Browsing Working Papers by Author "Morris, Sebastian"
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Agriculture: A Perspective from History, the Metrics of Comparative Advantage, and Limitations of the Market to Understand the Role of State in a Globalising World
Morris, Sebastian (2009-08-13)Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, many poor countries with ... -
The challenge of governance in India today
Morris, Sebastian (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-10-01)This paper attempts to delineate the possible role of governance oriented reform in India today. We raise conceptual and historical difficulties with the notion that sees governance failure as the cause of poor economic ... -
Constraints to export growth in the small firm sector
Morris, Sebastian (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 ... -
Determinants of the sources of FDI into India
Sarasa, Prathyush; Singh, Disha; Morris, Sebastian (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Inward FDI flows over 2000-01 from many source countries into India, one of the fastest growing large developing economies in the period, have been explained by an extended gravity model and the an extended allometric ... -
Does GST in India hurt producing regions? A new estimate of the tax base under GST of select states
Morris, Sebastian; Pandey, Ajay; Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Agarwalla, Astha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)GST as introduced in India being a destination based tax, does not encourage regions to vigorously promote manufacturing and tradable services industries. Being in the midst of its economic transformation, and given the ... -
Economic Growth in Gujarat in Relation to the Nation and Other States in Recent Times - A Statistical Analysis
Morris, Sebastian (2013-11-21)Growth rates of regions (states) have generally followed the national level growth rates over time with small lags or leads. We find much coherence between the aggregate performance of regions over time and that of the ... -
Efficient Subsidisation of LPG: A Study of Possible Options in India Today (Based on a Report Commissioned by the Petroleum Federation of India)
Pandey, Ajay; Morris, Sebastian (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 ... -
Examination of affordable housing policies in india
Sarkar, Anindo; Dhavalikar, Udayan; Agrawal, Vikram; Morris, Sebastian (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-01)In this paper we critique the Government of India's programmes for affordable housing in India, namely the Rajiv Awas Yojana and Housing for All 2022. We analyse the efficacy of these policies in being able to provide thee ... -
Explaining foreign direct investments in Gujarat: a study based on an opinion survey of persons involved in the foreign direct investment process
Morris, Sebastian (2010-07-26)There is much that Gujarat can do to attract the new manufacturing and service industries (offshore industries of a wide variety, IT and biotechnology industries). Besides the improvement of Governance especially with ... -
FDI Outflows from India: An Examination of the Underlying Economics, Policies, and their Impacts
Subramanian, Ravi; Sachdeva, Charu; Morris, Sebastian (2011-05-27)This paper discusses the trends in India's outward FDI over the last decade and then attempts to identify the driving factors. The aim is to provide policy makers with insights regarding levers which would help in encouraging ... -
Financing Infrastructure in India: issues and the way forward
Morris, Sebastian (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Optimal approaches that recognize the specific kind of market failure/s, in the policy and design of infrastructure, greatly reduce the financing costs and improves the ability of to attract finance in the private provisioning ... -
Further estimations of the likely total infections and deaths Due to COVID19 in select countries (Version 2 dt. April 10, 2020)
Morris, Sebastian (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-04-13)We had earlier estimated the likely cases and deaths over the course of the pandemic for a number of countries. This was an early attempt and gave somewhat tentative results. With some 7 more days of data being now available, ... -
GEB reforms: a note on regulatory strategy and an approach to privatisation
Morris, Sebastian (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 ... -
The horror of urban development in india – Identifying the real issues
Morris, Sebastian (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-06-30)The horror of India’s urban spaces cannot be understood without recognizing the core errors in planning and in the approach of infrastructural development. These stem mainly from the low FSI’s that are used, the lack of ... -
Impact of the proposed GST on the consumer price index in India
Morris, Sebastian; Pandey, Ajay; Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Agarwalla, Astha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Fears that the movement to GST would add to inflation have been unfounded. In this study we ex-ante estimate the impact the movement to GST would have on inflation and show that it would be very marginal at best. The ... -
Introducing Competition in Container Movement by Rail
Morris, Sebastian; Pandey, Ajay; Raghuram, G.; Gangwar, Rachna (2011-05-26)Container movement by rail was a monopoly of Indian Railways (IR) until recently and its subsidiary, Container Corporation (CONCOR), was the sole operator of container trains. Entry of other entities has been driven by ... -
ISO 9000 linked tax incentive: a better leverage point for growth
Morris, Sebastian; Raghunathan, V. (2010-03-26)The efficiency and efficacy of government instruments in implementing policy have been particularly problematic in India. For instance, the incentives, mostly fiscal, to boost been linked to investments, e.g., development ... -
Issues in water rights, institutional design and pricing that need resolution
Morris, Sebastian (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)In this paper the core issues that need resolution before water development especially by the private sector, and efficient usage can happen are very briefly outlined. These are Water rights have to be defined more ... -
Missing Issues in the Debate on Reservation
Morris, Sebastian (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’ ... -
Overestimation in the Growth Rates of National Income in Recent Years? – an analyses based on extending GDP04-05 through other indicators of output
Morris, Sebastian; Kumari, Tejshwi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Quarterly indices of output like those of Industrial Production, other measures of production like net sales, exports, of companies for which data is available, besides proxies like credit to the sector, and indices of ...