Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Dholakia, Ravindra H."
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1996-97 Budget: six steps backward and one forward
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (1996-10-07) -
Access of poor households to primary education in rural India
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Iyengar, Shreekant (Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 2008-11-10)The Planning Commission’s premise that the growth in India has bypassed the weaker sections due to their ineffective access to the basic services like primary education needs to be tested against the evidence. Traditionally ... -
Access of the rural poor to primary healthcare in India
Iyengar, Shreekant; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Review of Market Integration, 2012)The 11th Five-Year Plan of India emphasises the wider and better coverage of services, such as primary healthcare for the majority of population. For this purpose, various healthcare related programmes have aimed at the ... -
Alternative concepts of electricity of demand and thier interrelationship
Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (1977-02-15) -
Budgetary subsidies in the health sector: the case of Gujarat
Dholakia, Archana; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2001-10-18)In this article, budgetary subsidies in the health sector in Gujarat are estimated by following the methodology of the discussion paper on subsidies (Government of India [GOI (1997)] after duly recognising several problems ... -
Can project appraisal be linked with growth rate in the economy?
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (1986-09-22)In underdeveloped mixed economies, the choice of big investment projects has a direct bearing on the productivity of capital. The economic rate of return on big projects determines the achievable growth rate in the ... -
Changing dynamics of inflation in India
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Kadiyala, Virinchi S. (Economic and Political Weekly, 2018-03)Using the latest consumer price index (combined) series, it is found that the dynamics underlying India’s inflationary process have changed substantially. Significant reduction found in the inflation persistence reflects ... -
Colloquium on union budget 2008 - 09
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2008-11-02)This was the seventh Union Budget presented by the Finance Minister (FM), Shri P Chidambaram. Since this one was the last regular Budget of the present government before the forthcoming election of the Parliament, it was ... -
Consistent measurement of fiscal deficit and debt of states in India
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Karan, Navendu (2005-10-27)There are differences in the definition of debt used by different bodies like the state governments, Reserve Bank of India, Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Finance Commission. Moreover, ... -
Cost and benefit of disinflation policy in India
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Economic & Political Weekly, 2014)The Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy stance is based on assertions that there is no trade-off between inflation and growth and that disinflation will result in more growth. This note examines recent empirical evidence ... -
Critique of recent revisions with base year change for estimation of state income in India
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Pandya, Manish B. (Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, 2017)In the present paper, we have critiqued recent revisions made in the estimation of state income in India consequent upon the change in the base year of the National Accounts from 2004-05 to the new base of 2011-12. We have ... -
Determinants of export performance of firms: lessons from Indian experience
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Kapur, Deepak (2007-10-29)Macroeconomic policy reforms initiated in India since 1991 have brought about significant improvement in the export performance of firms. This paper examines the export performance of firms with the help of balance sheet ... -
Determining specific lags in the Indian export supply function
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Muthu, Peru (1994-10-10) -
Double deflation method and growth of manufacturing: a comment
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Economic & Political Weekly, 2015-10-10)This comment points out an erroneous assumption in the calculations and central argument of Rajakumar and Shetty ("Gross Value Added: Why Not the Double Deflation Method for Estimation?," EPW, 15 August 2015) that reverses ... -
Economic evaluation of investment projects in development plans - the case of 7th five year plan in India
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (1988-09-24) -
Economic reforms and trade performance: private corporate sector in India
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Kapur, Deepak (2010-10-18)Since 1991-92, India has undertaken widespread policy reforms in order to integrate its economy with the rest of the world. In this fact-finding study, the balance-sheet data of 557 private sector companies are considered ... -
Empirical test of the marginal productivity theory of wages - the experience of Indian industries
Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (1975-12-21) -
Energy planning in India: relevance of regional planning for national policy
Moulik, T. K.; Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Ramani, K. V.; Shukla, P. R. (1992-10-01) -
Estimates of state income originating in entertainment sub-sector in Gujarat
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Shah, R. J.; Pandya, Manish (2003-10-22)[The paper provides detailed estimates of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) at current market prices (m.p.) for Gujarat state for the period 1990-91 to 2000-01. It considers the estimates of GSDP at current factor ... -
Estimating labour quality index for India
Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Springer, 2018)Present paper provides a detailed critique of the traditional methodology of taking wage differential as equal to the differential of marginal productivity of labour and proposes to replace it by the differential of average ...