Baseline data for planning the resettlement and rehabilitation of persons affected by the Mumbai Urban Transport Project lumped persons situated on private property with slumdwellers leading to...
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The Reserve Bank of India has directed all banks to maintain "no-frills accounts" - a bank account at zero balance - for 100% fi nancial inclusion so as to include all households under the ambit of...
The National Wetland Atlas 2011 has used confusing and inappropriate classifications. Many man-made wetlands have been treated as naturally occurring, tanks have become lakes, and a large number of...
The degradation of labour conditions in buyer-driven commodity chains, such as in the manufacture of toys or footwear, has, for long, been a well-established fact. That they are also becoming an...
The traditional literature implies that women are empowered when they can exercise choices and are aware of alternatives, microfinance being one of the most important catalysts. This research...
Anti-incumbency at the state level, or the tendency to vote out an incumbent state government, reached its peak in elections during the 1990s. In the 2000s there has been a reversal of this trend and...
While population control in India has involved specific styles of official thinking and various shades of the "rationality" of planning, we must not ignore the ways in which they are negotiated and...
The Planning Commission has announced an average gross domestic product growth target of 8% for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period. This article disaggregates the 8% growth target into what could be...
The Bhore Committee constituted by the colonial government in 1943 to address the needs of healthcare in India was assisted a year later by a group of international advisers. These advisers, coming...
The Kumbh Mela is composed of and made by diverse groups of people coming from different places for over the period of three months. Beyond the exotica and the acclaimed effi ciency of the mela...
The terms "green jobs" and "green economy" are in vogue due to the observation that many renewable energy technologies seem to create more jobs per unit of installed capacity and per unit power...
The poverty line in India is usually associated with a calorie threshold. This calorie threshold approach suffers from many problems. An alternative revealed preference-based approach has been...
While there is a menu of options before host countries for regulating foreign investment, some of them might not be compatible with their obligations under the various international agreements signed...
The receding demand for statehood for Vidarbha in Maharashtra presents a striking contrast to the violent agitation in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh for a separate Telangana state even though Vidarbha'...
A widely-cited social cost-benefit analysis conducted by the National Council of Applied Economic Research projected net benefi ts from the POSCO steel project in Odisha. Yet, a close examination of...
