Tribute to Ela Bhatt, the visionary leader of marginalised women
by Vibhuti Patel | On 10 Nov 2022 The paper provides a narrative of Sri Lanka’s history of twin deficits, examines macroeconomic performance from the lens of twin deficits, and discusses the policies adopted to address macroeconomic i...
by Dushni Weerakoon | On 28 Mar 2019 This paper tries to understand the trends and the pattern of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) by Indian firms and the factors that determine OFDI from India through Cross-Border Mergers and Ac...
by P.L. Beena | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper is a preliminary attempt to understand globalisation and social transformation in the rural Kerala. It addresses the socioeconomic changes in a village in the mid-land region of Kerala name...
by Mijo Luke | On 31 Jan 2019 This study documents the frequency and characteristics of multi-product firms in Vietnamese manufacturing. The major findings are as follows. First, multi-product firms are larger, more capital-intens...
by Ha Thi Thanh Doan | On 29 Jan 2019 Infrastructure development in Southeast Asia has been financed mainly by public funds, which leave wide gaps in majority of countries. Governments have tried to attract the private sector by offering...
by Fauziah Zen | On 16 Aug 2018 The cost of finance has a relatively high impact on the returns and viability of clean energy projects compared with fossil fuel-based energy projects, because the operating costs for renewable energy...
by Purkayastha Dhruba | On 13 Aug 2018 Gross capital inflows and outflows to and from emerging market economies (EMEs) have witnessed a significant increase since early 2000s. This rapid increase in these flows accompanied by sharp rise in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Jul 2018 India has experienced a remarkable proliferation of 48 Government Funded Health Insurance Schemes (GFHIS) from 1997 to 2018. The paper places the rise of this policy pathway in historical perspective....
by Ila Patnaik | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper examines the developments of cross-border portfolio assets and liabilities in the Asia and Pacific region over the periods of 2001–2017. Rapid increases in both portfolio foreign assets and...
by Sayuri Shirai | On 07 Jun 2018 How do import tariffs and R&D subsidies help domestic firms compete globally? How do these policies affect aggregate growth and economic welfare? To answer these questions, the paper builds a dynamic...
by Ufuk Akcigit | On 02 May 2018 This report examines the current state of Myanmar’s industrial sector, draws comparisons to
its neighboring countries, and discusses the potential impacts of SEZ policy on the economy. A key
finding...
by Amit K. Khandelwal | On 12 Apr 2018 Recently, not only economists but also sociologists, political leaders, policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, and the press are taking a lively interest in the size of the under ground econom...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 28 Mar 2018 This paper seeks to draw lessons for developing countries based on a survey of the recent literature on financial globalization. First, while capital account openness holds promises (by potentially lo...
by Shang-Jin Wei | On 10 Mar 2018 This paper makes an attempt to assess whether this instrument has succeeded in bringing about the desired changes. A unique database is constructed on the basis of these country positions. Using this...
by Suranjali Tandon | On 03 Mar 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed aware about the nuances that underpin India's cultural and political obligations in Asia. By making Bhutan as his first visit abroad followed by a visit to Nepal, h...
by | On 20 Feb 2018 In the recent past researchers have observed paradigm shifts in the location and nature of
R&D activities undertaken by multinationals in host countries. India is one of the host
countries for the R...
by Savita Bhat | On 13 Feb 2018 The report says that the ISI has been equally thorough and ruthless in repressing political opponents to the military regimes that have ruled over Pakistan for more than half of its fiftyseven years o...
by Harinder Sekhon | On 12 Feb 2018 This paper offers an analysis of the causes behind the changing philosophy and practices of one of the well-known crime organizations from India to move closer towards terrorism to support its crimina...
by Ajey Lele | On 09 Feb 2018 Well friends, let me begin by narrating a short story. In the Indian epic
Mahabharata, dated around one thousand B.C., there is a celebrated fable about Ekalavya, an Adivasi boy; some of you will cer...
by | On 06 Feb 2018 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 India’s external sector continued to be resilient and strong in 2017-18 so far, with the Balance of
Payments situation continuing to be comfortable with the Current Account Deficit at 1.8 percent of
...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 This paper links the foreign economic engagement of India’s states with the literature on
federalism, thereby contributing to an understanding of the political economy of FDI in-
flows in a parliame...
by Chanchal Kumar Sharma | On 22 Jan 2018 The paper narrates that in today’s age of globalization and trans-border connectivity, the Northeast is fast emerging as the potential gateway for India to Southeast and East Asia through
Myanmar.
by Namrata Goswami | On 17 Jan 2018 This article summarises a case study conducted by the author based on a long period of research on the behaviour of firms in technology transfer and local capacity building in that country.
by Linsu Kim | On 27 Dec 2017 This Policy Note presents current statistics on female representation in key leadership positions in the Philippine government and industry.
by Clarissa C. David | On 12 Dec 2017 This inaugural issue of the World Bank Group’s Global Investment Competitiveness Report presents novel analytical insights and empirical evidence on foreign direct investment’s (FDI) drivers and contr...
by World Bank [WB] | On 08 Dec 2017 This study discusses the socio-economic, cultural, religious and institutional factors that sustain abuse conducted against women.
by Ayesha Qaisrani | On 24 Nov 2017 The study adopts a qualitative approach to understand the power dynamics and draws out conclusions from a wide variety of stakeholders regarding the issues at hand.
by Sadaf Liaquat | On 23 Nov 2017 The study will use data from 1980-81 to 2015-16 in this regard and employ Johansen cointegration to investigate the long run relationship.
by Syed Ahmed | On 20 Nov 2017 Increased integration with global financial markets has amplified the complexity of macroeconomic management in India. The diverse objectives of a robust growth rate, healthy current account deficit,...
by Abhijit Sen Gupta | On 13 Nov 2017 This analysis has identified three major challenges, which need to be addressed to make module manufacturing competitive in India
by Bhupesh Verma | On 02 Nov 2017 This paper argues that by some monetary and fiscal reforms, the investable part of remittances could be diverted to labour intensive and development projects, creating hundreds of thousands employment...
by Atiq Rehman | On 30 Oct 2017 This research responds to this gap in the literature by exploring how donors and the Pakistan government interact in game and network settings to manage foreign aid in the complex aid policy network.
by Faheem Jehangir Khan | On 27 Oct 2017 This paper examines in detail Pakistan’s export performance in the light of emerging global challenges and identifies key structural and policy issues that stifle Pakistan’s exports.
by Afia Malik | On 25 Oct 2017 This paper concentrates on the impact of a few macroeconomic variables—nominal exchange rate, economic activity in host countries and workers' outflow—in determining the remittance inflows to Nepal.
by Bhubanesh Pant | On 09 Oct 2017 This, according to researchers Sonny Domingo and Ma. Divina Olaguera from the state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), is the problem the government needs to address to re...
by Philippine Institute Studies (PIDS) | On 03 Oct 2017 This paper estimates the optimal inflation rate in Nepal based on the data of the period 1978–2016.
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | On 28 Sep 2017 The report narrates that the basic philosophy of its operating principles was carefully nurtured from the start.
by Gerardo Sicat | On 26 Sep 2017 This paper finds that deviation of rainfall from its normal values and other key variables such as education, employment, assets, and armed conflict affect chronic food poverty.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 05 Sep 2017 This paper (1) assesses how the Philippines fares in attracting investments compared with its neighboring countries, and (2) evaluates pending incentive reforms in the country.
by Danileen Kristel C Parel | On 04 Sep 2017 The report says that the global financial meltdown contributed to slowing down of global solar deployment, and allowed Indian developers to squeeze their costs further, demanding preferential rates an...
by Mohd. Ali | On 29 Aug 2017 This study’s framework could serve as an
alternative development paradigm for India and other developing countries.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 14 Aug 2017 The emergence of Al-Qaeda as a global terrorist organization carrying out devastating strikes across the USA, Europe, Middle East and Africa shed a spotlight on terrorism, and by extension on radicali...
by Fadi Farasin | On 03 Aug 2017 This paper based on both desk research and interactions with stakeholders makes a
comparative analysis of trade of world, India and its trading partners; examines the
various dimensions of India’s t...
by H.A.C. Prasad | On 03 Aug 2017 This study looks at the roles that local women leaders can play in addressing the important environmental health issue of sanitation and hand hygiene by improving access to quality sanitation and hygi...
by Atonu Rabbani | On 25 Jul 2017 This report identifies some of Thailand’s critical development constraints and discusses policy measures and economic reforms needed to accelerate economic transformation toward a more modern and serv...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jun 2017 This report examines how existing implementation structures established under ADB and National Government investment programs could be used to channel subnational government resources toward priority...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Jun 2017 Myanmar has an extensive river network that is well positioned to serve the country’s main transport corridors, including the link between Yangon and Mandalay. However, main rivers are difficult to na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 31 May 2017 Under the Constitution of India, for a bill to be enacted into a law, it has to be approved by both Houses of the Parliament - the Lower House (Lok Sabha) and the Upper House (Rajya Sabha). There is o...
by Pratik Datta | On 26 May 2017 The paper says that the government has continued to issue bonds since then with the primary objectives being to finance the annual budget deficit, support social and economic development, and restruct...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 The paper narrates that the bond market in Hong Kong, China has for some time been a significant market place for issuers and investors in both domestic and foreign currencies. The range of product of...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 The reports notes the regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia and the Pacific continues to evolve, creating an important source for the region’s dynamic growth. This report assesses the RCI...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 This issue of the Asia Bond Monitor includes three special discussion boxes. Box 1 discusses the risk of Federal Reserve rate hikes to emerging Asia’s financial stability. Box 2 analyzes the risks to...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 May 2017 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, shaped by both public and private sectors and the voices of civil society, was adopted by world leaders two years ago as a blueprint for making our world m...
by | On 16 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 International Economic Integration plays a vital role in Economic Development of any country. Foreign Direct Investment is one and only major instrument of attracting International Economic Integratio...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 Demonetisation of INR 500 and INR 1,000 notes in India on November 8, 2016 is different from
many other countries’ scrapping of high value notes in two respects – the withdrawal of their
legal tende...
by Ashok K. Lahiri | On 02 Jan 2017 A benevolent dictator but one who sincerely loved the masses. She is unforgivably not a leader who believed in the collectivity of a Party to afford democracy. But she did what was needed. She display...
by Shyam Sundar | On 14 Dec 2016 This paper discusses the demographic and socio-economic profile
of religious communities (Castes among the Hindus, Sects among the
Muslims and Denominations among the Christians) in Kerala’s three
...
by K. C. Zachariah | On 06 Dec 2016 Temporary labour migration is often touted as a triple-win: a win for destination countries that can support a level of economic activity that would be impossible without foreign labour; a win for cou...
by | On 24 Nov 2016 This paper aims to capture the current situation of nurse migration from an
Asian perspective. Asian countries are sources of nurses as well as hosts for
foreign nurses. They also provide opportunit...
by | On 24 Nov 2016 The increasing level of competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the ‘90s triggered
many countries to offer various fiscal incentives. Specifically, many Asian countries persistently
keep...
by Ma. Laarni D. Revilla | On 11 Nov 2016 This paper deals with the evolution of laws, institutions and polices relating to
environmental protection in India. It considers the following questions : (a) whether the
laws are evolved indigenou...
