This Working Paper examines India's growth and employment generation performance over the last ten years in the context … achieved on the back of reducing capital expenditures. The Paper reviews the distorted nature of India's labour markets and … recommends legislative and the other steps needed to work around constraints. The need for India to widen its relatively narrow …

Informal trade continues to thrive between India and Pakistan despite recent measures undertaken by the two countries … to normalize trade and reduce transport impediments. This calls for an in-depth analysis of India's informal trade with … Pakistan. This study (i) identifies factors determining informal trade, (ii) prepares estimates of India's informal trade with …

-dhan account in India has been a key milestone in this regard, providing access to every family virtually in the country with a … two years across India or other emerging economies but may not have enough "formality" to access the financial services …

The retail business, in India, is estimated to grow at 13 per cent per annum from US$ 322 billion in 2006-07 to US$ 590 …

India that provide fall back mechanisms and evaluates how they compare with systems in selected comparator countries and …

In 2004, following the election of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), India began to introduce a … emergence of these two initiatives in India. This includes the political and civil society imperatives that shaped the design … constitute the poorest inhabitants of rural India, have disproportionately benefitted from the MGNREGA, weakening traditional …