Surprisingly, even though the government had been presented with the recommendations of gender economists and the Feminist Policy Collective for moving towards Transformative Financing for Women and G...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 18 Feb 2023 In 2009, 36 per cent of Karnataka’s population was urban, and 32.7 per cent was poor- higher than the all-India level.This study aims to understand the nature and compute the size of the local public...
by | On 03 Feb 2021 Despite high educational attaintments, educated unemployment is a worrying feature of Kerala. Some of the suggestions made by the Kerala Finance Minister are discussed below. The note suggests that tu...
by Rakkee Thimothy | On 02 Feb 2021 Budget speech by the Finance Minister of India.
by Nirmala Seetharaman | On 01 Feb 2021 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major global crisis that requires country, regional, and global intervention, as well as collaboration to mitigate damage to economies and peop...
by Asian Development Bank | On 25 Jan 2021 Kerala Budget presented by the Finance Minister.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 18 Jan 2021 Amidst the economic slowdown triggered by the outbreak of the Covid-19
pandemic in India there have been many demands for the government to
announce a large fiscal stimulus to support the economy. E...
by Ila Patnaik | On 08 Oct 2020 Review of Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta by Debjani Bhattacharyya.
Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Illustratio...
by | On 07 May 2020 The macroeconomic uncertainty created by COVID-19 is hard to measure. The
situation demands simultaneous policy intervention in terms of public health
infrastructure and livelihood. Along with the g...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 29 Apr 2020 Extant studies deciphering public expenditure on old-age income support in India carry limitations on (a) system expanse, (b) corresponding data collation, and therefore (c) depth of resource conscrip...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 02 Apr 2019 Gender budgeting is a public policy innovation to transform the gender commitments into budgetary commitments. The political economy process of gender budgeting in India has encompassed four distinct...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 02 Apr 2019 This paper compares the additional gains from higher tax devolution in the post
14th FC period, with the additional burden due to the withdrawal of certain central schemes and the changes in the shar...
by Amarnath H. K. | On 30 Mar 2019 Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of...
by Chun-Ping Chang | On 28 Mar 2019 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 The goal of the note is to lay out and discuss a package of reforms that could be consistent with the objectives of the government. The fiscal instruments that we consider here include the division of...
by Roy Bahl | On 07 Mar 2019 This paper examines the role of consumer finance, a high growth segment of the Indian financial sector in promoting financial inclusion. Consumer finance involves granting credit to consumers to enabl...
by Saon Ray | On 03 Feb 2019 This paper analysed the trends and pattern of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure of manufacturing firms in India in both voluntary and mandatory period. For the analysis, this study use...
by P. Kavitha | On 01 Feb 2019 Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IGFT) are, in theory, neither good nor bad for tackling gender inequalities. Fiscal federalism with asymmetry in revenue and expenditure assignments inevitably lead...
by Janet G. Stotsky | On 14 Jan 2019 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 The paper highlights the importance of the design of the fiscal features of the federal system of government in ensuring that the potential benefits from its adoption are realized. The economic litera...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 03 Oct 2018 The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 05 Jul 2018 The paper provides estimates of the cost of shifting to a federal form of government under different scenarios in terms of the number of regions. Finally, it concludes with the discussion of why adopt...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 03 Jul 2018 This study provides a systematic review and summary of the extant knowledge on the impacts of decentralization on health in the Philippines. Despite the country’s twenty-five years of experience in de...
by Michael R.M. Abrigo | On 03 Jul 2018 The study highlights the lack of access to appropriate services for PWDs and that out-of-pocket expenditures on health covers a significant portion of their income. Some recommendations include the pr...
by Celia M. Reyes | On 02 Jul 2018 This paper reviews the methods that investigate the hydrology of springs, with a focus on the Himalayan region. The methods are classified as field-based empirical and desk-based analytical. Field-bas...
by Pennan Chinnasamy | On 27 Jun 2018 This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; the non-cognitive measures of i...
by Jessica Leight | On 26 Jun 2018 This paper discusses the significance of considering climate change responsiveness in the Union
Budget and what are the existing practices and gaps in documenting climate change financing in India.
...
by Jyotsna Goel | On 21 Jun 2018 This paper attempts to understand what drives the public expenditure efficiency among the States. For this, it looks at the role of economic growth as well as quality of governance. The results of inp...
by Ranjan Kumar Mohanty | On 20 Jun 2018 This study provides insights on how institutional architecture for public fund flows affects budget execution. Using the case of the National Health Mission (NHM) in India, it highlights how the rules...
by Mita Choudhury | On 15 Jun 2018 The provision of affordable health care is generally considered a fundamental goal of a wel-
fare state. In addition to its role in maintaining and improving the health status of individuals
and hou...
by | On 31 May 2018 This paper seeks to analyze the change in total central transfers to the States and its impact on expenditure on Social Sector in 2015-16(post FFC period) in comparison with 2014-15(pre-FFC pe...
by | On 28 May 2018 This study explores the relationship over an extended period of time
between an increase in per capita public health expenditure and
per capita
state’s domestic product (per capita inc...
by Deepak Kumar Behera | On 16 May 2018 The impact assessment of macroeconomic policies on public health
expenditure is very relevant in Indian economy because of tax reform, fiscal consoli-
dation, and expenditure policy reform. These h...
by | On 11 May 2018 The Union Budget takes the long needed step of allocating funds specifically for addressing the nutritional concerns of TB patients, taking note of the considerable evidence of the association between...
by | On 30 Apr 2018 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 Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) required number of State governments to take over debt of power distribution companies in their books of accounts. Though this one time intervention made both debt...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 19 Mar 2018 Gender budgeting is a fiscal approach that seeks to use a country’s national and/or local budget(s) to reduce inequality and promote economic growth and equitable development. While literature has exp...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 16 Mar 2018 The paper says that the role of workers’ remittances in economic development of recipient countries is considered to be an important area of research.
by Zafar Iqbal | On 15 Mar 2018 The Finance Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mr. Rajesh Agarwal presented the budget for Uttar Pradesh, for the financial year 2018-19, on 16 February 2018. The total outlay for the year is Rs. 4,28,384.52 c...
by Ministry of Finance | On 12 Mar 2018 Mahrashtra Buget speech Part 2
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 12 Mar 2018 Budget speech of the Finance Minister of Maharashtra.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 12 Mar 2018 Online reviews are a powerful means of propagating the reputations of products, services, and even employers. However, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias—p...
by Ioana Marinescu | On 07 Mar 2018 Budget presented Chhattisgarh Finance Minister.
by Finance Ministry Chhattisgarh | On 19 Feb 2018 The paper takes a look at the past record of vertical transfers viz., transfers from the Centre to the States as a whole.
by K.K. George | On 16 Feb 2018 The paper says that this pattern of financing fiscal deficit is reflected in the changing composition of Kerala’s public debt.
by K.K. George | On 15 Feb 2018 This paper has introduced instability in the budgets and has added to the burden of public debt.
by K.K. George | On 15 Feb 2018 Budget speech Smt. Vasundhara Raje.
by Vasundhara Raje | On 12 Feb 2018 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 09 Feb 2018 FY2018 budget, the budget for final year of the intensive reform period set in the Fiscal Consolidation Plan,
continues to pursue both economic revitalization and fiscal consolidation.
by | On 09 Feb 2018 This is a dreamy and populist Budget talking high numbers while missing out on empirical realities. The irony is that, looked at closely, it has neither pleased the free market theorists nor has it do...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 09 Feb 2018 India is currently going through a major demographic transition and it is this transition that is
going to make India one of the world’s youngest countries with largest young population. Of
this you...
by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights | On 05 Feb 2018 The report presents a comprehensive analysis of the budgetary provisions for important social sectors and the vulnerable
sections of the population. It also presents an overview of the fiscal indicat...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 05 Feb 2018 The estimates of
income, receipts and expenditure for the financial year 2018-19
with respect to the budget “E” (Primary Education) Fund Code –
30, as required under the provisions of section 126C...
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 Budget Speech by Municipal Commissioner
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 Finance Minister, Dr. Amit Mitra presented the West Bengal budget on 31st January, 2018.
by Amit Mitra FM, WB | On 05 Feb 2018 Budget speech of Finance Minister of Kerala.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 05 Feb 2018 The paper says that this idiosyncrasy of Korea’s current account surplus seems to be related to increasing saving propensity of households especially among aged people.
by Han Chirok | On 01 Feb 2018 Speech of Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance on February 1, 2018
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 Several states such as Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka raise a majority
of their revenue from their own taxes. On the other hand, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, and Bihar rai...
by Mandira Kala | On 01 Feb 2018 It is not surprising that science and technology finds important mention in the Economic Survey indicating that the upcoming Union Budget may well sharply increase spending on it. But it is disappoin...
by Tanisha Parihar | On 01 Feb 2018 Sound public financial management has been one of the pillars of India’s macro-economic
stability in the last three years. Based on this firm footing, the Government, in partnership with
the States,...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 most of the major policy measures promised by this government to the Indian
farmers have not seen the light of the day. No social security measures have been taken for
farmers above the age of 60 or...
by ASHA Kisan Swaraj Alliance | On 31 Jan 2018 The tenth chapter of Economic Survey 2018 has sown that investments in social infrastructure and human development has paid off well. The policies and schemes have also been mentioned in detail. The g...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 31 Jan 2018 The Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Shri Raghubar Das presented the Budget for the financial year 2018-19 on 23 January, 2018. Total expenditure for the year is expected to be Rs. 80,200 crore.
by Raghubar Das | On 25 Jan 2018 The Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Shri Raghubar Das presented the Budget for the financial year 2018-19 on 23 January, 2018. Total expenditure for the year is expected to be Rs. 80,200 crore.
by Raghubar Das | On 25 Jan 2018 Budget analysis entails analysis and assessment of budget from the lens of marginalised sections
of population with the objective of prioritisation of public
expenditures and collection of revenues...
by Happy Pant | On 17 Jan 2018 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Haseeb Drabu, presented the State Budget for the financial year 2018-19 on 11 January 2018. The total expenditure for the year is estimated to be Rs. 80,3...
by Haseeb Drabu | On 16 Jan 2018 This Briefing Note describes the process by which India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors was developed, the content of the policy, and the ongoing story of its implementation.
by Shalini Sinha | On 05 Jan 2018 This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare programme (MGNREGA) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India for the prevalence of anaemia, examining whether...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 11 Dec 2017 The understanding of consumption patterns of the households of different income groups is essential for the development of successful food security policies. In recent years the studies on consumption...
by | On 08 Dec 2017 High and persistent fiscal deficit is one of the major macroeconomic problems in India since the mid-1980s. Fiscal consolidation is in the forefront of policy discussion in India not only at present b...
by | On 04 Dec 2017 The paper uses 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini c...
by Qingjie Xia | On 20 Nov 2017 In this context, a government that is in doubt regarding re-election will give a popular or election-oriented budget and go on a spending spree.
by Dr. Abid Suleri | On 20 Nov 2017 The 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 The generation is insufficient to meet the demand, resulting in a shortfall of both peak capacity as well as energy overall (officially 12.6% and 9.9%, respectively).
by Rahul Tongia | 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 paper illustrates the use of information on withdrawals by Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) for improving estimates of public spending for National Health Accounts (NHAs) in India. Using in...
by Mita Choudhury | On 07 Oct 2017 The paper examines the issue of resource adequacy for Right to Education (RTE) by estimating the resource requirement for universalization of elementary education across twelve Indian States. Using RT...
by Sukanya Bose | On 05 Oct 2017 The benefits of improved tax enforcement in Pakistan through simulations
of a model of the Pakistani economy is studied. We begin by documenting that the effective
tax rate facing firms is increasin...
by Ethan Ilzetzki | On 04 Oct 2017 The Laspeyres-type consumer price index (CPI) is traditionally used to measure the changes in cost-of-living over time. Studies indicate this CPI suffers from a plutocratic bias, attaching greater wei...
by Dilip M. Nachane | On 18 Sep 2017 This paper discusses (a) changes in measurement in industry and services (b) changes made in agriculture sector and (c) major issues on the measurement of GDP in new series. There are long term or leg...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 18 Sep 2017 Causality from the capital account (KA) to the current account (CA) of the balance of payments indicates disruption from capital flows while the reverse can indicate smooth financing of the CA that al...
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Sep 2017 Urban expansion in India over the last few decades has placed cities in a challenging situation with limited infrastructure facilities affecting the quality of life of people who live in low income se...
by Manasi S | On 13 Sep 2017 This Policy Note analyzes the factors contributing to child stunting in the country and finds that mothers' nutrition and health status during pregnancy remain crucial aspects that can influence birth...
by Alejandro Herrin | On 04 Sep 2017 This article focuses on the production and mass circulation of locally produced videos in and across socially marginalized areas of Bengal. It emerges from the research conducted on the video industry...
by Madhuja Mukherjee | On 31 Aug 2017 The report narrates about, should India’s national defence budget be discussed and deliberated in public domain?
by Deba Mohanty | On 28 Aug 2017 The report says that the manufacturing sector has significant fiscal policy implications.
by M. Singhi | On 24 Aug 2017 The yearly cap on H-1B visas became binding for the first time in 2004, making it harder for college-educated foreigners to work in the United States. However, academic institutions are exempt from th...
by Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes | On 17 Aug 2017 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India submitted a report on the electrification projects in Indian Railways (between 2013-14 and 2015-16) on July 21, 2017. Trains on Indian Railways are hauled...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 07 Aug 2017 Debashis Chakraborty visited Siliguri for the first time in 1952. After the final examinations of Class IV, this was his first trip to Siliguri to visit the part of his family that had relocated to th...
by Atig Ghosh | On 04 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 The report concludes with the strategies that Karnataka should focus on in order to achieve the objectives of 24x7 Power for All.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 31 Jul 2017 The project developed a gender, caste, and ethnicity (GCE) strategy that sought to ensure the participation of women and ethnic minorities in decision-making processes, as well as their increased repr...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 Jul 2017 This report presents a framework for sustainable energy access planning that planners and policy makers can use to design cost-effective clean energy supply systems that both poor and nonpoor can sust...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 The paper estimates the relationship between the current account and fiscal deficit, and the real exchange rate, in a structural vector auto regression, with Indian data for the managed float period 1...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 Jul 2017 The purpose of this note is to help development practitioners gather relevant information, conduct analysis, and present both in a standardized diagnostic framework. In addition to the guidance note i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Viet Nam to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable FSIs tha...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers as...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study informs decision makers regarding major climate change risks to development and provides feasible policy recommendations for consideration to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 The report summarizes important lessons learned and policy implications from the first year of Village Law implementation.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Jun 2017 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 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 Growing demand for public expenditures, limitations in expanding fiscal space and limited scope to deviate from common harmonized tax system under the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime may...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 25 May 2017 This study of state-owned enterprises performance in the Pacific emphasizes political commitment to reform as a key driver for commercial results.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 The private healthcare sector in rural India is often dominated by unqualified rural medical practitioners (RMPs). However, there is limited evidence on RMPs and potential for an intervention to reduc...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 May 2017 The paper says that the government has already initiated reforms to strengthen the institutional framework for managing contingent liabilities arising from PPP projects. Among these reforms are (i) es...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 The Pilot LED Project was successful in demonstrating significant savings and in developing new specifications for LED luminaires that focused on luminaire performance, quality of delivered illuminati...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 May 2017 The paper analyse data from two recent NSSO surveys to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher educatio...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 02 May 2017 Finance Minister of Maharashtra presenting the Budget
by Sudhir Mungantiwar | On 20 Mar 2017 Maharashtra Budget speech by the Honorable Finance Minister.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 20 Mar 2017 The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Virbhadra Singh, presented a budget on 10 March 2017 for the financial year 2017-18. The total proposed budget for the FY 2017-18 is Rs. 35,783 crore.
by | On 14 Mar 2017 Budget 2017-18 was presented at the time when the global situation is inhospitable, marked with
protectionism and domestic environment is constrained by the twin balance sheet crisis. The investment
...
by M Govinda Rao | On 10 Mar 2017 Finance Minister of Delhi Shri Manish Sisodia presented the budget of Delhi.
by Manish Sisodia | On 10 Mar 2017 Chhattisgarh budget speech by Hon. Finance minister Raman Singh.
by Raman Singh | On 09 Mar 2017 Review of
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan,
Restless Books, New York,USA
224 pp;To be released: March 14, 2017.
USD 17.99. ISBN: 9781632061423
by Kavya Murthy | On 07 Mar 2017 Haryana Budget presented by Hon'ble Minister Capt. Abhimanyu.
by Haryana Government | On 07 Mar 2017 Kerala budget presented by Hon.Finance Minister Thomas Issac.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 06 Mar 2017 This paper explores the “Bill of Rights” in the Justice Verma Committee Report as an analytical framework for gender budgeting in justice. Gender budgeting in justice, as a public good, needs effectiv...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 03 Mar 2017 General Budget of Odisha presented by the Finance Minister.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 01 Mar 2017 The first
part is the Agriculture Budget, which not only covers the
outlay and programmes relating to Agriculture and allied
activities, but also presents the macro-economic outlook
as well as the...
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 01 Mar 2017 David West's detailed study on the life and work of Fritz Müller, an
evolutionary biologist and colleague of Charles Darwin, is the
culmination of three decades of inquiry. The depth and scope of
r...
by Amy Cox Hall | On 15 Feb 2017 With growing water scarcity across many parts of the world, competition over access to this vital resource has been known to spark conflict. Following the September 2016 Uri attack in India, the gover...
by | On 14 Feb 2017 The Finance Minister of Assam , MrHimanta Biswa Sarma presented the Budget for Assam for financial year 2017-18 on February 7, 2017.
by Government of Assam | On 09 Feb 2017 The Finance Minister of Assam , MrHimanta Biswa Sarma presented the Budget for Assam for financial year 2017-18 on February 7, 2017. [PRS].
by Arvind Gayam | On 09 Feb 2017 In the context of social
sector and particularly for children, the Union Budgets have disappointed the marginalized
community and the Union Budget 2017-18 further pushed its children to the peripher...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 06 Feb 2017 Budget 2017-18 is placed at an important juncture when there has been a thrust by the government
for a digitised and a consequent cashless economy with the demonetisation of high value currency
note...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 03 Feb 2017 While there has been a a big jump in allocations to health overall, there is no indication that it will be sustained and will mark a trend.
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 Feb 2017 These are the latest union budget highlights. Gear up to enjoy subsidies, pay newer taxes and enjoy greater freedom, as that covers a major part of the Union Budget 2017.
by | On 01 Feb 2017 Budget speech by Finance Minister of India, Mr.Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2017 Union Budget 2017-18: Budget Speech by Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2017 The Union Budget for 2017-18 will be presented on February 1, 2017. In this context, we present data regarding the state of
the Indian economy in 2016-17, across indicators such as gross domestic pro...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 01 Feb 2017 Demonetisation is a weapon to stop the black money in the country. But cash is only a small portion of black money. Also the economy has been affected by this step. How will the government tackle this...
by Rakesh Mumbai | On 27 Jan 2017 The study attempts to highlight some of the major hurdles in Delhi’s
governance and fiscal policy in ensuring the safety of women in public spaces. Though violence
against women is widespread and oc...
by Kanika Kaul | On 27 Jan 2017 Using government data, this brief reports on trends for SBM-G along the following
parameters:
• Allocations and expenditures
• Physical progress of toilets
built
• Expenditures incurred under
...
by Avani Kapur | On 27 Jan 2017 The 2017 Budget would be special in two ways – first, it would be presented by Finance Minister on 1st February, 2017. Usually, it was presented in the last week of February each year. It will give...
by Amarnath Tripathi | On 25 Jan 2017 The aim of this article is to present that the Positive effect of demonetisation on upcoming budget for national growth. And demonetisation is one of the tools to be used for minimize the counterfeit...
by P Shekar | On 25 Jan 2017 Indian cities are facing the problem of severe air pollution and vehicles are a major source. The economically vibrant cities like Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai provide numerous job opp...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 24 Jan 2017 This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal
spending. Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal
policies and ad...
by Janet G Stotsky | On 23 Jan 2017 The focus of this note is primarily to present the
background of this project, status of various activities undertaken so far and detail out the
way forward in terms of timelines and implementation...
by Bibek Debroy | On 23 Jan 2017 The core emphasis of rules-based fiscal legislation at the subnational level in India is to
achieve debt sustainability through a numerical ceiling on borrowing and the use of borrowed
resources for...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 23 Jan 2017 Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a harmonized tax regime and it can curb black money through practicing clean "invoices" to redeem input credit. In the Union Budget 2017, central government may announc...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 23 Jan 2017 After the implementation of the Right of Children to
Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) in 2010, states
have brought about some improvement in school education
in terms of infrastructure, enro...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 18 Jan 2017 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2017-18 on January 11, 2017.
by Arvind Gayam | On 17 Jan 2017 The paper examines the medium-term fiscal policy (MTFP) and a more conventional medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) adopted in India under the provisions of the fiscal rules. The MTFP and the MTE...
by Pratap Ranjan Jena | On 10 Jan 2017 This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among t...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 Data from two recent NSSO surveys are analysed to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education
and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher education out...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 Jan 2017 How persistent are traditional socioeconomic hierarchies in the face of marketization, significant structural shifts in the economy, and increased political representation of lower-ranked groups, and...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 15 Dec 2016 A health system should be responsive, resilient, self-regulating. It should be able to respond to health emergencies and changing development scenarios. Governments all over the world should see to it...
by Rajeev B.R. | On 14 Dec 2016 Drawing attention to a high dropout rate in upper primary schools, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam today said schools are facing the “biggest crisis” in India.