by U. Sankar | On 28 Oct 2016 A foreign exchange crisis in 1991 induced India to abandon decades of inward-looking socialism and adopt economic reforms that have converted the once-lumbering elephant into the latest Asian tiger. I...
by | On 28 Oct 2016 This brief outlines a particular iteration of a compact approach that incorporates critical components—such as shared outcomes for refugees, host country ownership and focus on longer-term transition,...
by Cindy Huang | On 10 Oct 2016 Economic inequalities in income and wealth, social inequalities in health, education and access to welfare services, gender and racial inequalities, cultural and religious discrimination, barriers to...
by | On 22 Sep 2016 Among U.S. publicly traded firms, the average firm's capital share has declined, even though the aggregate capital share has increased. This paper attributes the secular increase taken together capita...
by Barney Glaser | On 22 Sep 2016 Comprehensive program evaluation requires capturing indirect effects of an intervention,
such as changes in leaders’ efforts and constituents’ attitudes towards leaders. We
study political economy r...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 Almost half of all households have at least one migrant abroad or a returnee. Estimates of the number of Nepali migrants abroad vary widely, but the most frequently cited estimate, including seasonal...
by World Bank [WB] | On 25 Aug 2016 This paper addresses some aspects related to these two important research questions, and thus builds on the base of knowledge. The paper is organized as follows. First, we discuss the economic growth...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 In the last decade, the resource-rich Philippines has bet heavily on the mining industry as a development strategy,
an approach that has come under growing scrutiny. With 47 large-scale mines in oper...
by Cecilia Olivet | On 10 Aug 2016 This paper analyses changes in China’s relations with socialist countries. It uses Chinese academic publications to add an inside-out perspective to the interpretation of Chinese foreign policy and ou...
by | On 05 Aug 2016 The impact of South-South migration on the income of migrants and natives is smaller than for South-North migration. However, even small increases in income can have substantial welfare implications f...
by | On 27 Jul 2016 This paper examines social sector expenditures in fifteen Indian states between 1980/81 and 1999/2000 to find out whether the far-reaching economic reforms that began in 1991 had any significant impac...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 The BRICS Summit process was inaugurated in 2009 as a signal that the global
governance system of the future would need to be constituted to reflect a
politically diverse, multipolar world. At this...
by | On 15 Jul 2016 By exploring the role of SEZs in China’s integration with the world economy, we also investigate the underlining challenges faced by the economy. The analysis brings forth the indisputable fact that S...
by | On 14 Jul 2016 The main objective of this evaluation study was to examine the process of development of an ELDF; to examine whether processes, methods used, facilitation, content and design are in alignment with the...
by Puja Minni | On 14 Jul 2016 The study conducts a formal analysis of various schools of thought of science. Specifically, the study offers a comparison between historical relativism, scientific realism, logical empiricism, and lo...
by Dheeraj Sharma | On 01 Jul 2016 The paper finds a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more th...
by Michael Jetter | On 28 Jun 2016 In this paper investigates the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument that well functioning credit markets would ref...
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 27 Jun 2016 This paper models an opposition group’s choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predict...
by Michael Jetter | On 27 Jun 2016 Congress should have long goals, energy, media strategy, good governance to come back to power.
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 May 2016 "Modern energy access” is finally on the international agenda, but the current common definition of 100 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per capita per year is far too low.
To reflect likely demand and historica...
by Todd Moss | On 18 May 2016 As Filipinos elect their new president in one of most hotly contested elections in 30
years, the prospects of a maverick becoming their leader raises questions about the
return of strong-man rule an...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 16 May 2016 The paper describes the institutional features of these markets, with special emphasis on the process of liberalization and deepening in Indian FX markets, in the context of global integration. Since...
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 May 2016 India and Pakistan, the two large countries in South Asia, must work for the region’s collective good rather than moving closer to the United States and China, respectively, and promoting the interest...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 28 Mar 2016 As developing countries increasingly open their economies to foreign direct investment (FDI) one of their principal objective has been to achieve technology transfer from foreign firms to host country...
by | On 22 Mar 2016 India’s stances in global Internet governance debates have often been noted, and criticised, for their strong preference for multilateral models of engagement, as different from the multistakeholder a...
by Saikat Datta | On 17 Mar 2016 Foreign banks in developing countries are often found to indulge in cream skimming, a lending strategy that targets only wealthy segments of the credit market and exclude small and marginal borrowers...
by Mandira Sarma | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper devises quantitative techniques to analyze the management
of foreign capital flows in India over the past three decades.
The paper argues that India's overall approach towards liberaliza...
by Abhijit Sen Gupta | On 15 Mar 2016 The Camp David Accords signed in 1979 by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are often cited as a watershed event in the modern history of Israeli-Arab relations....
by Svante Cornell | On 14 Mar 2016 On January 25, 2012, one year has passed since the protests began on Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Events in the Middle East and North Africa over the past year have altered many previously held beliefs abou...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 As reports circle of an advanced Iranian nuclear program, different policy options are considered by Israeli and American policy-makers. While officials in Jerusalem seem convinced that the military o...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 With rumors of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the verge of restarting, a closer examination of the Israeli political situation and the intentions and calculations of teh current government shows...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 Nuclear proliferation in Northeast Asia is shaping up to be one of the key security issues for the region. Following elections and leadership transitions in China, the US, South Korea and Japan, a rea...
by Sangsoo Lee | On 14 Mar 2016 In this paper we employ a stated preference environmental valuation technique, namely the choice experiment method, to estimate local public?s willingness to pay (WTP) for improvements in the capacity...
by Ekin Birol | On 13 Mar 2016 Random effects panel data analysis is applied to identify financial parameters that influence banks in India in complying with Basel I. The private sector and foreign banks are affected by credit risk...
by Sreejata Banerjee | On 13 Mar 2016 China’s new leadership must rebalance the country’s economy if it is to avoid falling into the middle income trap. Yet slowing growth rates make drastic reforms politically sensitive at a time when th...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 As South Korea this month takes up the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, concerns over North Korea’s nuclear program grow. Pyongyang’s recent rocket tests, its anticipated th...
by Sangsoo Lee | On 12 Mar 2016 The “shale gas revolution” in the US could provide significant leverage in the US “pivot” to Asia. As China looks to absorb the technological know-how of shale gas extraction from North America, great...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 North Korea’s advances in nuclear weapons and missile technology, in combination with its recent escalation of bellicose rhetoric against the US and its allies, have triggered a reassessment in variou...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 China’s establishment of a new Air Defense Identification Zone has heightened tensions in Northeast Asia, with Japan, South Korea, and the United States having been swift to react to Beijing’s announc...
by Sangsoo Lee | On 12 Mar 2016 While Russia and China are heralding a new “strategic partnership,” this policy brief explores how competition between the two countries may increasingly emerge in regard to Central Asia—a region wher...
by | On 11 Mar 2016 Ensuring security of energy supplies and safeguarding sea lines of communication are underpinning increasing maritime ties between the net-energy importers of India and Japan. At the same time, argues...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 Three major objectives of this study are: (i) to understand China’s success against poverty, particularly the mechanism through which, the economic reforms led to poverty reduction; (ii) to give a his...
by G. M. Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 The paper tries to analyse the effect of religious composition on the provision of public services captured mainly by infrastructure index, of four types, (i) basic amenities such as water, housing an...
by Santanu Gupta | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper investigates the political aspects of the coorperation between China, South Korea and Japan to address transboundary pollution in Northeast Asia. Investigating the motivations, modalities an...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper speaks to the sense of unease by trying to follow the implications of what it might mean to take the sense of threat to liberal values seriously. That is, to attempt identification of the l...
by Mathew John | On 09 Mar 2016 The doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect is a controversial and contentious one in Southeast Asia. It has been largely accepted in principle by most ASEAN states, which are generally supportive o...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 The diversification of Bhutan’s relations began with its entry into the United Nations in 1971, and while external relations continued to be largely confined to India, the establishment of its relatio...
by | On 02 Mar 2016 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 birth of Bangladesh in 1971 was an epoch-making event within the post-colonial order of South Asia. Led by the middle classes, a bitter and bloody war of Liberation from Pakistan was fought, based...
by Sanjay Bhardwaj | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper discusses the economies and financial systems of Southeast Asia (SEA) and focuses on challenges and developments in the region. Despite the diversity of SEA economies and some important exc...
by Toshiyuki Shimada | On 29 Feb 2016 Diasporic communities that advance their ancestral homelands through forging links with it can be best examined in the context of the history of migration of these communities and the culture of devel...
by Sudeep Basu | On 26 Feb 2016 This article analyzes the location determinants of foreign direct investment in services, both theoretically and empirically. It hypothesizes four sets of factors as the location determinants of FDI i...
by Feng Yin | On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Dialogue Centre for Policy | On 25 Feb 2016 There is the logical possibility of the creation of a Muslim society that is characterised by high levels of trust in and esteem for the State, and in which there is also a high level of trust in reli...
by Riaz Hassan | On 25 Feb 2016 The last decade has witnessed significant influx of direct foreign investment in developing countries. The increased flow of foreign investment has contributed to the ability of developing countries t...
by Syed Ali | On 25 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Mustafizur Rahman | On 24 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 24 Feb 2016 At the recent United Nations general debate, US President Barack Obama outlined his vision for US foreign policy, making a clear break with the previous administration. The shift has significant impli...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 The rise of Julia Gillard as Australia’s prime minister has given Kevin Rudd the dubious honour of being probably the first political leader to fall victim to climate change. What does this mean for A...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The rapid economic growth achieved after globalization by most of the developing countries, has imposed considerable social costs and has become a major threat to sustainable development. However it i...
by Prakash Nelliyat | On 23 Feb 2016 The Philippines is a country targeted by foreign investors seeking agricultural land. It is promoting itself to them in the hope of securing their business. These investors frequently use food securit...
by Ben Shepherd | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy challenges when promoting intraregional exchange rate stability. First, there must b...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 21 Feb 2016 Governments have become much more welcoming towards foreign investors over the past several decades. The widespread use of screening, performance requirements, and outright restrictions on foreign own...
by Michael Gestrin | On 19 Feb 2016 U.S. policy expressly welcomes Chinese investment, and since 2000 Chinese companies have invested nearly $50 billion in the United States. Notwithstanding those facts, the U.S. regulatory environment...
by Mark Feldman | On 19 Feb 2016 China is the only country in the world with two sovereign investment vehicles dedicated to managing excess foreign reserves for return, not just safety and liquidity. As the investment profile and beh...
by Angela Cummine | On 19 Feb 2016 This paper uses a strategic framework developed by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to assess whether Australia’s foreign investment regime is sufficiently delivering on its four main objectives...
by Alan Fels | On 19 Feb 2016 China’s first attempt to establish a multilateral financial institution was met with some suspicion and caution in the west. According to one interpretation, China is frustrated with the United States...
by Mike Callaghan | On 19 Feb 2016 Foreign capital inflows (FKI) help an economy by financing the imbalance between income and expenditure. However, their impact on poverty in the recipient economy is a controversial issue. In this stu...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 18 Feb 2016 The paper examines the volatility spillover between the stock market and the foreign exchange market in Pakistan. For the longrun relationship we use the Engle Granger two-step procedure and the volat...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 17 Feb 2016 This Working Paper comprises a literature review that was carried out to inform the formulation of a research project on power, violence, citizenship and agency, which addresses how social actors reac...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 While the United Nations takes stock of how far women have come in getting women’s rights acknowledged as human rights, Indonesia wants to stop sending women out of the country as foreign domestic wor...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 All eyes are on Paris where world leaders will meet for the much anticipated 2015 climate change conference. They are expected to reach a consensus on a legally-binding climate agreement for all count...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 (Public Sector Reforms) PSR must be based on the recognition that people are at the heart of public service. As a result, managing human resources must be at the centre of any effort. The people who...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 16 Feb 2016 The study employs Girton and Roper (1977) measure of exchange market pressure—sum of exchange rate depreciation and foreign reserves outflow, to examine the interaction between exchange market pressur...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 16 Feb 2016 Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macrofinancial and crisis implications and its perceived large expansion. But financial globalization has taken diff...
by Francisco Ceballos | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper attempts to analyze the underlying causes and impact of the recent developments in the foreign exchange and money markets.
