India, with a population of over 1.10 billion is one of the fastest growing economies of the world. As domestic sources of different conventional commercial energy are drying up, dependence on foreign energy sources is increasing. There exists a huge potential for saving energy in India. After...

India has the world's second largest urban population (after China). This paper shows the large disparities within this urban population in health related indicators. It shows the disparities for child and maternal health, provision for health care and housing conditions between the poorest...

It has been reported that in contrast with North America and most of Western Europe, where growth of nuclear power have leveled out for many years, the 'greatest growth in nuclear generation' in near future is expected in China, Japan, South Korea and India. It would be naýve to believe that...

In this paper we look at the determinants of suicide rates in developing countries by looking at the incidence of suicides in the various states of the Indian union. A thorough analysis of socio-economic factors affecting suicide rates in developed countries was conducted by Emile Durkheim...

The SHG-Bank Linkage Programme in India has been a flag-ship programme of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), with the objective of enabling the poorest of the poor to access financial resources to increase household income and to achieve sustained livelihood. The...

In managing sustainability, the development thinkers and planners must have to align their thinking with the vision and missions of development. Building visions and missions of development has to be synchronized with modern sustainable concept with contextualization and prognostication on what...

Food problem became more severe after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, presenting a series challenges to India’s agricultural sector. Even during good harvest years, food imports remain high. A large segment of people were poor. To mitigate these problems, India adopted farming...

This article hypothesizes that economic reforms become sustainable when the discursive conditions prevailing in society tip against the existing paradigm under exceptional circumstances. Thus, unless the pro-liberalization constituencies dominate the development discourse, economic reforms,...

A developing country like India needs revenue surplus for the capital investment at the same time to pursue the economic development through demand expansion it needs expenditure especially in the social sectors such as health, education etc,. The recent global economic crisis also compels India...

Resource misallocation can lower aggregate total factor productivity (TFP).We use microdata on manufacturing establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India versus the United States. We measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across...