Delivering the f...
by Tharman Shanmugaratnam | On 08 Dec 2016 State legislatures are responsible for making laws on key subjects like land, police and health. They are also
tasked with approving the expenditure of money for their respective states every year. T...
by Prianka Rao | On 30 Nov 2016 Taking note of the limitations and challenges pertaining to gender budget exercise, the
Government of Karnataka has set up a Task Force constituting of academics working in this
area to review the p...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 29 Nov 2016 Conventional wisdom suggests that, to negate fiscal externalities imposed by provinces which
spend too much and raise lower local resources, central authority should always be a first mover
in the t...
by Bodhisattva Sengupta | On 14 Nov 2016 Finances of states have been changing due to (i) increased devolution of central taxes, (ii) rationalisation of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes, (iii) the introduction of the UDAY scheme, and (iv) the...
by Arvind Gayam | On 09 Nov 2016 Can countries with binding budget constraints increase the benefits of school transfers
through better program design? A cost-neutral change is used in the design of India’s
school meal program to s...
by Farzana Afridi | On 20 Oct 2016 Economic and political processes differ widely across states in India. Some states have seen rapid economic growth and development while others are facing economic stagnation. The differences in outco...
by | On 07 Oct 2016 The recent changes in the institutional and fiscal architecture of the country following the
constitution of NITI Aayog and release of report of the Fourteenth Finance Commission,
have implications...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 04 Oct 2016 NITI Aayog presents a 20 point action plan that highlights
some key areas in sports that require improvement. These action points have been
divided to a short term vision (4 to 8 years) and a medium...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 27 Sep 2016 This study provides an overview of Urdu-medium primary schools in the Bengaluru
urban district of Karnataka in India. Akshara’s research examined access to
government-run Urdu-medium schools and iss...
by Divya Vishawanath | On 23 Sep 2016 This paper tests the hypothesis that the expansion of improved drinking water supplies in rural India reduced household expenditure on water quality, offsetting some of the quality benefits from sourc...
by | On 16 Sep 2016 This paper attempts to examine the impact of government expenditure in social sector on economic growth at the state level for 15 major states. The study reveals that the share of social sector expend...
by | On 07 Sep 2016 There are many states in India which have high number of women entrepreneurs. There are states which have many policies to encourage women entrepreneurs.
by Lakshmi Priya | On 30 Aug 2016 This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a nonadjacent pure con...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 In the paper, an informal preschool program is described that Akshara Foundation administered over 12 months in a set of non-notified slums in Bengaluru. The intervention is particularly noteworthy be...
by K. Vaijayanti | On 29 Aug 2016 We carry out a randomized controlled experiment in West Bengal, India to test three separate performance pay treatments in the public health sector. Performance is judged on improvements in child maln...
by | On 29 Aug 2016 In the era of globalisation, where opening of borders is being advocated all over the world, there is one issue over which no nation-state is ready to compromise with its territorial borders. The issu...
by | On 22 Aug 2016 This paper examines the link between quality of governance, public expenditure and human development outcomes in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The role of governance is measured in five dimensions: Pol...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 12 Aug 2016 The extent of market integration and transmission of food price shocks is a major determinant of price
stability and overall food security, particularly in developing countries. Few studies have exam...
by Jarilkasin Ilyasov | On 08 Aug 2016 A number of data initiatives exist that assemble and make available public expenditure data on
agriculture, in addition to other variables. Several of these data initiatives overlap in terms of which...
by Richard Anson | On 20 Jul 2016 This paper models and characterizes how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. It identifies vast and expected changes in those househol...
by Andre Boik | On 19 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 social sector is usually defined as dealing with social and economic activities carried out for the purposes of benefiting society, and in the main nonprofit, not-for-profit, philanthropic and mis...
by Padmaja Mishra | On 19 Jul 2016 Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. The scheme is eval...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 11 Jul 2016 In the existing narratives the wider colonial contexts of institutionalization of western science
and medicine and growth of curative medicine, changing patterns
of education and health services for...
by Sujata Mukherjee | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper attempts to study the cyclical behaviour of social sector spending including that on education and health for the 17 non-special category states covering the period 2000-01 to 2012-13. It f...
by | On 30 Jun 2016 This study has done a test as to what degree anthropometric measurements are useful and efficient in predicting birth outcome of pregnancy and also to determine the quantitative associations of anthr...
by Samiran Bisai | On 27 Jun 2016 In this study an attempt is made to analyse the distribution of public health spending in Karnataka state, by analysing the Budget and Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) round-III data. The study als...
by Varun Sharma | On 24 Jun 2016 A persistent multi-year drought in Central and Southwest Asia has affected close to 60 million people as of November 2001. Chronic political instability in many parts of this region and the recent mil...
by | On 24 Jun 2016 The present study has been conducted in the rural and urban areas of 9 districts of 9 commissionaries
in Bihar. A random sample of 375 families is drawn from different socio-economic backgrounds. The...
by CARE India | On 20 Jun 2016 The City of Bengaluru in the Indian state of Karnataka is making progress on rooftop solar PV installations, mainly through its utility implemented net-metering program. Yet, much more needs to be don...
by Sarah Martin | On 17 Jun 2016 Budget speech of Pakistan 2016-17.
by Mohammad Ishaq Dar | On 17 Jun 2016 West Bengal witnessed the highest growth in non-agricultural
employment between 2004-05 and 2009-10 amongst all the states
in India. The state also witnessed the highest growth in
manufacturing emp...
by Subhanil Chowdhury | On 16 Jun 2016 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2016-17 on May 30, 2016.
by Hasseeb A. Drabu | On 13 Jun 2016 This paper argues that contrary to popular belief, in the bygone era, there was not one but two Silk Roads in Asia – the Northern and the less well-known South-western Silk Road (SSR). The SSR connect...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analy...
by | On 03 Jun 2016 We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India’s school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from pa...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 Public expenditure data has been sourced from the State budget documents, detailed demand for grants of MoHFW and
other Central Ministries/Departments. This document gives in totality classification...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare MoH&FW | On 02 Jun 2016 This report is an outcome of the continuous interaction of YUVA Urban and National
Hawkers Federation (NHF) with the street vendors across different states. They have been a
part of the struggle of...
by Sadaf Zafar | On 31 May 2016 Climate variability and climate change pose an enormous pressure on population, infrastructure, livelihood, and socio-economic conditions. Evidences of climate change are already visible on many secto...
by Vimal Mishra | On 30 May 2016 The present handbook is designed to provide United Nations country teams and national and international stakeholders with guidance on the definitions, rationale, concepts and sources of the data for t...
by United Nations (UN) | On 27 May 2016 This report presents the results of the new approach to measuring poverty and standards of living, which the Royal Government of Cambodia initiated and carried out through 2011-2012.
by | On 25 May 2016 A
primary survey of older adults was conducted in seven
rapidly ageing states including Odisha, West Bengal,
Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil
Nadu, and Kerala (Alam et al. 2012). This...
by Moneer Alam | On 25 May 2016 The paper examines the public financial management (PFM) of Sikkim focusing mainly on resources generation effort and budget management practices. We note that any deviation from the Central transfers...
by Pratap R Jena | On 23 May 2016 The coastal freeway is a 34-km road planned along the entire Western Coastline of Mumbai. This presentation attempts to understand Social and Environmental Impacts of the proposed road on the city of...
by | On 20 May 2016 The paper examines the fiscal scene of Kerala, during the last one
and a half decades, by looking at the trends in receipts and expenditure.
It finds that a revenue led fiscal consolidation is the w...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 20 May 2016 Congress, stormed to power in West Bengal under the simple slogan poriborton (change). In this piece, Bhanu Joshi, Ashish Ranjan, and Neelanjan explore how Mamata went about demonstrating this change...
by Neelanjan Sircar | On 20 May 2016 SIPP is envisaged to facilitate protection of patents, trademarks and design of innovative and interested startups.
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 20 May 2016 This report provides an analysis of the assets of the re contesting candidates in the Kerala Assembly Elections
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 19 May 2016 Various mining projects have been proposed in the Sindhudurg district of
Maharashtra. The proposed mining area seeks to destroy about 200 sq km. in the
Western Ghats part of the Sawantwadi and Dodam...
by | On 18 May 2016 Some politicians argue for the splitting and combining of states to increase government productivity, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the optimal size of a state. Using data from Indian...
by Cornelis Haasnoot | On 18 May 2016 The Budget Session 2016 was scheduled from February 23 to March 16, and from April 25 to May 13, 2016. However, during
the recess period, Parliament was prorogued to allow the government to issue an...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 May 2016 The Budget Session was originally planned to be held in two parts: from February 23 to March
16 and April 25 to May 13. However, at the end of March, the government decided to convert
these into two...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 May 2016 The episode of volatility starting on May 22, 2013, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first spoke of the possibility of the US central bank “tapering” its security purchases, had a sharp nega...
by Shekhar Shah | On 09 May 2016 The lecture examines the recent developments in the external sector and address some critical issues such as the appropriate level of current account deficit, exchange rate policy, adequacy of reserve...
by C. Rangarajan | On 06 May 2016 This report provides analysis of asset comparison of re-contesting MLAs in the West Bengal Assembly Elections
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 04 May 2016 This report provides information about the criminal, financial and other background of the candidates contesting in phase 6 of the West Bengal Assembly Elections.
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 04 May 2016 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education an...
by Runu Bhakta | On 02 May 2016 This paper assesses the fiscal space and cyclicality of total Indian Central Government expenditure and its
major components
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 May 2016 Using the spatial econometrics approach, this study analyses such spill- over effect in public
expenditure. Econometric estimates suggest significant spatial spill- ove...
by | On 02 May 2016 This paper analyzes the employment generation in the state of West Bengal
by | On 29 Apr 2016 Political intolerance is a bigger problem than religious intolerance in West Bengal. How will this affect the 2016 Assembly elections in West Bengal?
by | On 29 Apr 2016 Although significant, the share of education in total provincial budgets is declining
except for Balochistan. This year, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has
allocated the highest share of its p...
by Institute of Social and Policy Sciences I-SAPS | On 29 Apr 2016 This report provides information about the financial, criminal and other backgrounds of the candidates contesting in the phase 5 of the West Bengal Elections.
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 28 Apr 2016 This report provides information about the financial, criminal and other backgrounds of the candidates contesting in the phase 4 of the West Bengal Elections.
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 28 Apr 2016 This report provides information about the financial, criminal and other backgrounds of the candidates contesting in the phase 3 of the West Bengal Elections.
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 28 Apr 2016 A comparative study of representative slums across three largest metro cities in India through primary surveys. It is found that certain characteristics, such as large average household size, poor hou...
by Sugata Bag | On 28 Apr 2016 This report contains information regarding the financial, criminal and other background of the candidates contesting in the Phase 2 of the West Bengal Elections.
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 28 Apr 2016 This report provides information regarding the financial, criminal and other backgrounds of the candidates contesting in the phase 1B of the West Bengal Elections.
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 28 Apr 2016 This report has been prepared by the West Bengal Chamber of Commerce. It includes data on various sectors including but not limited to: Employment, Industry, Agriculture, Power and Trade.
by Chamber of Commerce | On 27 Apr 2016 This report provides information about the state of education in West Bengal.
by | On 27 Apr 2016 This report provides information about the financial, criminal and other backgrounds of the candidates contesting in the phase 1A of the West Bengal Elections.
by | On 27 Apr 2016 This report if from the Census of India. It provides information about literacy rates, sex ratio, population in West Bengal of the year 2011.
by | On 27 Apr 2016 The report considers the question of taxes as price versus tribute for contemporary India and makes three points. First, if the accounting cost of services provided exceeds the economic cost (the min...
by | On 15 Apr 2016 Agricultural water use is the main one among all water uses. Despite this use plays an essential role in food and fiber world supplies, provides for mitigating poverty in many regions, and produces a...
by Luis Santos Pereira | On 13 Apr 2016 The PAISA for Panchayats research project extends AI’s PAISA methodology to track fund flows and implementations processes at the Panchayat level. By focusing on understanding the state of fiscal devo...
by | On 13 Apr 2016 Empirical findings across a swathe of countries, advanced and emerging, confirm that the composition of government expenditure can have perceptible growth implications.
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 12 Apr 2016 The 2016 Budget reaffirms the belief that no one should be left behind as
the country progresses.
by Strategic Communication Unit Philippines | On 11 Apr 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 06 Apr 2016 A study was undertaken by the Council for Social Development with the sponsorship of Planning Commission, Government of India with the following specific objectives to analyse the impact of NFSM initi...
by Ankita Goyal | On 05 Apr 2016 The report gives a detailed account of the education system in India.
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 05 Apr 2016 Speech by Donkupar Roy, Finance Minister of Meghalaya.
by Donkupar Roy | On 31 Mar 2016 Budget speech of Chhattisgarh 2016
by Raman Singh | On 30 Mar 2016 Budget speech of Uttarakhand finance minister.
by Finance Minister Uttarakhand | On 30 Mar 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Manish Sisodia.
by Manish Sisodia | On 29 Mar 2016 Speech by the Financial Secretary.
by Hon John C Tsang | On 28 Mar 2016 A big earthquake hit the ocean floor off Southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia on 2
March 2016. Tsunami warnings were issued by the government to the whole
Sumatran regions. How effective are Indonesia’s...
by Jonatan Lassa | On 28 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of 2016 by Finance Minister of Singapore.
by Heng Swee Keat | On 28 Mar 2016 A brief summary by Niti Aayog about the pre and post 2016-17 Indian Budget Analysis.
by Arvind Panagariya | On 28 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of Finance Minister of Haryana.
by Capt. Abhimanyu | On 22 Mar 2016 Budget speech of the finance minister of Uttar Pradesh.
by Uttar Pradesh Government UP | On 22 Mar 2016 Elections will be held in four States and one Union Territory in April and May 2016. The polls will be a crucial test for the governing Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre and a gauge of the populari...
by Ronojoy Sen | On 22 Mar 2016 Part II of the Budget speech of the finance minister.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 21 Mar 2016 Budget Speech by Pradip Kumar Amat.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 21 Mar 2016 While often it describe the modern era - framed by the Post-Enlightenment narrative - as one marked by an unprecedented concern for identity and identification, it often lose sight of the parallel pro...
by Samir Kumar Das | On 21 Mar 2016 Budget speech
by Sudhir Mungantiwar | On 18 Mar 2016 Budget Speech by Finance Minister of Maharashtra
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 18 Mar 2016 Public finance systems in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have evolved substantially over the last three decades. The evolution is continuing, with wide-ranging reforms in budget and debt managem...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 Since April 1, 2015, India’s cooking gas subsidies have been distributed by electronic transfer through the Direct Benefit Transfer for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) scheme (known as DBTL, or PAHAL1 )...
by | On 18 Mar 2016 Economic Survey of Maharashtra 2015-16.
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Mar 2016 Using the method of optimal control, when an incumbent politician derives utility from voting support and dis-utility from budgetary deficit, the equilibrium time paths of both voting support and budg...
by Ganesh Manjhi | On 17 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of finance minister of Telangana.
by K Chandrashekar | On 17 Mar 2016 The opportunities for SMEs in global value chains are enormous. Participation in value chains exposes them to a large customer/buyer base, as well as opportunities to learn from large firms and from e...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 The Union Budget has failed to allocate substantiate funds. With less gender mainstreaming and with lack of assurance of safety to women the budget fails to make an impact in this regard.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 17 Mar 2016 With a view to define a balance in the allocation of public expenditure across secondary education and higher education, this paper compares, the relative contributions of public expenditures on secon...
by Vijay P. Ojha | On 16 Mar 2016 Budget speech of finance minister of Gujarat, Saurabh Patel.
by Saurabh Patel | On 16 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of Yanamala Ramakrishnudu Minister of Finance.
by Yanamala Ramakrishnudu | On 16 Mar 2016 In the 1990s, Japan was the world’s top donor. This position was lost in 2001, after a prolonged economic slump, a deteriorating fiscal situation, and increasingly critical public view of ODA made the...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 This paper makes an attempt to evaluate the implications of MGNREGS in labour short economy of Kerala. The analysis of NSSO unit level data revealed inter-state differences in implementation of the sc...
by V. Dhanya | On 14 Mar 2016 Despite the initiatives of the Finance Commission of India, fiscal performance has been deteriorating and increasingly diverging across Indian states. Given that the state governments are endowed with...
by Panchanan Das | On 14 Mar 2016 The global economy is finding it hard to restore pre-Great Recession growth rates – every report of the IMF seemingly downgrades its previous growth forecasts. Why has the recovery been so slow? When
...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 Mar 2016 Speech of Finance Minister, 2016.
by West Bengal Government | On 14 Mar 2016 In this paper we present a choice function of a rural household about her/his ward?s schooling. It makes an empirical evaluation on the basis of simple theoretical framework using primary data set, su...
by Debdulal Thakur | On 11 Mar 2016 The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 11 Mar 2016 This paper applies a program evaluation technique to assess the causal effect of adoption of agricultural related technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty measured by different indices. The...
by Santosh K. Sahu | On 10 Mar 2016 This study intends to analyze the impact of fiscal policy relating to subsidies (production and consumption subsidies), government current expenditure and expenditure on health and education on income...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 The allocation of scarce budgetary resources away from ‘alternative’ channels of social security underscores interlocking concerns: a) the financial drain that marriages of girls pose to families and...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 09 Mar 2016 Budget speech by Vasundhara Raje.
by Vasundhara Raje | On 09 Mar 2016 Situation of children in Assam in 2016.
by Melvil Pereira | On 09 Mar 2016 In most rich democracies one finds a tendency for the share in public finance that is available for discretionary spending to shrink. This is because tax revenues do not keep pace with simultaneous in...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 The paper reflects on the changing scope of the Union Budget
and the Finance Minister’s speech and assesses the evolving content
of these policy instruments in recent years. The analysis undertaken...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 When the state is unable to provide adequately for the bottom half of the population, should it be giving tax benefits to the well-off?
by T.N. Ninan | On 05 Mar 2016 India’s latest Budget focuses on the rural sector and the economically vulnerable sections and makes large allocations for agriculture and social sector programmes without compromising on fiscal disci...
by Amitendu Palit | On 04 Mar 2016 The Finance Minister of Bihar, Mr. Abdul Bari Siddiqui, presented the Budget for Bihar for the financial year 2016-17.
by Arvind Gayam | On 03 Mar 2016 The Finance Minister of Bihar, Mr. Abdul Bari Siddiqui, presented the Budget for Bihar for the financial year 2016-17.
by | On 03 Mar 2016 It presents a comprehensive analysis of the priorities and proposals in Union Budget 2016-17, focusing on social sectors (such as education, health, drinking water and sanitation, food security etc.)...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 02 Mar 2016 After three decades of double-digit growth, China is slowing as it is rebalancing its economy from export-driven to less-volatile domestic consumption driven economy. The paper looks at the impact of...
by Geetima Das Krishna | On 02 Mar 2016 The Union Budget has failed to deliver on the needs of the marginalised section of population. The spending has been much lower than what was budgeted.
by Paul Divakar | On 01 Mar 2016 Disappointingly, the new health policy that appeared to be robust one, has received little support in the Union Budget.
by | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper examines the fiscal instruments available to different levels of government and their interactions to enhance the effectiveness of public policies for the poorest and hungry groups. Address...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 The Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister, Mr. Jayant Mallayya, presented the Budget for Madhya Pradesh for the financial year 2016-17 on February 26, 2016.
by Arvind Gayam | On 01 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of Finance Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
by Finance Minister of MP Govt of MP | On 01 Mar 2016 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 In the main, this study uses the large sample National Sample Surveys (NSS) for the years 1983, 1993/94, 1999/2000, and 2004/5. There are two surveys that the NSS conducts in each of the large sample...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 01 Mar 2016 Trends regarding the central government’s sources of financing including tax revenue, disinvestments, and its revenue and capital expenditure, including subsidies. Estimates are presented in the 2016-...
by Mandira Kala | On 01 Mar 2016 The share of children in the Union Budget 2016-17 goes up to 3.32% showing a slight increase from 3.26% in the last years Budget 2015.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2016 Regardless of the allocations for healthcare, there is a systemic reluctance to spend on health care. This trend needs to be reversed and a more transparent citizen-centred process of budget-making...
