Urban governance under the 74th Amendment Act has been ignored in Karnataka. A study of Dharwad district shows that the Act is not implemented in letter and spirit and governance and planning is done...
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A sharp trend-break in participation (as measured by turnout rates as well as number of candidates contesting) in state assembly elections in India, starting in the mid-1990s is noticed as one...
What Lenin presents as socialism is far removed from what Marx meant by it. Lenin's "socialism" is really state capitalism.
Since the end of the 25-year-old Eelam civil war, Sri Lanka has entered into another increasingly treacherous conflict - an as-yet subtle but emerging one between the United States and China to...
This article compares various indicators of economic activities of Japanese and United States multinational corporation affi liates in India and China using unique affi liate-level data. It fi nds...
Making connections between religious epics and insider trading is not as misplaced as it sounds. This article investigates whether literary texts like the Mahabharata and the Gita are harmless enough...
As quantitative data regarding inventions is diffi cult to come by, an alternative presents itself in the form of patent data. While this is not a perfect indicator of inventions and hence the...
While foreign aid has undoubtedly contributed to development in Afghanistan, a large proportion has been prescriptive and supply-driven or donor-driven, rather than indigenous and attuned to the...
How institutions frame economic transactions is crucial to the ability of the poor in the informal sector to fi nd their way out of poverty. The literature points to two crucial aspects of the lived...
The states have witnessed a sharp fall in their shares of development expenditure in gross domestic product in the post-liberalisation period compared to the same in the 1980s, albeit with some...
The 2011 Census results on the sex composition of the Indian population have so far been discussed within the prevailing understanding of the reasons behind a declining child sex ratio: The use of...
A profi ling of the caste backgrounds of candidates fi elded by the four main political parties in Uttar Pradesh in the assembly elections, the elected legislators and ministers reveals some...
The 18th century Irish economist, Richard Cantillon, made lasting contributions to economics, in particular, to classical economics. This note elucidates his conception of the economy as three...
This article discusses the contradictions and inconsistencies within colonial plans for the urban renewal of Bombay in the years between 1898 and 1928. It attempts to break the perception of the...
If Delhi is building its way towards becoming a "global city" through mammoth infrastructure and construction projects, then what is the story of those people whose work helps put up its massive...