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the sectoral (agriculture, industry and service) growth pattern of Bangladesh economy over the last 11 years, 1995-2005. The rese...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Robin | On 15 Feb 2016 Bangladesh Bank (BB) adjusted its monetary policy stance during 2005 in order to contain inflationary pressures and facilitate stability in the foreign exchange market. At the end of 2005, interest ra...
by Shubhasish Barua | On 15 Feb 2016 The following is a Campaign 2012 policy brief by Bruce Riedel and Michael O’Hanlon proposing ideas for the next president on America’s foreign policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan. Vanda Felbab-Brow...
by Bruce Riedel | On 14 Feb 2016 For Campaign 2012, Bruce Riedel and Michael O’Hanlon wrote a policy brief proposing ideas for the next president on America’s foreign policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan. The following paper is a r...
by Elizabeth Ferris | On 14 Feb 2016 This study explores closed cases filed under section 498A of the IPC, which pertains to cruelty to a married woman by her marital family. It draws from two datasets of both primary and secondary data,...
by Anjali Dave | On 14 Feb 2016 Corporate integrity is often perceived to be the product of ethical leadership, strong compliance and effective regulations that prevent and sanction wrong-doing. While these elements are essential, e...
by Transparency International TI | On 13 Feb 2016 This paper utilizes a newly collected nationally representative survey data from over 41,550 households to examine social inequality in children’s educational outcomes. The focus is on 8 to11 year old...
by Sonalde Desai | On 13 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationwide survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine variation in social capital in India across caste, tribe, and religion. Our primary measure uses...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 he present paper on Exceptions to Patent Rights in Developing Countries is a part of the efforts of the UNCTAD/ICTSD Project to contribute to a better understanding of the use of patent exceptions for...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Beijing currently has a relatively active policy with regards to UN peacekeeping, especially when compared to its history or the commitment of other major powers. China’s active policy on UN peacekeep...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 Composed of 192 member states, the United Nations (UN) is the largest and most comprehensive international organization as well as the most important international platform for multilateral diplomacy....
by | On 09 Feb 2016 North Korea appointed Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, to the position of vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the third Party Conventi...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 On January 11, 2007, a state of emergency was declared in Bangladesh. A new caretaker government which condoned greater military involvement in the governing of Bangladesh was installed. This is the t...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 Launched in June of 2000, "Progress of the World's Women" is UNIFEM's biennial investigation of progress made towards a world where women live free from violence, poverty and inequality. The first iss...
by UN Women | On 08 Feb 2016 Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas and investigate the r...
by Nancy H. Chau | On 07 Feb 2016 Despite receiving large quantities of foreign aid, Pakistan, like many other developing countries, has remained stagnant and become more aid dependent. This grim reality has provoked a vigorous debate...
by Muhammad Javid | On 06 Feb 2016 This exercise is envisaged to provide a brief account of the research studies on inter-relationship between remittance inflows from abroad and the poverty levels obtained in the country. This is discu...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 06 Feb 2016 Settlements can provide an important channel to hold companies to account for wrongdoings and resolve foreign bribery and other cases without resorting to a full trial (civil or criminal), or conteste...
by Transparency International | On 05 Feb 2016 As part of its initial publications, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies will soon issue a book in Arabic, titled The Secession of Southern Sudan: Risks and Opportunities. The book is the...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 This study is part of a broader study being undertaken by PIDE on remittances and their impact on the Pakistan economy including explaining its over ten-fold increase between 2001–2012 from around US$...
by Rashid Amjad | On 03 Feb 2016 This study tries to investigate the inter-linkage between foreign trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in case of Pakistan. Annual data for the period 1985–2010 have been considered for eight maj...
by Unbreen Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 This study examines the effect of foreign aid on the fiscal behaviour of the Government of Pakistan. It applies the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model to analyse the relationship that prevailed betw...
by Rabia Butt | On 03 Feb 2016 This study empirically investigates the impact of foreign capital and governance on the economic growth by employing country level data from 1984 to 2010 for Asian developing countries. Governance; fo...
by Unbreen Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 The paper examines the dynamic relationship and volatility spillovers between the stock market and the foreign exchange market in Pakistan using weekly data from 02 July, 1997 to 04 July 2012. Johanse...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 The reform program that Pakistan gradually implemented during the 1980s and the early 1990s dismantled many of the components of the ISI strategy.1 The extent of dependence on quantitative import cont...
by Zafar Mahmood | On 02 Feb 2016 The agriculture sector in Pakistan sustains the livelihoods of 45 per cent of the national population. Both the direct and indirect contributions of the agriculture sector to overall growth and wellbe...
by Golam Rasul | On 02 Feb 2016 The Tunisian revolution exhibited itself as a popular revolution by all measures, catching the attention of many historians and writers in various fields; for years to come, the revolution will be a r...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 This paper looks the factors which gave birth to a common Coptic identity in opposition to the state. Have the Copts been compelled to adopt this common identification to resist the state's policies t...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 This study argues that religion will have an important role in determining the form and nature of the democratic transition in Egypt during its next phase. It also demonstrates that there is no longer...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 This paper combines data from a unique NGO survey in Lebanon with local indicators of religious and income polarization to assess which factors contribute to the emergence of faith-based or confession...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Historically, Qataris have strived for autonomy and independence, and have always sought to define themselves apart from others. This has dictated a specifically defined identity in which language sta...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 This essay is not an attempt to provide a comprehensive historical or sociological treatment of the subject of intellectuals and their role in revolution; rather, it is a conceptual contribution that...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 Numerous studies have concluded that the large presence of foreign labor in the Gulf could eventually lead to a loss of national identity. Large concentrations of foreigners, composed of numerous ethn...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 It is now beyond scientific doubt that the emissions of greenhouse gases need to be reduced significantly to prevent dangerous interference in the climate system and avoid dramatic consequences of glo...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 India’s presence in the East Asia Summit signals not only a victory for New Delhi’s “Look East” policy but also an implicit “Look West” policy on the part of India’s neighbors to the east. This conver...
by Ellen L. Frost | On 31 Jan 2016 Savings behaviour is important because of the close relation between savings and growth. Further, the direction of causality between savings and growth is of critical importance for development policy...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 30 Jan 2016 Giving Youth a Voice, the first ever nationwide survey on youth, was started in 2011. The main findings of the report were released to the media in mid August, prior to the International Youth Day. Th...
by Syeda Aziz | On 30 Jan 2016 Is leadership diversified in Asian corporate boardrooms? How is gender diversity in corporate leadership associated with financial performance? What is the magnitude of potential gain by allocating hu...
by Meijun Qian | On 30 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Public Expenditure, Employment and Poverty in Bangladesh An Empirical Analysis has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 Russia’s military intervention in Syria is the only direct military intervention there by a state from outside the region. Iran was there first, but its intervention took different forms. No state, be...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The Sachar Commission Report of 2006 on Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India generated widespread awareness of the socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religiou...
by Riaz Hassan | On 29 Jan 2016 Of all the nations that border China, its comparison with Bhutan would appear to be a paradox. In comprehensive power terms, Bhutan is almost a nonentity to China. Bhutan’s biggest disadvantage is its...
by Tilak Jha | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper provides an overview of the changing patterns of O-FDI from India over 1975-2001. It shows that the increasing number of Indian TNCs during 1990s has been accompanied by a number of changes...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of
women’s leadership on policy decisions. Since the mid-1990’s, one third of Village Council head positions in India hav...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Voices around the world are demanding leadership and action in 2015 on poverty, inequality and climate change. These universal challenges demand global action, and this year presents unprecedented opp...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 27 Jan 2016 Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinationa...
by Penn Stat | On 27 Jan 2016 The paper, nonetheless, acknowledges that delivering these benefits would involve significant practical and political challenges. It concludes that if the challenges can be overcome and the mutual ben...
by Kodjo Osei-Lah | On 26 Jan 2016 The poor are not uniformly disadvantaged. For the most health indicators, the status of ‘excluded groups’ such as scheduled caste and scheduled tribes, and Muslims is significantly worse than that of...
by Sukhade Thorat | On 26 Jan 2016 This chapter sets out to trace the changing contours of India’s foreign policy by throwing light on: (i) the historical and sociological compulsions shaping India’s strategic trends and the evolution...
by | On 25 Jan 2016 This study aims at investigating two important issues concerning the exchange rate intervention policy of the Reserve Bank of India: (1) whether there is any asymmetry in intervention; and (2) whether...
by M. Ramachandran | On 24 Jan 2016 After the global financial crisis, India was exposed to many external shocks from commodity prices and foreign capital flows. Although capital flow fluctuations were largely due to global risk-on risk...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Jan 2016 This study reports high positive correlation between FDI inflows and Bangladesh’s aggregate exports and imports. The net impact on the current account balance and the balance of payments is positive....
by Muhammad Amir Hossain | On 23 Jan 2016 The thin bond market in Bangladesh faces manifold challenges emanating from several sources including excessive reliance on bank credit, government debt instruments dominated by primary auction based...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 23 Jan 2016 This paper contends that the complex and chequered Sino-Indian relationship entered a new phase following India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in his hometown...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 India’s latest decision to abstain from voting – in the United Nations Human Rights Council – for a “comprehensive investigation” of the situation in Sri Lanka signifies a potential shift in New Delhi...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 India’s political landscape is likely to be dominated by a new leader, Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in ways that the international community is yet to decipher. For now, as Mr Mo...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 The intention of this study is to get an indication of the trends and uses of private sector commercial borrowing from external sources in Bangladesh. In this paper, an overall picture of the private...
by Sayera Younus | On 23 Jan 2016 This note examines recent movements in net domestic asset (NDA) and net foreign asset (NFA) of BB vis-à-vis the proposed monetary program for FY09 and brings out possible policy implications and manag...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 This study of individuals identified as influential within nutrition in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and India examines why particular individuals champion nutrition policy, and how they operate in the...
by Nicholas Nisbett | On 23 Jan 2016 The future political landscape of Asia-Pacific would largely be decided, arguably, by happenings in the East Asian region. It is so because in East Asia, the interests of three important players of wo...
by Sandip Kumar Mishra | On 23 Jan 2016 This Study surveys the progress that APEC has made towards promoting regional economic cooperation and integration. It examines the desirability of India joining APEC and looks at possible benefits an...
by V. S. Seshadri | On 21 Jan 2016 In order to accelerate progress on undernutrition reduction we need to understand how the governance of nutrition programmes leads to successful outcomes. Based on evidence from six countries: Banglad...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 21 Jan 2016 In 2009, the European Union (EU) proposed to use border carbon measures, which could take the form of a direct or indirect “carbon tax”, against imports from its partner countries that were not follow...