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 Mar 2016 Financial protection of patients is considered a key component of health systems, and has been a consistent policy goal of the DOH. Of paramount importance in this regard are catastrophic health expen...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Feb 2016 Has Narendra Modi re-set his political sights? What's there in the Budget?
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 Feb 2016 While property taxation has existed since ancient times, and the taxation of land has been a mainstay of public finances through the Middle Ages, in both Europe and Asia, it has all but ceased to be a...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 In the Union Budget 2015-16, there was a reduction in the allocation for school education on account of more untied funds being given to States following the 14th Finance Commission recommendation. Ho...
by Provita Kundu | On 26 Feb 2016 An analysis of the railway budget.
by Manoj Singh | On 26 Feb 2016 India’s growth story has largely remained positive on the strength of domestic absorption, and the country has registered a robust and steady pace of economic growth in 2015-16 as it did in 2014-15....
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 The Minister of Railways, Mr. Suresh Prabhu, presented the Railway Budget 2016-17 to Parliament on February
25, 2016. In his address, he commented on the performance of Railways in 2015-16 and laid o...
by Prachee Mishra | On 26 Feb 2016 The present Status Paper for 2015-16 is fifth in this series and reinforces the Government’s commitment to keep the level of public debt within sustainable limits and follow prudent debt management pr...
by Ministry of Finance GOI | On 25 Feb 2016 Public expenditure data has been sourced from the States' budget documents, detailed demand for grants of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and other Central Ministries/Departments. This document gi...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper argues that development policies operate in Indian democracy at the interstices of two largely different yet interconnected worlds – of technical formulation and political formations. The I...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Speech of Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu introducing the Railway
Budget for 2016-17.
by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on Indonesia’s trade policies after the economic crisis. It examines the trend towards protection and addresses the issues of competitiveness. The concluding part briefly discusses...
by M. Basri | On 25 Feb 2016 Efforts to improve the business climate in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province are still facing significant obstacles. Moreover, a healthy business climate is needed to create conditions conducive to ha...
by Widjajanti Suharyo | On 24 Feb 2016 This paper describes the methodology used for the electricity consumption section of the household module of the India Low Carbon Growth Study and presents preliminary results. The module is used to p...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 Campaigns against big pulp and palm oil producers in Indonesia appear to be driven by local activists on the ground. In reality, they are facilitated by huge budgets and shaped by agendas emanating fr...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The paper studies the post-Asian crisis investment performance of crisis affected countries in ASEAN. The empirical evidence clearly indicates that the ASEAN and East Asian countries are emerging from...
by Aekapol Chongvilaivan | On 23 Feb 2016 The Budget Session of Parliament will be held between February 23, 2016 and May 13, 2016.
The session will have a recess from March 17 to April 24, when the Standing Committees will
examine the Dema...
by Kusum Malik | On 23 Feb 2016 Budget speech by the Hon’ble Minister for Finance and Public Works, Government of Tamil Nadu
by O Panneerselvam | On 22 Feb 2016 Japan's ageing population also has a sort of depth. By “depth,” I mean that within the older population itself the proportion of very old people aged 75 years old and over is increasing particularly r...
by Atsushi Seike | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper examines the conceptual issues surrounding the estimation of savings and investment in Bangladesh and explains why there exist perceptible differences between the estimates of savings and i...
by Mustafa K. Mujeri | On 20 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 Government has to not only focus on the Indian Economic scenario but also at the World Economic scenario. The Budget will have to focus on both the long term and short term development plans and h...
by Kiron Nanda | On 18 Feb 2016 The present study reviews the framework
on adaptation in India and provides an estimation of the public resources devoted to
this sector.
by Kaushik Ganguly | On 18 Feb 2016 This paper describes the structure and construction of a social accounting matrix (SAM) for Pakistan for 001-02. A SAM is an internally consistent extended set of national accounts that disaggregates...
by Paul Dorosh | On 17 Feb 2016 Rise in the underground economy creates problems for the policy-makers to formulate economic policies, especially the monetary and fiscal policies. It is found that if there was no tax evasion, budget...
by M. Ali Kemal | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is important sector for Indian economy. The agricultural growth output and rural income has to increase, only then can we think of an all-inclusive development of the economy. The problems...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, but how do emissions differ among countries? The relative contribution of agriculture to countries’ emissions budgets can infor...
by Meryl Richards | On 17 Feb 2016 in order to ensure the inclusion and social security of children, the Central government must pay attention to the concerns raised by Sates and the upcoming Union Budget must include some of the point...
by Kumar Shailabh | On 15 Feb 2016 The major challenge facing the Indian economy at this juncture is to provide a big push to the growth momentum while striking a balance between the much-needed capital expenditure and fiscal consolida...
by S.D Naik | On 15 Feb 2016 Budget speech by Oommen Chandy.
by Oommen Chandy | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note attempts to introduce the concept and size of tax expenditures in the context of Bangladesh with special references to experiences of India and Pakistan. It shows that the amount of t...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 15 Feb 2016 Using micro-level household data for rural and urban Pakistan, this study estimates Engel equations for 22 commodity groups with quadratic spline specification, in which the number and locations of kn...
by Eatzaz Ahmad | On 14 Feb 2016 This article examines three elements of the popular narrative of China’s involvement in the development of Afghanistan’s vast natural resource wealth. It argues that Chinese companies invested in Afgh...
by Erica Downs | On 14 Feb 2016 This study estimates a small simultaneous equation model using panel data from sixty-four countries for the years 1996 and 2004. The model is estimated by various techniques—OLS, TSLS, dummy variable...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper explores linkages between governance and pro-poor growth in Pakistan for the period 1996 to 2005. The analysis indicates that governance indicators have low scores and rank at the lowest pe...
by Rashida Haq | On 14 Feb 2016 Budget is the major economic policy document of the government for a particular year and perhaps beyond. Therefore, it is imperative to study the processes, institutional mechanisms, and decision-maki...
by Muttukrishna Sarvananthan | On 13 Feb 2016 Public procurement impacts people’s lives and accounts for a big share government budgets. The large monetary transactions involved make the risk of abuse high and the need for anti-corruption safegua...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Universal primary education is one of the eight pledges of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that are set to be met by 2015. Since the goals have been adopted, corruption and governance deficits...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 The Union Budget falls on February 29- this being a leap year. An online opinion poll on a leading media website reads: “Should Arun Jaitley prefer growth or fiscal deficit?” As India emerges as the...
by Tulsi Jayakumar | On 11 Feb 2016 With growing urbanization what is required is the ease of transportation. It is now high time that Government Budgets need to have a substantial allocation for this. After all transportation is lifeli...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 11 Feb 2016 The forthcoming union budget 2016-17 faces several fiscal challenges and it will be tough task for the government to provide positive signals to revive the private investment while pursuing the fiscal...
by Pratap Jena | On 11 Feb 2016 A stated objective of Myanmar is to become a modern developed nation that will stand shoulder to shoulder – proud, dignified and tall – with the countries of the world. How far has Myanmar come in ach...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 In absolute terms, the MCGM has presented a budget for the year 2015-16 wherein its income is Rs. 33,000 crores and expenditure is Rs 31,000 crores. Out of this expenditure, it has allotted Rs. 2,552...
by Sadanand Nadkarni | On 09 Feb 2016 India has a number of policies that contribute to climate mitigation but what is required to implement these into action is proper planning and allocation in the budget
by T. V. Ramachandra | On 09 Feb 2016 Regardless of the allocations for healthcare, there is a systemic reluctance to spend on health care. This trend needs to be reversed and a more transparent citizen-centred process of budget-making...
by Ravi Duggal | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper traces the process of recognition of children’s budget and the introduction of
Statement 22- Budget Provisions for Schemes for the Welfare of Children in the Expenditure Budget Volume 1. I...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Feb 2016 We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP’s or priv...
by Nicolai Kristensen | On 07 Feb 2016 Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called...
by Uttara Balakrishnan | On 07 Feb 2016 This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in Chi...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 07 Feb 2016 One way to do a reality check on the official numbers will be to develop a desi version of what came to be called the Li index in China.
by T.N. Ninan | On 06 Feb 2016 In this study, an attempt has been made of develop a dynamic macroeconometric model of Pakistan’s economy to examine the behaviour of major macroeconomic variables such as output, consumption, investm...
by Muhammad Arshad Khan | 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 Statement of Municipal Commissioner.
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2016 Budget at a glance as prepared by Municipal Commissioner.
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 05 Feb 2016 This 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 The 2014 Arab Opinion Index is the third annual survey of Arab public opinion carried out by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. In 2011, the survey was carried out in 12 Arab countries,...
by Arab Center for Policy Studies | On 02 Feb 2016 Existing measures of urban poverty carried out for national level comparisons portray very low levels of poverty with an average urban household spending an equivalent to the top 20% of national expe...
by Neranjana Gunetilleke | On 01 Feb 2016 This report is a compilation of examples of the budget work undertaken by nongovernmental
organizations from around the world. Although many of these organizations are
new to budget analysis, they h...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 01 Feb 2016 Are we heading towards a hard landing of the United States dollar? In recent months, the value of the dollar approached another historic low vis-à-vis other major currencies. This contrasts with the i...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The world economy is teetering on the brink of another major downturn. As in 2008, economic woes in the major developed economies are weakening economic prospects around the world. Th ere are multiple...
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 Pakistan’s economy has witnessed occasional spurts in economic growth, unfortunately, the economic growth has not been sustainable. One of the culprits often cited for haphazard growth experience of P...
by Ahmed Waqar Qasim | On 30 Jan 2016 It was expected that education would address these problems to a large extent. However, inspite of enhanced investment on expenditure, leading to increased enrolment, these issues remain largely unatt...
by (Field Action Project on Homelessness and Destitut Koshish | On 30 Jan 2016 This report provides evidence from three quite different cities in ADB’s Central and West Asia region of the prevalence of women being harassed on public transport. It goes on to show the impacts of t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 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 The study tries to examine the implementation process of the Forest
Rights Act 2006 in Kerala, in terms of providing individual holding land rights and
community rights over forest products. The stu...
by Jyothis Sathyapalan | On 29 Jan 2016 This paper addresses the different firm level strategies adopted to face up to the pressures of competition by two industrial clusters in the highly industrialised state of Gujarat. The overwhelming p...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 The paper talks about linking-up of regeneration efforts within and outside the Protected Area (PA) by treating them as an integrated ecological system may help better management and also protection o...
by Amita Shah | On 28 Jan 2016 Economists and experts have been batting for bringing the fiscal
federalism, the activist fora has been criticizing the newly brought in fiscal arrangements between Centre and States. This contradict...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 28 Jan 2016 To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both...
by Robert Anderson | On 26 Jan 2016 In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse the impact of economic reforms on the public health expenditure of 15 major states and the centre as well as the combined expenditure of both the stat...
by Shiddalingaswami Hanagodimath | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment which can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors which explain the inter-state variations include the indu...
by Arup Mitra | 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 policy note reviews the trend in debt composition and sources of debt financing and analyzes debt sustainability of Bangladesh. Along with historical data on level of debt and sources of financin...
by Md. Ezazul Islam | On 23 Jan 2016 Social conflicts have been solved through fiscal policy and the provision of public goods and services over the centuries. Data from India, too, show government expenditure on social services has had...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 The setting up of the New Development Bank was first suggested by India in early 2012 in order to fund its domestic energy and infrastructure needs, namely power transmission, 11 roads and ports. Fina...
by Stephen Spratt | On 22 Jan 2016 The purpose of this evaluation was to quantify the impact of the recent policy change in West Bengal relating to the pricing of electricity from a flat-rate tariff to a metered tariff. The study attem...
by Meenakshi J V | On 21 Jan 2016 This brief outlines the context, current proposals and concerns around the proposed carbon tax and summarises the recommendations of the Davis Tax Committee on the carbon tax, which were released as p...
by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies TIPS | On 19 Jan 2016 If the utopian ideals of Bhatnagar with which we began our journey saw science as existing without national boundaries, Bhabha’s institute which attempted to mirror that utopian ideal focused on erasi...
by Indira Chowdhury | On 19 Jan 2016 With the global community mobilizing to achieve universal health coverage, adequate, efficient, and evidence-based investments in hospitals must be a cornerstone of efforts to build sustainable and ef...
by (Centre for Global Development) Advisory Faculty | On 18 Jan 2016 This report is a result of that endeavor and reflects the unique perspectives and expertise of center and state actors, health and fiscal policymakers, academics, and civil society actors. It is based...
by (Centre for Global Development) Advisory Faculty | On 18 Jan 2016 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point
of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education a...
by Runu Bhatka | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper analyses
the benefit incidence of public health spending on inpatient service delivery, categorised by
region, gender and economic class. Inpatient morbidity data among quintile-wise MPCE...
by Kausik K. Bhadra | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 This study, relying primarily on qualitative data from Côte d’Ivoire, examines how income allocation and intra-household dynamics affect household resilience during the lean season. Its findings indic...
by Elizabeth Kiewisch | On 14 Jan 2016 Millions of job seekers in South Asia, including many tribals, are forced by lack of local employment opportunities to migrate towards urban areas. This fieldwork-based study aims to understand specif...
by Rajib Dhar | On 13 Jan 2016 India has highly populated states and a highly devolved budget; in fact, over half of all India’s public expenditures are through state budgets, including a large share of development expenditures on...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 13 Jan 2016 From around 2000 onward, donors and recipient governments embarked upon a new aid paradigm. The most important elements include increased selectivity in the aid allocation, more ownership of recipient...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The system of participatory (or joint) forest management was commenced in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan in 1996 through Asian Development Bank's funded project. These forest refo...
by Tanvir Ali | On 08 Jan 2016 Pakistan is among those countries, which have very high deforestation rate. The remaining forests are very diverse in nature and of significant importance for the country’s economy and livelihoods of...
by Tanvir Ali | On 08 Jan 2016 This chapter examines the food security situation in Nepal and the impact of the recent armed conflict on the food security situation. It argues that food security is understood in different ways and...
by Bishnu Upreti | On 07 Jan 2016 The rural household livelihood and children’s educational investment decisions are analyzed in a post-conflict setting located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh. The study represents...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 This is a perception survey of business owners and operators in four districts of Nepal. The survey provides a snapshot of prevailing state of business environment in Nepal and identifies most critica...
by Bal Khadka | On 02 Jan 2016 The Indonesian school system is one of the largest and most diverse in the world, with more than 50 million students, 4 million teachers and more than 250,000 schools. Over the past 15 years, the gove...
by Norman LaRocque | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congr...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 01 Jan 2016 Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of...
by Pradumna Rana | On 29 Dec 2015 Twenty-five years ago Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen used the concept of ‘missing women’ to highlight the gender bias in mortality that results in a huge deficit of women in substantial parts of Asia and...
by Riaz Hassan | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper aims at understanding the reasons behind the institutionalization of Indo-French defence cooperation after 1998, and at assessing the future prospects for this collaboration. By retracing i...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 The imperatives for Thailand’s investment in the Northeast have come from two important considerations, reflecting longterm strategic objectives of the Look West Policy of Thailand. First, India’s nor...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper addresses the issue of disability and its public health implications within the human rights framework. It also throws light on people with physical disabilities at least get noticed but th...
by Leni Chaudhari | On 21 Dec 2015 The paper focuses on eight selected major manufactured export sectors for undertaking detailed study, six of which are also India's largest manufactured import sectors. After analysing India's current...
by Smitha Francis | 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 Budget Private Schools (BPS) are privately-run schools that charge very low fees, operating among the poorer sections of the society and have become relevant to the education discourse of India. This...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 18 Dec 2015 This essay examines India’s position in international negotiations on climate change and domestic mitigation actions, based on scientific evidence and equity. It is argued that India’s stance has larg...
by D Raghunandan | On 17 Dec 2015 Developing countries are increasingly aware of the need to design and implement improvements in public systems for providing pensions to the elderly. Such systems may aim to smooth consumption and thu...
by David Bloom | On 17 Dec 2015 This paper reconsiders the link between welfare state provision, globalisation and competitiveness empirically. We challenge the conventional wisdom that welfare states, large-scale public provision o...
by Yu-Fu Chen | On 16 Dec 2015 The paper makes use of newly developped information on unemployment dynamics. On the basis of a matching model of the labour market the paper analyses the economic, institutional and policy determinan...
by Ekkehard Ernst | On 16 Dec 2015 This paper attempts to identify the factors that determine access to credit for financing capital expenditures across selected developed, less developed and middle performing states in India. Using a...
by Meenakshi Rajeev | On 16 Dec 2015 The SkyShares model helps policy-makers explore a range of diffe ent policy scenarios. It enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this...
by Owen Barder | On 11 Dec 2015 The central government periodically constitutes a Pay Commission, to evaluate and recommend revisions of salaries and
pensions, for its employees. Recently, the Seventh Central Pay Commission has mad...
by Vatsal Khullar | On 10 Dec 2015 The thesis that Asian values are less supportive of freedom and more concerned with order than discipline than are Western values and that the claims of human rights in the areas of political and civi...
by Amartya Sen | On 10 Dec 2015 Budgets are the most solid expression of a government’s priorities, performances, decisions and intentions both at the national as well as the level of the states. This budget for children (BfC) in Me...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Dec 2015 In the recent past, several initiatives have been taken to address the challenges in the power sector. These include structural
changes in the regulatory framework as proposed by the Electricity (Ame...
by Prachee Mishra | On 04 Dec 2015 An important element of the socio-economic impact of HIV is
how it disproportionately affects women and girls, in terms of
their vulnerability to infection, constrained access to services
and the a...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Dec 2015 In Arab countries, a widespread lack of human security undermines human development, according to the Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries. This repor...
by | On 26 Nov 2015 This paper sets forth the main lines of the ideology of the Islamic State and carefully follows its historical trajectory. Part I, Doctrines, takes up the group’s fundamental religious and political b...
by Cole Bunzel | On 22 Nov 2015 Post-7th Pay Commission recommendations, the pay being offered now should not be a disincentive for public-spirited people with ability. Can the government afford this hike?
