India skipped the stage of industrialization and jumped straight to service stage form being agrarian economy during its economic evolution. This transition created a market in urban India but the benefits failed to percolate beyond the metro cities.Through revisit of SEZ policy, the government...

This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment...

This study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the related nationwide lockdown on the Indian economy, particularly on food systems. It also takes up an important issue of millions of migrant workers in India who seem to have suffered the most during this period. The loss of their...