by Biswajit Dhar | On 21 Jan 2016 Today, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth...
by United Nations (UN) | On 19 Jan 2016 There are India studies programs around the country in many institutions, but no university has made the commitment to dedicate a graduate level and senior research level focus on contemporary India i...
by Steve Coll | On 19 Jan 2016 Research on clientelism broadly assumes that local political agents, or brokers, possess fine-grained information on voters’ political preferences, and often can directly or indirectly monitor their v...
by Mark Schneider | On 18 Jan 2016 The literature on decentralized public programs suggests that errors in the targeting of anti-poverty programs are rooted in the capture of these programs by local elites or local politicians. Consist...
by Mark Schneider | On 18 Jan 2016 For years, civil society organisations and researchers have highlighted that, as weather patterns become increasingly unpredictable and extreme events such as floods, heatwaves or storms become more c...
by A Otzelberger | On 13 Jan 2016 The new role that middle-income countries (MICs) play in the global landscape obliges international community to review the configuration of the development cooperation system. On the one hand, MICs s...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 Afghanistan has long been used as a battleground for strategic wars by larger external powers. This is in part due to its geographic position between the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia. Acco...
by Riaz Hassan | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper discusses revival of the Maritime Silk Road. It begins with a narration of the historical background of MSR, its origin and development, followed by an analysis of latest announcements by t...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper tries to analyse the effects of TRIPS on public welfare in the context of the pharmaceutical sector. It takes a closer look at the policies of some developing countries and their usage of t...
by Deeparghya Mukherjee | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper reviews the evolution of India’s diaspora policy and examines the possibilities and pitfalls that could arise from Delhi’s new political enthusiasm for overseas Indian communities. Engagemen...
by C. Raja Mohan | On 09 Jan 2016 This work examines the influence of reforms in the 1990s regarding the agricultural development in India. Many studies have analysed the impact of these reforms but most of them focused on foreign tra...
by Marion Künzler | On 08 Jan 2016 Migration is an important social and historical reality in South Asia. In the past decade, migration from one country to another and internal migration (i.e. migration within a particular country) hav...
by Sanjay Barbora | On 08 Jan 2016 Heads of state and government have adopted a new development agenda to guide sustainable development efforts for the next 15 years. Member States will have the responsibility of turning this collectiv...
by | On 08 Jan 2016 This paper discusses mechanisms to prevent and resolve foreign exchange crises in East Asia. Policies and mechanisms at the country level as well as regional and global levels are discussed. Policies...
by Andrew Cooper | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper looks at the Pakistan Army’s ideological hegemony, especially in the country’s Punjabi-speaking heartland, the continuing focus on the state’s narrative of a religion-based unitary identity...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The global financial crisis and the recent growth slowdown in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have led to questions about the sustainability of the PRC’s growth. The commonly used argument is tha...
by Yuqing Xing | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper explores the long-term challenges for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The region has emerged as an important production base...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 06 Jan 2016 Sri Lanka is a multi-¬ethnic, multi-¬religious society with four major religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Roman Catholicism. As the country emerges from decades of war, new ethno-¬religious...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 In the field of international trade, an economy is assumed to be reeling under the 'BLACK HOLE EFFECT' of another economy, if all the major variables of international trade, irrespective of in which c...
by | On 01 Jan 2016 The history of Andhra Pradesh is conveyed here with some authority based on a long, unbroken and, in all modesty, unrivalled experience as a civil servant. Some writings are collected together which t...
by B P R Vithal | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper aims to provide a non-technical explanation of the concept of trade in value added, with particular reference to East Asia. The trade in value added approach allows us to redefine the relat...
by Satoshi Inomata | On 29 Dec 2015 Few cities in South Asia have been affected by violence more than Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and economic centre. This working paper examines the impacts of the city’s declining security situati...
by Noman Ahmed | On 29 Dec 2015 The India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement has been in operation for more than a decade. The paper provides the Sri Lankan perspective of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) highlighting both the positive ou...
by Saman Kelegama | On 29 Dec 2015 “Abenomics” refers to the economic policies advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who became prime minister of Japan for a second time when his party, the Liberal Democratic Party, won an overwhelmin...
by Farhad Hesary | On 29 Dec 2015 The Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) represents one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic regional communities. This report identifies some of the key trends and critical issues for the Indian Oc...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 It is only very recently that out-migration of natives of the North East Region to other localities in India became a problem of apprehension. Though the natives of the North East Region are tradition...
by Babu Remesh | On 26 Dec 2015 This brief explores future policy options for India in Bangladesh. India and Bangladesh share historical, geographical and cultural bonds. Bangladesh has ‘Bengali’ a lingual and cultural attachment wi...
by Sanjay Bhardwaj | On 23 Dec 2015 New powers, such as China, India and Brazil, are challenging the traditional dominance of the US in the governance of the global economy. It is generally taken for granted that the rise of new powers...
by Kristen Hopewell | On 23 Dec 2015 Many developing countries use tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment, sacrificing immediate revenue from foreign capital, even though the effects of tax incentives on investment, growth,...
by Quan Li | On 23 Dec 2015 The primary aim of this paper, however, is not to account for the historical/political rise of Shiaism or of Iran, or even debate the existence of the so-called ‘Shia Crescent,’ but to examine instead...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 The main intention of the paper is to investigate the extent of sterilization of Bangladesh Bank to offset the monetary expansionary effect of reserve accumulation in the foreign exchange market.
To...
by Mst. Nurnaher Begum | On 18 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 The modest intention of this paper is to question the above assertion that Nepal is a failing state. To this end, it shall firstly outline the broad definition of failing states. Secondly, it will off...
by Oliver Housden | On 17 Dec 2015 The study attempts to investigate whether it is relative deprivation as Ted Gurr suggests or the element of fear that pushed the Muslim majority Pakistan into a cycle of religious violence due to the...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 The paper present concise evidence of recent trends in inequality and labour income shares and to identify possible causes as a basis for developing potential policy responses. This report takes up th...
by Internaional Labour Organization [ILO] | On 17 Dec 2015 The mushrooms of Himachal Pradesh should be established 'As a
quality produce of India' in foreign markets to exploit present declining
trend of mushroom production in many producing countries. In a...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 17 Dec 2015 The challenge of climate change is huge; it requires an urgent response from all generations. As the effects of climate change become more visible and extreme, they are likely to affect adversely the...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 This policy brief recommends that these include commitments to: ending extreme poverty and inequality, with a special focus on gender equity and women’s rights; aligning with environmental and social...
by Oxfam International | On 17 Dec 2015 In recent months tax has climbed up the political agenda in ways that would have been unthinkable only a couple of years ago.
Creating a fairer international tax system was a central ambition of both...
by Mick Moore | On 16 Dec 2015 This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is ke...
by Khalid Sekkat | On 16 Dec 2015 It is a widely accepted truth that the Indian state suffers from a serious crisis of implementation capability. Despite widespread recognition of this crisis, there is remarkably little analytical wor...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 In this paper, documents a positive spillover effect of BRAC schools on female secondary enrollment in registered madrasas. Drawing upon school enrollment data aggregated at the region level, It first...
by Mohammad Niaz Asadullah | On 11 Dec 2015 Review of The Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India. Harper Collins India, 2015; pp. 552, Rs 527/-
by Sandeep Dubey | On 20 Nov 2015 This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools)....
by Zaki Wahhaj | On 16 Nov 2015 In this lecture, the author discusses the concept of Indian secularism. She suggests that the concept of secularism went beyond politics. The lecture discusses on three aspects of what is involved in...
by Romila Thapar | On 28 Oct 2015 This Report focuses on the economic and social dimensions of gender equality, including the right of all women to a good job, with fair pay and safe working conditions, to an adequate pension in older...
by UN Women | On 23 Oct 2015 Women in leadership positions make different policy choices compared to men. An increase in the proportion of female leaders can therefore alter both the nature of governance as well as the types of p...
by Pushkar Maitra | On 23 Oct 2015 After India gained independence in 1947, the country's leaders promised its diverse constituents citizenship rights that extended across religion, gender, and caste. Distinct from its previous British...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 In this paper the aim is to investigate the different nuances of India's capital account management through empirical analyses as well as descriptive discussions. In particular the study the evolution...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 19 Oct 2015 How did India respond to globalization in the realm of inward foreign direct investment (FDI)? This paper presents the economic institutional change favouring FDI inflows at the union level of India b...
by | On 25 Sep 2015 Far from modern ideologies focusing on fixed ascriptive religious identities, the Shaivite ascetic sect of the Nath Yogis had a long tradition of close relationships with Islam. This article will focu...
by Véronique Bouillier | On 24 Sep 2015 This paper discusses the different agreements and
decisions reached in the Bali Ministerial Conference and the potential implications for the post-Bali work
program. The results of the Bali Minister...
by Eugenio Díaz Bonilla | On 16 Sep 2015 This study examines the status of and trends in foreign investment inflow into the Indian hospital sector and highlights the emerging issues from 2000 to 2014, the era of liberalised foreign investmen...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 There is much that militant Islamists and jihadists agree on, but when it comes to sports in general and soccer in particular sharp divisions emerge. Men like the late Osama bin Laden, Hamas Gaza lead...
by James M. Dorsey | On 07 Sep 2015 This brief provides an overview of civil society in Myanmar. With a view to strengthening ADB cooperation with civil society organizations, the NGO and Civil Society Center periodically prepares repor...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Sep 2015 IDMC estimates that as of July 2015 at least 31,400 people are internally displaced as a result of conflict and violence in Indonesia. Nearly all are protracted internally displaced persons (IDPs) who...
by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre | On 03 Sep 2015 In this lecture, the author discusses the concept of Indian secularism. She suggests that the concept of secularism went beyond politics and none of the mainstream political parties adhered to it, and...
by Romila Thapar | On 31 Aug 2015 This paper argues that India’s foreign economic policies were shaped to a substantial extent by developmental ideas within the Indian state and by the international context of the Cold War. Individual...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 It is not correct to blame the media when effective communication suffer. The government will have to recheck its media policies and the distance it has to keep the media.
by T.N. Ninan | On 15 Aug 2015 Review of Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 304 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16768-0.
by Nathaniel Isaacson | On 13 Aug 2015 The National Policy on Biofuels sets an indicative target of 20per cent blending of biofuels by 2017 to tackle the twin problem of energy security and climate change. Although biofuels seem to be the...
by Gopinath Reddy | On 13 Aug 2015 This working paper embodies the results of trade and transport facilitation audit which was carried out in the Bangladesh context, as part of a South Asian regional study.The study documents the major...
by Naimul Saif | On 11 Aug 2015 This study examines the status of and trends in foreign investment inflow into the Indian hospital sector and highlights the emerging issues from 2000 to 2014, the era of liberalised foreign investmen...
by | On 31 Jul 2015 If the entry of foreign banks results in a concentrated banking sector, as has been the case in several Central and Eastern European countries, then the goals of achieving financial inclusion are adve...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 05 Jul 2015 Review of Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives of Practitioners Ed. Todd Lewis. Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. 352 pp. Rs 2,215/- (paperback) ISBN-13: 978-0...
by Mavis Fenn | On 15 Jun 2015 Nepal is currently experiencing perhaps one of the most turbulent phases in its contemporary political history. In 2008, the 240-year-old institution of monarchy—for long seen as a symbol of unity, in...