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Nov 2015 It is often emphasised that seigniorage financing of public sector deficits is technically a “free
lunch” if the economy has not attained the full employment levels. However, conservative
macroecono...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 16 Nov 2015 If the surge in tax collections is sustainable, the finance minister has the elbow room to shoot for a fiscal deficit that is significantly lower than the Budget's 3.9 per cent of GDP, or to bump up.
by T.N. Ninan | On 13 Nov 2015 This paper primarily aims to capture the changing patterns of consumption expenditure of three broad classes, namely, the ‘upper’ ‘middle’ and ‘bottom’ classes in the rural and urban India. In contras...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 Targeted Public Distribution System was introduced in the country following the failure of the
Universal PDS to serve below the poverty line and poorest of the poor households.It is being
implemente...
by T Jayan | On 04 Nov 2015 The paper argues that both the income/expenditure and nutritional measures of poverty suffer with their own limitations. However, for both conceptual and practical considerations, the income/expenditu...
by | On 30 Oct 2015 Despite lack of infrastructure and facilities, studies over the past decade
has shown that learning outcomes in these schools are equal to or better than those of far more resourcefu...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 Oct 2015 This paper empirically examines the relation between economic growth and poverty alleviation for the case of India. We provide evidence that higher growth rates were associated with faster decline in...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 26 Oct 2015 This study compares the levels of development of the social and physical infrastructure in India with those in other major emerging countries as well as developed countries. The study finds that India...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 26 Oct 2015 This paper reviews the literature on migration in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, East Africa and West Africa in order to highlight the complexity of migration patterns and impacts. It is...
by Tasneem Siddiqui | On 19 Oct 2015 Using a theoretical framework that
combines the essence of Ramsay’s growth model and the New-Keynesian macrodynamics,
and applying the Kalman filter estimation technique, this paper finds that
Indi...
by Harendra Behera | On 16 Oct 2015 The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapi...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 Based mainly on secondary data and partly on primary information obtained through field surveys in selected rural areas in Bihar in 2011, this paper firstly argues the critical importance of agricultu...
by | On 11 Oct 2015 The term “East-West divide” as a way of describing regional disparity in Bangladesh has emerged in the policy discourse only in the 2000s. The administrative divisions belonging to the western part of...
by | On 08 Oct 2015 This ILO flagship report provides a global overview of the organization of social protection systems, their coverage and benefits, as well as public expenditures on social protection. The report follo...
by Internaional Labour Organization [ILO] | On 07 Oct 2015 What the government needs to do, perhaps, is to spell out an action agenda for the next four months, in the run-up to the 2016 Budget.
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Oct 2015 The Government of India has proposed the National Health Assurance Mission (NHAM) to move the country rapidly towards universal health coverage (UHC), by providing all citizens with specified drugs, d...
by Indrani Gupta | On 30 Sep 2015 Women in the communities make efforts to seek allocation under appropriate budget heads to identify streams of revenue, available revenue and the required expenditure. Town planners, policy makers and...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 28 Sep 2015 Can election change the condition of Bihar? At least improving the transport facilities....
by T.N. Ninan | On 26 Sep 2015 The National Health Profile 2015 prepared by the Central Bureau for Health Intelligence (CBHI) has revealed some disturbing facts about India’s healthcare sector. It shows the poor patient to bed rati...
by Central Bureau for Health Intelligence (CBHI) | On 25 Sep 2015 In this study, it is estimate the demand for sewage connections and piped drinking water in Bhutan. To estimate household willingness to pay for these services, the data is used from a sample of 18,76...
by | On 24 Sep 2015 Seven years after the financial crisis, countries have done well. India is also doing well but there is a lot of difference in the programmes announced and how they are implemented.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Sep 2015 This paper measures the percolation of food subsidy expenditures to the poor. The paper proposes a metric that takes into account the depth and width of income transfer. The metric is applied to food...
by Shikha Jha | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper compares, in historical perspective, the conditions for democracy, economic development and well-being in India and Scandinavia. Within India, it compares the states of Kerala and West Beng...
by | On 16 Sep 2015 Open and participatory budget making is imperative for good
governance; yet by international standards India fares badly
on this count. This article analyses the process of budget
preparation and...
by Vinod Bhanu | On 11 Sep 2015 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 If there is one thing the Census 2011 shows, it's that India will remain overwhelmingly Hindu forever
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 Aug 2015 Against the backdrop of the new monetary policy framework, this paper analyses the determinants of inflation in the deregulated financial regime. The paper upfront has been kept free from adherence to...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 25 Aug 2015 There is high inter-state variation in public expenditure on health across states of India. This paper examines the degree to which this discrepancy in health expenditure is explained by income and ot...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 Aquaculture has grown in leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades in Bangladesh. This is welcomed by most as increasing fish production is expected to contribute to enhancing food security in a...
by Kazi Ali Toufique | On 21 Aug 2015 There are basic methodological and conceptual problems with recent research that ends up arguing that private school education is more effective than public education. Such findings have obvious polic...
by | On 17 Aug 2015 This study focuses on the marketable
domestic public debt of the Government of India (GoI) in terms of size, magnitude, policy and approach followed and also discusses issues and challenges on debt m...
by Lakshmanan L | On 13 Aug 2015 Social Sector performs an effective function in human resource development and hence it is very important to study how the
economic reforms are influencing social sector expenditures. Any economic re...
by Runa Paul | On 03 Aug 2015 Newer production processes with changing global spaces have produced newer division of labour and work categories. The two studies presented here draw attention to the shrinking space for articulation...
by Swati Ghosh | On 31 Jul 2015 This report is by the National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India is part of the series on household consumer expenditure on utilisation of...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 31 Jul 2015 The youth constitutes the largest segment of the Indian population. Being the primary productive human resource, the socio-economic development of the Indian youth is directly linked to the developmen...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This paper explores what constitutes the mechanics of the legal and the administrative world of food rights in the Dooars area of West Bengal, specifically food rights of the tea plantation labourers....
by Geetisha Dasgupta | On 24 Jul 2015 During the last two decades international trade in healthcare services has expanded under the GATS. Increasingly it has acquired new dimensions with application of advanced information and communicati...
by T.P. Bhat | On 23 Jul 2015 The recent potato crisis affecting Bengal and Odisha has to be seen for what it is: an artificial situation created by traders and markets with help from the state.
by | On 23 Jul 2015 Review of Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii + 254 pp. Rs. 521/-, ISBN 978-0-19-808177-7.
by Rohini Hensman | On 22 Jul 2015 Social protection policies play a critical role in realizing the human right to social security for all, reducing poverty and inequality, and supporting inclusive growth – by boosting human capital an...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 17 Jul 2015 Is the mid-day meal scheme following the nutritional standards? Are funds properly allocated? HARCRC is showing a clear picture of what is happening to the mid-day meal scheme.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Jul 2015 Disability is a complex category as it is understood and interpreted in very different ways. While disability has been defined primarily in terms of medical deficit, socio-cultural constructions give...
by Nandini Ghosh | On 06 Jul 2015 Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organiza...
by Ajay Tandon | On 25 Jun 2015 This paper presents an empirical model for minimising selection failure by tax departments in selecting cases for scrutiny assessment. This model also provides a new methodology for estimating tax gap...
by Sudhanshu Kumar | On 23 Jun 2015 The paper explores the trends, composition, and incidence of out-of-pocket health expenditure (OOPHE) in India, which has been the predominant means of financing its health care needs. Unit-level data...
by Indrani Gupta | On 19 Jun 2015 The statement discusses the need of development of a competent and accountable public service by attracting, developing, engaging and managing an efficient and innovative organizational, functional an...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 18 Jun 2015 The statement aims to stand firmly as an independent institution and to conduct every election honestly, fairly and transparency and in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the country. The st...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 18 Jun 2015 Statement aims to establish good governance by coordinating activities of different ministries & divisions and supervising activities of field administration in pursuing government policy and strategy...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The statement aims to build a knowledge-based and digital Bangladesh and to advance the socio-economic conditions of all sections of the nation, through the establishment of good governance in the all...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The data generated by the Budgeting Information System has been used to prepare this report which put forward the following major findings- Up to April FY11, 80.2% of the Revenue target of the budget...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 This Pre Budget Report incorporates the Medium-Term Budget Framework (MTBF). The MTBF links the spending plans of budgetary units to overall government policy objectives.The purpose of the Report is t...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 16 Jun 2015 This edition of the Afghanistan bulletin provides a snapshot of the actual domestic revenues collection and core budget execution during the quarter. An attempt has been made to provide analytical ana...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 16 Jun 2015 Despite an expanding body of evidence suggesting that sustainable mental health care can be effectively integrated into existing health systems at relatively low cost, mental health has not received s...
by Barnabas J Gilbert | On 16 Jun 2015 The national budget is the primary tool for implementing the priorities and policies of the government as a whole. The 1390 budget maintains the Government’s major budgetary objective of allocating fi...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 15 Jun 2015 Budgetary speech presents an outline of the the Budget Implementation Progress report for FY 2010-11. The speech discuss briefly budget framework of bangladesh government and also analyse macroeconomi...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 12 Jun 2015 Budget FY11 contains Speech of the Bangladesh Finance Minister on the implementation status and macroeconomic analysis up to second quarter (July-December).
by | On 12 Jun 2015 The Government’s main budgetary objective is to allocate fiscal resources in line with Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS). In this way, it will be assured that resources are allocated to...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 11 Jun 2015 This guide explains, in simple and easily understood language, the 1390 Budget Statement presented to Parliament by the Minister of Finance on 5 February 2011. The guide is designed to help the genera...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 11 Jun 2015 Open budget documents
by test Auth11055 fgdfgdx | On 10 Jun 2015 By investigating the educational expenditure of children over the ten years (2000 to 2010), it evaluates whether there exists any gender specific discrepancy at the household level and the trend of su...
by Abu S. Shonchoy | On 10 Jun 2015 India continues to have among the lowest public health budgets in the world at just over 1% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it gets reflected in the performance of the public healthcare delivery s...
by Oommen C. Kurian | On 08 Jun 2015 Understanding the importance of peace has been accorded high priority in many religions, such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. In recent years, many economists have realized the monetary va...
by Hari Bansh Jha | On 05 Jun 2015 On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation the statement suggest that the global recovery is still slow and getting increasingly differentiated across regions.
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 03 Jun 2015 An external review, commissioned by the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board, was prepared in May 2013, providing detailed analysis of WHO’s administrative and managem...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 26 May 2015 At the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly in May 2013, Member States requested the Director-General to propose, for consideration by the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, in consultation with Member...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 26 May 2015 Review of Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 448 pp. Rs. 2,854 , ISBN 13 9780226001302.
by Maurice Jr. M. Labelle | On 25 May 2015 The Household Consumer Expenditure Surveys of the National Sample Survey (NSS) are the primary source of data on various indicators of level of living of different segments of the population at nation...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 20 May 2015 The April 2015 issue of IMI Konnect contains the following articles - “A Grand Design”, by Rajat Kathuria; “Budget 2015-16 and India's “Vishva Guru”; Dream”, by Vighneswara Swamy; “Micro Vs Macro Impa...
by IMI Konnect | On 08 May 2015 The National Health Policy framed from time to time provides the framework for the implementation of policies and programmes for health care. The Eleventh Five Year Plan had focused on the poor and th...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 28 Apr 2015 This is analysis of this year's Union Budget in Hindi. This video discusses on how the government categories budget and how the budget document should be viewed.
by | On 13 Apr 2015 This study projects government spending on education, health care, and social protection in developing Asia up to 2050 as a result of demographic changes and economic growth.
by Sang-Hyop Lee | On 06 Apr 2015 The Union Budget is a political statement of the current Government’s aims, with considerable sops being given to corporations. The redistribution of funds from essential schemes to others suggests th...
by | On 26 Mar 2015 The “Outcome Budget” reflects the endeavour of the Government to convert “Outlays” into “Outcomes” by planning expenditure, fixing
appropriate targets and quantifying deliverables of each scheme. The...
by Ministry of Finance | On 26 Mar 2015 Budget 2015, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, has a first. In it, India has accepted that it has a de-facto carbon tax—on petroleum products and dirty coal. Arguably, the only big green ini...
by Sunita Narain | On 25 Mar 2015 Budget for children is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall allocations made, those made specifically for programmes that benefit children. This enables us t...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 24 Mar 2015 The State budget had focused the receipt and expenditure under the Consolidated Fund of the Government with dissemination of allocation under different development sectors. The fund flow towards child...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 The January 2015 issue of IMI Konnect (Volume 4, Issue 1) contains the following articles - Does Monetary Policy Limit Lending Behaviour of Banks? by Samaresh Bardhan; Entrepreneurship Education in In...
by IMI Konnect | On 24 Mar 2015 Budget speech of Haryana Finance Minister
by Capt. Abhimanyu | On 24 Mar 2015 Speech by Finance Minister of Maharashtra.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 23 Mar 2015 Speech of Finance Minister of Maharashtra
by | On 23 Mar 2015 If women in the unpaid domestic employment categories were to be provided even part-time regular work, they would immensely contribute to the GDP. It is important to generate creative partnerships be...
by Bino Paul G.D | On 15 Mar 2015 Budget speech of Kerala Finance Minister K M Mani.
by K.M. Mani | On 13 Mar 2015 Kerala is chartering a new course and addressing some of the long standing gaps that have existed in Gender Responsive Budgeting work in several countries. Although the state has initiated the process...
by Yamini Mishra | On 13 Mar 2015 It is the budget brief of Gujarat state for the year 2015-16.
by Saurabh Patel | On 11 Mar 2015 Expanding women’s access to the labour market and enhancing their employability, apart from all its other impact, contributes to the GDP substantially. It is important to generate creative partnership...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 10 Mar 2015 This report repositions a group of 17 neglected tropical diseases on the global development agenda at a time of profound transitions in the economies of endemic countries and in thinking about the ove...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 09 Mar 2015 Union Budget 2015-16 fails to provide for the needs of the women in the country, with budgetary allocation for most women’s development schemes facing a steep reduction. This article reviews the budge...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 09 Mar 2015 A substantial part of the 2015 Budget Statement is interspersed with the promise that ‘every rupee of public expenditure…will contribute to the betterment of people’s lives through job creation, pover...
by Gautam Mody | On 03 Mar 2015 This publication highlights a range of pertinent issues primarily focusing on social sectors (such as education, health, drinking water and sanitation, food security etc.) and the responsiveness of th...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 02 Mar 2015 The budget proposals are premised on the assumption that health care is an individual’s responsibiity. The government appears to be rapidly shedding its responsibilities to provide accessible health...
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 Mar 2015 A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Economic Survey 2014–15 reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performan...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2015 Budget speech of Finance Minister
by Arun Jaitley | On 28 Feb 2015 The paper reflects on the changing scope of the Union Budget and the Finance Minister’s speech and assesses the evolving content of these policy instruments in recent years. The analysis undertaken is...
by | On 27 Feb 2015 Railway Budget also referred as Rail Budget is the Annual Financial Statement of the state-owned Indian Railways, which handles rail transport in India. It is presented every year by the Minister of R...
by | On 26 Feb 2015 Gender Budgeting highlights that a government policy or intervention, if formulated and implemented without any attention to the gender-based disadvantages confronting women, might even end up reinfor...
by Pooja Parvati | On 26 Feb 2015 The asks of the Agriculture sector are many but what all must the budget focus on? A National Convention on Budget 2015-16 by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability looks at these.
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 Climate change is for real and there are two responses – mitigation or adaptation. What does the Union Budget need to do about climate change adaptation?
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 With the budget round the corner what are the asks from the standpoint of food sovereignty? A Convention on Budget 2015-16 by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability looks at these.
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 Speech of Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu introducing the
Railway Budget for 2015-16
by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | On 26 Feb 2015 Gujarat Budget 2015-16.
by Saurabh Patel | On 26 Feb 2015 The ruling government’s Land Acquisition Ordinance is viewed with suspicion by most politically active groups, as well as the industry. Consent, compensation, relief and rehabilitation are some of the...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 25 Feb 2015 In spite of an increase in the number of government schemes to address the problem of undernutrition, the situation has improved only marginally. A number of factors such as spaces, ethnicities, incom...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 25 Feb 2015 It is a well-known fact that children are not getting much attention in the Union Budgets. There are some schemes by the government for children. Many of them are not properly implemented or lack fund...
by Bharti Ali | On 25 Feb 2015 Equity and efficiency are two issues that arise again and again the area of infrastructure finance. If the financing of infrastructure projects is to be sustainable the private sector must be entruste...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 25 Feb 2015 There is a need for public policy revival in mining sector as its contribution to GDP is declining. India has coal reserves but it is one of the highest importers of coal in the world. There is a need...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 24 Feb 2015 Open defecation and improper garbage disposal are a reality of public spaces in India, not just due to poverty or a lack of initiative on the government, but social acceptance of attitudes which disr...
by Poorva Awasthi | On 24 Feb 2015 Planning Commission’s Approach Paper to the Twelfth Plan lays down the objective for the Twelfth Plan as faster, more inclusive and sustainable growth. Unsettled global economy, volatile commodity pri...
by Planning Commission | On 24 Feb 2015 The Union education budget has seen an increase in monetary allocation every year and the enrolment rate across the country has also been largely moving upwards. It becomes important to scrutinise the...
by | On 24 Feb 2015 Indian President Pranab Mukherjee said at the opening of the budget session of Parliament on Monday that the government was committed to developing India in a way that lifts up everyone in the country...
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 23 Feb 2015 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the Budget Session between 23rd February and 8th May, 2015. There will be a recess between 21st March and 19th April when the Standing Committees will examine D...
by Kusum Malik | On 23 Feb 2015 The union budget for 2014-15 offers few changes in terms of policy priorities from the United Progressive Alliance government interim budget for 2014-15, and it fails to recognise the cracks in the co...
by Subrat Das | On 20 Feb 2015 This paper explores the need for a Pre-Budget Statement, sub-national transparency and civil society participation to make the budgetary process in India more transparent, accountable and participator...
by Ravi Duggal | On 20 Feb 2015 The energy sector unquestionably constitutes one of the major driving forces of Indian economy. Ever since the 12th Plan has projected the growth rate of 8-9 per cent per annum for the economy for the...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 20 Feb 2015 Important processes relating to government budgets in India have been constrained by some widely-acknowledged challenges in governance in the country. These challenges pertain to lack of adequate tran...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 20 Feb 2015 Nutritional deprivation is the highest among tribal children in india. However, fiscal policy strategy to improve nutritional status for this section of the population depends a lot on the implementat...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 20 Feb 2015 Access to water and sanitation are strongly influenced by identities of caste, class and gender. The launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan presents an opportunity to address some concerns pertaining to...
by Kanika Kaul | On 19 Feb 2015 This document provides an overview the current state of the Indian economy; lists the issues related to investment and finance for various Indian industries; finally makes a list of suggestions for th...
by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry | On 19 Feb 2015 Union Budget 2014-15 is the first budget of the new government at the Centre. Some of the complex issues like price rise and corruption were central to the General Elections held in early 2014; hence...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 19 Feb 2015 This edition of Budget Track focuses on the ‘Issues before the 14th Finance Commission’, which is due to submit its report to the Union Government this year. The Finance Commission of India, a Constit...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 19 Feb 2015 Government of India (GoI) will present its Budget for 2015-16 on February 28, 2015. After the new Government was sworn in during May 2014, it had a short period of six weeks before presenting the Revi...
by Aditi Nayar | On 19 Feb 2015 This brief uses government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) performance.
by Accountability Initiative | On 18 Feb 2015 Despite the steps towards gender responsive budgeting, the budgetary allocations for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment show a decline. Not only has the magnitude of the gender budget a...
by | On 17 Feb 2015 Outcome Budgets have become an integral part of the budgeting process since 2005-06. Outcome Budget 2015-16 will broadly indicate the physical dimensions of the financial budgets as also the actual ph...
by Ministry of Finance GOI | On 17 Feb 2015 The "Outcome Budget" reflects the endeavour of the Government to convert "Outlays" into "Outcomes" by planning expenditure, fixing appropriate targets and quantifying deliverables of each scheme. The...
by | On 17 Feb 2015 A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Economic Survey 2013–14 reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performan...
by Government of India GOI | On 16 Feb 2015 This document highlights the key features of Budget 2014-15. It also shows the current economic situations and challenges that India is facing
by Government of India GOI | On 16 Feb 2015 This paper focuses on the trends in health seeking behaviour of people and the cost of treatment by examining the National Sample Survey data pertaining to three rounds -1986-87, 1995-96 and 2004. Wit...
by Anil Gumber | On 13 Feb 2015 Indian Public Finance Statistics' is an annual publication prepared by the Economic Division of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. This provides a comprehensive overview of the b...
by Ministry of Finance | On 10 Feb 2015 This note presents an analysis of Parliament’s role of financial oversight and examines how to strengthen it. It highlights gaps and solutions to improve the existing structures affecting budgetary an...
