Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Morris, Sebastian"
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Agricultural prices in a changing economy: an empirical study of Indian agriculture
Morris, Sebastian (Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2013)This slim volume as the name suggests raises at a most opportune moment the important issue of the role of prices in coaxing up aggregate output in agriculture. The general consensus has been that while prices (variously ... -
Competition policy in India: issues for a globalizing economy
Basant, Rakesh; Morris, Sebastian (2000-10-14)The objectives of competition policy in India are the creation of an active competitive environment and to aid and abet the process of creating globally competitive firms with enhanced investment and technological ... -
Container movement by rail in India: a review of policy evolution
Gangwar, Rachna; Morris, Sebastian; Pandey, Ajay; Raghuram, G. (Elsevier Ltd, 2012-03-01)Container movement by rail was a monopoly of Indian Railways (IR) until 2005. Its subsidiary Container Corporation (CONCOR) was the sole operator of container trains. Entry of other entities in 2007 has been driven by ... -
Hedging effectiveness of sensex
Barua, Samir K.; Madhavan, T.; Morris, Sebastian (1998-10-12) -
The political economy of electric power in India: part II
Morris, Sebastian (1996-07-14)Since the cancellation of the Dabhol Power Project (DPP), the debate about electric power in India has come into the public view, raising hopes that corrective measures can be taken to have a viable, cost effective and ... -
Political economy of electric power in India: Part I
Morris, Sebastian (1996-07-14)Since the cancellation of the Dabhol Power Project (DPP), the debate about electric power in India has come into the public view, raising hopes that corrective measures can be taken to have a viable, cost effective and ... -
Prospects for FDI and Multinational Activity in the 90s
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Regulatory strategy and restructuring - model for Gujarat power sector
Morris, Sebastian (2000-10-14)True reform and restructuring of any state electricity board in India would have to address the enormous leakage of revenue from the system. This would call for privatisation of distribution, and change in the institutional ... -
Some Issues in the debate on policy
Morris, Sebastian (1994-07-14)The current discussions on the liberalisation programme. of the Indian government have found little common ground and have yet to cqlme down to an empirical level where the hypotheses andfears on both sides are posed ... -
Technology export from the Indian public sector: case study of BHEL
Morris, Sebastian (1996-10-08)Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, a large Indian public enterprise in the power sector, has been successful in judiciously blending technology imports and indigenisation. Through the mid-1970s and 1980s, it has progressively ... -
Towards reform of land acquisition framework in India
Morris, Sebastian; Pandey, Ajay (2010-11-08)Current land prices are highly distorted owing largely to regulatory constraints and the process of compulsory acquisition. This paper brings out the core elements of the reform – the need to define “public purpose” ex ... -
Which way will the RBI take the economy
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Why are we junking this engine of growth
Morris, Sebastian (1997-10-08)The appreciation in the real value of the rupee would bring down export growth rate to less than 6 per cent for 1996-97 and unless corrected would lower the growth rate of the economy. Today, the economy is ideally ... -
Why not push for a 9 per cent growth rate?
Morris, Sebastian (1997-07-15)One quite indisputable gain of the reform has been the increasing openness of the economy. The rise in the openness ratio began in the mid-1980s and accelerated in the 1990s, following the depreciation of the currency in ...