement discusses the need of development of a competent and accountable public service by attracting, developing, engaging and managing an efficient and innovative organizational, functional an...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 18 Jun 2015 The statement aims to stand firmly as an independent institution and to conduct every election honestly, fairly and transparency and in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the country. The st...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 18 Jun 2015 Statement aims to establish good governance by coordinating activities of different ministries & divisions and supervising activities of field administration in pursuing government policy and strategy...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The statement aims to build a knowledge-based and digital Bangladesh and to advance the socio-economic conditions of all sections of the nation, through the establishment of good governance in the all...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The data generated by the Budgeting Information System has been used to prepare this report which put forward the following major findings- Up to April FY11, 80.2% of the Revenue target of the budget...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 This Pre Budget Report incorporates the Medium-Term Budget Framework (MTBF). The MTBF links the spending plans of budgetary units to overall government policy objectives.The purpose of the Report is t...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 16 Jun 2015 This edition of the Afghanistan bulletin provides a snapshot of the actual domestic revenues collection and core budget execution during the quarter. An attempt has been made to provide analytical ana...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 16 Jun 2015 The national budget is the primary tool for implementing the priorities and policies of the government as a whole. The 1390 budget maintains the Government’s major budgetary objective of allocating fi...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 15 Jun 2015 Budgetary speech presents an outline of the the Budget Implementation Progress report for FY 2010-11. The speech discuss briefly budget framework of bangladesh government and also analyse macroeconomi...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 12 Jun 2015 Budget FY11 contains Speech of the Bangladesh Finance Minister on the implementation status and macroeconomic analysis up to second quarter (July-December).
by | On 12 Jun 2015 The Government’s main budgetary objective is to allocate fiscal resources in line with Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS). In this way, it will be assured that resources are allocated to...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 11 Jun 2015 This guide explains, in simple and easily understood language, the 1390 Budget Statement presented to Parliament by the Minister of Finance on 5 February 2011. The guide is designed to help the genera...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 11 Jun 2015 Open budget documents
by test Auth11055 fgdfgdx | On 10 Jun 2015 The paper analyses the inter-district inequality of per capita incomes in Maharashtra for the period 2001-2009 and finds that inter-district inequality rose for the period 2001-05 and subsequently dec...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 10 Jun 2015 India continues to have among the lowest public health budgets in the world at just over 1% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it gets reflected in the performance of the public healthcare delivery s...
by Oommen C. Kurian | On 08 Jun 2015 An external review, commissioned by the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board, was prepared in May 2013, providing detailed analysis of WHO’s administrative and managem...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 26 May 2015 At the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly in May 2013, Member States requested the Director-General to propose, for consideration by the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, in consultation with Member...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 26 May 2015 The April 2015 issue of IMI Konnect contains the following articles - “A Grand Design”, by Rajat Kathuria; “Budget 2015-16 and India's “Vishva Guru”; Dream”, by Vighneswara Swamy; “Micro Vs Macro Impa...
by IMI Konnect | On 08 May 2015 The National Health Policy framed from time to time provides the framework for the implementation of policies and programmes for health care. The Eleventh Five Year Plan had focused on the poor and th...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 28 Apr 2015 This is analysis of this year's Union Budget in Hindi. This video discusses on how the government categories budget and how the budget document should be viewed.
by | On 13 Apr 2015 The Union Budget is a political statement of the current Government’s aims, with considerable sops being given to corporations. The redistribution of funds from essential schemes to others suggests th...
by | On 26 Mar 2015 The “Outcome Budget” reflects the endeavour of the Government to convert “Outlays” into “Outcomes” by planning expenditure, fixing
appropriate targets and quantifying deliverables of each scheme. The...
by Ministry of Finance | On 26 Mar 2015 Budget 2015, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, has a first. In it, India has accepted that it has a de-facto carbon tax—on petroleum products and dirty coal. Arguably, the only big green ini...
by Sunita Narain | On 25 Mar 2015 Budget for children is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall allocations made, those made specifically for programmes that benefit children. This enables us t...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 24 Mar 2015 The State budget had focused the receipt and expenditure under the Consolidated Fund of the Government with dissemination of allocation under different development sectors. The fund flow towards child...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 Budget speech of Haryana Finance Minister
by Capt. Abhimanyu | On 24 Mar 2015 Speech by Finance Minister of Maharashtra.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 23 Mar 2015 Speech of Finance Minister of Maharashtra
by | On 23 Mar 2015 If women in the unpaid domestic employment categories were to be provided even part-time regular work, they would immensely contribute to the GDP. It is important to generate creative partnerships be...
by Bino Paul G.D | On 15 Mar 2015 Budget speech of Kerala Finance Minister K M Mani.
by K.M. Mani | On 13 Mar 2015 Kerala is chartering a new course and addressing some of the long standing gaps that have existed in Gender Responsive Budgeting work in several countries. Although the state has initiated the process...
by Yamini Mishra | On 13 Mar 2015 It is the budget brief of Gujarat state for the year 2015-16.
by Saurabh Patel | On 11 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 Union Budget 2015-16 fails to provide for the needs of the women in the country, with budgetary allocation for most women’s development schemes facing a steep reduction. This article reviews the budge...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 09 Mar 2015 A substantial part of the 2015 Budget Statement is interspersed with the promise that ‘every rupee of public expenditure…will contribute to the betterment of people’s lives through job creation, pover...
by Gautam Mody | On 03 Mar 2015 This publication highlights a range of pertinent issues primarily focusing on social sectors (such as education, health, drinking water and sanitation, food security etc.) and the responsiveness of th...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 02 Mar 2015 The budget proposals are premised on the assumption that health care is an individual’s responsibiity. The government appears to be rapidly shedding its responsibilities to provide accessible health...
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 Mar 2015 A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Economic Survey 2014–15 reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performan...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2015 Budget speech of Finance Minister
by Arun Jaitley | On 28 Feb 2015 The paper reflects on the changing scope of the Union Budget and the Finance Minister’s speech and assesses the evolving content of these policy instruments in recent years. The analysis undertaken is...
by | On 27 Feb 2015 Railway Budget also referred as Rail Budget is the Annual Financial Statement of the state-owned Indian Railways, which handles rail transport in India. It is presented every year by the Minister of R...
by | On 26 Feb 2015 Gender Budgeting highlights that a government policy or intervention, if formulated and implemented without any attention to the gender-based disadvantages confronting women, might even end up reinfor...
by Pooja Parvati | On 26 Feb 2015 The asks of the Agriculture sector are many but what all must the budget focus on? A National Convention on Budget 2015-16 by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability looks at these.
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 Climate change is for real and there are two responses – mitigation or adaptation. What does the Union Budget need to do about climate change adaptation?
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 With the budget round the corner what are the asks from the standpoint of food sovereignty? A Convention on Budget 2015-16 by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability looks at these.