by Apoorva Shankar | On 30 Jan 2015 Jashodhara Bagchi was a leading Indian feminist critic and a prodigious professor in her field. She was a scholar who voiced women's cause and worked for their empowerment. She also was chairman of...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 19 Jan 2015 This National Health Policy addresses the urgent need to improve the performance of health systems. It is being formulated at the last year of the Millennium Declaration and its Goals, in the global c...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 15 Jan 2015 Jasodhara Bagchi, feminist scholar, activist and leader of the women's movement and a pioneering women's studies academic passed away on January 9, 2015 after a brief illness in Kolkata, India.
by | On 11 Jan 2015 A short post on PosterWomen that first appeared in July 25, 2011 in which Jasodhara Bagchi, the late feminist scholar and activist talks about her involvement with the women's movement in India.
by Jasodhara Bagchi | On 11 Jan 2015 The basic objective of the study is to examine the impact of public expenditure on health and education after
incorporating the linkages between health status of children and their educational achiev...
by Runu Bhatka | On 12 Dec 2014 This paper first presents approach of Expert Group (Rangarajan). The
clarifications are given under the following heads: (1) what is new in the approach for poverty line; (2)
Use of calories; (3) Mu...
by C. Rangarajan | On 12 Dec 2014 This study has used India Human Development Survey, 2005 to study
the factors influencing the Body Mass Index (BMI) of women between 20
to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition...
by Shikha Dahiya | On 28 Nov 2014 Out-of-pocket payments make up a large proportion of total health expenditure leading to inequity amongst the poorer sections. Recently government of India has instigated various demand side financing...
by Harshad Thakur | On 11 Nov 2014 In 2008, two earnest young men set out to boost soya bean yields in the semi-arid region of Bundi in Rajasthan. Rainfall there is meagre and the soil lacks nutrients. But there are ready buyers for so...
by Civil Society | On 20 Oct 2014 Inadequate infrastructure was recognized in the Eleventh Plan as a major constraint for rapid growth. The Plan had, therefore, emphasized on the need for massive expansion on investment in infrastruct...
by Geethanjali Nataraj | On 16 Oct 2014 India has the dubious distinction of having the highest burden of malnutrition in
the world – higher than Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 50 per cent of our children
are underweight and stunted and 70...
by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India | On 16 Oct 2014 The inaugural budget of the NDA led government has been a cause of some surprise and disappointment amongst those who were eagerly expecting a new radical dose of neo-liberal reforms. It appeared that...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 22 Sep 2014 This book offers a careful summary of the rights and practices of work in the Indian labour market. In specific, it deals with rights deficiency of workers in different sectors especially on agricultu...
by V.V. Giri Labour Institute | On 19 Sep 2014 Statistics of participation of MPs in budget session 2014 is shown here.
by Mandira Kala | On 10 Sep 2014 About 4.5 lakh fair price shops in India sell 10-20 lakh tons of rice and wheat at the subsidized rate per month. Majority of the ration shops are in urban areas, they are hardly ever open and only a...
by Parth Shah | On 27 Aug 2014 The speech shows the investment government has done for the housing and real estate sector. There are recommendations on how the sector can be improved.
by R. Gandhi | On 22 Aug 2014 The Scheduled Castes form 16 percent of the population yet their issues have largely remained silent. It’s high time to bring into line the discord between election commitments and budgetary allocatio...
by P.S Krishnan | On 19 Aug 2014 The debt position of the state governments in India, which deteriorated sharply between 1997-98 and 2003-04, has witnessed significant improvement since 2004-05, reflecting the impact of both favourab...
by Atri Mukherjee | On 19 Aug 2014 The FRBM Act was reflective of the shared commitment across political parties towards fiscal conservatism. A decade later, the picture, as reflected in the Union Budget, is yet to change for the bette...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 07 Aug 2014 The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country,...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2014 Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? This is examined using expenditure data at
the local level from India’s N...
by Megan Sheahan | On 01 Aug 2014 A group of economists presented their views on what the Union Budget 2014-15 offered for India's agricultural sector and farmers, during a conference entitled Analyzing the Budget 2014 for Rural India...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 23 Jul 2014 If the Union Budget 2014 is anything to go by , the fiscal policy of the new government shows no change. In fact, there is an amazing continuity with the previous few Budgets. Significantly however,...
by Ravi Duggal | On 23 Jul 2014 The article examines the restructuring of expenditure in the first budget of the new government, and its
feasibility. It compares the increase in budget allocations for key macroeconomic aggregates a...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Jul 2014 Budget speech by chief minister Vasundhara Raje
by Vasundhara Raje | On 21 Jul 2014 Union budget 2014-15 offers up old and new schemes but fails to address macro-economic and social causes of exploitation and subordination of women.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 18 Jul 2014 The new government wants to increase investment in various sectors. The government has funds but the Finance Minister has said about lack of funds in the Budget. Public private partnerships (PPPs) can...
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 Jul 2014 Children have been given only 4.6 per cent of the total budget of 2014 -15. In fact the share of children in has decreased. Is this the Finance Minister’s gift to children on India?
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 17 Jul 2014 The focus of the paper is to suggest an alternate methodology for
horizontal devolution from divisible pool of Central taxes and
disbursement of grants. Tax devolution criteria suggested are populat...
by R. Mohan | On 16 Jul 2014 According to Census estimates, more than half the population of the country, 51.8 per cent, to be precise, is less than 35 years of age, while the population in the critical demography category of 18-...
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 16 Jul 2014 The Minister of Finance, Mr. Arun Jaitley, presented the Union Budget 2014-15 to Parliament on July 10,
2014. In this context, some statistics related to budget expenditures, receipts and deficits.
by Saumya Vaishnava | On 16 Jul 2014 The Minister of Railways, D V Sadananda Gowda,
presented the Railways Budget 2014 to Parliament on
July 8, 2014. In his address, he assessed the
performance of Railways in 2013-14 and laid out his...
by Prachee Mishra | On 16 Jul 2014 India’s health policy has focused on primary health centers and hospitals. The numbers of hospital beds, doctors, and nurses per 1000 persons have often been treated less as inputs and more as measure...
by Aarti Salve | On 14 Jul 2014 The term gender budgeting has become a catch phrase to describe various government initiatives that seek to address gender issues in the domain of public expenditure and policy. In India, the strategi...
by Rituparna Dutta | On 14 Jul 2014 The Indian economy is witnessing a dichotomous trend- an increasing share of employment in industry with decline in Value Added to output. When compared to other Asian economies, we’re adding workers...
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 10 Jul 2014 In 2014-15, the Indian economy is poised to overcome the sub-5 per cent growth of gross domestic product (GDP) witnessed over the last two years. The growth slowdown in the last two years was broad ba...
by Planning Commission | On 10 Jul 2014 Budget Speech 2014-15 by Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 10 Jul 2014 The bulletin shows what are the process in presenting budget and the terms used in the budget.
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 10 Jul 2014 Governments’ budgets are fundamentally about people’s human rights. Budgets are the central means by which governments can help realize their people’s access to quality education, decent health care s...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 10 Jul 2014 Railway budget 2014-15.
by D.V. Sadananda Gowda | On 09 Jul 2014 This study examines the impact of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) on poor households in terms of income gains, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional impr...
by R. Radhakrishna | On 07 Jul 2014 As per census 2011, there are 289.48 lakh women and girls in the state of Gujarat, comprising 47.90 per cent of total population. “Gender Budget 2014-15” shows financial allocations for women in vario...
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 03 Jul 2014 The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD leve...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 24 Jun 2014 Since the 1970s in particular, the countries of Western Asia and those of the Asia-Pacific region have been closely linked to each other through highly extensive movements of people. Opportunities cre...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 17 Jun 2014 This ILO flagship report: (i) provides a global overview of the organisation of social protection systems, their coverage and benefits, as well as public expenditures on social security; (ii) followin...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 17 Jun 2014 This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing both on the continuing labour market crisis and on structural issues in youth lab...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 30 May 2014 Drawing on interviews with 16 men and women in two age groups – fifties and twenties – and participant observation in adda sessions in an undergraduate college in contemporary Kolkata, this paper atte...
by Romit Chowdhury | On 13 May 2014 This paper discusses the wide disparities that exist in childhood malnutrition, food insecurity and livelihoods within urban areas which, when combined with the mobility of urban residents,add to the...
by Marie T. Ruel | On 22 Apr 2014 The paper analyzes causes of movements in Indian wages for rural unskilled male laborers, and
assesses their impact on inflation. Theoretical priors derived from an analytical framework based on the
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 10 Apr 2014 Is there sufficient allocation for children in the budgets? [HAQ CRC].
by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral | On 05 Mar 2014 Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) as an innovation has four specific components: knowledge processes and networking; institutional mechanisms; learning processes and building capacities; and public ac...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 05 Mar 2014 This note discusses the Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Estimation
of Poverty. The Report recommends the use of the existing official urban poverty line as the
poverty lin...
by Madhura Swaminathan | On 27 Feb 2014 Budget speech by 2014-15.
by P Chidambaram | On 17 Feb 2014 Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the im...
by Florence Santos | On 17 Feb 2014 Speech of Shri Mallikarjun Kharge
introducing the Railway Budget 2014-15.
by Mallikarjun Kharge | On 14 Feb 2014 With the decentralization process of the 1990s, linked to economic liberalization, there emerged new decisional scope for regional governments to shape their own policies. But the decentralization pro...
by Kim Robin | On 24 Jan 2014 The effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on
budget allocation at the sub-national level is analyzed. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts
for the years...
by Krisztina Kis Katos | On 17 Jan 2014 Tobacco continues to be a major social and health menace across the globe. It is estimated that by 2030, it would account for the death of about 10 million people per year; half of them aged between 3...
by Dr. Pragati Hebber | On 09 Jan 2014 The Planning Commission constituted, in September 1989, an 'Expert Group' to consider
methodological and computational aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in
India. [Planning Comm...
by Planning Commission | On 07 Jan 2014 The Government of India has recently announced that Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal are
fiscally unsound at the level of general category states. The study reviews this projection
and assesses their...
by Nimai Das | On 26 Nov 2013 The major objective of the paper is to examine the economic conditions of the in-migrant
workers in Kerala. This has been done by analysing their savings, income and consumption
pattern and nature o...
by Dilip Saikia | On 11 Nov 2013 Time use statistics is highly neglected in the studies on gender budgeting. The integration of this into this process remains partial or even nil across countries. This paper takes up these issues and...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 06 Nov 2013 A study middleman margins, trading mechanisms and the role of asymmetric information about prices between potato farmers and local trade intermediaries, in West Bengal,
India is conducted. Farmers in...
by Sandip Mitra | On 23 Oct 2013 High food inflation, which has averaged 10% during FY 2008-09 to December 2012, has been a major concern for policy makers in India. This is all the more important as an average household in India sti...
by Ashok Gulati | On 21 Oct 2013 Rural development reflects in the improvements in the economic well being of people living in villages. In someway, it reflects in the increase in the purchasing power of the rural inhabitants.
This...
by Ch.Sambasiva Rao | On 18 Oct 2013 One third of the population of India are children below the age of 18 years. They are citizens of this country. Even though they do not vote, they have all rights as equal citizens of the country. How...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 07 Oct 2013 The present study attempts to build a SAM for India for 2007–08. This SAM consists of 78
sectors and nine categories of households which are based on occupation and location (i.e.
rural and urban)....
by Basanta K. Pradhan | On 26 Sep 2013 In recent years the role of a sound PFM system to achieve the objectives of fiscal discipline, strategic planning, and improved service delivery has been getting increasing public attention in India....
by Pratap Ranjan Jena | On 12 Sep 2013 The gains made since ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) are plenty, but the reality of children’s situation is disturbing on many counts calling for urgent and serious att...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 26 Aug 2013 It is a sad thing for an academic to have to explain the difference between a revolution and a coup d'état to other academics, especially those who have described the Egyptian military coup against it...
by Amr Othman | On 18 Aug 2013 A recap of the previous poverty estimates can be found here. [Planning Commission]. URL:[http://planningcommission.nic.in/news/pre_pov2307.pdf].
by Planning Commission | On 05 Aug 2013 Poverty needs to be measured taking into account OOP spending, since health spending is also now viewed as an essential expenditure that enhances welfare like
food and other necessities. [Paper prese...
by Indrani Gupta | On 05 Aug 2013 Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Jul 2013 The report deals with the estimation of poverty and identification of poor – differences in approach. It also describes the characteristics and trends of urban poverty. The vulnerability of urban poor...
by Planning Commission, India | On 29 Jul 2013 This paper evaluates the President’s Budget (PB) or the National Expenditure
Program (NEP) for 2013. The assessment is composed of four parts: (i) an evaluation
of the overall fiscal picture as proj...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 25 Jul 2013 This study looked at budget processes related to health in two districts of Maharashtra and found that there was a significant variation in the way budget estimation was practiced at the level of Prim...
by Prashant Raymus | On 17 Jul 2013 Theft and corruption are common in electricity distribution systems worldwide. Electricity theft is analysed in the framework of an individual’s choice under uncertainty and through a three-layered pr...
by Faisal Jamil | On 10 Jul 2013 Budget brief Pakistan 2013-14. [Government of Pakistan]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/Budget_in_Brief_2013_14.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 14 Jun 2013 Supplementary Budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 and the Budget Estimates for the fiscal year 2013-14. [http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/13_14/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 07 Jun 2013 On the 20th of March 2013, the Honorable Chief Minister of Delhi presented her budget to the Legislative Assembly. What did she have in it for children? The budget has to be analysed in the light of t...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 03 Jun 2013 Parliament convened for the Budget Session 2013 for 32 days between February 21 and May 8. Both Houses
were adjourned sine die on May 8, two days ahead of the planned schedule. There was a month long...
by Priya Soman | On 03 Jun 2013 This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in
raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier methodology for
panel data for the period 2000-2009. [MSE WORKING PAPER 70/2012]. URL: [...
by Prachitha J | On 16 Apr 2013 H.E Finance Minister’s Speech
for Mishrano Jirga. [Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan]. URL:[http://mof.gov.af/Content/files/HE%20Minister%20Speech%20to%20Mishranow%20Jirga-%20English%20after%20review....
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 10 Apr 2013 The Minister of Finance, K.M Mani , presented the General Budget 2013 to the State Assembly on March 15,
2013. In his address, he commented on the fiscal performance of the State in 2012-13 and laid...
by Vishnu Padmanabhan | On 09 Apr 2013 The national budget is truly a potent tool for the economy to journey towards inclusive growth that would empower Filipinos through deliverance from backbreaking poverty. [Senate of the Philippines]....
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 08 Apr 2013 The PAISA exercise uses planning
and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an
attempt to build an empirical understanding of
current governance processes at the grassroots
to push for a larg...
by Accountability Initiative | On 29 Mar 2013 This study examines options for managing rice residue and the factors that determine its management in the south-west region of Bangladesh. Study results indicate that while straw length, low-elevatio...
by Mohammed Ziaul Haider | On 29 Mar 2013 Budget speech by Minister of Finance. [Ministry of Finance]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/budget_Speech_12_13.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 22 Mar 2013 Following is the full text of report on the implementation of central and local budgets in 2012 and on draft central and local budgets for 2013, which was submitted for review on March 5, 2013 at the...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 21 Mar 2013 Finance Minister Shri. K. M. Mani has presented the State Budget for the coming financial year 2013-14 in the Kerala Legislative Assembly on 15 March 2013.
This is the eleventh budget by the minister...
by K.M. Mani | On 15 Mar 2013 This brief gives the idea about the allocations to Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan by Government of India in 2013-14 [Accountability Initiative]. URL:[http://www.accountabilityindia.in/sites/default/files/ssa_2...
by Accountability Initiative | On 07 Mar 2013 The report investigate the relationship between growth and deprivation in India, an issue of immense interest. Given the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that...
by Sripad Motiram | On 07 Mar 2013 Justice Usha Mehra report on Delhi gang rape case, Railway Budget, Union Budget were the important highlights on this months. [PRS]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/announcements/monthly-policy-review-26...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 02 Mar 2013 There is lack of clarity and concepts in the Economic Survey. The Survey has not covered many topics which it was expected to cover.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 02 Mar 2013 The budget offers no programme for job creation or any substantive policy measures to contain inflation that continues to erode the real wage while it commits itself to cash transfers and cuts in subs...
by Gautam Mody | On 01 Mar 2013 Share of Dudget for Children in the Union Budget. [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%20Analysis%202013-14-1.pdf]
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2013 The budget has come with schemes for rural India. It has got schemes for women, youth and poor.
by Sunil Duggal | On 28 Feb 2013 Budget Speech by Chidambaram.
by P Chidambaram | On 28 Feb 2013 The Minister of Railways, Pawan Kumar Bansal, presented the Railway Budget 2013 to Parliament on 26th February. In his address, he commented on the performance of Railways in 2012-13 and laid out his...
by Vishnu Padmanabhan | On 28 Feb 2013 Is the Finance Minister going to do a salvage operation? [BS week end ruminations].
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Feb 2013 Modernization, encouragement to PPP, integration of MGNREGA, has been given importance in the railway budget.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 27 Feb 2013 Budget at a glance.
by Government of Bihar | On 26 Feb 2013 Speech of Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal. URL:[http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/finance_budget/Budget_2013-14/English_Speech_2013-14.pdf].
by Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal | On 26 Feb 2013 The status of various forms of tribal and folk art and culture are explored. The influence of tribal and folk art & culture on the socio-economic
conditions of the subjects covered under survey are...
by Gramin Vikas Seva Sanshtha GVSS | On 26 Feb 2013 In spite of several programmes in the country to reduce undernutrition, India continues to have a large number malnourished women and children. In the coming Budget the government has to make some eff...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Feb 2013 Budget speech presented by Prasanna Acharya. General Budget is presented.
by Government of Orissa | On 25 Feb 2013 Budget presented by Shri Prasanna Acharya. The first part contains the Agriculture Budget.
by Orissa Government | On 25 Feb 2013 Budget speech, 2013-2014. [Uttar Pradesh Government]. URL:[http://budget.up.nic.in/budgetbhashan/budgetbhashan2013-2014.pdf].
by Uttar Pradesh Government UP | On 20 Feb 2013 Budget expectations for automobile sector. [IRIS India].
by IRIS India IRIS | On 19 Feb 2013 India's Open Budget score is 68 out of 100. India's budget documents have been found to be informative and as providing substantial relevant information to people.
by MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DIST GOI | On 15 Feb 2013 reveals that the national budgets of 77 of the 100 countries assessed – these 77 countries are home to half the world’s population – fail to meet basic standards of budget transparency; the average sc...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 14 Feb 2013 Indian Railways have to be investor friendly. The railway budget will have to deal with core issues such as mobilizing resources, controlling costs and offering competitive freight structure with an e...
by Sachin Bhanushali | On 14 Feb 2013 estimates of receipts and expenditure
for the financial year 2013-14 with respect to the primary education. [BMC]. URL:[http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/Chief%...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 11 Feb 2013 The estimates of receipt and income and expenditure pertaining to the Budgets ‘A’ (Fund code 11, 12, 60, 70), ‘B’ (Fund Code 21, 22, 23) and ‘E’ (Fund Code 40) for the financial year 2013-14 in pursua...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 11 Feb 2013 The provision
by Tribeni Gogoi | On 18 Jan 2013 There are relatively few theoretical models or empirical
analyses of clientelism which analyse the sources and consequences of clientelism. Data from household surveys in rural West Bengal are used t...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 Jan 2013 To understand the ageing in India, a primary survey was carried out in seven states – Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal – having a higher percentage of...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 08 Jan 2013 Review of the book Food Security in Asia, by Amitava Mukherjee Sage Publications India 2011
pp. xix+392, Rs 895/-.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 04 Jan 2013 An attempt has been made to understand the paradoxes of Kerala's development like the state's per capita consumer expenditure is more than
the per capita state domestic product. But the nutritional i...
by K.K. George | On 18 Dec 2012 This paper attempts to analyse the benefit incidence of health spending in the context of India. Benefit incidence analysis (hereafter BIA) is used here. This is a methodology that addresses this ques...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 17 Dec 2012 The one and only one government hospital for children in the country supported by the
Central Government with a budget of Rs. 55.40 Crore in the year 2012-13 is once again in
news for miserable cond...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 26 Nov 2012 Middle-income countries (MICs) are now home to most of the world’s extreme poor—the billion people living on less than $1.25 a day and a further billion people living on between $1.25 and $2. At the s...
by Andy Sumner | On 05 Nov 2012 What are the response of voters to candidates who have reported that they have criminal charges against them? A analysis within the framework of a simple analytical model which assumes that criminal c...
by Bhaskar Dutta | On 02 Nov 2012 This study aims at analyzing
the differentials across rich and poor states and across rich and poorer
strata and rural urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study
indicates that besides ind...
by Brijesh C Purohit | On 28 Sep 2012 The scheme titled National Programme for Youth Adolescent Development (NPYAD) has been formulated by merger of four 100% central sector grants-in-aid schemes of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 28 Sep 2012 The report reflects the collective assessment
of the Sub Committee of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) on potential risks to financial stability. [RBI]. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi....
