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 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...

The job of economist is to evaluate economic issues, analyze past economic trends and forecast the economic outlook. Economic forecasting is the process of attempting to predict the future condition of the economy using a combination of widely followed indicators or factors that affect economy....

Whenever recession looms around, experts start blaming policy paralysis, wrong policies, policy implementation and vision of the government. Policy makers, their advisers and economist will think around narrow technical aspects of ‘economics'. Economists will talk about structural problems....

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,...

Nine major world economies and few South Asian economies are slowing. South-east Asia is more vulnerable to economic downturn than it was during the global financial crisis one decade ago, according to analysts at global management consultancy Bain & Co. Greater exposure to a slowing China - and...

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...

Prevention is better than cure. If you can not prevent the crisis, augment factors which can cure crisis earlier. Preventing financial crisis forever is daydreaming. Crises are going to happen, because economy is composed of several known & unknown factors interacting subjectively with each...