The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...

Undoubtedly, poverty reduction has become a front-burner issue in development and business agenda. Since its announcement and defense by its advocates as a potent weapon against poverty, the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept has been bedeviled by controversies. A major controversy is whether...

The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...

In this paper we propose to re-evaluate the relationship between non-farm employment and poverty and urbanization in rural India for the years 1983 and 1999-00. The choice of the initial and terminal period is deliberate. During this period, the per capita income has broken free from the...

Social media has changed the business forms for many industries and organisations. The domain of the influence of social media on consumer behaviour is a relatively young area of study. Today, communication is an essential means for organisations and businesses in the market to manage the...

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force participation stagnated at around 18%. Using five large...