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 Speech of Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu introducing the
Railway Budget for 2015-16
by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | On 26 Feb 2015 Gujarat Budget 2015-16.
by Saurabh Patel | On 26 Feb 2015 The ruling government’s Land Acquisition Ordinance is viewed with suspicion by most politically active groups, as well as the industry. Consent, compensation, relief and rehabilitation are some of the...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 25 Feb 2015 In spite of an increase in the number of government schemes to address the problem of undernutrition, the situation has improved only marginally. A number of factors such as spaces, ethnicities, incom...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 25 Feb 2015 It is a well-known fact that children are not getting much attention in the Union Budgets. There are some schemes by the government for children. Many of them are not properly implemented or lack fund...
by Bharti Ali | On 25 Feb 2015 Equity and efficiency are two issues that arise again and again the area of infrastructure finance. If the financing of infrastructure projects is to be sustainable the private sector must be entruste...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 25 Feb 2015 There is a need for public policy revival in mining sector as its contribution to GDP is declining. India has coal reserves but it is one of the highest importers of coal in the world. There is a need...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 24 Feb 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 Planning Commission’s Approach Paper to the Twelfth Plan lays down the objective for the Twelfth Plan as faster, more inclusive and sustainable growth. Unsettled global economy, volatile commodity pri...
by Planning Commission | On 24 Feb 2015 The Union education budget has seen an increase in monetary allocation every year and the enrolment rate across the country has also been largely moving upwards. It becomes important to scrutinise the...
by | On 24 Feb 2015 Indian President Pranab Mukherjee said at the opening of the budget session of Parliament on Monday that the government was committed to developing India in a way that lifts up everyone in the country...
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 23 Feb 2015 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the Budget Session between 23rd February and 8th May, 2015. There will be a recess between 21st March and 19th April when the Standing Committees will examine D...
by Kusum Malik | On 23 Feb 2015 The paper examines, using unit National Sample Survey (NSS) 61st, 66th and 68th rounds, of household, personal, and labour market characteristics of persons who are 15 years and above, living in Mahar...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 22 Feb 2015 The union budget for 2014-15 offers few changes in terms of policy priorities from the United Progressive Alliance government interim budget for 2014-15, and it fails to recognise the cracks in the co...
by Subrat Das | On 20 Feb 2015 This paper explores the need for a Pre-Budget Statement, sub-national transparency and civil society participation to make the budgetary process in India more transparent, accountable and participator...
by Ravi Duggal | On 20 Feb 2015 The energy sector unquestionably constitutes one of the major driving forces of Indian economy. Ever since the 12th Plan has projected the growth rate of 8-9 per cent per annum for the economy for the...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 20 Feb 2015 Important processes relating to government budgets in India have been constrained by some widely-acknowledged challenges in governance in the country. These challenges pertain to lack of adequate tran...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 20 Feb 2015 Nutritional deprivation is the highest among tribal children in india. However, fiscal policy strategy to improve nutritional status for this section of the population depends a lot on the implementat...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 20 Feb 2015 Access to water and sanitation are strongly influenced by identities of caste, class and gender. The launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan presents an opportunity to address some concerns pertaining to...
by Kanika Kaul | 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 Union Budget 2014-15 is the first budget of the new government at the Centre. Some of the complex issues like price rise and corruption were central to the General Elections held in early 2014; hence...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 19 Feb 2015 This edition of Budget Track focuses on the ‘Issues before the 14th Finance Commission’, which is due to submit its report to the Union Government this year. The Finance Commission of India, a Constit...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 19 Feb 2015 Government of India (GoI) will present its Budget for 2015-16 on February 28, 2015. After the new Government was sworn in during May 2014, it had a short period of six weeks before presenting the Revi...
by Aditi Nayar | On 19 Feb 2015 This brief uses government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) performance.
by Accountability Initiative | On 18 Feb 2015 Despite the steps towards gender responsive budgeting, the budgetary allocations for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment show a decline. Not only has the magnitude of the gender budget a...
by | On 17 Feb 2015 Outcome Budgets have become an integral part of the budgeting process since 2005-06. Outcome Budget 2015-16 will broadly indicate the physical dimensions of the financial budgets as also the actual ph...
by Ministry of Finance GOI | On 17 Feb 2015 The "Outcome Budget" reflects the endeavour of the Government to convert "Outlays" into "Outcomes" by planning expenditure, fixing appropriate targets and quantifying deliverables of each scheme. The...
by | On 17 Feb 2015 A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Economic Survey 2013–14 reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performan...
by Government of India GOI | On 16 Feb 2015 This document highlights the key features of Budget 2014-15. It also shows the current economic situations and challenges that India is facing
by Government of India GOI | On 16 Feb 2015 Indian Public Finance Statistics' is an annual publication prepared by the Economic Division of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. This provides a comprehensive overview of the b...
by Ministry of Finance | On 10 Feb 2015 Assessing the progress made in reducing under-nutrition among children who are less than two years old in Maharashtra between 2005-06 and 2012, this article points out that child under-nutrition, esp...
by Sunny Jose | On 04 Feb 2015 This note presents an analysis of Parliament’s role of financial oversight and examines how to strengthen it. It highlights gaps and solutions to improve the existing structures affecting budgetary an...
by Apoorva Shankar | On 30 Jan 2015 This National Health Policy addresses the urgent need to improve the performance of health systems. It is being formulated at the last year of the Millennium Declaration and its Goals, in the global c...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 15 Jan 2015 There is reservation for women in Maharashtra in the local governments. But their number is less. A case study is given.
by Ruby Ojha | On 12 Dec 2014 Malnutrition is found to be a leading killer throughout the world, with undernutrition in the developing world the main
nutrition problem. India is one of the fastest growing country in terms of pop...
by Rahul R. Sagar | On 10 Dec 2014 Between 2006 and 2012, Maharashtra’s stunting rate among children under two years of age was reported to decline by 15 percentage points – one of the fastest declines in stunting seen anywhere at any...
by Lawrence Haddad | On 01 Dec 2014 The authors review the conceptualisation, and implementation of policies related to the welfare of minority communities in India, with a special focus on Muslims
as a minority group. Using the case s...
by Ritu Dewan | On 21 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 This paper focusses on the current health profile of the state of Maharashtra, and its performance as against other growth driven states like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. Using parameters such as birth rat...
by Manisha Karne | On 21 Nov 2014 This paper examines the assumptions underlying educational incentive schemes with the help of data collected on the status and implementation of three
such schemes for minority communities in Mahara...
by Disha Nawani | On 11 Nov 2014 Out-of-pocket payments make up a large proportion of total health expenditure leading to inequity amongst the poorer sections. Recently government of India has instigated various demand side financing...
by Harshad Thakur | 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 While the union government announced its plan to extend the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to the unorganised working class poor. The Government of Maharashtra has decided to scrap RSBY and replace it...
by Sujata Gothoskar | On 11 Nov 2014 This paper presents the results of a survey of over 4100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and over 4800 randomly selected users across
100 vil...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 20 Oct 2014 Inadequate infrastructure was recognized in the Eleventh Plan as a major constraint for rapid growth. The Plan had, therefore, emphasized on the need for massive expansion on investment in infrastruct...
by Geethanjali Nataraj | On 16 Oct 2014 Maharashtra Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms
(ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 2336 candidates out of
4119 candidates who are contesting in the Maharashtra Assemb...
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 14 Oct 2014 Details of Maharashtra election in 2009.
