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Political economy of eletric power of India
(2010-04-05)
Science the cancellation of the Dabhol Power Project (Dpp), which was being set up by the Enron Corporation and its associates, the debate about electric power in India has come into the public view, raising hopes that ...
Why not push for 9% growth?
(2010-03-31)
More than political constraints, an adherence to orthodoxy on the part of policy makers may have been responsible for the economy operating at well below the growth rate that it is capable of achieving. Part of the problem ...
Why are we junking engine of growth?
(2010-04-03)
Over the last year and a half, the real value of the rupee has been going up. Neither the government in its budget or otherwise, nor the RBI, seems to be concerned about the deleterious effects of the same on export growth. ...
Policy and the problem of policy change: some issues
(2010-03-25)
During the eighties there have been stop-start attempts at liberalization and at policy change to give new direction to the economy which had been drifting ever since serious planning had been given up in the mid-sixties ...
ISO 9000 linked tax incentive: a better leverage point for growth
(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 ...
Prospects for foreign direct investment in the nineties
(2010-03-26)
FDI into India is more likely to take the form of joint-ventures and other so called ynon-equityz forms. As indigenous businesses have gathered strength over the period of sheltered growth in the eighties (and even earlier), ...
Explaining foreign direct investments in Gujarat: a study based on an opinion survey of persons involved in the foreign direct investment process
(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 ...
Some key issues in policy, pricing,regulation and financing of irrigation development in India today
(2010-04-03)
In this paper we discuss the stylised problems relating to water and irrigation in India and argue that most of the inefficiencies, misuse and environmental damage have their roots in the mispricing of water and electricity. ...
Economic Growth in Gujarat in Relation to the Nation and Other States in Recent Times - A Statistical Analysis
(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 ...
A Scheme for Efficient Subsidisation of Kerosene in India
(2009-03-11)
The distortions in price based subsidisation are very severe. The direct fiscal cost of ensuring that a rupee of value is delivered to all household users of kerosene is as high as Rs.3 and when the consideration is the ...