Contributed articles presented at the inception meeting of Economic Division in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance in collaboration with Asian Development Bank in New Delhi on 2-3 September 2003 on agricultural policy programmes in India supported by ADB furthered through...

The paper provides an overview of the methodologies used by the Indian Planning Commission in the past 30 years. Using the Planning Commission poverty line, the paper computes poverty and inequality indices from the large sample surveys of NSS consumer expenditure data and demonstrates that the...

Cover -- Contents -- I: BACKGROUND -- 1 Road Sector in India -- 1.1 Description of Road Network -- 1.2 Road Infrastructure Financing -- 1.3 The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Road Development -- 2 Public-Private Partnerships and Private Sector Finance -- 2.1 Definition of a...