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 13 Oct 2014 The inaugural budget of the NDA led government has been a cause of some surprise and disappointment amongst those who were eagerly expecting a new radical dose of neo-liberal reforms. It appeared that...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 22 Sep 2014 Statistics of participation of MPs in budget session 2014 is shown here.
by Mandira Kala | On 10 Sep 2014 About 4.5 lakh fair price shops in India sell 10-20 lakh tons of rice and wheat at the subsidized rate per month. Majority of the ration shops are in urban areas, they are hardly ever open and only a...
by Parth Shah | On 27 Aug 2014 The Maharashtra Comprehensive Nutrition Survey 2012 is the first ever state-specific nutrition survey with a focus on infants and children undertwo and their mothers. A representative sample of child...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 23 Aug 2014 The speech shows the investment government has done for the housing and real estate sector. There are recommendations on how the sector can be improved.
by R. Gandhi | On 22 Aug 2014 The Scheduled Castes form 16 percent of the population yet their issues have largely remained silent. It’s high time to bring into line the discord between election commitments and budgetary allocatio...
by P.S Krishnan | On 19 Aug 2014 The FRBM Act was reflective of the shared commitment across political parties towards fiscal conservatism. A decade later, the picture, as reflected in the Union Budget, is yet to change for the bette...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 07 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 A group of economists presented their views on what the Union Budget 2014-15 offered for India's agricultural sector and farmers, during a conference entitled Analyzing the Budget 2014 for Rural India...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 23 Jul 2014 If the Union Budget 2014 is anything to go by , the fiscal policy of the new government shows no change. In fact, there is an amazing continuity with the previous few Budgets. Significantly however,...
by Ravi Duggal | On 23 Jul 2014 The article examines the restructuring of expenditure in the first budget of the new government, and its
feasibility. It compares the increase in budget allocations for key macroeconomic aggregates a...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Jul 2014 Budget speech by chief minister Vasundhara Raje
by Vasundhara Raje | On 21 Jul 2014 Union budget 2014-15 offers up old and new schemes but fails to address macro-economic and social causes of exploitation and subordination of women.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 18 Jul 2014 The new government wants to increase investment in various sectors. The government has funds but the Finance Minister has said about lack of funds in the Budget. Public private partnerships (PPPs) can...
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 Jul 2014 Children have been given only 4.6 per cent of the total budget of 2014 -15. In fact the share of children in has decreased. Is this the Finance Minister’s gift to children on India?
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 17 Jul 2014 According to Census estimates, more than half the population of the country, 51.8 per cent, to be precise, is less than 35 years of age, while the population in the critical demography category of 18-...
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 16 Jul 2014 The Minister of Finance, Mr. Arun Jaitley, presented the Union Budget 2014-15 to Parliament on July 10,
2014. In this context, some statistics related to budget expenditures, receipts and deficits.
by Saumya Vaishnava | On 16 Jul 2014 India’s health policy has focused on primary health centers and hospitals. The numbers of hospital beds, doctors, and nurses per 1000 persons have often been treated less as inputs and more as measure...
by Aarti Salve | On 14 Jul 2014 The term gender budgeting has become a catch phrase to describe various government initiatives that seek to address gender issues in the domain of public expenditure and policy. In India, the strategi...
by Rituparna Dutta | On 14 Jul 2014 The Indian economy is witnessing a dichotomous trend- an increasing share of employment in industry with decline in Value Added to output. When compared to other Asian economies, we’re adding workers...
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 10 Jul 2014 Budget Speech 2014-15 by Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 10 Jul 2014 The bulletin shows what are the process in presenting budget and the terms used in the budget.
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 10 Jul 2014 Governments’ budgets are fundamentally about people’s human rights. Budgets are the central means by which governments can help realize their people’s access to quality education, decent health care s...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 10 Jul 2014 Railway budget 2014-15.
by D.V. Sadananda Gowda | On 09 Jul 2014 As per census 2011, there are 289.48 lakh women and girls in the state of Gujarat, comprising 47.90 per cent of total population. “Gender Budget 2014-15” shows financial allocations for women in vario...
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 03 Jul 2014 Is there sufficient allocation for children in the budgets? [HAQ CRC].
by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral | On 05 Mar 2014 Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) as an innovation has four specific components: knowledge processes and networking; institutional mechanisms; learning processes and building capacities; and public ac...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 05 Mar 2014 Budget speech by 2014-15.
by P Chidambaram | On 17 Feb 2014 Speech of Shri Mallikarjun Kharge
introducing the Railway Budget 2014-15.
by Mallikarjun Kharge | On 14 Feb 2014 This paper sheds light on the issue of internal migration for education and employment among the
youth. i.e those aged 15-32 years. The paper is a first step towards addressing the issue of whether
...
by Ajay Sharma | On 24 Jan 2014 The effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on
budget allocation at the sub-national level is analyzed. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts
for the years...
by Krisztina Kis Katos | On 17 Jan 2014 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 explores the different sets of power relationships and resultant ethical dilemmas that arise when developing community monitoring systems. Community Based Monitoring and Planning, as part o...
by Renu Khanna | On 22 Nov 2013 Time use statistics is highly neglected in the studies on gender budgeting. The integration of this into this process remains partial or even nil across countries. This paper takes up these issues and...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 06 Nov 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 This study is an attempt to examine the decentralized production of supplementary nutrition which has been instituted for the Integrated Child Development Services in
urban Maharashtra, specifically,...
by Natasha S. K. | On 04 Oct 2013 In recent years the role of a sound PFM system to achieve the objectives of fiscal discipline, strategic planning, and improved service delivery has been getting increasing public attention in India....
by Pratap Ranjan Jena | On 12 Sep 2013 The gains made since ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) are plenty, but the reality of children’s situation is disturbing on many counts calling for urgent and serious att...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 26 Aug 2013 An obituary and tribute to the rationalist, social activist and crusader against superstition and black magic who was murdered in broad daylight in Pune, India.
by Anant Phadke | On 24 Aug 2013 The murder of Narendra Dabholkar is emblematic of the deep fear of knowledge and its democratization.
by Amit Sengupta | On 23 Aug 2013 To bring social awakening and awareness in the society and to create a healthy and safe environment. This is done with a view to protect common people in the society against evil and sinister practice...
by Maharashtra Cabinet Sectretariat | On 23 Aug 2013 After a long and gruelling campaign by ANS for the past eight years to enact a Law against
Superstition which harm the citizens, the Maharashtra State Government under the leadership
of the new Chie...
by Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti MANS | On 22 Aug 2013 Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Jul 2013 This paper evaluates the President’s Budget (PB) or the National Expenditure
Program (NEP) for 2013. The assessment is composed of four parts: (i) an evaluation
of the overall fiscal picture as proj...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 25 Jul 2013 This study looked at budget processes related to health in two districts of Maharashtra and found that there was a significant variation in the way budget estimation was practiced at the level of Prim...
by Prashant Raymus | On 17 Jul 2013 This paper provides a theoretical model of the impact of recession (income shock) on household's
child labor (CL) decision. Parental altruism is endogenized; as their choice of substituting child lab...
by Sahana Roy Chowdhury | On 25 Jun 2013 Government resolution (GR) by Maharashtra government for migrant workers from drought areas. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[https://www.maharashtra.gov.in/Site/Upload/Government%20Resolutions/Engli...
by Food, Civil Supplies And Consumer Protection Depar Govt. Of Maharastra | On 18 Jun 2013 Budget brief Pakistan 2013-14. [Government of Pakistan]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/Budget_in_Brief_2013_14.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 14 Jun 2013 Supplementary Budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 and the Budget Estimates for the fiscal year 2013-14. [http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/13_14/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 07 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 Parliament convened for the Budget Session 2013 for 32 days between February 21 and May 8. Both Houses
were adjourned sine die on May 8, two days ahead of the planned schedule. There was a month long...
by Priya Soman | On 03 Jun 2013 H.E Finance Minister’s Speech
for Mishrano Jirga. [Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan]. URL:[http://mof.gov.af/Content/files/HE%20Minister%20Speech%20to%20Mishranow%20Jirga-%20English%20after%20review....
