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Efficient Subsidisation of LPG: A Study of Possible Options in India Today (Based on a Report Commissioned by the Petroleum Federation of India)
(2009-09-01)
The budget contained an announcement that the central government would actively explore the option of using an appropriate form of the ‘food stamps’ or an alternative scheme to improve the efficacy and reduce the cost of ...
Missing Issues in the Debate on Reservation
(2009-09-01)
The issue of reservation has been presented as arising out of educational and social backwardness of the OBCs. Except in nomenclature there is no substantial evidence to show that most or even the majority of the ‘jatis’ ...
A Study of regional determinants of foreign direct investments in India, and the case of Gujarat
(2009-12-12)
We discuss the determinants of FDI over the regions of a large economy like India, and develop a framework drawn from the advantage concept of Kindleberger and from location theories rooted in regional science. We specifically ...
Constraints to export growth in the small firm sector
(2009-12-12)
Exports from small firms are analysed and the constraints in expansion and growth of exports from the sector are brought out. A large priary survey of over 1200 firms is used to bring out experiences of small firms. Small ...
GEB reforms: a note on regulatory strategy and an approach to privatisation
(2009-12-12)
Briefly the proposal is for market competition in generation, through the development of a hybrid wholesale and retail (for bulk consumers alone) market. It is not a marker for all the electricity in the system, but largely ...
Restructuring Gujarat Electricity Board: outline of a strategy and proposal for action
(2010-01-16)
This note argues that the GEB needs to be restructured urgently. The principal challenge is really to overcome that major agency problem that results in leakage of enormous revenue. Plugging the leakages alone would make ...
Towards tariff policy for central power sector utilities (CPSUs)
(2010-01-18)
There can not be a tariff policy for Central Power Sector Utilities(CPSUs) that is market creating without a strategy for transmission access and pricing. Similarly, the policy has to be derived from a more general policy ...
GDP, GNP in an Open Economy: Certain Accounting Identities
(2010-08-05)
In this note the macro-economic identities relevant to an open economy are built up, and represented diagrammatically, for easy understanding and conceptualisation.
Case Studies of India JVAs: TATAB
(2010-08-09)