This paper starts by highlighting the recent auctions held in India with a brief detailing on the bidding made by different private players. The paper then proceeds by explaining the growth story of radio communication in India, also highlighting the time spent on radio. The study further...

Is the rise of the Indian software industry simply another Asian state-dominated industrial growth story or is India distinctive, an economy where small technology entrepreneurs also find niches for development and can be drivers of innovation? Research has predominantly focused on the large...

This paper examines the socioeconomic impacts of regional rural urban migration of marginal segment in Rajshahi city corporation slum areas in Bangladesh. Key objective of this article is to examine the results of the first phase, i.e, the findings of the 2006 survey, compare with the recent...

Microfinance has been on the development agenda for more than 30 years, heralded as the wondrous tool that reduces poverty and empowers women (Hulme and Mosley, 1996; Rutherford, 2001; Morduch and Haley, 2002; Khandker, 1998). Doubts, however, have recently been raised about the success of microfinance...

The micro-finance industry in India is in the midst of the most severe crisis in its 25 years history. The genesis of the problem was the clash between the original micro-finance goals of poverty alleviation with the profit maximization goals of the micro-finance institutions. In the state of...

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) with combined asset under management of around $4.8 Trillion have emerged as major power in the financial world. The dominant effect of these funds in International finance was on display during the recent recession of 2008. The emergence of these funds has also...