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 10 Apr 2013 The Minister of Finance, K.M Mani , presented the General Budget 2013 to the State Assembly on March 15,
2013. In his address, he commented on the fiscal performance of the State in 2012-13 and laid...
by Vishnu Padmanabhan | On 09 Apr 2013 The national budget is truly a potent tool for the economy to journey towards inclusive growth that would empower Filipinos through deliverance from backbreaking poverty. [Senate of the Philippines]....
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 08 Apr 2013 The PAISA exercise uses planning
and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an
attempt to build an empirical understanding of
current governance processes at the grassroots
to push for a larg...
by Accountability Initiative | On 29 Mar 2013 Budget speech by Minister of Finance. [Ministry of Finance]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/budget_Speech_12_13.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 22 Mar 2013 Following is the full text of report on the implementation of central and local budgets in 2012 and on draft central and local budgets for 2013, which was submitted for review on March 5, 2013 at the...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 21 Mar 2013 Finance Minister Shri. K. M. Mani has presented the State Budget for the coming financial year 2013-14 in the Kerala Legislative Assembly on 15 March 2013.
This is the eleventh budget by the minister...
by K.M. Mani | On 15 Mar 2013 This brief gives the idea about the allocations to Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan by Government of India in 2013-14 [Accountability Initiative]. URL:[http://www.accountabilityindia.in/sites/default/files/ssa_2...
by Accountability Initiative | On 07 Mar 2013 Justice Usha Mehra report on Delhi gang rape case, Railway Budget, Union Budget were the important highlights on this months. [PRS]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/announcements/monthly-policy-review-26...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 02 Mar 2013 There is lack of clarity and concepts in the Economic Survey. The Survey has not covered many topics which it was expected to cover.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 02 Mar 2013 The budget offers no programme for job creation or any substantive policy measures to contain inflation that continues to erode the real wage while it commits itself to cash transfers and cuts in subs...
by Gautam Mody | On 01 Mar 2013 Share of Dudget for Children in the Union Budget. [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%20Analysis%202013-14-1.pdf]
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2013 The budget has come with schemes for rural India. It has got schemes for women, youth and poor.
by Sunil Duggal | On 28 Feb 2013 Budget Speech by Chidambaram.
by P Chidambaram | On 28 Feb 2013 The Minister of Railways, Pawan Kumar Bansal, presented the Railway Budget 2013 to Parliament on 26th February. In his address, he commented on the performance of Railways in 2012-13 and laid out his...
by Vishnu Padmanabhan | On 28 Feb 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 Budget at a glance.
by Government of Bihar | On 26 Feb 2013 Speech of Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal. URL:[http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/finance_budget/Budget_2013-14/English_Speech_2013-14.pdf].
by Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal | On 26 Feb 2013 In spite of several programmes in the country to reduce undernutrition, India continues to have a large number malnourished women and children. In the coming Budget the government has to make some eff...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Feb 2013 Budget speech presented by Prasanna Acharya. General Budget is presented.
by Government of Orissa | On 25 Feb 2013 Budget presented by Shri Prasanna Acharya. The first part contains the Agriculture Budget.
by Orissa Government | On 25 Feb 2013 Budget speech, 2013-2014. [Uttar Pradesh Government]. URL:[http://budget.up.nic.in/budgetbhashan/budgetbhashan2013-2014.pdf].
by Uttar Pradesh Government UP | On 20 Feb 2013 Budget expectations for automobile sector. [IRIS India].
by IRIS India IRIS | On 19 Feb 2013 India's Open Budget score is 68 out of 100. India's budget documents have been found to be informative and as providing substantial relevant information to people.
by MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DIST GOI | On 15 Feb 2013 reveals that the national budgets of 77 of the 100 countries assessed – these 77 countries are home to half the world’s population – fail to meet basic standards of budget transparency; the average sc...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | 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 estimates of receipts and expenditure
for the financial year 2013-14 with respect to the primary education. [BMC]. URL:[http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/Chief%...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 11 Feb 2013 The estimates of receipt and income and expenditure pertaining to the Budgets ‘A’ (Fund code 11, 12, 60, 70), ‘B’ (Fund Code 21, 22, 23) and ‘E’ (Fund Code 40) for the financial year 2013-14 in pursua...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 11 Feb 2013 The provision
by Tribeni Gogoi | On 18 Jan 2013 To understand the ageing in India, a primary survey was carried out in seven states – Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal – having a higher percentage of...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 08 Jan 2013 The one and only one government hospital for children in the country supported by the
Central Government with a budget of Rs. 55.40 Crore in the year 2012-13 is once again in
news for miserable cond...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 26 Nov 2012 Home-based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working from
his/her home. This essential service is tied in with a larger chain of forward and backward lin...
by Indira Gartenberg | On 16 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 The scheme titled National Programme for Youth Adolescent Development (NPYAD) has been formulated by merger of four 100% central sector grants-in-aid schemes of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 28 Sep 2012 Malnutrition and under nutrition are critical issues in Maharashtra. In spite of being a high growth state in the country, it has occasionally remained in the news due to deaths caused by under nutrit...
by Manisha Karne | On 21 Aug 2012 Mangoes from Andhra Pradesh reach everywhere in India. This has caused the conversion of large tracts of paddy fields into mango farms in Andhra. It affects the rural employment. Use of chemicals to r...
by Alex George | On 14 Aug 2012 Government owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) raised the price of petrol on 23rd May 2012. After the
inclusion of local taxes, this amounted to a hike of Rs 7.54 per litre in Delhi. A snapshot of t...
by Karan Malik | On 24 Jul 2012 Review of
Putting Women First: Women and Health in a Rural Community
Rani Bang with Sunanda Khorgade and Rupa Chinai;
Stree, Kolkata, India;
November 2010; pp 650; Rs 350.
by Anuja Jayaraman | On 11 Jul 2012 Over the last few decades India has emerged as an economic giant. In 2000 the Special Economic
Zone (SEZs) policy became part of a strategy to maintain high growth and promote India’s manufacturing
...
by Ebba Mårtensson | On 11 Jul 2012 This paper examines the effects of political factors on allocation of revenue budget for developmental
expenditure by the sub-national governments, using data from 15 major states in India during the...
by Arun Kaushik | On 10 Jul 2012 Creating and developing fair and evidence-based national and global systems to more rationally set priorities for public spending on health. An interim secretariat should be there to incubate a global...
by Amanda Glassman | On 10 Jul 2012 Budget of Bhutan 2012-13. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/BudgetReport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 04 Jul 2012 Status of Children in India’s Capital. [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13%20final.pdf].
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 Jul 2012 Parliament met for the Budget Session between March 16 and May 22 with a three-week recess in April. Both Houses met for 35 days each. A special sitting was convened on Sunday, May 13 to commemorate 6...
by Rohit Kumar | On 23 May 2012 The aim of this paper
is to examine the driving forces behind China’s military modernization efforts
followed by an assessment of the goals and foci of China’s military modernization
at present and...
by Jiao Liang | On 08 May 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 Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri Raghavji presented the budget for year 2012-13.
The salient features of the budget estimates of 2012-13 are as follows:-
• Total expenditure of ` 80030.98 crores for th...
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 13 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 Budget Speech by Minister of Finance. [Government of Gujarat]. URL:[http://financedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/budget12_13_pdf/FM_Speech_English_Part_A_Final.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 12 Apr 2012 The budgetary data for 2011-12 indicates the commitment of States to carry forward fiscal correction,
as evident from the emergence of revenue surplus after a gap of two years and consequent reductio...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 Apr 2012 Budget speech by Finance Minister. [Ministry of Finance, Malaysia]. URL:[http://www.treasury.gov.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2008%3Abajet-2012&catid=87%3Acatbajet-tahunan&Itemid=19...