by Akanshya Shah | On 05 Jun 2015 Based on interviews with more than 50 rights defenders and their families, the 71-page document titled, "Their lives on the line: Women rights defenders under attack in Afghanistan," illustrates the r...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 14 Apr 2015 The new five year foreign trade policy, 2015-2020 provides a framework for increasing exports of goods and services as well as generation of employment and increasing value addition in the country. Th...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 02 Apr 2015 This document studies the Trade Policies and Institutions of BRICS, India and BRICS: issues of trade and technology; and examines the scope for deepening cooperation in services among BRICS members. T...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 The March 2015 issue of IMI Konnect contains the following articles - “Perceptions on Financial Inclusion”, by Basabi Bhattacharya; “Does Innovation Lie in the Eyes of the Beholder?”, by Devjani Chatt...
by IMI Konnect | On 23 Mar 2015 This working paper reflects Indis's domestic production on exports and imports. The paper also highlights upon India’s two policy instruments, namely price controls and reserving market segment for sm...
by | On 18 Mar 2015 This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2012. Amnesty International records figures on the use of the death penalty based on the best available info...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 13 Mar 2015 State of the Economy - an overview
Public Finance
monetary management and financial intermediation
External Sector
Price, Agriculture and Food Management
Industrial, Corporate and Infrastructur...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2015 This brief discusses China's political, economic, territorial, and security relations with North Korea. It suggests that although China remains North Korea's most important ally as well as its biggest...
by | On 26 Dec 2014 Savarkar was not only a revolutionary, but also one who could reflect on the revolutionary life. The earlier generation of 1857 perhaps lacked the ability or at the very least, the opportunity to refl...
by Nikhil Govind | On 26 Dec 2014 Indian constitution stands on the bedrock of secularism though nowhere in the original constitution the word secularism‘ was mentioned. Indian political circuit, in recent times has seen the dirtiest...
by Saadiya Suleman | On 23 Dec 2014 This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills, embodied in
goods, services or capital from poorer to richer countries. A set of stylized facts is presente...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 06 Nov 2014 The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region has an international emigrant population of more than 21 million people who remitted US$112 billion to their home countries in 2013. The region also hosts more t...
by Ahmad Ahsan | On 31 Oct 2014 This book originates from a conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils and contains writings and research reports on Youth in Transition in the Asia and Pacific region. Th...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 Oct 2014 It is shown that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by
tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to “diffusion centrality,” which nests other stan...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 20 Aug 2014 Science has traditionally been a male preserve. Socio-religious prejudices kept science education out of bounds for vast majority of women in India. Even today underrepresentation of women in science...
by Paromita Ghosh | On 29 Jul 2014 This paper will highlight the myths that surround the question of mass conversion to Islam and the so called temple destructions by the Muslims during the formative years of the Sultanate and the Mugh...
by Amit K Suman | On 24 Jul 2014 Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Corridor is a win-win arrangement. The linkages of tr...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 15 Jul 2014 Book Review - Understanding India: Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials discusses Indian Television Commercials in the context of marketing interests and visual culture. The author exa...
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 09 Jul 2014 This paper compares alternative ways of measuring participation of a country in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and estimates distribution of gains between countries in terms of Countries' shares in total...
by Rashmi Banga | On 10 Mar 2014 This paper seeks to outline the infrastructure needs of Bangladesh with respect to domestic
sources of finance. While infrastructure encompasses energy, transportation, telecommunications, water and...
by Ishraq Ahmed | On 22 Jan 2014 The paper explores the logic of continuity in independent India’s security policy from where the British Raj had left off. Much like the Raj, Nehru’s India sought to provide security to its smaller ne...
by prashant kumar | On 21 Jan 2014 This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of
their leadership. A database is constructed on the personal background of 932
politicians who were at...
by Marion Mercier | On 20 Dec 2013 Ganges is one of the important rivers of South Asia. It is a trans-boundary river between India and Bangladesh. Some rivers, originating in the Tibetan Autonomous region of the People's Republic of Ch...
by Dwarika Dhungel | On 15 Nov 2013 The gruesome murder of Dabolkar, who had been spearheading a movement against superstitions in Maharashtra, has plunged all people of rationalist disposition in shock. Voices are rising that laws sho...
by Oscar F Picazo | On 22 Oct 2013 India is the top remittance receiving nation in the world. The international remittance receipts in India have grown at an impressive rate of 300 per cent during the past decade. Understanding the tru...
by Puja Guha | On 13 Sep 2013 In the aftermath of the anti-governmental Gezi demonstrations of May-June and the conclusion of the Ergenekon trial earlier this month, clear fault-lines are crystallizing in the Turkish political lan...
by Ozan Serdaroglu | On 05 Sep 2013 Statement by Dr. Raghuram Rajan on taking office on September 4, 2013. [RBI Press release].
by Sabeeta Badkar | On 05 Sep 2013 In China’s foreign affairs and security studies, the concept of the ‘neighborhood’
(zhoubian) has a special meaning that has changed gradually over time. As China has developed, its leadership has be...
by Zhang Chi | On 12 Aug 2013 This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under c...
by V. J. Varghese | On 26 Jun 2013 Using appropriate measures of participation, this
paper explores if the role of socio-religious background and other factors has changed over a
period of time. This dynamics of participation in High...
by Rakesh Basant | On 05 Jun 2013 The importance of the political parties in Myanmar and their role as the
creators of the future of the country. The course of the present developments
relies on the ability of the political parties....
by Aung Aung (IR) | On 09 Apr 2013 This study examines the impact of inflows of foreign workers on Korean natives’ economic
performance – namely, employment – through the Employment Permit System, the basis of
Korea’s system by which...
by Jungho Kim | On 03 Apr 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 In the paper there is a use of nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemen...
by Farzana Afridi | On 07 Mar 2013 New Delhi launched its SEZ revolution in April 2000 to secure the country a
two digit growth rate, copying from China what during the previous two decades proved
to be an excellent strategy, this pa...
by Claudia Astarita | On 21 Feb 2013 The Companies Bill, 2009 was introduced on August 3rd 2009. The Standing Committee presented its
report on August 31st 2010. The central government withdrew this Bill in the winter session of 2011. I...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 11 Feb 2013 This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter
heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http:/...
by Gerard Padro-i- Miquel | On 09 Jan 2013 This paper provides a
detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on
which type of products and in which sectors the Indian government applies antidumping
m...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 23 Nov 2012 A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led t...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 15 Nov 2012 This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is show...
by E J Wilson | On 05 Nov 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 This article discusses the
cultural basis and origins of the idea of this strategy from the point of view
of China’s traditional culture and historical development and analyzes the
the reality of C...
by Wang Dewen | On 27 Sep 2012 The paper reviews the
available evidence on the patterns of Muslim participation in education and
employment. Comparing the estimates derived from the most recent round of
the National Sample Surve...
by Rakesh Basant | On 27 Sep 2012 The paper examines the debates and makes specific policy recommendations by which regionalism, the engagement of small states (through the role of Singapore and the 3-G coalition), and the expansion o...
by Andrew F Cooper | On 09 Aug 2012 The violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State appears to have died down. However, partisan portrayals of the violence risks jeopardising the security of locals and Myanmar’s reform process with extr...
by Kyaw San Wai | On 31 Jul 2012 Obituary: Mrinal Gore (1928-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 23 Jul 2012 What are major factors behind underdevelopment of corporate bond market in India? One of the major bottlenecks to the development of this market lies in relatively larger costs of financing which diss...
by Sanjay Banerji | On 17 Jul 2012 A
bill
to promote autonomy of higher educational institutions and universities for free pursuit
of knowledge and innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated
growth of higher educati...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 12 Jul 2012 The Philippines has often been cited as the global model in managing international
labor migration. Despite the complexity of our management infrastructure, however,
some gaps still remain. This pap...
by Julyn S Ambito | On 12 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 The different role of intra- and inter-national university-industry collaboration in industrial
innovation in emerging economies are investigated. Based on a national firm-level survey database from...
by Xiaolan Fu | On 09 Jul 2012 This paper examines the roles and challenges of small holding agriculture in India. It covers trends in agricultural growth, cultivation patterns, participation of small holding agriculture, productiv...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 06 Jul 2012 Evidence is presented to show that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders and borrowers improves the efficiency of credit allocation. In-group preferential t...
by Raymond Fisman | On 05 Jul 2012 Following the debate on the relationship between capitalism and religion, this paper discusses the role of religion in present-day capitalism. It argues that neither the secularization
thesis nor the...
by Christoph Deutschmann | On 11 Jun 2012 The PRC’s leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply chains. It is argued that a value-added-based ap...
by Yuqing Xing | On 27 Apr 2012 India’s experience with exporting services is examined. The country’s experience is distinctive in that services, especially modern tradable
services, comprise a significantly larger share of GDP tha...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 23 Apr 2012 Persistence and
breakdowns of democracy are the dominant features of
Nepali politics.Democracy continues to be attractive amidst
setbacks and discontinuity. So it remains perennially elusive,
desp...
by Lok Raj Baral | On 23 Apr 2012 Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to
developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s,
but foreign brides...
by Daiji Kawaguchi | On 16 Apr 2012 SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
DATO’ SRI MOHD. NAJIB BIN TUN ABDUL RAZAK
INTRODUCING THE MOTION TO TABLE THE
TENTH MALAYSIA PLAN. [Prime Minister's office Malaysia]. URL:[http://www.pmo.gov.my/?menu=...
by Prime Minister Malaysia | On 11 Apr 2012 The paper gives an analysis and description of the quantity and quality of the Iban population of Sarawak. The information about the pattern and trends of change of the population over time is also sh...
by Lam Chee Kheung | On 09 Apr 2012 The paper estimates the elasticity of Imports with respect to relative prices and income for Pakistan from 1971 to 2009. What distinguishes this paper from the earlier studies is the use of robust est...
by Khurram Ashfaq Baluch | On 30 Mar 2012 Jetz and Fine that we are in the midst of the sixth
mass extinction event on this planet and
the cause is us. By achieving greater
understanding of the underlying causes
and correlates of current-...
by Jonathan Chase | On 29 Mar 2012 Budget speech by the Finance Minister of Bhutan. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/Budgetreport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 22 Mar 2012 The effect of export subsidies on the under-invoicing of exports in Bangladesh is analyzed. In a framework that allows for unobserved heterogeneity among importing countries and product specificities,...
by Pranav Kumar Gupta | On 16 Mar 2012 To greatly develop trade in services and realize the transition from a big trade country to a strong trade country, the 12th Five Year Plan is formulated based on Outline of the 12th Five Year Plan f...
by Ministry of Commerce China | On 15 Mar 2012 The implications of the rule of Chiang
Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo in Taiwan (1950–1988) for the Taiwan
Strait Crises is examined, especially the third one af??ter the Cold War and potenti...
by Lu Jinghua | On 05 Mar 2012 This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses
the problem of the endogenous pl...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 02 Mar 2012 This research focuses on religious changes among hunter-gatherers in Borneo.
A two month archival research was carried out that will be used in the understanding
of the relationship between traditi...
by Gotzone Gray | On 28 Feb 2012 Outward-oriented economies seem to grow faster than inward-looking ones. Does the literature on convergence have anything to say on this? In the dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, with factor-pr...
by Partha Sen | On 28 Feb 2012 Review of
Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915. by Nile Green.