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 04 Sep 2012 This paper covers recent trends in a series of broad indicators of the financial health of the Government of Kerala with its developmental policy as the backdrop. It examines fiscal balances in Kerala...
by Tapas K. Sen | On 30 Aug 2012 The Asian Centre for Human Rights has alleged that the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) is communalizing the riots in Assam. [ACHR]. URL:[http://www.achrweb.org/reports/india/NCM-2012.pdf].
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 24 Aug 2012 Environmental change is regarded by many geopolitical experts as one of the biggest threats to international security in the coming
years. In Southern Asia, its impact on rivers, and thus water secur...
by Dhanasree Jayaram | On 07 Aug 2012 This study aims to explore the impact of improved cook stoves (ICS) on fuel
expenditure (consumption), smoke emission, and health of women (cook) in rural
households of Bangladesh. In the follow-up...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 06 Aug 2012 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 Government owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) raised the price of petrol on 23rd May 2012. After the
inclusion of local taxes, this amounted to a hike of Rs 7.54 per litre in Delhi. A snapshot of t...
by Karan Malik | On 24 Jul 2012 Recent history tells us that the growth rate of the economy does not automatically go up and down with good and bad monsoons. [BS Weekend Ruminations]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news...
by T.N. Ninan | On 18 Jul 2012 This paper examines the effects of political factors on allocation of revenue budget for developmental
expenditure by the sub-national governments, using data from 15 major states in India during the...
by Arun Kaushik | On 10 Jul 2012 Creating and developing fair and evidence-based national and global systems to more rationally set priorities for public spending on health. An interim secretariat should be there to incubate a global...
by Amanda Glassman | On 10 Jul 2012 In 2007, the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out the Aarogyasri health
insurance to reduce catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.” The program...
by Victoria Fan | On 05 Jul 2012 Budget of Bhutan 2012-13. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/BudgetReport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 04 Jul 2012 Status of Children in India’s Capital. [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13%20final.pdf].
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 Jul 2012 A comprehense documentation - using
both annual and quarterly data - an exhaustive set of stylized facts for the
Indian business cycle in the pre and post reform period, the data is used to
report...
by Chetan Ghate | On 19 Jun 2012 Parliament met for the Budget Session between March 16 and May 22 with a three-week recess in April. Both Houses met for 35 days each. A special sitting was convened on Sunday, May 13 to commemorate 6...
by Rohit Kumar | On 23 May 2012 Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 22 May 2012 Efforts to strengthen capacity in health research have, so far, concentrated on
countries where there is existing capacity rather than those where it is almost
completely lacking.
Judged by absolut...
by Martin McKee | On 10 May 2012 The aim of this paper
is to examine the driving forces behind China’s military modernization efforts
followed by an assessment of the goals and foci of China’s military modernization
at present and...
by Jiao Liang | On 08 May 2012 The paper analyzes the state of reforms in Myanmar and the need to increase the pace of these reforms
by Kyaw San Wai | On 02 May 2012 Review of the book 'Re-visioning Indian Cities: The Urban Renewal Mission' by Christopher Manickam. Author of the book: K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, published by Sage, New Delhi.
by Christopher Manickam | On 23 Apr 2012 The study focused on the factors and forces behind the participation of women in
Panchayat Structure specially after the seventy third Constitution Amendment Act. The
role performance, role awarenes...
by Dilip Kumar Sarkar | On 20 Apr 2012 This paper discusses what is longevity risk, why it is important, approaches used by the West to manage longevity risk and what lessons can be learnt by Asian countries from the experiences of the Wes...
by Amlan Roy | On 18 Apr 2012 Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri Raghavji presented the budget for year 2012-13.
The salient features of the budget estimates of 2012-13 are as follows:-
• Total expenditure of ` 80030.98 crores for th...
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 13 Apr 2012 Speech by Amit Mitra, Minister of Finance. [Government of West Bengal]. URL:[http://www.wbfin.nic.in/writereaddata/Budget_Speech/2012_English.pdf].
by West Bengal Government | On 13 Apr 2012 The main objective of this paper is to explore the potential role of social pensions and other noncontributory schemes in Asia, informed by insights from theory and international experience. The paper...
by Armando Barrientos | On 13 Apr 2012 Budget Speech by Minister of Finance. [Government of Gujarat]. URL:[http://financedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/budget12_13_pdf/FM_Speech_English_Part_A_Final.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 12 Apr 2012 The salient features of the budget estimates of 2012-13 of Madhya Pradesh. [Ministry of Finance Madhya Pradesh]. URL:[http://www.mp.gov.in/finance/index.htm].
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 04 Apr 2012 The budgetary data for 2011-12 indicates the commitment of States to carry forward fiscal correction,
as evident from the emergence of revenue surplus after a gap of two years and consequent reductio...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 Apr 2012 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 Budget speech by Finance Minister. [Ministry of Finance, Malaysia]. URL:[http://www.treasury.gov.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2008%3Abajet-2012&catid=87%3Acatbajet-tahunan&Itemid=19...
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 29 Mar 2012 Budget Speech
of
PU H.LIANSAILOVA
HON’BLE FINANCE MINISTER. [Government of Mizoram]. URL:[http://mizoram.nic.in/budget/Interim%20Budget%20Speech%2012-13.pdf].
by Finance Minister Mizoram | On 29 Mar 2012 1) Allocating budget to the measure for the real revitalization of Japan to recover Japan’s economy and society
2) Reviewing the existing budget based on the result of evaluation by the Policy Propos...
by Ministry of Finance, Japan MOF, Japan | On 28 Mar 2012 According to M Mustafa Mastoor, the Deputy Minister of Finance, “The national budget is more than just a financial document. It is government’s plan for the development of Afghanistan. We are committ...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 28 Mar 2012 The burning of agricultural field residue, such as stalks and stubble,
during the wheat and rice harvesting seasons in the Indo-Gangetic
plains results in substantial emissions of trace gases and pa...
by Ridhima Gupta | On 28 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Ministry of Finance, Goa. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.goa.gov.in/pdf/Speech12-13.pdf].
by Goa Government | On 28 Mar 2012 This study examines whether the allocation of public expenditures of
the Indian states are significantly influenced by government specific political
characteristics. Three types of government specif...
by Bharatee Bhusana Dash | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget Speech by Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai. [Government of Odisha]. URL:[http://www.orissa.gov.in/finance/Budgets/2012-13/BUDGET%20SPEECH%20ENGLISH.pdf].
by Government of Orissa | On 27 Mar 2012 Speech by Finance Minister. [Government of Rajasthan]. URL:[http://finance.rajasthan.gov.in/speech/1213/budgetspeech201213.pdf].
by Rajasthan Government | On 27 Mar 2012 Part of the Budget speech. [Maharashta Budget]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_II.pdf].
by Maharashtra Government | On 27 Mar 2012 Speech of Thiru O. Panneerselvam, Hon’ble Minister
for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu,
presenting the Budget for the year
2012-2013 to the Legislative Assembly on
26th March, 2012. [Government...
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner. . [BMC Annual Reports]. URL:[http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/Chief%20Accountant%20(Finance)/Budget/Complete%20Engli...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 22 Mar 2012 Minister for Finance, Sri. K. M. Mani presented his 10th Budget for the year 2012-13. The Kerala government raised the retirement age of government employees from 55 years to 56 years.
[Budget Spe...
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 20 Mar 2012 The transfer system in India is discussed and analyses expenditure
needs of States to provide essential health infrastructure. It also analyzes the fiscal space for
health care in terms of stimulati...
by M Govinda Rao | On 19 Mar 2012 Major shifts in the policy initiated in the electricity sector are well documented, only then the effect of the policy change can be analyzed, especially from the point of view of laying down future p...
by Planning Commission | On 19 Mar 2012 Using government data, this brief
reports on NRHM expenditures along
the following parameters:
a) Overall trends in fund allocation
and expenditure: GOI and States,
b) Allocation and expenditure...
by Accountability Initiative | On 19 Mar 2012 What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Mar 2012 Speech of Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance, India. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bs/bs.pdf].
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 16 Mar 2012 This paper analyses the impact of transmission of international oil prices and domestic oil price pass-through policy on major macroeconomic variables in India with the help of a macroeconomic policy...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 16 Mar 2012 This brief uses Government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Ahiyan performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across...
by Accountability Initiative | On 16 Mar 2012 The Minister of Railways, Dinesh Trivedi, presented the
Railways Budget 2012 to Parliament on 14th March. In
his address, he commented on the performance of
Railways in 2011-12 and laid out his bud...
by Rohit Kumar | On 16 Mar 2012 REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS
FOR 2011 AND ON DRAFT
CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS FOR 2012. [Ministry of Finance Report]. URL:[http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/news/...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 15 Mar 2012 Budget 2012-2013
by Dinesh Trivedi | On 14 Mar 2012 Budget speech 2011-12 by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/11_12/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 14 Mar 2012 This week, the finance minister presents a statement to Parliament of how much money the central government expects to raise in the next financial year, and how it will spend that money. The budget sp...
by Avinash Celestine | On 12 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 12 Mar 2012 Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in
India. Estimates suggest that more than 25 million women are
"missing". Sex selection at birth and the mistreatment of
young g...
by Siwan Anderson | On 09 Mar 2012 The changing nature of tax policy in developing countries over the last 30 years is reviewed and studied the factors determining the level and structure of tax revenues in such countries and how such...
by Roy Bahl | On 07 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Nepal Finance Minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2011/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 06 Mar 2012 Discussion on the human rights violation of under trial prisoners.
by Ranesh Chandra Majumdar | On 06 Mar 2012 The time has come for the governmant to make up for its sins of the past three years. The Budget must be judged on whether it shows that the govt is in the mood to recognize its follies, and in a posi...
by T.N. Ninan | On 05 Mar 2012 Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be
used to encourage c...
by Barbara Haya | On 01 Mar 2012 In the last ten years, economic issues related to currency policy have become the major ongoing
dispute between China and the U.S. Especially the U.S. Congress is stridently demanding
a tougher poli...
by Nicola Nymalm | On 01 Mar 2012 More than 13% of the global burden of
disease for mental disorders is due to
neuro psychiatric disorders, and over 70%
of this burden lies in low- and middleincome
countries. Suicide is one of the...
by Mark Tomlinson | On 01 Mar 2012 Major shifts in the policy initiated in the electricity sector are well documented so that the effect of this policy change can be analyzed especially from the point of view of laying down future poli...
by Planning Commission | On 28 Feb 2012 National Food Authority's (NFA) twin
mandate of price
stabilization and food
security has cost the
government billions of
pesos in losses over the
past few decades. As
such, there is a need to
...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 28 Feb 2012 Budget speech 2012.
by Mahinda Rajapaksa | On 24 Feb 2012 Using government data, this brief
reports on SSA performance along the
following parameters:
a) Overall trends in allocation and
expenditure,
b) Expenditure performance across
key SSA activities...
by Accountability Initiative | On 23 Feb 2012 The effect of electoral rules and forms of government on public policy outcomes using a new dataset on agriculture and food policies from 74 countries over the 1960-2005 period is investigated. Using...
by Alessandro Olper | On 22 Feb 2012 Empirical evidence on the beneficial effects of fiscal transparency ranges from improved budgetary outcomes, to lower sovereign borrowing costs and decreased corruption. Despite this, hardly any effor...
by Joachim Wehner | On 19 Feb 2012 Since 1999 the Chinese government implemented budget reform measures to streamline administrative processes. The government made considerable technical and process advances in just a few years, includ...
by Julian Wu | On 19 Feb 2012 The paper is based on "Commodity Specific Study on Mango"
undertaken by NABARD in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra
and West Bengal. For the study, A total sample of 186 respondents was sele...
by G.D. Banerjee | On 17 Feb 2012 The sovereign debt problems in the peripheral economies of the euro zone has started to pose a serious threat to the main economies of the Europe and perhaps to the future of the 'euro‘ itself. Such a...
by M R Anand | On 06 Feb 2012 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 RBI Governor D. Subbarao answering to researchers after publishing the monetary policy. [RBI]. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Content/PDFs/RBIRA27012012.pdf]
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 30 Jan 2012 Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants
from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of “greener pastures.” This
paper scrutinizes the...
by Laurence Marfaing | On 25 Jan 2012 Measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal 6, including estimates of, and time trends in, the
number of malaria cases, has relied on risk maps constructed from surveys of parasite prevale...
by Richard E Cibulskis | On 25 Jan 2012 This paper has tried to address some key research
questions like will India and Andhra Pradesh achieve the Millennium Development
Goal of Sanitation ? Are the TSC targets realistic? What is coverage...
by M Snehalatha | On 25 Jan 2012 Production costs and crop incomes in drought years are analyzed to test a simplistic theory of risk based
on first principles. A mixed-methods framework is employed to draw inferences by combining da...
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 24 Jan 2012 This paper is an account of recent developments at Paka's mini-museum, which
culminated in the production of English text panels for its collection in March
2005. As it turned out, working on these...
by Liana Chua | On 19 Jan 2012 The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between the quality of the budget process and human development outcomes. It looks in particular at at the relationship between the OBI and human d...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 17 Jan 2012 The year in Parliament was characterised by frequent disruptions and protests over a host of issues.
The issue of the establishment of a Lokpal prompted both disruption as well as intense debate.
A...
by Rohit Kumar | On 02 Jan 2012 Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive...
by Gharad Bryan | On 20 Dec 2011 The distribution effects or incidence of consumption taxes such as the Value Added Tax (VAT), Goods and Services Tax (GST) remains a contentious issue. Three aspects have to be distinguished. First is...
by Parthasarathi Shome | On 13 Dec 2011 How often do our State Assemblies meet? Do MLAs get enough opportunity to scrutinize Bills? Are all budget demands discussed on the floor of the House? PRS studied the work done by 13 State Assemblies...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 07 Dec 2011 If the story earlier was that the number of Maoist-affected districts was increasing, that no longer seems to be true. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ninan-turningtide/456691/].
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Dec 2011 How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and
fiscal policy? To answer this question two-sector, formal-informal new
Keynesian closed-economy is constructed. The inf...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 02 Dec 2011 In view of the long-standing issues and concerns that beset the Philippine system of higher education, the study attempts to evaluate the performance of state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the p...
by Janet S Cuenca | On 01 Dec 2011 The policy brief explores the evolving discourse on water issues in Pakistan where the process of political articulation, securitization and mobilization which often links water to Kashmir is studied....
by Medha Bisht | On 24 Nov 2011 Sexual harassment is a global issue. In a recent case in Mumbai, two young men, Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) were stabbed on 20 Oct 2011 while confronting some unknown men eve-teasing...
by Indira Gartenberg | On 14 Nov 2011 Spending on consumption items is examined which have signaling value in social
interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are
defined by caste an...
by Melanie Khamis | On 10 Nov 2011 India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as “Brand...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 10 Nov 2011 In an earlier paper (Alagh, Munish, 2011) it was shown that macro economics matters in
agriculture. The relevance of understanding the impact of macro-economic policy on
agriculture was outlined. A...
by Munish Alagh | On 24 Oct 2011 There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning
commission. The official poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view
of...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Oct 2011 Book review 'The Green pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia' by
Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha (eds)
Sage, 2010, page 312, Rs 395.
by Vrijendra | On 19 Oct 2011 With a review of the historic role of India as a supplier of Antiretrovirals (ARV) medicines the paper outlines some of the key rulings in Indian courts as the interpretation of the new patent laws ar...
by Cassandra Sweet | On 19 Oct 2011 While there is much written on the youth bulge in developing countries, little is being done to address the problems of the elderly. And yet demographically, it is this section that is showing high gr...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 10 Oct 2011 Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2...
by Selim Raihan | On 04 Oct 2011 This paper provides an economic valuation of the recreational uses of
atoll-based marine resources in the Republic of the Maldives. A travel demand model to estimate the benefits of atoll-based marin...
by Mahadev G Bhat | On 30 Sep 2011 Expenditure Management is critical to effective public service delivery, especially at the local
government level. Leveraging on information systems to aid in expenditure management is viewed as an
...
by Sandeep M S | On 20 Sep 2011 This study
analyses the pollution-income relationship (for both local and global
pollution), separately across rural and urban households in India based
on unit record data on fuel consumption obta...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 14 Sep 2011 Participatory irrigation management programme as a prelude to irrigation
management transfer to users is being set up by many states for over five
years now. Though it is recognized that the governm...
by R Parthasarathy | On 25 Aug 2011 This paper uses the most recent wave of Consumer Expenditure
Survey 2004-05 to examine the distribution of Out of Pocket (OOP)
healthcare payments in India. The purpose of the paper is threefold;
f...
by William Joe | On 25 Aug 2011 This study provides a profile of deprivation with respect to consumer expenditure,
cereal consumption and energy intake across demographic and agro-climatic regions
as defined by the National Sample...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 23 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of poverty and inequality across states as also for different sub-groups of
population for 2004-05 by using the old and new methods of the Planning Commission. The new m...
by Durgesh C Pathak | On 17 Aug 2011 A key queestion is:
which groups should receive priority in a situation of constrained
resources? Ideally the twin dangers of leaving out malnourished
groups from the purview of the policy, and cov...
by Gopalakrishna Kumar | On 17 Aug 2011 As per UNSNA recommendations, valuables as a separate item had been introduced in the
expenditure side of GDP. Since India is one of largest importer and user of gold for various purposes,
this trea...
by Rakesh Kumar | On 04 Aug 2011 The study seeks to examine the extent of financial inclusion in West Bengal. It is observed from
the study that although there has been an improvement in outreach activity in the banking sector,
the...
by Sadhan Kumar Chattopadhyay | On 03 Aug 2011 The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a...
by Amita Shah | On 02 Aug 2011 This paper analyses the impact of domestic and external shocks on the Indian economy.
