The Article is titled ‘CAG: A PANACEA FOR CORRUPT PRACTICES IN INDIA' as the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India has played an eminent role in curing the evils which exist in the rule making bodies and in preventing the Indian economy from being crippled in the hands of corrupt...

Evaluation studies routinely find that lending to women benefits their households, they are however vastly divergent in their conclusions regarding its empowering potential. This paper investigates this paradoxical suggestion by examining a case study. Survey data from two drought prone villages...

The relationships between energy, the environment, and development are deep and complex. The International Energy Agency has noted that energy is deeply implicated in each of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of human development. Energy services provide an essential input to...

Kalyal Sanayal's work on postcolonial capitalism has been influential in many strands of critical social theory. In this brief note, I investigate three key components of his argument and find them wanting. In particular, I show that the evolution of land ownership in India does not support the...

The paper presents opportunities for sustainable development of mountain regions in the Republic of Bulgaria analyzing good practices and providing recommendations for future development. The most important risks in the examined sectors in their joint development are considered and classified...

The paper is an attempt to analyse the dynamics of the evolution of Indian policy towards her North Eastern Region of the country. It traces how political and strategic considerations have compromised the development trajectory of the region. It also speaks of the risks and uncertainties such...

Theory and practice of development has long been concerned about the problem of poverty and the poor communities in developing countries, which often also has a spatial dimension with a large concentration in rural hinterlands. The nature of poverty in such discourses has generally been...

The sustainability of liberal market reforms under successive regimes is a key issue in several countries. This paper examines the significance of the Indian 1998 Budget (a major signal for the direction of economic policy, and the first one to be presented by the new government) for reform...