It is a fashion now to talk about China & India in year 2050. Whether it is a political meeting, economic forum, seminar, symposium, workshop and conference or by whatever name you call of public gathering, everywhere one talks about possible size of two economies after half century,...

The Research Paper "The Multilateral Trade Regime seen through a Global Public Goods Lens: New Insights on Old Problems" is prepared on reflections generated while a debate was held by gpgNet during July 2003. The conference was sponsored by UNDP, and global participants has given their wide...

Land, climate & human are the major critical actors of world history & development. “Buy land, they're not making it anymore", said Mark Twain. Land is a precious resource, the bedstead in which seeds of development are sown. Every activity on the earth requires land as founding support. This...

The globalization brought series of global indices developed based on critical indicators. There is no central data base to retrieve all global indices, but some research institutes are a good source to get information on this. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation,...

Many questions clutter our horizon in 21st century. The way business is passing through impulsive and unremitting changes; the new business management norms are created every day. The business management education should follow the suit; rather provide lead to the business. We argue that the...

India’s series of economic reforms since 1991 have accelerated the growth but not the productivity. Productivity in the past many decades remained stagnant or not improved at pace to its peers. There are several ways and means to measure the productivity. Productivity is defined differently by...

The study critically analyses selected Indian workers cooperatives to find reasons over time of its success or failures. Worker cooperatives flourish in many industries and regions, where decisions are made democratically by workers who also act as entrepreneurs, managers and members. By value...

This paper analyse productivity of manufacturing sector in India. As per Global Competitive Index, India is ranked 71. In spite of India's relative steady growth in last decade, productivity indices remained weak. We investigates factors around 12 pillars of GCI, and broadly internal & external...

It is argued that, BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India & China) countries combined economies could surpass world's richest countries by 2050. Author undertakes veracity of BRIC's present status with reference to the various projections made till 2050, which are made under certain assumption including...

The Cooperative movement in India has its own status, role and impact in the socio-economic development, especially for providing organizational and financial support to give impetus to income generating activities for weaker sections, such as small and marginal farmers, artisans, weavers,...