A macro-modelling framework is developed that evaluates the impact of two
domestic shocks (rainfall shortfall an...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 15 Jul 2011 This paper analyzes the inter-state imbalances in three major sectors of
the economy, namely, education, health and family welfare, and water
supply and sanitation for fifteen major states. It uses...
by C Bhujanga Rao | On 14 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 Polarization in India is analysed roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption
expenditure data. It is seen that polarization has increased sharply since the 1990s, reversing the earlie...
by Sripad Motiram | On 13 Jun 2011 This policy brief reports the main findings of the study on changes in within-country income inequality over the last two decades and on the links between poverty, inequality, and growth. It focuses o...
by Giovanni Andrea Cornia | On 08 Jun 2011 This toolkit is designed to train individuals and civil society on how to conduct a child centered budget analysis to support their advocacy work and to hold state accoutable for the fulfilment of chi...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 Jun 2011 The purpose of this paper is to pursue the implications of closing, in the sense of
rendering determinate, the Sraffa equations of production, prices and distribution
[Sraffa (1960)] by adding to th...
by Rajas Parchure | On 01 Jun 2011 Newspapers carry frequent news about increasing government spending in health care and the
availability of increasingly more specialised hospital care in India. While facilities in private
and gov...
by Rajkumar Ramasamy | On 27 May 2011 A tour of West Bengal on the eve of the elections and the results, April 19 – 27, 2011, recorded by a young journalist-in-the-making in a collection of SMS messages.
by Kranti S. Bhatewara | On 13 May 2011 This paper updates the Fund’s consolidated income and expenditure outlook
from the projections in January 2011. The paper incorporates and extends the income and budget projections in the companion...
by International Monetary Fund | On 13 May 2011 This paper contains the public statement on income and expenditure of
Fiscal Year 2010‐11. URL: [http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2010_1/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf]
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 10 May 2011 Great novelists through their writings placed the history of the Indian national and social awakening movement in literature.The context of this article is great three novels of three great littérat...
by Sarmistha Ghoshal | On 09 May 2011 In this World Press Freedom Day editorial, the authors explore the events taking place in the Middle East and North Africa and the positive outcomes for freedom of expression the peoples' revolutions...
by Martti Ahtisaari Ahtisaari | On 04 May 2011 National Budget of the country is the annual program of the Government's expenditure and income for a fiscal year. In a developing economy like Bangladesh, the national annual budgets reflect the gove...
by Atiur Rahman | On 03 May 2011 Budget speech of Finance Minister.
by Government of Tripura | On 27 Apr 2011 Budget Speech of the Finance Minister. URL: [http://admis.hp.nic.in/budget/Aspx/Anonymous/pdf/FS_Eng_2011.pdf]
by Himachal Pradesh Government of India | On 20 Apr 2011 Maharashtra Budget Part II
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 Part I of the Budget speech by Finance Minister
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up;
family size is stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex rati...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2011 This note is intended as a brief guide on how the budget papers are organised, and how to find the exact information that a reader wants (expenditure on a particular scheme of interest, or total budge...
by Avinash Celestine | On 12 Apr 2011 This paper presents the annual budget of the Goa Government containing the Annual Financial Statement. URL: [https://www.goa.gov.in/portalweb/login/budget_2011-12/speech.pdf]
by Goa Government | On 06 Apr 2011 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 The important recommendations of the Thirteenth Finance Commission (THFC) can be categorised under the
following heads:
• Enhanced vertical devolution from 30.5 to 32 per cent of divisible pool of
...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 31 Mar 2011 Budget speech by finance minister. URL: [http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/21d1f280463783518436871b84a2a7b0/CM+Speech+-+PRINT.pdf?MOD=AJPERES].
by Government of Delhi | On 30 Mar 2011 Can Delhi really hold its head high when it cannot even protect its own children? URL: [http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/Delhi%20Fails%20to%20Protect%20its%20Children_BfC%202011-12(2).pdf]
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 30 Mar 2011 Budget 2011-12 presented by the Finance Minister.
by Government of Meghalaya Govt | On 28 Mar 2011 Nine legislative Bills were introduced during the session. Five Bills were passed and one Bill was withdrawn during the session. Several hours were lost due to interruptions on the issues of appointme...
by Kusum Malik | On 28 Mar 2011 The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a watershed bill to protect children below the age of 16 against sexual offences, aimed at speedy trail through special courts and having a legal regime at par w...
by Chetan Chauhan | On 26 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance Minister.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 17 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance minister. URL:[http://punjabgovt.nic.in/departments/Budget/budget/budget.htm].
by Government of Punjab | On 16 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.finance.rajasthan.gov.in/speech/budget2011.shtm].
by Rajasthan Government | On 15 Mar 2011 Budget reactions from various sectors
by Leena Chandan | On 09 Mar 2011 This paper we make an attempt to understand and analyze the budget from a gender perspective. The paper looks into the different areas of allocations, how far it is ‘pro woman’ budget or a ‘gender re...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 08 Mar 2011 The
budgetary policy of the Government has a major
role to play in achieving objectives of gender
equality and growth through content and
direction of Fiscal and Monetary Policies,
measures for r...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 08 Mar 2011 The Corporation has decided to implement various schemes for females within the framework of its obligatory and discretionary
functions as laid down in the M.M.C. Act. A step towards it, is a separat...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 07 Mar 2011 With shrinking public spending, State’s health care concerns are specious. The rise in allocations on the health sector will only have limited impact on its
efficiency and availability.
by Ravi Duggal | On 06 Mar 2011 With shrinking public spending, State’s health care concerns are specious. The rise in allocations on the health sector will only have limited impact on its efficiency and availability.
by Ravi Duggal | On 06 Mar 2011 The Karnataka High Court, while hearing a public interest litigation on the state of lakes and waterbodies in and around Bangalore, constituted a ten-member commitee under the chair of the high court...
by N. K Patil | On 04 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance Minister. URL: [http://www.mp.gov.in/finance/index.htm].
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 04 Mar 2011 This paper contains the budget speech of Sri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai, Minister Finance, in the Orissa Legislative Assembly on the occasion of presentation of budget for the year 2011-2012. URL: [http:...
by Government of Orissa | On 03 Mar 2011 Despite some commendable efforts and achievements of the Indian state, it is an explicit fact that the majority of children in India are suffering, deprived of basic resources and needs for an average...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2011 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 01 Mar 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee.
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 01 Mar 2011 Using government data, this brief reports on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across...
by Avani Kapur | On 26 Feb 2011 Railway Budget 2011-12.
by Mamata Banerjee | On 25 Feb 2011 Public-sector education in many countries in western and southern Asia, including
Pakistan, is characterized by separate schools for boys and girls at the primary and
secondary levels. In this paper...
by Sharon Ghuman | On 25 Feb 2011 The Budget Speech by the State Finance Minister tabling the Finance Bill asserted that all welfare programmes like Rs.2 per KG rice, free power supply to the farmers, Rajiv Arogyasri, old age pensions...
by Sri Anam Ramanarayana Reddy | On 25 Feb 2011 Among the many reasons cited for India to proceed ahead with the Unique Identification (UID) project -that it will facilitate delivery of basic services, that it will plug leakages in public expenditu...
by Mohan Rao | On 23 Feb 2011 All proposals and policy measures in the forthcoming Budget may best be summed up as efforts to improve the sustainability of growth. Specific objectives are likely to be lowering inflation and defici...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Feb 2011 The Budget process of India predates the independence. The Budget was first introduced on 7th April, 1860, two years after the transfer of Indian administration from East-India Company to British Crow...
by Ministry of Finance | On 22 Feb 2011 Budget expectations from various sectors are given. URL:[ http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/storyShow.php?fileR=20110217120638043&secID=fromnewsroom&secTitle=From the News Room&dir=2011/02/17].
by IRIS India IRIS | On 21 Feb 2011 The Open Budget Survey is the only independent and comparative measure of government budget practices, with its rigorous approach receiving substantial praise from international public finance experts...
by Vivek Ramkumar | On 17 Feb 2011 This policy brief aims to summarise evidence and discuss various concerns about charging user fees from a low-income perspective.
by ... CEHAT | On 16 Feb 2011 Tamil Nadu Budget Speech of the Finance Minister.
by Government of Tamil Nadu | On 14 Feb 2011 The Minister for Finance, Dr. T. M. Thomas Issac presented the Budget for the financial year 2011-2012.
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 14 Feb 2011 The economic downturn and recession, which spread across the globe following the US sub-prime mortgage crisis in September 2008, has become the dominant news topic of the past year. One year into the...
by Wim Naudé | On 09 Feb 2011 This paper employs the choice experiment method to estimate local
citizens’ valuation of a public intervention which proposes to improve the
quality of an important environmental resource, namel...
by Ekin Birol | On 09 Feb 2011 List of Contents
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Arindam Samaddar, Prabir Kr. Das and Stephen R. Morin, 'Technology Adoption and its Constraints: The Cascading Effects in Two West Bengal Villages'
Erick Tejada Sanchez, '...
by SEPHIS | On 07 Feb 2011 The aim of this paper is to study the devolution of finances in Karnataka. For facilitating the study the budgets of Zilla Panchayats of four districts are analyzed and also development of these regio...
by A. Indira | On 07 Feb 2011 Bangladesh is making consistent progress in poverty reduction since early 1990s. According to
Household Income-Expenditure Surveys, poverty rate has declined from more than 60% in 1990-
91 to just a...
by Munshi Sulaiman | On 01 Feb 2011 Budget transparency has become central to a number of international development
discourses, ranging from the financing of climate change mitigation, to country-
level actions to meet interna...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 30 Jan 2011 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 The linear expenditure system developed by Stone (1954) is an extremely useful tool of demand analysis. Its applicability appears to be restricted however by somewhat computations suggested so far in...
by N. Krishnaji | On 16 Dec 2010 Using information in the public domain and data from a pilot study, this paper
argues that adoption of life-cycle cost approaches (LCCA) could play a significant role in rectifying this
situation by...
by V Ratna Reddy | On 08 Dec 2010 Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were the
major contributors to the growth acceleration in India after 1991-92. Although the
Regional Disparity may increase tempor...
by Ravindra H. Dholakia | On 25 Nov 2010 The study, offers a review of the Union Budget as well as the budgets of six states – Andhra
Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal- for a five year period of 2004-05...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 23 Nov 2010 This paper is a look at the food balance sheet of Kerela, the extent of undernutrition and malnutrition in Kerela. For ths purpose, 57 items of food normally available in the State were taken into acc...
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 19 Nov 2010 The focus of the paper is to review the Terms of Reference (TOR)
of the Twelfth Finance Commission with special reference to Kerala.
It also critically examines the emphasis on fiscal deficit reduct...
by K. P. Kannan | On 18 Nov 2010 This paper examines factors affecting literacy and access to school
education in West Bengal, India, and reports the results of a binomial
probit model estimated with primary data from ten villages...
by V. K. Ramachandran | On 16 Nov 2010 This paper assesses recent theorising and empirical evidence on the impact of fiscal
policy—taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It
considers the relevance of recent ad...
by Norman Gemmell | On 12 Nov 2010 The relative role of economic growth vis-a-vis public action in
raising living standards in developing countries has been a point of
contention for quite some time now. The arguments on both sides a...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 12 Nov 2010 The present paper critically examines how aid dependent low-income countries have
approached the process of public expenditure management reform during the 1990s. It
begins with an overview of broad...
by Adrian Fozzard | On 09 Nov 2010 The privileging of internal resources over external finance is not
only the most democratic but also the most politically desirable option.
The implications of the ADB loan for Kerala is situated ag...
by K. Ravi Raman | On 09 Nov 2010 This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment
which can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors which explain the
inter-state variations include the...
by Dibyendu S. Maiti | On 02 Nov 2010 The major objectives of the current evaluation study was to understand the approach
and strategy for the implementation of Hill Area Development Programme (HADP) and analyze the "impact‟ of the...
by Planning Commission, India | On 20 Oct 2010 The paper identifies those elements in the configuration of fiscal parameters
confronting the country that give cause for concern, and examines whether the fiscal
reform measures taken address these...
by Indira Rajaraman | On 20 Oct 2010 The three issues laid out in today’s agenda are particularly relevant at this juncture
and how we answer them in the months ahead will determine how the world
regains and then sustains economic grow...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 18 Oct 2010 An attempt
has been made to understand the factors leading to the worsening
situation of the state finances. Investigations reveal that the revenue
receipts of the state could not keep pace with ex...
by N K Bishnoi | On 05 Oct 2010 An issue that has attracted surprisingly little notice is the size and growth of the trade deficit. Even more worrisome is the flat trajectory for exports — which escapes notice because comparisons ar...
by T.N. Ninan | On 24 Sep 2010 Youth constitutes the largest segment of the Indian population and being the primary productive human resources, the socio-economic development of youth directly linked to the development process. Thi...
by Joydeep Goswami | On 03 Aug 2010 The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has recently released the report
containing key results of the NSS 55th
Round Employment-Unemployment Survey covering
the period July 1999 thru June 2...
by K. Sundaram | On 26 Jul 2010 The paper provides information about the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill and also discuses some issues related to this bill.
by Shruti Rajagopalan | On 06 Jul 2010 Little attention has been paid to the question of how to finance the costs of scaling
up MNCH care and the likely availability of funds.
Methods Past health expenditure (2000 – 2005) was analysed th...
by Giulia Greco | On 25 Jun 2010 A mid-term survey of the CFPR/TUP programme participants (at the end of 1st cycle of 18 months intervention) on health and related issues was done during July-September 2004. The survey involved re-in...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 16 Jun 2010 Agricultural markets in India have been regulated since 1928 with the inception of
the "Royal Commission of Agriculture." Policy intervention in agriculture was
virtually absent till the Bengal Fam...
by Mayank Wadhwa | On 16 Jun 2010 This paper seeks to explain certain
cultural differences that may have contributed to this imbalance between the
Indian and American higher education systems.[W.P. No. 2009-04-03]
by Tejas A. Desai | On 08 Jun 2010 This paper discusses the case of Indian nurses who take up their
profession as part of a family strategy, where planning for education and
migration are intrinsic to the whole process. In effect, th...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 03 Jun 2010 The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is,
domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) a...
by Deepita Chakravarty | On 25 Mar 2010 Budget presented by the government of Rajasthan 2010-11.
by Rajasthan Government | On 22 Mar 2010 The paper discuses the role played by institutional behavior in determining the policy outcomes of a state. Apart from secondary data the paper is also based on information collected from selected sta...
by Deepita Chakravarty | On 19 Mar 2010 This paper uses the most recent wave of Consumer Expenditure Survey 2004-05 to examine the distribution of Out of Pocket (OOP) healthcare payments in India. [WP 418].
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 08 Mar 2010 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 05 Mar 2010 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 05 Mar 2010 Cutting the deficit this year was the easy part; the real fiscal challenge lies ahead
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Mar 2010 Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive” Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.6...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 Mar 2010 Budget speech 2010-2011 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 26 Feb 2010 Female work participation in West Bengal is one of the lowest among all
the states in India. However, it varies widely across the state’s 341
blocks. An analysis of some block level characteristics...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 26 Feb 2010 Railway Budget 2010-11.
by Mamata Banerjee | On 25 Feb 2010 The purpose of this paper is to examine the poverty situation
in West Bengal in a multidimensional framework and to explore
possible strategies towards reduction of poverty in the state,
keeping in...
by Achin Chakraborty | On 22 Feb 2010 West Bengal is not among the best performing states with regard
to NREGA. The performance of all districts in the state
is not equally discouraging. Some districts, in fact, have done well in
gener...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 Feb 2010 The present paper attempts to modify definition of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure by characterising it based on consumption of necessities. Catastrophic health expenditure is defined as...
by Rama Pal | On 11 Feb 2010 This report is a comprehensive and analytical compilation of health care development of Assam bringing together all available information and data on health and health care.
by Indranee Dutta | On 09 Feb 2010 India’s general government deficits and public debt have remained
high despite faster economic growth in recent years and periodic attempts to instil
greater fiscal discipline. Modest fiscal tighten...
by Paul Rawkins | On 04 Feb 2010 The record of different post reform governments in meeting their targets and improving both delivery and finances is assessed. A variety of indices are constructed, and consistency checks devised to m...
by Ashima Goyal | On 27 Jan 2010 A review of the various primary measures of inflation with a particular reference to the divergence between WPI and CPI. Focus is also given on different secondary (derived) measures of inflation, par...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 21 Jan 2010 Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component
projects under the RACHNA program, INHP-II and Chayan. Of the two, the INHP interve...
by CARE India | On 24 Dec 2009 This brief seeks to address questions on how the funds are collected, dsitributes at the international level, mechanisms to ensure that the recipient countries are managing the funds in a transparent...
by Athena Ballesteros | On 15 Dec 2009 This paper reports findings from the survey of India’s textiles and clothing exporters. The survey method has been used to identify and assess the impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) and the Cost of...
by Gordhan K Saini | On 11 Dec 2009 The objective of the study is to find out the primary reason to encourage public
private participation in health care delivery system in Uttar Pradesh and the study
also aim to analyse UPHSDP -a Wor...
by Bibi Ishrat Jahan | On 07 Dec 2009 The most popular technique for estimating tax elasticities is the “Proportional
Adjustment” method. This paper shows that the standard methodology used will
almost invariably lead to biased elastici...
by Pronab Sen | On 04 Dec 2009 This paper addresses issues related to public private partnerships that can enable delivery
of comprehensive health care to rural communities.
by Prachi Shukla | On 25 Nov 2009 In this paper the diverse dimensions of gender development are examined using
individual indicators for the districts of the western region of India. The western
region for the purpose of this study...
by Preet Rustagi | On 24 Nov 2009 The dominance of the mainstream paradigm of growth is being increasingly superseded by the Sustainable Human Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until...
by Ritu Dewan | On 20 Nov 2009 This paper is about the financial lives of poor households. It
examines the different sources of income and expenditure of the poor
households residing in a coastal settlement in Kerala. The method...
by B. S. Suran | On 29 Oct 2009 China’s economy is booming at the expense of its environment. The country’s resource efficiency is nowhere near the level of western nations. Per unit of gross domestic product China consumes more tha...
by Eric Heymann | On 22 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 The objective of the paper is to i) understand and document the morbidity profile, ii) examine utilisation of health services, and iii) estimate approximate expenses on health care by th...
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 07 Oct 2009 India is home to fantastic water harvesting traditions that have evolved over millennia. The central western Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are no exceptions to these traditions....
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 21 Sep 2009 This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local
government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments)
in the growth of farm prod...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 Sep 2009 The present study has sought to introduce, conceptualise and
operationalise a scheme for integrating the ‘quality’ dimension of public
spending into the devolution scheme of intergovernmental transf...
by Mala Lalvani | On 20 Aug 2009 The present study examines issues related to fiscal federalism at the third tier in general and grants to local bodies in particular. The study presents a normative framework to estimate the requireme...
by Abhay Pethe | On 14 Aug 2009 The paper attempts to appraise the extent of the constraint of credit relations on agricultural production and its differential impact across peasant classes. Additionally, the analysis of the structu...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2009 Budget presented by Finance minister of Nepal.
by Surendra Pandey | On 27 Jul 2009 Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights
by Juhi H | On 17 Jul 2009 Budget reactions from various sectors and by various people in the industry
by Leena Chandan | On 10 Jul 2009 The thrust of this budget on the expenditure side is twofold. Continue with the fiscal stimulus measures and extend these for another six months or one years as the case maybe. Significant among these...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Jul 2009 Budget 2009-2010 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 09 Jul 2009 Key features of budget presented by the Finance Minister
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 06 Jul 2009 Railway Budget 2009-10
by Mamata Banerjee | On 06 Jul 2009 This note analyses the major characteristics of the current inflationary episode in the economy along with its probable impact on different population groups in Bangladesh. The note also draws some po...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 27 Jun 2009 The paper analyzes the effects of changes in consumption factor on the calculation of inflation calculation in Bangladesh. This is important as there might exist some volatile and non-trend components...
by Md. Habibour Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 This report presents an analysis of the strategy required to generate the required resources for investment in various services necessary to achieve the MDGs. The analysis attempts to quantify the fis...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 20 Jun 2009 The paper aims to assess the fiscal health of five urban agglomerations (UAs) in India viz. Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, and Pune. The sample consists of five corporations and sixty three small...
by Simanti Bandyopadhyay | On 14 Jun 2009 The paper contours of a feasible design of VAT in India. It also takes on board the various alternatives proposed. It looks at the issues that need resolution and the options available for resolving t...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 12 Jun 2009 The article provides information pertaining to the recent outbreak of "swine flu", which has spread beyond Mexico and the US. The present study shows that the outbreak has lot to do with industrial fa...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 09 Jun 2009 This toolkit is designed to help one plan and hold an exhibition to disseminate ones research for a non-academic audience. It draws mainly on our experiences of organising an exhibition in connection...
by Hazel Burke | On 05 Jun 2009 Health economics is increasingly recognized as a discipline that has much to offer developing countries in addressing these problems, but how can it help? What economic concepts and tools can be appli...
by Anne Mills | On 04 Jun 2009 2009 Budget speech
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 20 Apr 2009 Budget speech by Lalji Varma
by Uttar Pradesh Government UP | On 17 Mar 2009 Budget speech of finance minister
by Orissa Government | On 13 Mar 2009 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 24 Feb 2009 Budget speech by Prof. Anbazhagan
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 24 Feb 2009 Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 23 Feb 2009 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 23 Feb 2009 Examines whether there are any funds for children related activities.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Feb 2009 Key features of Budget presented by Shri Pranab Mukherjee
by Ministry of Finance | On 16 Feb 2009 Speech of Lalu Prasad
by Ministry of Railways | On 13 Feb 2009 The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic
farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of or...
by Sunantar Setboonsarng | On 22 Jan 2009 Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats
of peninsular India, this study examines the link between stream flow, agricultural water use and
economic returns to agric...
by SHARACHCHANDRA LELE | On 02 Jan 2009 The study examines the impact of aggregate government
expenditure and its two broader components such as revenue expenditure
and capital expenditure on the growth rate of output in the Indian contex...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 22 Dec 2008 The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in Kenya, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. A population-based case–control study was...
by Hannah Kuper | On 18 Dec 2008 This paper quantifies the impact of terrorism and conflicts on income per capita growth in Asia for 1970–2004. Transnational terrorist attacks had a significant growth-limiting effect. An additional t...
by Khusrav Gaibulloev | On 05 Dec 2008 The paper argues that irrespective of the wording of the Terms of Reference
(ToR), the Commission would do well to focus on its primary task of recommending
transfers to serve the objective of equit...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 06 Oct 2008 Over the last decade countries across the world have embarked on changing existing economic models in favour of ones driven by the free market, incorporating the process of liberalisation, privatisati...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 03 Oct 2008 The paper carries the reader across and over great spans of space and time, with an Indian feminist woman academic journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 17...
by Bagchi B | On 01 Oct 2008 The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
by Catherine Yap Co | On 29 Sep 2008 This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘lim...
by Mausumi Das | On 24 Sep 2008 Budget in Brief is designed to summarize the detailed information into an
overview comprising essential information about expenditure and receipt and the
resulting budget balance.