Cambridge University Press, New York
2011. xvi + 327 pp. $90.00 (cloth),
ISBN 978-0-521-76924-2.
by Fahad A. Bishara | On 26 Feb 2012 This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net
gain and loss from trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and
South...
by Mohammad Masuduzzaman | On 23 Feb 2012 This paper argues that the collective action in Asia by its regional organizations has historically
suffered from a “capability–legitimacy gap”: a disjuncture between the capability (in terms of
mat...
by Amitav Acharya | On 17 Feb 2012 Review of the book 'Riots and After in Mumbai: Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation' Meena Menon, Sage Publications India, 2011, Pp 267 + xcii, Rs. 595/-
by Irfan Engineer | On 17 Feb 2012 The aim of this paper is to compare the technical efficiency of Indian Banks operating
abroad and foreign banks operating in India and to investigate the effect of openness of the
country, ownership...
by Vivek Kumar | On 08 Feb 2012 The paper discusses some of the main human
rights areas of concern within Malaysia,
over the years. [Working Paper Series No. 12]. URL:[http://www.ieas.unimas.my/images/stories/hirmanritom.pdf].
by Mohammad Hirman Ritom Abdullah | On 07 Feb 2012 The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India.
The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having
mapped out the size of...
by Rakesh Basant | On 06 Feb 2012 This essay examines the trajectory of India?s fiscal policy with a focus on historical trends, fiscal discipline frameworks, fiscal responses to the global financial crisis and subsequent return to a...
by Supriyo De | On 31 Jan 2012 The study examines the intention to work abroad based on a representative sample of young Singaporeans residing in the city-state. Two thousand and thirteen Singaporeans between the age of 19 to 30 ye...
by Leong Chan Hoong | On 27 Jan 2012 This Policy Brief discusses the proposed amendments to Republic Act No. 7653 (RA 7653). The
first part briefly presents the mandate of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). It then describes the
fi...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 29 Dec 2011 This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s governme...
by Kaushik Basu | On 27 Dec 2011 This paper proposes to redefine food security in terms of protecting vulnerable populations from the structural violence of involuntary hunger. [NTS-Asia Research Paper No.6]. URL:[http://www.rsis.edu...
by Ben Shepherd | On 23 Dec 2011 Both secondary and primary sources of information and data have been used. In
order to provide the context of the study, data relating to the labour market indicators and
employment of some categori...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 22 Dec 2011 The recommendations that follow take
cognizance of the extraordinary opportunities that
India offers – and the possibility for India to take a
lead in introducing a well-designed UHC system that
i...
by Planning Commission | On 15 Dec 2011 The three year journey of the G-20 Heads of Government Summit from Washington in 2008 to Paris this November is signified by two markers of the depth of the global capitalist crisis. First, that the c...
by Louise Ross | On 14 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Debt and Death in Rural India: The Punjab Story' by
Aman Sidhu and Inderjit Singh Jaijee
Sage Publications India, New Delhi,
2011, Rs 750/-, pp 360.
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 13 Dec 2011 Possible scenarios for China and the world economy until
2015 is looked at. In all of them, China will continue to accumulate FX reserves, so that
reserve assets will remain the largest component of...
by Catherine Shu Ling Tan | On 08 Dec 2011 The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce examined the subject of Foreign and Domestic Investment in the Retail sector beginning April 5, 2007 under the chairmanship of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi....
by Anirudh Burman | On 05 Dec 2011 The Pension Fund Regulatory
and Development Authority Bill,
2011 was introduced in the Lok
Sabha by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee,
Minister for Finance on March
24, 2011.
The Bill was referred to the
St...
by M. R. Madhavan | On 01 Dec 2011 This paper analyses the impact of the retail FDI policy on Indian consumers and make policy recommendations for the Indian government. Based on a primary survey of Indian consumers, the paper examines...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 28 Nov 2011 The outward FDI from emerging economies to developed countries is of great interest to
international business researchers and policy makers, also with regard to their location and sectoral
patterns....
by Haiyan Zhang | On 21 Nov 2011 It is widely agreed by economists and political scientists that the middle class is vital to progress
because of its many virtues. But it is difficult to define a middle class by income in a manner t...
by Charles Kenny | On 16 Nov 2011 The paper scrutinizes the functioning of the G20 and its role in increasing coordination. and cooperation between Asian countries. It highlights divergent
agendas amongst the A6 as regards the future...
by Hugo Dobson | On 09 Nov 2011 The rapid export growth of China's township-village enterprises (TVEs)
has not been well understood and explained. Using a simple analytical model
and exploring a unique dataset on China's TVEs the...
by Changqi Wu | On 08 Nov 2011 This paper attempts to explain why internationalization processes to China are growing
despite the significant difficulties that foreign direct investments into China encounter.
The answer to this q...
by Geny Piotti | On 04 Nov 2011 The object world of the social sciences is complex, historical and self-reflexive. It generates
nonlinear effects, it is unique, and it is able to understand the theories developed
about it and resp...
by Sandra Mitchell | On 01 Nov 2011 When India purchased 200 tonnes of gold under the International Monetary
Fund's limited gold sales programme, it was interpreted inter alia that it may further
inflate the gold price when the price...
by Karunagaran A | On 17 Oct 2011 Review of Nandanar’s Children: The Paraiyans’ Tryst with Destiny Tamil Nadu 1850—1956, Raj Sekhar Basu,
Sage India, New Delhi,
2011, 492 pp, Rs 895
by Rajesh Komath | On 11 Oct 2011 In this paper the objective functions of the regions as well as their decision to provide
public investment are endogenized in a model of competition for foreign owned mobile capital. It is demonstra...
by Rupayan Pal | On 04 Oct 2011 How does innovation impact on development?
How, and under what conditions,
do entrepreneurs in developing
countries innovate? And what can be
done to support innovation by entrepreneurs
in develo...
by Wim Naude | On 16 Sep 2011 This paper deals with migration into India from adjoining neighbours and its impact on security and other issues of national interest. Unlike other studies on migration, it focuses on the ethnic ident...
by Subhakanta Behera | On 26 Aug 2011 This paper defines business and growth rate cycles and describes the importance of key coincident indicators and reference chronologies, following reflections on the definition of a recession. The rob...
by Pami Dua | On 18 Aug 2011 The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillov...
by Pami Dua | On 12 Aug 2011 This paper attempts to examine technical efficiency and productivity performance of Indian scheduled commercial banks, for the period 1979-2008. A model is constructed using multiple output/multiple i...
by S S Rajan | On 03 Aug 2011 Using sex identity theory, the paper studies the impact of feminine identity and soft influence tactics on leadership styles, specifically task oriented and participative. Earlier researchers have doc...
by Asha Kaul | On 13 Jul 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 New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data ana...
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 08 Jul 2011 The authors recount East Asia's experience with foreign direct investment (FDI). They document that, contrary to the Rybczynski theorem, capital flows in the region cause the host country's labor-inte...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 04 Jul 2011 National Integration Council member and Secretary General of All India Christian Council, Dr. John Dayal appeals Indian National Congress President Mrs Sonia Gandhi to intervene Manipur government’s t...
by All India Christian Council | On 04 Jul 2011 Theory of allocation of time revealed that historically market-time
has never consistently been greater than the non-market time and
therefore the allocation and efficiency of latter may be equally...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 29 Jun 2011 In this short essay, senior fellow David Wheeler compares the world’s foreign assistance architecture
to how the rest of the world operates in the digital age. He suggests that multilateral and bilat...
by David Wheeler | On 24 Jun 2011 The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada,...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 21 Jun 2011 Review of
Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai
Movement by Tulasi Srinivas. Columbia University Press,New York, 2010. 448 pp. $89.50 (cloth), IS...
by Hanna H. Kim | On 05 Jun 2011 Review of
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo Peter Heehs. Columbia University Press, New York 2008. xiv + 496 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-14098-0. [ https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=32846...
by Hanna H. Kim | On 05 Jun 2011 In recent years perhaps in a un-precendented fashion development relating to India's external sector have captured the undivided attention of domestic as well as foreign observers. In India considerab...
by Sunil Mani | On 03 Jun 2011 Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in
weathering the external shocks of recent globalization crises—the 1997-98 Asian
financial crisis and the 2008-09 great...
by Philip Abbott | On 02 Jun 2011 The recent financial crisis has rekindled interest in the foreign aid supply behaviour of
bilateral donors. Using the latest data covering the period 1960-2009, this paper
examines how such behaviou...
by Sam Jones | On 01 Jun 2011 The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was established in 1969 to generate resources for family planning and provide global leadership on population issues. Since then, the diverse needs of countr...
by Centre for Global Development | On 30 May 2011 One of the main conflicts prevailing in South Asia today is that of the row over Kashmir. The
long history of the conflict, the states involved in the conflict and its geo-political position has...
by Khalid Wasim Hassan | On 26 May 2011 Vasant Gupte would have been 84 this May. These tributes, one by his family and the second by his comrades and colleagues, celebrate his life and life philosophy.
by Girija Gupte | On 16 May 2011 Despite the long history of accommodation and tolerance of diversity and multiculturalism that
constituted a previous generation of Bengali culture and nationalism, it is evident that in
Banglades...
by South Asians for Human Rights | On 13 May 2011 Unique survey data is used to study whether the introduction of local elections in China
made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. A simple model is developed
to predict the e...
by Monica Martinez Bravo | On 18 Apr 2011 This presentation was given at the Managing Foreign Exchange Reserves in the Crisis and After Seminar by Robert N. McCauley, which was held in Tokyo, Japan on 15 March 2011. URL: [http://www.adbi.org/...
by Robert N. McCauley | On 06 Apr 2011 The issue of Bengali speaking Muslims has been brought up in Assam time and over again and this point has also been used at the time of elections to polarize the communities along religious lines.
by Ram Puniyani | On 05 Apr 2011 An event of great political and
historical significance occurred on 11
February 2011 inside the dense forests
of Abujhmad in Chhattisgarh with the
CPI (Maoist) releasing five policemen of
Chhatti...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 29 Mar 2011 MNEs are increasingly seeking to augment, as well as exploit, their global competitive
advantage. Foreign direct investments are being directed to augmenting the competitive
ownership specific...
by De Beule Filip | On 23 Mar 2011 In recent years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as the world’s largest
recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI). Many analysts and government officials in the
developing world...
by Busakorn Chantasasawat | On 22 Mar 2011 The objective of the paper is to test the empirical regularity that exporters are more productive than non-exporters in India. TFP is calculated from the Cobb-Douglas Production
function using a fixe...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 21 Mar 2011 The Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia applied for accession
to the World Trade Organization in October 1994. At its meeting on
21 December 1994, the Preparatory Committee for the WTO
establishe...
by Sok Siphana | On 16 Mar 2011 This Policy Brief focuses on links between the developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s spectacular...
by Amelia U. Santos Paulino | On 11 Mar 2011 Although the Asian Crisis has brought consensus on the necessity of
strong domestic financial systems, there is less agreement as to the role of
foreign banks in achieving the goals of economic grow...
by Heather Montgomery | On 10 Mar 2011 There is no doubt that part of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) FDI belongs to the return of Chinese
capital that has gone abroad. The World Bank and o...
