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Feasibility of implementation of right to education act
(2009-05-03)
This article argues that even an
allocation of 6% of the gross
domestic product to the education
budget would not be sufficient to
fund universal school education
until the very distant future if the
government school ...
Relative performance of public and private manufacturing enterprises in India: total factor productivity approach
(1978-02-21)
The performance of public enterprises in the manufacturing sector, it emerges from this study, has
been quite remarkable, especially compared to that of comparable private enterprises, if we use the criterion
of growth ...
Income tax concessions : implications for equity and growth of tax base
(1987-09-23)
V N KOTHARI (EPW,i February 21) argues
that the income tax base in India is being
eroded in the name of tax concessions as
incentives for savings. On the basis of a
broad analysis of the income tax/GDP ratio
and some ...
Can project appraisal be linked with growth rate in the economy?
(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 ...
State income inequalitites and interstate variations in the growth of real capital stock
(1980-09-17)
This paper attempts to analyse the behaviour of regional income inequalities and capital inequalities
in India. It also seeks to examine the relationship between the trend in regional income inequality and
regional ...
Right to education act and public private partnership (PPP)
(2010-02-20)
Two comments on our article (“Feasibility
of Implementation of Right
to Education Act”, EPW, 20 June
2009) by Padma M Sarangapani (EPW, 24
October 2009) and Vimala Ramachandran
(11 July 2009) make similar points.
Some ...
Trends in regional disparity in human and social development in India
(2011-04-29)
Trends in regional disparity in numerous social and human development indicators, other than
state income, are examined with a statistical significance test. No support was found for the
impression about increasing ...
Regional sources of growth acceleration in India
(2011-04-29)
Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala
and Tamil Nadu were the major contributors to the
growth acceleration in India after 1991-92. Although
regional disparity may increase temporarily, the causality
test ...
Speed of adjustment and inflation-output trade off in India
(Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2012)
This paper estimates the short-run aggregate supply curve for the Indian
economy over the period 1950-51 to 2008-09. Methodological improvements in
this paper include the technique of estimating adaptive expectations, ...
Prospects for the Indian economy
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2012)
On 29th November, 2012, the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) came
out with an estimate of 5.3 per cent growth for the Indian economy during
the second quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal year against ...