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We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis...

This paper questions when and why state governments oppose (or support) privatization programs initiated by the central government. It examines national privatization initiatives in the 1990s in India and Brazil in the fields of electricity and banking looking at the varying responses of the...

The importance of private sector participation and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in promoting infrastructure development in the Asian region has been significant. Though there are several studies which have highlighted the role of PPPs in infrastructure in East and South East Asia, few...

The importance of private sector participation and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in promoting infrastructure development in the Asian region has been significant. Though there are several studies which have highlighted the role of PPPs in infrastructure in East and South East Asia, few...

Introduces the theme of expenditure allocation, processes and their effectiveness. Reviews all the articles in the report.The focus is on expenditures related to physical infrastructure in India Argues that a paradigm shift in the expenditure process that gives adequate incentives for...

One important issue facing reformers considering the restructuring of the seaports and freight railways sectors of a developing country is the creation of competition - or, alternatively, avoiding the creation or preservation of monopoly power. In seaports a crucial distinction is often that...

The paper looks at the India's privatization experiment which began in the early 1990s. The data used for this study covers a period of over seventeen years, 1991/92-2006/07. A regression model is constructed using the neoclassical growth model with the objective to assess as to whether or not...

India had adopted disinvestment, as part of broader reforms, in 1991 to improve performance of public sector enterprises (PSEs) owned by the Central government of India. The current study captures the effect of disinvestment policy on the performance of PSEs with special emphasis on the local...