by Xiao Geng | On 08 Mar 2011 The problems of failed states, including the repeated return to power of former warlords are examined. It is argued that this causes institutions to become weaker and people to get poorer. It is argue...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 04 Mar 2011 The paper analysed the financial performance of foreign banks in comparison with other bank
groups in India. The study assumes importance in the context of the on-going preparation
of roadmap for th...
by P B Rakhe | On 22 Feb 2011 They show under general demand and cost conditions that in a mixed duopoly with pollution the
government can (and will) implement the socially optimal outputs and abatements by a tax-subsidy
scheme...
by Rupayan Pal | On 16 Feb 2011 External development finance consists of those foreign sources of funds that promote or at least have the potential to promote development in the destination countries if delivered in the appropriate...
by Matthew Odedokun | On 14 Feb 2011 The exchange rate-based monetary policy followed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is outlined. Possible theoretical frameworks, including a reaction function is outlined. The way the MAS h...
by Partha Sen | On 31 Jan 2011 As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of differ...
by Robert KAppel | On 28 Jan 2011 This discussion paper on the form of presence of foreign banks in
India has been prepared taking into account, inter-alia, the lessons learnt from
the recent global financial crisis and the practice...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 26 Jan 2011 In this paper they analyse the Granger causal relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI)
and GDP in a sample of 31 developing countries covering 31 years. Using estimators
for heteroge...
by Henrik Hansen | On 18 Jan 2011 The use of monetary policy in India has been constrained by a loose fiscal policy and capital flows. Capital inflows have the potential to cause a Dutch Disease-type situation. The RBI has carried out...
by Partha Sen | On 06 Jan 2011 Peace can generate an economic dividend, which can be further increased by appropriate
economic reform. This dividend can in turn be used to raise popular support for conflict
resolution measures...
by Saman Kelegama | On 31 Dec 2010 At the very time that professional skepticism concerning the effectiveness of foreign
aid has reached new heights, donors seem to be ready to substantially increase the
volume of aid they are will...
by Gustav Ranis | On 30 Dec 2010 Foreign aid often works, but it is often criticized for being ineffective or even
for undermining progress in developing countries. This brief describes a new
approach, Cash on Delivery Aid, which...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 13 Dec 2010 The very rapid economic growth of the People’s Republic of China (henceforth PRC), its dramatic
success in world export markets and its heavy receipts of foreign direct investment (FDI) have
generat...
by John Weiss | On 10 Dec 2010 Much of development policy is geared toward increasing investment and creating the conditions that allow
private capital flows to take the place of development assistance. The renowned development s...
by John Simon | On 10 Dec 2010 This consultation paper aims to seek the views of stakeholders to assist TRAI in arriving at a
framework by which interconnecting service providers may be fairly compensated for
Intelligent Network...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 30 Nov 2010 The paper analyzes the the dynamics of gender balance in the corporate world. It examines the present scenario of leadership in this sector and the reasons of lack of female leaders.
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 30 Nov 2010 The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations. Moving beyond standar...
by David Roodman | On 29 Nov 2010 Building on recent work in the fiscal response literature, the present paper develops a new fiscal
response model, which, for the first time in the relevant literature, combines the ideas of both
en...
by George Mavrotas | On 24 Nov 2010 This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in
information and communication technology (ICT) and foreign direct investment (FDI),
with reference to its implica...
by Roghieh Gholami | On 22 Nov 2010 A decomposition in the ownership of shares
by foreigners is offered into three parts: the change in insider shareholding,
the change in market capitalisation and the change in the fraction of
outsi...
by Ajay Shah | On 16 Nov 2010 The present paper examines the cultural orientation of foreign students who secured
admission in Osmania University (Andhra Pradesh, India) in terms of time
orientation and event orientation, dichot...
by S. V. Satyanarayana | On 03 Nov 2010 This paper examines the impact of globalization on two transitional economies in Asia.
Both countries have undergone a radical economic reform process over the past decade,
assisted by increases in...
by Nick. J Freeman | On 01 Nov 2010 Recently, a dramatic accumulation in foreign exchange reserves has been widely observed in developing countries. This paper explores the possible long-run impacts of this trend on macroeconomic variab...
by Shin-ichi Fukuda | On 01 Nov 2010 This paper reviews the status of the external sector of the Indian economy. It is divided into 5 broad
sections. Section I gives the trends of imports and exports, as well as the composition and dire...
by Archana S Mathur | On 26 Oct 2010 Foreign direct investment may not necessarily be the most welfare enhancing form of
international investment. The host country may avail options like – Joint venture,
technology licensing, franchi...
by Arti Grover | On 11 Oct 2010 The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid
effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and
self-interest. But, wit...
by Stephen Browne | On 06 Oct 2010 The Indian economy has recently grown at historically unprecedented rates and is now one of the
fastest-growing economies in the world. Real GDP per head grew at 3.95 percent a year from
1980 to 2...
by Angus Deaton | On 05 Oct 2010 Poverty remains to be the most important development issue facing India with an estimated 301.72 million Indians (27.5 percent) living below the poverty line in 2004-2005. In 1975, Ralegan Siddhi was...
by Aasha Kapur Mehta | On 04 Oct 2010 This paper traces the effects of the “East Asian Miracle,” the 1997–1998 Asian Crisis, the recovery, and the 2008–2009 global financial crisis on ASEAN countries. It also considers how ASEAN countries...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 28 Sep 2010 This paper reviews the prevailing policy environment to evaluate its efficacy in ensuring that India is successfully able to address these challenges in the education sector. Given the well establishe...
by Sanat Kaul | On 17 Sep 2010 Technology transfer costs have a profound influence on the firm’s entry mode into a production sharing relationship. To explore this nexus, they associate technological complexity of the off-shored in...
by Arti Grover | On 14 Sep 2010 This paper analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 03 Sep 2010 The export of textiles from India accounts for about one-third of India’s total exports. What is more
significant is that textiles as a group, is also the largest net foreign exchange earner in as...
by Avih Rastogi | On 01 Sep 2010 Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the
country has been hosting many international sports and this has given a boost to this
sector. Many foreign...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 13 Aug 2010 This report series is all about the growing recognition that Singapore can also learn from the experiences of Indonesia. [Report No.1]
by H.P. Desker | On 06 Aug 2010 India is a secular state in which all faiths enjoy freedom of worship. The concept of secularism is
implicit in the Preamble to our Constitution, which declares the resolve of the people to secure to...
by Garima Gupta | On 15 Jul 2010
Though Japan had been one of the top five investors in India for long, its share in
India’s total FDI inflows has been dwindling since 2000. Other countries have
surpassed Japan in terms of the...
by Geethanjali Nataraj | On 25 Jun 2010 Pakistan has historically received large volumes of aid but it has also faced an increasingly difficult task of aid coordination. In 2007, Pakistan received more than U.S.$2.2 billion in Official Deve...
by Abdul Malik | On 18 Jun 2010 The Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project – a dam and diversion project under construction in Central Laos – violates the Equator Principles and Lao law, according to this report. It documents how Lao villa...
by Ikuko Matsumoto | On 17 Jun 2010 Vietnam's (re) discovery in recent years by the international investor community gives the country a second chance to become and Asia tiger. The article looks into the economic, social, political, per...
by Tamara Trinh | On 16 Jun 2010 This paper first assesses the aid-growth literature with a focus on recent contributions.
The aid-growth literature is then framed, for the first time, in terms of the Rubin Causal
Model, applied...
by Channing Arndt | On 02 Jun 2010 This
paper will focus on different instances of community assertions by the
Syrian Christians in twentieth century Travancore/Kerala. [Working Paper 427]
by J Devika | On 02 Jun 2010 This
paper confirms that for Mexico over the period 1986-2000, the export sector pays higher wages
than other sectors, but school drop out increases with the arrival of new export jobs. The workers...
by David Atkin | On 28 May 2010 It is argue that the so-called cultural‘ (and spatial‘) turn that has remodelled so many other areas of the humanities and social sciences over the last two decades might help answer Armstrong‘s plea...
by Colin Divall | On 21 May 2010 This paper aims at touching on the main divisions of fisheries management, with an insight into the state mechanism and the extra legal systems in place. The principal focus is the history of Indian m...
by Rohan Dominic Mathews | On 16 Apr 2010 Delhi is believed to be dil of India. It features historic attractions tracing our evolution from the past
to the present. The legacy includes architecture of every description, which never ceases to...
by Shiva Mishra | On 01 Apr 2010 The objective of this study is to examine empirically the impact of monetary policy on exchange market pressure (EMP) in Bangladesh. EMP is measured as the sum of percentage change of international re...
by Sayera Younus | On 29 Jan 2010 The essay is begun with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi
news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The complex and turmoil-ridden and
...
by Vasanthi Raman | On 21 Jan 2010 The paper first gives a brief history and comparison of Japanese foreign direct investment
into India and other Asian countries, highlighting the fact that Japanese investment into India
is quite lo...
by Srabani Roy Choudhury | On 19 Jan 2010 Department of Industrial Policy and promotion has recently issued revised guidelines for calculation of total foreign investment i.e. direct and indirect foreign investment in Indian companies for bri...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 18 Jan 2010 India is a stable democratic political system with rising economic fortunes and global ambitions make it a potential power that could play a very important role in world affairs. But India has to tack...
by Teresita C Schaffer | On 15 Jan 2010 This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of
direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in
three emerging economies of Centr...
by Jozef Konings | On 11 Dec 2009 A detailed historical review of the research to date spanning more than 50 years, and includes a perspective on the impact of climate change on the glaciers. The Ministry invites comments on the Paper...
by V K Raina | On 30 Nov 2009 This paper is aganist the popular assertion regarding the links between innovation and clustering and it is found that the main sources of knowledge transfer and innovation among key firms in Bangalor...
by Aya Okada | On 23 Nov 2009 The present paper deals with the discourse of the rights of Muslim women in
the pre- independence period with particular reference to the Shariat Act
1937 and the Muslim Marriage Dissolution Act 193...
by Sabiha Hussain | On 20 Nov 2009 This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 10 Nov 2009 The main thrust of this paper is: Why should women go to these courts to
settle matrimonial disputes while there are provisions for them in secular
courts? Do women face less harassment and get quic...
by Sabiha Hussain | On 05 Nov 2009 This paper describes the major institutional weaknesses in global nutrition and presents two recommendations to address the joint problems of incoherence, lack of institutional leaders, and persistent...
by Ruth Levine | On 27 Oct 2009 Recollect and recount lessons from crises. The key lessons are how to anticipate and take pre-emptive action and equally important, once you are in the middle of it, how to respond effectively namely,...
by Usha Thorat | On 22 Oct 2009 Options for monetary policy arising from interactions
between it and Indian foreign exchange (FX) markets. A brief survey covers
recent rapid changes providing a snapshot of current microstructure,
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 Sep 2009 There are various historical water conservation structures and water-mills in the Rispana valley near Rajpur. There are some of the more important structures and discusses the possibility of preservin...
by William Stichter | On 12 Aug 2009 This paper formulates a model of exchange rate determination that
describes the market processes by which the foreign exchange markets
are cleared and international receipts of countries are brought...
by Rajas Parchure | On 06 Aug 2009 Despite the negative impact of the current crisis and many
remaining uncertainties about the actual economic recovery path,
the medium-term outlook for Hong Kong’s banks remains
favourable.
by Robert Mülhaupt | On 15 Jul 2009 This publication was produced as a direction to increase the capability
of Member States to plan and implement nuclear power programmes and to establish and
enhance national nuclear infrastructure....