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 29 Mar 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 1) Allocating budget to the measure for the real revitalization of Japan to recover Japan’s economy and society
2) Reviewing the existing budget based on the result of evaluation by the Policy Propos...
by Ministry of Finance, Japan MOF, Japan | On 28 Mar 2012 According to M Mustafa Mastoor, the Deputy Minister of Finance, “The national budget is more than just a financial document. It is government’s plan for the development of Afghanistan. We are committ...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 28 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Ministry of Finance, Goa. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.goa.gov.in/pdf/Speech12-13.pdf].
by Goa Government | 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 Budget Speech by Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai. [Government of Odisha]. URL:[http://www.orissa.gov.in/finance/Budgets/2012-13/BUDGET%20SPEECH%20ENGLISH.pdf].
by Government of Orissa | On 27 Mar 2012 Speech by Finance Minister. [Government of Rajasthan]. URL:[http://finance.rajasthan.gov.in/speech/1213/budgetspeech201213.pdf].
by Rajasthan Government | On 27 Mar 2012 Part of the Budget speech. [Maharashta Budget]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_II.pdf].
by Maharashtra Government | On 27 Mar 2012 Speech of Thiru O. Panneerselvam, Hon’ble Minister
for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu,
presenting the Budget for the year
2012-2013 to the Legislative Assembly on
26th March, 2012. [Government...
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner. . [BMC Annual Reports]. URL:[http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/Chief%20Accountant%20(Finance)/Budget/Complete%20Engli...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 22 Mar 2012 Minister for Finance, Sri. K. M. Mani presented his 10th Budget for the year 2012-13. The Kerala government raised the retirement age of government employees from 55 years to 56 years.
[Budget Spe...
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 20 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 Speech of Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance, India. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bs/bs.pdf].
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 16 Mar 2012 This brief uses Government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Ahiyan performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across...
by Accountability Initiative | On 16 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 REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS
FOR 2011 AND ON DRAFT
CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS FOR 2012. [Ministry of Finance Report]. URL:[http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/news/...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 15 Mar 2012 Budget 2012-2013
by Dinesh Trivedi | On 14 Mar 2012 Budget speech 2011-12 by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/11_12/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 14 Mar 2012 This week, the finance minister presents a statement to Parliament of how much money the central government expects to raise in the next financial year, and how it will spend that money. The budget sp...
by Avinash Celestine | On 12 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | 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 Budget speech by Nepal Finance Minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2011/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 06 Mar 2012 The time has come for the governmant to make up for its sins of the past three years. The Budget must be judged on whether it shows that the govt is in the mood to recognize its follies, and in a posi...
by T.N. Ninan | On 05 Mar 2012 More than 13% of the global burden of
disease for mental disorders is due to
neuro psychiatric disorders, and over 70%
of this burden lies in low- and middleincome
countries. Suicide is one of the...
by Mark Tomlinson | On 01 Mar 2012 Budget speech 2012.
by Mahinda Rajapaksa | On 24 Feb 2012 Using government data, this brief
reports on SSA performance along the
following parameters:
a) Overall trends in allocation and
expenditure,
b) Expenditure performance across
key SSA activities...
by Accountability Initiative | On 23 Feb 2012 The effect of electoral rules and forms of government on public policy outcomes using a new dataset on agriculture and food policies from 74 countries over the 1960-2005 period is investigated. Using...
by Alessandro Olper | On 22 Feb 2012 Empirical evidence on the beneficial effects of fiscal transparency ranges from improved budgetary outcomes, to lower sovereign borrowing costs and decreased corruption. Despite this, hardly any effor...
by Joachim Wehner | On 19 Feb 2012 Since 1999 the Chinese government implemented budget reform measures to streamline administrative processes. The government made considerable technical and process advances in just a few years, includ...
by Julian Wu | On 19 Feb 2012 The paper is based on "Commodity Specific Study on Mango"
undertaken by NABARD in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra
and West Bengal. For the study, A total sample of 186 respondents was sele...
by G.D. Banerjee | On 17 Feb 2012 The sovereign debt problems in the peripheral economies of the euro zone has started to pose a serious threat to the main economies of the Europe and perhaps to the future of the 'euro‘ itself. Such a...
by M R Anand | On 06 Feb 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 aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between the quality of the budget process and human development outcomes. It looks in particular at at the relationship between the OBI and human d...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 17 Jan 2012 The year in Parliament was characterised by frequent disruptions and protests over a host of issues.
The issue of the establishment of a Lokpal prompted both disruption as well as intense debate.
A...
by Rohit Kumar | On 02 Jan 2012 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 How often do our State Assemblies meet? Do MLAs get enough opportunity to scrutinize Bills? Are all budget demands discussed on the floor of the House? PRS studied the work done by 13 State Assemblies...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 07 Dec 2011 How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and
fiscal policy? To answer this question two-sector, formal-informal new
Keynesian closed-economy is constructed. The inf...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 02 Dec 2011 India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as “Brand...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 10 Nov 2011 While there is much written on the youth bulge in developing countries, little is being done to address the problems of the elderly. And yet demographically, it is this section that is showing high gr...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 10 Oct 2011 The study initially reviews the infrastructure facilities for the 33 districts of Maharashtra for one year i.e.1999-2000. Using this, the extent of disparities between these regions is found. Further...
by A M Swaminathan | On 29 Aug 2011 The study seeks to examine the extent of financial inclusion in West Bengal. It is observed from
the study that although there has been an improvement in outreach activity in the banking sector,
the...
by Sadhan Kumar Chattopadhyay | On 03 Aug 2011 The paper examines the role played by of classroom environment in the development of a teacher. The paper studies the concept of 'teacher development' in India.
URL:[http://www.eruindia.org/files/Tea...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 08 Jul 2011 The study was conducted across 261 private hospitals from 10 districts of Maharashtra, Nashik, Nandurbar, Pune,
Satara, Thane, Ratnagiri, Osmanabad, Aurangabad, Amravati and Gadchiroli. Greater Mum...
by Padma Deosthali | On 01 Jul 2011 This policy brief reports the main findings of the study on changes in within-country income inequality over the last two decades and on the links between poverty, inequality, and growth. It focuses o...
by Giovanni Andrea Cornia | On 08 Jun 2011 This toolkit is designed to train individuals and civil society on how to conduct a child centered budget analysis to support their advocacy work and to hold state accoutable for the fulfilment of chi...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 Jun 2011 This paper updates the Fund’s consolidated income and expenditure outlook
from the projections in January 2011. The paper incorporates and extends the income and budget projections in the companion...
by International Monetary Fund | On 13 May 2011 This paper contains the public statement on income and expenditure of
Fiscal Year 2010‐11. URL: [http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2010_1/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf]
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 10 May 2011 This survey conducted on 95 students of a degree college in Mumbai, India came to a conclusion that while most students eat breakfast regularly it is insufficient for the body to gain all nutrients r...
by Students, SY B.Sc, Smt. P. N. Doshi Women’s College, Mumbai | On 09 May 2011 This study was taken up with the students of Economics department, few active members of NGO – Pratham and a teacher incharge, the author, during March 2008. This study focuses on the child labour i...