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 22 Sep 2008 2008 Budget presented by His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 18 Sep 2008 The study is taken up in the state of Andhra Pradesh with the following objectives:
1. To study the opportunities and challenges in processing of rice, fruits and
vegetables, oilseeds and livestock...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 17 Sep 2008 This study assesses the Five Year Plans and relevant government policies adopted to garner India's climate change goals and priorities. It attempts to highlight key climate change concerns from a brie...
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 17 Sep 2008 The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central
theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality...
by KK Subrahmanian | On 16 Sep 2008 It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a thres...
by Rama Joglekar | On 15 Sep 2008 The link between education and labour market has a profound intellectual lineage,
spanning across schools. An integrating view shared by these perspectives is the
significance of education as a pivo...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 10 Sep 2008 Much existing literature champions renewables implementation on India’s Sagar Island as an unqualified rural electrification success story. Photovoltaic (PV) and wind systems put in place by the West...
by Sam Shrank | On 25 Aug 2008 This study examines the contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in a remote island village of the Indian Sundarbans.
by Indrila Guha | On 18 Aug 2008 This article is an attempt to look at debates in the light of the Assemblies' tryst with panchayats. It should be noted that it is not an evaluation of what transpired in the state Assemblies. In view...
by Girish Kumar | On 03 Jul 2008 Debolina Dutta and Oishik Sircar: From Sex Worker to Entertainment Worker: Strategic
Politics of DMSC
Madhurima Mukhopadhyay: Virginity Lost and Regained: Hymenoplastic Honour in Urban India
Nandit...
by SEPHIS | On 15 Jun 2008 Left coalition ruled West Bengal for uninterrupted three decades. The study reveals that despite ruling for such a long period the state still lags behind in eradication of problems like poverty, as c...
by Arup Maharatna | On 04 Jun 2008 An important method of managing resources to finance consistent and
balanced human development lies in the reprioritisation of current
expenditure in accordance with the urgent needs and shortfalls...
by Tapas K. Sen | On 13 May 2008 Although new environmental and pathological threats to human survival and longevity have been documented, relatively little is known about how these threats are perceived in the popular imagination. D...
by Sajida Amin | On 09 Apr 2008 Budget presented by Goa finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Goa Government | On 01 Apr 2008 Budget and Annual Financial Statement for the year 2008-09.
by West Bengal Government | On 25 Mar 2008 Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March,
2008.
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 25 Mar 2008 Nothing less than price regulation with ceiling prices is going to achieve lower drug prices. Excise duty cuts eventually end up enriching the manufacturers as what will be ‘passed on’ to the consumer...
by S Srinivasan | On 24 Mar 2008 Part II of the budget presented by finance minister of Maharashtra 2008-09
by Maharashtra Government | On 20 Mar 2008 Budget presented by the finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Maharashtra Government | On 20 Mar 2008 Traditionally private consumption expenditure estimated by the two agencies differed. Factors attributed to the differences include coverage, reference time frames and concepts and methods of estimati...
by Joice John | On 20 Mar 2008 The Finance Minister Shri Raghavji presented the budget for the year 2008-09, with a budgetary deficit of Rs 91.43 crore.
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 13 Mar 2008 Highlights of budget 2008-09 presented by the Finance Minister
by Government of Karnataka Ministry of Finance | On 11 Mar 2008 SPEECH OF SRI K. ROSAIAH, HONOURABLE FINANCE MINISTER WHILE PRESENTING THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2008-09 TO THE ANDHRA PRADESH STATE LEGISLATURE.
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 10 Mar 2008 Budget speech 2008-09 by Finance Minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 07 Mar 2008 A glance at the budget presented by the government of Rajasthan 2008-09.
by Rajasthan Government | On 05 Mar 2008 Budget for Children (BfC) is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall budget, the allocations made specifically for programmes that benefit children. From 2000-0...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 04 Mar 2008 The budget is an election budget. There are lots of sectors which needs more attention. Many questions are raised at the end of the document which the government may fail to answer
by Arun Kumar | On 04 Mar 2008 Budget presented by Finance Minister
by P Chidambaram | On 29 Feb 2008 Economy Survey 2007-08.
website:http://indiabudget.nic.in
by Ministry of Finance | On 29 Feb 2008 Speech of Lalu Prasad
by Lalu Prasad | On 27 Feb 2008 Quick findings for feedback as well as further analysis. [Contact Pravas Ranjan Mishra CYSD, E-1, Institutional Area, RRL PO., Bhubaneswar India - 751 013
Tel. +91-674-2300774, 2301725 Fax: +91-674-...
by Orissa Government | On 22 Feb 2008 People living in almost fifty percent of the districts in West Bengal are exposed to arsenic contaminated water. The economic costs imposed by arsenic-related health problems are estimated. Data from...
by Joyashree Roy | On 08 Feb 2008 This manual is intended to help local governments to uphold the human rights of women, by involving them in identifying their needs and with their participation, to find possible solutions and move to...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 04 Feb 2008 Review consists of three sections:
I. Assessment of Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments;
II. Stance of Monetary Policy; and
III. Monetary Measures.
An analytical profile of macroeconomic a...
by Y V Reddy | On 30 Jan 2008 Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
by Loren Lerner | On 15 Jan 2008 Congress party has to find out why the aam aadmi has deserted the party? There are some advice to Sonia Gandhi which she will not get from her advisors.
by T.N. Ninan | On 31 Dec 2007 With the 19th century drain, no one was certain if the benefit exceeded
the cost and since the rulers were foreign the suspicion was that any investment they made was not beneficial. But the lesson f...
by Lord Meghnad Desai | On 25 Dec 2007 The promotion of ‘inclusive citizenship’, through which the disadvantaged engage in
collective struggles for justice and recognition, has been attracting growing attention as a
solution to chronic p...
by Katsuhiko Masaki | On 19 Dec 2007 The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effe...
by Planning Commission, India | On 28 Nov 2007 Performance Budget for 2005-2006 of Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH).
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 06 Nov 2007 A bill to provide for the social security and welfare of unorganised sector workers and for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
by Minister of State for Labour and Employment | On 15 Oct 2007 As we celebrate 60 years of political independence and take pride in our dynamic private sector, our remarkable IT successes and all the other usual dimensions of success, let us remind ourselves that...
by Shankar Acharya | On 08 Oct 2007 The Eleventh Schedule added to the Constitution by the
Seventy-third Amendment lists twenty-nine functions devolvable by
States to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). States were free to set
the sp...
by Indira Rajaraman | On 28 Sep 2007 The States, relative to the Centre, have taken the centre-stage in the reform process since the areas of highest national priority now fall essentially within the purview of the States. The unique and...
by Y V Reddy | On 26 Sep 2007 The Budget is an important tool in the hands of the state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce e...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 03 Aug 2007 The different arrangements and groupings involved between India and South- East Asia are presented. The multi-faceted relations between them is asked in institutional terms, but also in normative term...
by Laurence Henry | On 06 Jul 2007 National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tried and tested tool for summarizing, describing, and analyzing the financing of national health systems. The estimates prepared provide clues regarding the essent...
by National Health Acounts Cell NHA Cell | On 05 Jul 2007 Budget speech for the year 2007-08 by Minister of Finance, Omar Ayub Khan
by Omar Ayub Khan | On 29 Jun 2007 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 18 Jun 2007 The proposition that social capital expands household welfare is tested by estimating the effects of social interactions on per capita expenditure among a sample of 810 households in northern Banglade...
by Farhad Ameen | On 30 May 2007 Budget 2007-08 presented by Sri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai, Minister, Finance.
by Orissa Government | On 15 May 2007 Budget presented by Fianance Minister for 2007-08.
by Government of Meghalaya Govt | On 04 May 2007 This paper focuses on government investment and expenditure policies.
Going beyond the growth experience, the author also tries to relate the
policy experience to the issues of aggregate poverty, in...
by Arvind Virmani | On 25 Apr 2007 Budget presented by Honourable Finance Minister Shri Birender Singh
by Haryana Government | On 17 Apr 2007 Budget Speech by Finance Minister Dr. Asim Kumar Das Gupta
by West Bengal Government | On 03 Apr 2007 With the state economy registering a robust growth, this was the time for the finance minister to launch much-needed reforms. But he has chosen to deliver no more than an accounts and expenditure sta...
by Savita Kulkarni | On 03 Apr 2007 Gujarat started the scheme of Mid Day Meal Scheme in 1984 and was the only State after Tamil Nadu to start it so early. The objective was to provide one meal a day to students studying in primary clas...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 30 Mar 2007 Budget presented by Fianance Minister of MaharashtraShri Jayant Patil, for the year 2007-08.
by Maharashtra Government | On 28 Mar 2007 The Budget for 2007-08, the year being the first year of the Eleventh Plan, has done reasonable justice to support the Plan and take Kerala on a higher growth path. However, there are external constr...
by K.Ramachandran Nair | On 27 Mar 2007 Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially taking into consideration the high inflation rate in the previous year. A substanti...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 21 Mar 2007 While new schemes like reverse mortgage on houses show a measure of some serious thought going into the structuring of programmes for the elderly, the Union Budget 2007-08 falls short of comprehensive...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 21 Mar 2007 Budget presentation by finance minister 2007-08
by Rajasthan Government | On 19 Mar 2007 High lights of the budget 2007-08, presented by Finance Minister, Madhya Pradesh
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 16 Mar 2007 Budget speech of finance minister 2007-08
by Goa Government | On 16 Mar 2007 Budget Speech of Finance Minister 2007-08
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 16 Mar 2007 Kerala State Budget 2007-08. Speech by Finance Minister Dr. T M Thomas Issac.
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 13 Mar 2007 Finance Secretary's Memorandum on
Budget Estimates year 2007-2008
by Finance Ministry Chhattisgarh | On 09 Mar 2007 The Budget is ‘exciting’ precisely because it has at least decided to pay a little more than lip service to the so-called social sector. And Finance Ministers then tend to increase allocations for the...
by S Srinivasan | On 08 Mar 2007 The Budget is ‘exciting’ precisely because it has at least decided to pay a little more than lip service to the so-called social sector. And Finance Ministers then tend to increase allocations for the...
by S Srinivasan | On 08 Mar 2007 The Budget does not sufficiently recognize the need for re-balancing the role of the state and the market, and of the public and the private sectors for managing increasingly complex economic and stra...
by Mukul Asher | On 07 Mar 2007 The Budget does not sufficiently recognize the need for re-balancing the role of the state and the market, and of the public and the private sectors for managing increasingly complex economic and stra...
by Mukul Asher | On 07 Mar 2007 Of every 100 rupees in the Union Budget 2007-08, only 4 rupees and 84 paise has been promised by the Finance Minister for children. Within the child budget, the share of education and child protectio...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 05 Mar 2007 The role of education in economic development has been
recognised for quite some time in mainstream economic literature.
Divergence between the private and social rate of return from education is th...
by Anit Mukherjee | On 02 Mar 2007 The Economic Survey, 2006-07 has turned the spotlight on the inequalities in higher education enrolment and the severe shortfall in facilities at this level. Will the Union Budget, 2007-08 unveil inn...
by Padma Prakash | On 27 Feb 2007 It is unrealistic to expect all problems to be solved in one budget. But it is possible for one budget to do a great deal of damage.
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 27 Feb 2007 It is unrealistic to expect all problems to be solved in one budget. But it is possible for one budget to do a great deal of damage
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 27 Feb 2007 Theoretical literature identifies two variants of crowding out in an economy–real and financial. The real (direct) crowding out occurs when the increase in public investment displaces private capital...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 17 Feb 2007 This analysis of the trends in public health expenditure in Maharashtra shows that the State has to become more proactive in raising resources being allocated to the health sector. The level of publi...
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 Feb 2007 Banking sector in India is currently passing through an exciting and challenging
phase. The reform measures have brought about sweeping changes in this vital sector
of the country's economy. This pa...
by Ramasastri A.S. | On 10 Jan 2007 This paper provides a phase-wise analytical review of the fiscal situation of the
Indian major States over the previous two and half decades and examines the effectiveness of the policy measures to s...
by Rajmal | On 10 Jan 2007 As developing countries build allopathic medical systems, what should their bioethics be? In this essay, we explore possible answers to this question, ultimately arguing that Western bioethics is insu...
by Scott Stonington | On 03 Jan 2007 During the last few years there has been a significant attempt to change the status of women in Morocco. Considerable efforts have been made to incorporate mainstream gender in socio-economic policies...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 27 Dec 2006 With the strengthening of the fiscal decentralisation
process in the Philippines, local government units (LGUs) were provided
with more opportunities in terms of local level gender responsive
budge...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 27 Dec 2006 There are two factors that make additional central
transfers for reinforcing health services essential: (a) while
the prescription of spending 3 percent of GDP on health
may be an appropriate objec...
by Mita Choudhury | On 26 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 examines the trends in Central finances over a threedecadal
period beginning from the 1970s. It is found that there is a lack of
buoyancy in all the major sources of revenue of the Centra...
by R Mohan | On 19 Dec 2006 Historically, Bangalore’s growth and physical spread had been dictated by the
location decisions of certain important industrial, institutional and residential activities, rather than as an outcome...
by G.S. Sastry | On 04 Dec 2006 Fiscal incentive is closely related with extra budgetary revenues.This paper examines the impact of fiscal revenues under decentralisation on responsiveness of public goods provision to real local nee...
by Xin-Qiao Ping | On 21 Nov 2006 This paper analyses the scope and limitations of gender responsive budgeting in Mexico within the overall framework of fiscal decentralisation. However, decentralised gender responsive budgeting can b...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 31 Oct 2006 The budget 2006-07 proposals in health care fell well short of India’s march towards achieving Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), the National Health Policy (NHP) goals and fully operationalising the...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 09 May 2006 While critical perspectives on the budget are certainly necessary and are useful, they are not sufficient to produce the change necessary. For that we need to encourage civil society initiatives on en...
by Maithreyi Krishnaraj | On 07 Apr 2006 This paper tries to examine the sustainability aspect of the rate of growth (rog) in recent years, designated as ‘the second phase of liberalisation’. This paper is based on the Keynesian framework wh...
by Anamitra Roychowdhury | On 29 Mar 2006 The river Balasan near Siliguri carries the natural resources like stone, sand, boulders. People live on the riverside and are involved in work like collection of stones and sand, crushing the stones...
by Somenath Bhattacharjee | On 27 Mar 2006 This study on agricultural wages shows that states like West Bengal and Gujarat have performed well in providing gender equal wages to men and women. Kerala’s performance in maintaining gender equal w...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 26 Mar 2006 The Finance Minister’s speech presenting the Union Budget 2006-07 indicated that long-overdue reforms of the tariff structure had been undertaken in this year’s budget. But a careful analysis of thes...
by Sukumar Mukhopadhyay | On 22 Mar 2006 1. The development budget has been increased by 34.7%, which is the highest
increase to date.
2. Current expenditures will increase by 18%. The main reasons for the increase are
the relief that gov...
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 14 Mar 2006 While there is much support for technology institutions in agriculture, little attention has been paid to raise agricultural productivity or prepare the ground for a coming technological change.
by Yoginder Alagh | On 13 Mar 2006 The Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. Budgets garner resources th...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 09 Mar 2006 There has been a perception that since the introduction of what have derisively
been called “neo-liberal” reforms, the social sectors i.e. those dealing with
education and health, have suffered. Is...
by Ajit Karnik | On 07 Mar 2006 Growth, or more accurately, the quality of growth, is intricately linked to inequality and so the Finance Minister and the government need to do more by addressing problems of governance as well.
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by Errol D'souza | On 06 Mar 2006 Growth, or more accurately, the quality of growth, is intricately linked to inequality and so the Finance Minister and the government need to do more by addressing problems of governance as well.
by Errol D'souza | On 06 Mar 2006 'Mahinda Chintana' : Towards a New Sri Lanka
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Tax Proposals and Administration
Summary of Budget 2006
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Economic Review of Developments in 2005 and Prospects for 2006. Presented before the Budget for 2006.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Union Budget 2006-07 breaks new ground in many areas, and continues on the
path of modernizing the tax system. It also gives deserved recognition to
key allocation priorities. But its legacy will be...
by Mukul Asher | On 05 Mar 2006 Union Budget 2006-07 breaks new ground in many areas, and continues on the
path of modernizing the tax system. It also gives deserved recognition to
key allocation priorities. But its legacy will be...
by Mukul Asher | On 04 Mar 2006
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 27 Feb 2006 Public Finance
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 The main objective of the paper is to explore the role of Japan in the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Technical Cooperation (BIMSTEC). The analysis suggests that BIMSTEC-Japan cooper...
by Mukul Asher | On 26 Feb 2006 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 Hospitals are an important component of the healthcare delivery system. Over the years, India has experienced a significant increase in the number iof hospital beds to meet the growing health demands...
by Ramesh Bhat | On 24 Feb 2006 A number of contributions on cinema in the South. Articles on the making of a historical documentary by Gairoonisa Palekar, a student in South Africa, and on an important aspect of the movie industry...
by SEPHIS | On 02 Feb 2006 Review of 'The Economics of Elementary Education in India: The Challenge of Public Finance, Private Provision and Household Costs' edited by Santosh Mehrotra;
Sage, New Delhi; 2005, pp.328.
by P. Geetha Rani . | On 20 Jan 2006 In tribute: Gautam Chattopadhyay's life and times.
by Kunal Chattopadhyay | On 11 Jan 2006 Government healthcare expenditures have been growing much more rapidly than GDP in OECD countries. For example, between 1970 and 2002 these expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP in the U.S., 2.0...
by Laurence J. Kotlikoff | On 16 Dec 2005 In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the
West -- as high as 1.07 in China and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors (most notably Sen, 19...
by Emily Oster | On 27 Nov 2005 Large dollar reserves in Asian EMEs accompany large U.S. fiscal and current account deficits. Analysis of strategic sales by Asian EMEs suggests that an attack on the dollar is not certain but is poss...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Nov 2005 Essentially, the Outcome Budget (OB) as formulated now is nothing more than the performance budget with a promise that it would be extended to non-plan outlays too. As an idea, regardless of the labe...
by A. Premchand | On 20 Sep 2005 In contrast to behaviouralism, which held that institutions reflect the society in which they are embedded, New Institutionalists argue that institutions have an inner logic of action, enjoy autonomy...
by Sudha Pai | On 01 Sep 2005 Countries that have universal or near universal access to healthcare have health financing mechanisms which are single-payer systems in which either a single autonomous public agency or a few coordina...
by Ravi Duggal | On 24 Aug 2005 If rational individuals pay the full costs of their decisions about food intake and exercise, economists, policy makers, and public health officials should treat the obesity epidemic as a matter of in...
by Jay Bhattacharya | On 06 Aug 2005 This paper is concerned with respect to asses the revenue and expenditure patterns in the various Urban Local Bodies(ULBs) in Maharashtra. The context for this is the finance commissions at the state...
by Abhay Pethe | On 05 Aug 2005 |