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 19 Jun 2009 Can young people help to increase awareness about climate change and its impacts working through local bodies? A perceptive and informative presentation by the UN-HABITAT Youth Advisory Board Member a...
by John Anugraha | On 15 Jun 2009 The article focuses on understanding of the economics of the exchange control liberalisation in macroeconomic perspectives and, therefore, the article does not attempt to interpret or explore the lega...
by P Samarasiri | On 12 Jun 2009 This background paper focuses on the implications of investment liberalization on ASEAN nations.
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by Ignacio Jose Minambres | On 31 May 2009 Multinational companies exercise their impact on the economic development of the host countries and regions through Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). The host countries tap the benefits from these FDI...
by Filip De Beule | On 15 May 2009 Firms differ in the effects that foreign direct investment liberalizations have on their businesses, and in the responses they make to adjust to the liberalized business environment. In this study th...
by Stanley Nollen | On 15 May 2009 History matters, and it matters in important and interesting ways for policy
today. But it is not just actual events in the past. It is how they are recorded, interpreted,
and the interpretation...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 22 Apr 2009 The author argues that deep-seated religious conflicts will mar the region's prospects unless nations truly embrace secularism.
by Michael Wesley | On 06 Apr 2009 The paper examines the basic reasons and feasible remedies for organizational
weakness, and the possible contribution of ownership, industry and management
structure, leadership, social norms, and i...
by Ashima Goyal | On 12 Feb 2009 The speech tries to underline some lessones that be drawn from the financial crisis relevant to regulation, financial markets and the market infrastructure and to reflect on these. [Annual Conference...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 15 Jan 2009 This paper provides a cradle-to-grave model for political union between two unequally endowed states. The main contribution of this paper is to highlight the role of technology gap and unequal distrib...
by Vikas Kumar | On 10 Dec 2008 The speech mainly throws light upon the impact of financial crisis on emrging economies particulary India. [Speech delivered at Reserve Bank of India at the RBI-BIS Seminar at Hyderabad].
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 05 Dec 2008 Whether there should be transparency in political finance? Whether there should be a control over the money that the political parties are receiving?
by Marcin Walecki | On 04 Dec 2008 The report highlights the following aspects:
1. the inability of the legal system to recognise the unique unequal ,
2. position of women;
3. the perception of women as peripheral to economic develo...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 01 Dec 2008 Over 50 persons, mainly Christians, have been killed since the Hindu fundamentalists launched an attack on the Christians following the murder of four members of the VHP including 90 year old Laxmanan...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 22 Sep 2008 Random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate
whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders is analysed . Villagers who hav...
by Lori Beaman | On 22 Aug 2008 The paper examines the current problems with the IMF which include: 1) the institution is no longer fulfilling the functions it used to fulfil, nor is there a clear vision of any new functions for it;...
by Roberto Frenkel | On 21 Aug 2008 This paper presents an overview of Indo-Japan cooperation since late 18th and early 19th century till date. In the light of the changing paradigm in India-Japan relations over the past several years,...
by PG Rajamohan | On 23 Jun 2008 The transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre
for the History of Medicine at UCL, London on March 12, 2002. Edited by D A Christie and E M Tansey.
Rachel Carson’s 'Silent Spr...
by Wellcome Witness WW Seminars | On 15 May 2008 The paper examines fertility differentials among the three religion groups, Hindu, Muslim and Christian, and trends in these based on data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-1). [WP No. 167]...
by Manoj Alagarajan | On 26 Feb 2008 A historical survey of transport to demonstrate that transport has always been recognised as of paramount importance for the wellbeing of the whole community, that a combination of collective and indi...
by Ralph Harrington | On 01 Feb 2008 As the title of the article says, the question asked here is who can fight terrorisn in Pakistan?
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Jan 2008 The significance of international migration in the Philippines economy and society is discussed. The Government of Philippines plays a supportive and regulatory role promoting internationational migr...
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 19 Jan 2008 Results from the NSS 61st Round Employment – Unemployment Survey, 2004-05 on the issue of fair access to social groups and religion-based population categories. [WP no. 163].
by Sundaram K | On 04 Jan 2008 One of the principal mechanisms through which inequality is reproduced is language, specifically the language used as the medium of instruction. The
learner’s mother tongue holds the key to making sc...
by Carol Benson | On 21 Dec 2007 The growing importance of India and other emerging economies in the globalized world are given in this lecture. This group of economies is not easy to define. However, some reflections on the implicat...
by Jean-Claude Trichet | On 30 Nov 2007 The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a...
by Marvin Goodfriend | On 09 Oct 2007 This paper has the objective of analysing the determinants of FII investment in firms in high-tech corporate sectors like automobiles, drugs and pharmaceuticals, IT software and IT hardware for the pe...
by B.L. Pandit | On 08 Oct 2007 Anthropology is a science of inquiries about the origins and continuities of the patterned differentiation of human beings into distinguishable groups. During
the last hundred years, most such inquir...
by Sidney W. Mintz | On 04 Oct 2007 Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism by Jyoti Hosagrahar; Routledge,New York; 2005. xiii + 234 pp., $43.95 (paper).
by Amita Sinha | On 23 Aug 2007 There is a change in the financial scenario. Any sustained bout of fair weather on the markets creates business excesses as investors and consumers start discounting risk more and more. So it is healt...
by T.N. Ninan | On 20 Aug 2007 On 14 August 2007, the United Nations Committee on the International Convention Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) is tentatively scheduled to examine the situation of...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 11 Aug 2007 Five examples of leadership which provides an insight into how selfless individuals with expert knowledge and determination succeed in contributing to societal development are narrated. [Address at th...
by APJ Abdul Kalam | On 09 Aug 2007 A talk with Nobel economics laureate Robert Mundell on how Beijing can keep the yuan’s value fixed and still avoid inflation. China’s high balance of payments surplus and pressure on the yuan could be...
by Hugo Restall | On 04 Aug 2007 The report is a compilation of quantitative information with regard to external reserves, such as, level of foreign exchange reserves, sources of accretion to foreign exchange reserves, external liabi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 26 Jul 2007 The problem of corruption has become very important in recent thinking on development policy. But corruption is only a part of the more general issue of economic governance, and of more general policy...
by Avinash K Dixit | On 17 Jul 2007 India has clearly achieved a large sustained level of remittances. Policy initiatives by the government and banking institutions have achieved two significant results. First, most remittances flow tho...
by Muzaffar Chisti | On 11 Jul 2007 The effects of the inflows of private foreign capital on some major macroeconomic variables in India are analyzed using quarterly data for the period 1993-99. Cointegration test and The Granger Causal...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 11 Jul 2007 The historical development of statistics in India is outlined. The application of statistics in RBI and the areas where statisticians can contribute significantly are also given [Speech delivered on T...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 10 Jul 2007 Purdah, Haren Pandya Verdict, MP Freedom of Religion Bill, Misdirected Hyderabad Investigation/ Special Religious Zone
Concerns: Communal Violence Bill
Other regular sections
by Secular Action Network SAN | On 05 Jul 2007 Globalisation promises positive economic impact through faster growth, increase in foreign direct investment and poverty reduction. However, there are growing evidence showing that the undesirable eff...
by Mohammed Yasin Salleh | On 19 Jun 2007 A comparison between PSBs and their private sector counterparts based on measures of efficiency and productivity that use quantities of outputs and inputs. Efficiency measures a firm’s performance rel...
by TT Ram Mohan | On 04 Jun 2007 Aa framework for the analytical treatment of terrorist problems is suggested and then brings out the importance of financial and socio-economic factors. The framework classifies the various causes of...
by Siddhartha Mitra | On 31 May 2007 This paper explores the behaviour of the forward premia for US$ vis-à-vis INR
during the five-year period of September 2000 to September 2005. Indian forex market
experienced a peculiar phenomenon i...
by Anil Kumar Sharma | On 10 Jan 2007 This paper discusses the key issues related to foreign direct investment flows to developing countries in the globalised world. In particular, the paper focuses on the recent trend and direction of fo...
by Sandy Kyaw | On 22 Dec 2006 This paper compares and contrasts the performance of India and China in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Both economies are large emerging markets that had rather similar profiles in 1978....
by John S Henley | On 22 Dec 2006 This paper discusses the integration of religious minorities in China, in particular, of the Hui Muslims. From the pre-Islamic relations between Arabia and China, to the Song period, the Mongol period...
by Donald Daniel Leslie | On 14 Dec 2006 It is astonishing, and entirely unpredicted, that India’s outbound investment should begin to rival inbound FDI. The numbers quoted in a full-page report by the Financial Times earlier this week say t...
by T.N. Ninan | On 07 Oct 2006 With liberalization of foreign technology import policy in the 1990s, India has
seen declining R&D intensity at national level. This has generated a general
concern on how Indian industries are doin...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 28 Mar 2006 During the recent period, many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host cou...
by Subash Sasidharan | On 26 Mar 2006 An analysis of regional differences in the flow of FDI in China and India is important as in both these countries a few regions account for the bulk of FDI inflows. There are very few studies on regi...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 23 Mar 2006 Securities Markets
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Many aspects of the Iraq venture have turned out differently from what was purported before the war: there were no weapons of mass destruction, no clear link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, no imminent dan...
by Linda Bilmes | On 25 Feb 2006 Why has India has performed poorly in attracting export oriented foreign direct investment (EFDI) as compared to its peer groups such as China. The empirical literature on the location of EFDI indic...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 20 Feb 2006 The robust performance of the Indian economy continued during the second
quarter (July-September) of 2005-06. According to the Central Statistical
Organisation (CSO), the economy recorded a real GDP...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 02 Feb 2006 A note on the long-awaited Draft National Pharmaceutical Policy 2006. The Policy appears to have taken into consideration consumer needs, paying respect to rational therapeutics. A closer examinati...
by All-India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) | On 28 Jan 2006 There has been a very rapid rise since the early 1990s in foreign reserves held by developing countries. These reserves have climbed to almost 30 percent of developing countries' GDP and 8 months of i...
by Dani Rodrik | On 27 Jan 2006 Contents
I. The Real Economy -- 1
Agricultural Situation
Industrial Performance
Business Expectations Surveys
Services Sector
II. Fiscal Situation 14
Combined Government Fi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 25 Jan 2006 There are strenuous difficulties in managing competing social groups,
segments and regions in the political landscape of Karnataka. These difficulties have been accentuated by touchy issues of status...
by Pamela Price | On 09 Jan 2006 How has the political leadership in Karnataka contributed to the state's economic developmet? In order to assess the role that the political leadership has played, the author examines the role of the...
by Gujjarappa Thimmaiah | On 09 Jan 2006 This paper examines changes that have (and have not) occurred – at the
village level in Karnataka where most or the state’s residents live, and at
higher levels when they impinge upon villages – sin...
by James Manor | On 09 Jan 2006 This paper outlines a proposal for a controlled approach to capital account
liberalization for economies experiencing large capital inflows. The proposal essentially involves securitizing a portion o...
by Eswar S. Prasad | On 09 Dec 2005 India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market....
by David Clingingsmith | On 10 Nov 2005 Ignoring historical arguments on issues such as market, political economy, capital, and labour has great potential danger. The currently pervasive connotation of ‘liberalisation’ to mean virtually onl...
by Arup Maharatna | On 12 Sep 2005 |