by Poonam Singh | On 09 May 2011 National Budget of the country is the annual program of the Government's expenditure and income for a fiscal year. In a developing economy like Bangladesh, the national annual budgets reflect the gove...
by Atiur Rahman | On 03 May 2011 The study looks at
the relationship between indigenous people and
their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/upload...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 29 Apr 2011 Two of the key highlights of the training
were: the absence of counselling services, especially for women in Kashmir given
the nature and scale of violence and; the denied right of conflict affected...
by ... CEHAT | On 29 Apr 2011 Budget speech of Finance Minister.
by Government of Tripura | On 27 Apr 2011 Budget Speech of the Finance Minister. URL: [http://admis.hp.nic.in/budget/Aspx/Anonymous/pdf/FS_Eng_2011.pdf]
by Himachal Pradesh Government of India | On 20 Apr 2011 Maharashtra Budget Part II
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 Part I of the Budget speech by Finance Minister
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 This note is intended as a brief guide on how the budget papers are organised, and how to find the exact information that a reader wants (expenditure on a particular scheme of interest, or total budge...
by Avinash Celestine | On 12 Apr 2011 This paper presents the annual budget of the Goa Government containing the Annual Financial Statement. URL: [https://www.goa.gov.in/portalweb/login/budget_2011-12/speech.pdf]
by Goa Government | On 06 Apr 2011 Budget speech by finance minister. URL: [http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/21d1f280463783518436871b84a2a7b0/CM+Speech+-+PRINT.pdf?MOD=AJPERES].
by Government of Delhi | On 30 Mar 2011 Can Delhi really hold its head high when it cannot even protect its own children? URL: [http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/Delhi%20Fails%20to%20Protect%20its%20Children_BfC%202011-12(2).pdf]
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 30 Mar 2011 Budget 2011-12 presented by the Finance Minister.
by Government of Meghalaya Govt | On 28 Mar 2011 Nine legislative Bills were introduced during the session. Five Bills were passed and one Bill was withdrawn during the session. Several hours were lost due to interruptions on the issues of appointme...
by Kusum Malik | On 28 Mar 2011 The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a watershed bill to protect children below the age of 16 against sexual offences, aimed at speedy trail through special courts and having a legal regime at par w...
by Chetan Chauhan | On 26 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 Budget speech by Finance Minister.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 17 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance minister. URL:[http://punjabgovt.nic.in/departments/Budget/budget/budget.htm].
by Government of Punjab | On 16 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.finance.rajasthan.gov.in/speech/budget2011.shtm].
by Rajasthan Government | On 15 Mar 2011 Budget reactions from various sectors
by Leena Chandan | On 09 Mar 2011 This paper we make an attempt to understand and analyze the budget from a gender perspective. The paper looks into the different areas of allocations, how far it is ‘pro woman’ budget or a ‘gender re...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 08 Mar 2011 The
budgetary policy of the Government has a major
role to play in achieving objectives of gender
equality and growth through content and
direction of Fiscal and Monetary Policies,
measures for r...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 08 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 With shrinking public spending, State’s health care concerns are specious. The rise in allocations on the health sector will only have limited impact on its
efficiency and availability.
by Ravi Duggal | On 06 Mar 2011 With shrinking public spending, State’s health care concerns are specious. The rise in allocations on the health sector will only have limited impact on its efficiency and availability.
by Ravi Duggal | On 06 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance Minister. URL: [http://www.mp.gov.in/finance/index.htm].
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 04 Mar 2011 This paper contains the budget speech of Sri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai, Minister Finance, in the Orissa Legislative Assembly on the occasion of presentation of budget for the year 2011-2012. URL: [http:...
by Government of Orissa | On 03 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 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 01 Mar 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee.
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 01 Mar 2011 Using government data, this brief reports on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across...
by Avani Kapur | On 26 Feb 2011 Railway Budget 2011-12.
by Mamata Banerjee | On 25 Feb 2011 The Budget Speech by the State Finance Minister tabling the Finance Bill asserted that all welfare programmes like Rs.2 per KG rice, free power supply to the farmers, Rajiv Arogyasri, old age pensions...
by Sri Anam Ramanarayana Reddy | On 25 Feb 2011 The overall objective of the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) risk factors survey was to improve the information available to the Government health services and care providers on a set of high-priority...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 24 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 The Budget process of India predates the independence. The Budget was first introduced on 7th April, 1860, two years after the transfer of Indian administration from East-India Company to British Crow...
by Ministry of Finance | On 22 Feb 2011 Budget expectations from various sectors are given. URL:[ http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/storyShow.php?fileR=20110217120638043&secID=fromnewsroom&secTitle=From the News Room&dir=2011/02/17].
by IRIS India IRIS | On 21 Feb 2011 The Open Budget Survey is the only independent and comparative measure of government budget practices, with its rigorous approach receiving substantial praise from international public finance experts...
by Vivek Ramkumar | On 17 Feb 2011 This policy brief aims to summarise evidence and discuss various concerns about charging user fees from a low-income perspective.
by ... CEHAT | On 16 Feb 2011 Tamil Nadu Budget Speech of the Finance Minister.
by Government of Tamil Nadu | On 14 Feb 2011 The Minister for Finance, Dr. T. M. Thomas Issac presented the Budget for the financial year 2011-2012.
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 14 Feb 2011 The aim of this paper is to study the devolution of finances in Karnataka. For facilitating the study the budgets of Zilla Panchayats of four districts are analyzed and also development of these regio...
by A. Indira | On 07 Feb 2011 Budget transparency has become central to a number of international development
discourses, ranging from the financing of climate change mitigation, to country-
level actions to meet interna...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 30 Jan 2011 Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were the
major contributors to the growth acceleration in India after 1991-92. Although the
Regional Disparity may increase tempor...
by Ravindra H. Dholakia | On 25 Nov 2010 The study, offers a review of the Union Budget as well as the budgets of six states – Andhra
Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal- for a five year period of 2004-05...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 23 Nov 2010 To address this increasing need to scale up the HIV/AIDS services, the decision makers should understand the outreach and coverage of the existing services, the scope for scale up in terms of geograph...
by Yesudian C A K | On 23 Sep 2010 Present study illustrates and collates the conceptual bases, methodology and findings of some relevant case studies dealing with Health Care in Maharashtra in the 1980s to illustrate the situations of...
by Smita Gandhi | On 23 Sep 2010 Though the need for "planning from below!', and the
potentialities of district development planning from this point
of view, have been recognized for a long time the progress mood
in this direction...
by K. N. Raj | On 27 Jul 2010 The paper provides information about the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill and also discuses some issues related to this bill.
by Shruti Rajagopalan | On 06 Jul 2010 Two of the countryʹs biggest grape-producing districts, Nasik and Sangli, are in Maharashtra; 20,000
hectares of vineyards here grow more than one lac tons of grapes a year. As much as 99 per ce...
by Sudipto Mitra | On 15 Jun 2010 The present
paper focuses mainly on the issues like economics and efficiency of organic farming visà-
vis conventional farming in India. Four states namely Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab
and U.P were...
by D. Kumara Charyulu | On 25 May 2010 Budget presented by the government of Rajasthan 2010-11.
by Rajasthan Government | On 22 Mar 2010 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 05 Mar 2010 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 05 Mar 2010 Cutting the deficit this year was the easy part; the real fiscal challenge lies ahead
by T.N. Ninan | 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 Budget speech 2010-2011 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 26 Feb 2010 Railway Budget 2010-11.
