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Collusion in government and corruption
(Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 2009-11-10)
Politicians require bureaucrats to implement policies. Due to information asymmetry about who is to be considered a beneficiary of policy screening devices like red tape are used. This results in opportunism by individuals ...
Globalization's underbelly: capital flows and the Indian economy
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2008-11-10)
Recent capital flows to India have been predominantly portfolio flows and they have been associated with a deteriorating current account position. To induce foreign savings to finance current account deficits requires the ...
Self employment and human capital
(Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2008-11-10)
The structure of production in the process of economic development embodies a shift from self-employment to wage work. This paper develops a simple labour allocation framework to explain this. The extent of human capital ...
Food subsidy: concept, rationale, implementation design and policy reforms
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2014)
This paper counters negative advocacy about the food subsidy, the public distribution system, and farm price supports. It argues that the public food supply chain for market intervention has a favourable impact on the ...
Gold monetisation scheme for India
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2015)
Currently India is the largest consumer and importer of gold in the world. Monetising the gold within the country is, therefore, important for macroeconomic stability, and requires a credible scheme for valuing, storing, ...
Employment in a globally integrating economy
(IUP Publications, 2014)
Financial markets, human resource policies, and flexibility
(2002-10-18)
Financial systems that are bank-based such as in Germany and Japan employ an internal
strategy of managing human resources via job ladders and screening whereas in market-based
systems such as in the UK and the US an ...
IIMS-I Markets and equity in education
(2003-10-21)
The traditional market failure approach does not identify the
distinctive characteristics of higher education institutions
sufficiently as it does not focus on their organisational
architecture. Without this frame of ...