Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to …

-oriented regime. Government has abandoned price policies and subsidies, focusing rather on standard-setting, quality regulation, and …

Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …

basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as … sources is used. The index is composed of four variables: government revenues, foreign currency reserves, export of goods and …:[http://finmin.nic.in/WorkingPaper/Index%20of%20Government%20Economic%20Power.pdf]. …

predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers, implying that this measure captures a meaningful propensity towards … to enter the government, while outcomes on explicit, two-player games to measure cheating and attitudinal measures of …

Government corruption is more prevalent in poor countries than in rich countries. This paper uses cross …