by Mamata Banerjee | On 25 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 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 brief seeks to address questions on how the funds are collected, dsitributes at the international level, mechanisms to ensure that the recipient countries are managing the funds in a transparent...
by Athena Ballesteros | On 15 Dec 2009 The most popular technique for estimating tax elasticities is the “Proportional
Adjustment” method. This paper shows that the standard methodology used will
almost invariably lead to biased elastici...
by Pronab Sen | On 04 Dec 2009 In this paper the diverse dimensions of gender development are examined using
individual indicators for the districts of the western region of India. The western
region for the purpose of this study...
by Preet Rustagi | On 24 Nov 2009 The dominance of the mainstream paradigm of growth is being increasingly superseded by the Sustainable Human Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until...
by Ritu Dewan | On 20 Nov 2009 A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features a...
by Indian Trust for Innovation and Social Change ITISC | On 12 Nov 2009 This study tried to bring together the experiences of different approaches to incentives followed by six NGOs in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Issues deal...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 11 Aug 2009 Budget presented by Finance minister of Nepal.
by Surendra Pandey | On 27 Jul 2009 Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights
by Juhi H | On 17 Jul 2009 Budget reactions from various sectors and by various people in the industry
by Leena Chandan | On 10 Jul 2009 The thrust of this budget on the expenditure side is twofold. Continue with the fiscal stimulus measures and extend these for another six months or one years as the case maybe. Significant among these...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Jul 2009 Budget 2009-2010 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 09 Jul 2009 Key features of budget presented by the Finance Minister
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 06 Jul 2009 Railway Budget 2009-10
by Mamata Banerjee | On 06 Jul 2009 This toolkit is designed to help one plan and hold an exhibition to disseminate ones research for a non-academic audience. It draws mainly on our experiences of organising an exhibition in connection...
by Hazel Burke | On 05 Jun 2009 Health economics is increasingly recognized as a discipline that has much to offer developing countries in addressing these problems, but how can it help? What economic concepts and tools can be appli...
by Anne Mills | On 04 Jun 2009 2009 Budget speech
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 20 Apr 2009 Budget speech by Lalji Varma
by Uttar Pradesh Government UP | On 17 Mar 2009 Budget speech of finance minister
by Orissa Government | On 13 Mar 2009 Budget speech by Prof. Anbazhagan
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 24 Feb 2009 Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 23 Feb 2009 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 23 Feb 2009 Examines whether there are any funds for children related activities.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Feb 2009 Key features of Budget presented by Shri Pranab Mukherjee
by Ministry of Finance | On 16 Feb 2009 Speech of Lalu Prasad
by Ministry of Railways | On 13 Feb 2009 The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic
farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of or...
by Sunantar Setboonsarng | On 22 Jan 2009 The paper argues that irrespective of the wording of the Terms of Reference
(ToR), the Commission would do well to focus on its primary task of recommending
transfers to serve the objective of equit...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 06 Oct 2008 Over the last decade countries across the world have embarked on changing existing economic models in favour of ones driven by the free market, incorporating the process of liberalisation, privatisati...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 03 Oct 2008 The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
by Catherine Yap Co | On 29 Sep 2008 Budget in Brief is designed to summarize the detailed information into an
overview comprising essential information about expenditure and receipt and the
resulting budget balance.
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 22 Sep 2008 2008 Budget presented by His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 18 Sep 2008 This study assesses the Five Year Plans and relevant government policies adopted to garner India's climate change goals and priorities. It attempts to highlight key climate change concerns from a brie...
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 17 Sep 2008 The primary goal of this paper is to examine the impact of organic farming on economics of sugarcane cultivation in Maharashtra. The study is based on primary data collected from two districts coverin...
by Kshirsagar K G | On 14 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 This paper describes in some detail, an important, innovative movement in recent years, of the dam-oustees and the drought affected people in south Maharashtra, to assert their right to influence the...
by Anant Phadke | On 21 May 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Apr 2008 Budget presented by Goa finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Goa Government | On 01 Apr 2008 Budget and Annual Financial Statement for the year 2008-09.
by West Bengal Government | On 25 Mar 2008 Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March,
2008.
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 25 Mar 2008 Nothing less than price regulation with ceiling prices is going to achieve lower drug prices. Excise duty cuts eventually end up enriching the manufacturers as what will be ‘passed on’ to the consumer...
by S Srinivasan | On 24 Mar 2008 Part II of the budget presented by finance minister of Maharashtra 2008-09
by Maharashtra Government | On 20 Mar 2008 Budget presented by the finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Maharashtra Government | On 20 Mar 2008 Economic Outlook and Policy Imperatives, State Income, Public Finance Finances of State Government Finances of Local Self Governments, Agriculture and allied
activities Agriculture, Irrigation, Horti...
by Maharashtra Government | On 20 Mar 2008 The Finance Minister Shri Raghavji presented the budget for the year 2008-09, with a budgetary deficit of Rs 91.43 crore.
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 13 Mar 2008 The problematic areas in child feedoing, particularly the poor infrastructure for the Anganwadis was highlighted. The consensus was that despite all these shortcomings there must be an expansion of A...
by Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute SSMI | On 13 Mar 2008 Highlights of budget 2008-09 presented by the Finance Minister
by Government of Karnataka Ministry of Finance | On 11 Mar 2008 SPEECH OF SRI K. ROSAIAH, HONOURABLE FINANCE MINISTER WHILE PRESENTING THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2008-09 TO THE ANDHRA PRADESH STATE LEGISLATURE.
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 10 Mar 2008 Budget speech 2008-09 by Finance Minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 07 Mar 2008 A glance at the budget presented by the government of Rajasthan 2008-09.
by Rajasthan Government | On 05 Mar 2008 Budget for Children (BfC) is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall budget, the allocations made specifically for programmes that benefit children. From 2000-0...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 04 Mar 2008 The budget is an election budget. There are lots of sectors which needs more attention. Many questions are raised at the end of the document which the government may fail to answer
by Arun Kumar | On 04 Mar 2008 Budget presented by Finance Minister
by P Chidambaram | On 29 Feb 2008 Economy Survey 2007-08.
website:http://indiabudget.nic.in
by Ministry of Finance | On 29 Feb 2008 Speech of Lalu Prasad
by Lalu Prasad | On 27 Feb 2008 Quick findings for feedback as well as further analysis. [Contact Pravas Ranjan Mishra CYSD, E-1, Institutional Area, RRL PO., Bhubaneswar India - 751 013
Tel. +91-674-2300774, 2301725 Fax: +91-674-...
by Orissa Government | On 22 Feb 2008 Demand for drinking water is continuously increasing over the period of time in Mumbai city but the supply is stagnant. The State government of Maharashtra and Brihanmumbai Corporation (BMC) does not...
by Sanjay Rode | On 12 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 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 11 Jan 2008 Congress party has to find out why the aam aadmi has deserted the party? There are some advice to Sonia Gandhi which she will not get from her advisors.
by T.N. Ninan | On 31 Dec 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 28 Dec 2007 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 The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation].
by Geeta Rao Gupta | On 19 Dec 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 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Oct 2007 The paper examines the prevailing situation of Bt cotton marketing in India. It tells a story of how aggressive and unethical marketing practices are adopted for luring faemers into the Bt cotton trap...
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 04 Oct 2007 The Eleventh Schedule added to the Constitution by the
Seventy-third Amendment lists twenty-nine functions devolvable by
States to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). States were free to set
the sp...
by Indira Rajaraman | On 28 Sep 2007 This paper examines changes in living conditions in the six villages in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, initially surveyed during 1975-84. This study is linked to the original Village Level Survey (VL...
by Reena Badiani | On 30 Aug 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Aug 2007 The Budget is an important tool in the hands of the state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce e...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 03 Aug 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 06 Jul 2007 National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tried and tested tool for summarizing, describing, and analyzing the financing of national health systems. The estimates prepared provide clues regarding the essent...
by National Health Acounts Cell NHA Cell | On 05 Jul 2007 Budget speech for the year 2007-08 by Minister of Finance, Omar Ayub Khan
by Omar Ayub Khan | On 29 Jun 2007 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 18 Jun 2007 Budget 2007-08 presented by Sri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai, Minister, Finance.
by Orissa Government | On 15 May 2007 Budget presented by Fianance Minister for 2007-08.
by Government of Meghalaya Govt | On 04 May 2007 Budget presented by Honourable Finance Minister Shri Birender Singh
by Haryana Government | On 17 Apr 2007 Budget Speech by Finance Minister Dr. Asim Kumar Das Gupta
by West Bengal Government | On 03 Apr 2007 With the state economy registering a robust growth, this was the time for the finance minister to launch much-needed reforms. But he has chosen to deliver no more than an accounts and expenditure sta...
by Savita Kulkarni | On 03 Apr 2007 Gujarat started the scheme of Mid Day Meal Scheme in 1984 and was the only State after Tamil Nadu to start it so early. The objective was to provide one meal a day to students studying in primary clas...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 30 Mar 2007 Budget presented by Fianance Minister of MaharashtraShri Jayant Patil, for the year 2007-08.
by Maharashtra Government | On 28 Mar 2007 The Budget for 2007-08, the year being the first year of the Eleventh Plan, has done reasonable justice to support the Plan and take Kerala on a higher growth path. However, there are external constr...
by K.Ramachandran Nair | On 27 Mar 2007 The growth performance of agriculture in Maharashtra was highly impressive is the early part of the green revolution period but deteriorated after 1980-81. the severe set back to growth in yield per h...
by Sawant S D | On 22 Mar 2007 Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially taking into consideration the high inflation rate in the previous year. A substanti...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 21 Mar 2007 While new schemes like reverse mortgage on houses show a measure of some serious thought going into the structuring of programmes for the elderly, the Union Budget 2007-08 falls short of comprehensive...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 21 Mar 2007 Budget presentation by finance minister 2007-08
by Rajasthan Government | On 19 Mar 2007 High lights of the budget 2007-08, presented by Finance Minister, Madhya Pradesh
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 16 Mar 2007 Budget speech of finance minister 2007-08
by Goa Government | On 16 Mar 2007 Budget Speech of Finance Minister 2007-08
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 16 Mar 2007 Kerala State Budget 2007-08. Speech by Finance Minister Dr. T M Thomas Issac.
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 13 Mar 2007 Finance Secretary's Memorandum on
Budget Estimates year 2007-2008
by Finance Ministry Chhattisgarh | On 09 Mar 2007 The Budget is ‘exciting’ precisely because it has at least decided to pay a little more than lip service to the so-called social sector. And Finance Ministers then tend to increase allocations for the...
by S Srinivasan | On 08 Mar 2007 The Budget is ‘exciting’ precisely because it has at least decided to pay a little more than lip service to the so-called social sector. And Finance Ministers then tend to increase allocations for the...
by S Srinivasan | On 08 Mar 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 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 Of every 100 rupees in the Union Budget 2007-08, only 4 rupees and 84 paise has been promised by the Finance Minister for children. Within the child budget, the share of education and child protectio...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 05 Mar 2007 The Economic Survey, 2006-07 has turned the spotlight on the inequalities in higher education enrolment and the severe shortfall in facilities at this level. Will the Union Budget, 2007-08 unveil inn...
by Padma Prakash | On 27 Feb 2007 It is unrealistic to expect all problems to be solved in one budget. But it is possible for one budget to do a great deal of damage.
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 27 Feb 2007 It is unrealistic to expect all problems to be solved in one budget. But it is possible for one budget to do a great deal of damage
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 27 Feb 2007 This analysis of the trends in public health expenditure in Maharashtra shows that the State has to become more proactive in raising resources being allocated to the health sector. The level of publi...
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 Feb 2007 This paper provides a phase-wise analytical review of the fiscal situation of the
Indian major States over the previous two and half decades and examines the effectiveness of the policy measures to s...
by Rajmal | On 10 Jan 2007 During the last few years there has been a significant attempt to change the status of women in Morocco. Considerable efforts have been made to incorporate mainstream gender in socio-economic policies...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 27 Dec 2006 With the strengthening of the fiscal decentralisation
process in the Philippines, local government units (LGUs) were provided
with more opportunities in terms of local level gender responsive
budge...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 27 Dec 2006 Fiscal incentive is closely related with extra budgetary revenues.This paper examines the impact of fiscal revenues under decentralisation on responsiveness of public goods provision to real local nee...
by Xin-Qiao Ping | On 21 Nov 2006 This paper analyses the scope and limitations of gender responsive budgeting in Mexico within the overall framework of fiscal decentralisation. However, decentralised gender responsive budgeting can b...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 31 Oct 2006 The budget 2006-07 proposals in health care fell well short of India’s march towards achieving Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), the National Health Policy (NHP) goals and fully operationalising the...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 09 May 2006 While critical perspectives on the budget are certainly necessary and are useful, they are not sufficient to produce the change necessary. For that we need to encourage civil society initiatives on en...
by Maithreyi Krishnaraj | On 07 Apr 2006 The Finance Minister’s speech presenting the Union Budget 2006-07 indicated that long-overdue reforms of the tariff structure had been undertaken in this year’s budget. But a careful analysis of thes...
by Sukumar Mukhopadhyay | On 22 Mar 2006 1. The development budget has been increased by 34.7%, which is the highest
increase to date.
2. Current expenditures will increase by 18%. The main reasons for the increase are
the relief that gov...
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 14 Mar 2006 While there is much support for technology institutions in agriculture, little attention has been paid to raise agricultural productivity or prepare the ground for a coming technological change.
by Yoginder Alagh | On 13 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 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.
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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 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 04 Mar 2006
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 27 Feb 2006 At the time of reorganization of states on the basis of the linguistic formula,
the territory that belonged to erstwhile state of Hyderabad was broken down
to three parts and annexed to Andhra Prade...
by P. N. Mari Bhat | On 19 Jan 2006 The February agitation of farmers and the drought affected of rural South Maharashtra, in the form of a two-day ‘sit in’ last in Mumbai led to ministerial-level negotiations and several important deci...
by Anant Phadke | On 04 Oct 2005 Essentially, the Outcome Budget (OB) as formulated now is nothing more than the performance budget with a promise that it would be extended to non-plan outlays too. As an idea, regardless of the labe...
by A. Premchand | On 20 Sep 2005 Second Generation Reforms (SGR) has become the new buzz-word around policy circles. In fact, a few governments (Central government included) have gone ahead and proclaimed that they have already initi...
by Anonymous | On 19 Aug 2005 This study has made some suggestions for the consideration of the Twelfth Finance Commission. We have provided a conceptual framework comprising eight cardinal principles abbreviated as FAIR PLAN. We...
by Abhay Pethe | On 05 Aug 2005 This paper analyses total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sectors in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka, using a fixed effects panel data technique for esti...
by Anay Vete | On 05 Aug 2005 |