India’s still-nascent e-commerce market is growing at lightning speed. While deep discounts lured the first online shoppers and fueled e-tailers’ initial momentum, the space’s rapid evolution is giving rise to consumers who expect more than just low prices. One of the next generation...

India’s still-nascent e-commerce market is growing at lightning speed. While deep discounts lured the first online shoppers and fueled e-tailers’ initial momentum, the space’s rapid evolution is giving rise to consumers who expect more than just low prices. One of the next generation...

While India’s nascent startup industry has emerged to be amongst the top three startup industries globally, the grave challenge of lack of finance is thwarting the industry from reaching its potential. Insufficient funding is a major deterrent to startups’ growth which leads to death of...

Spiraling food prices and low productivity in Indian Agriculture has made food security a cause of great concern, more so in rural India (FAO, 2011; ADB, 2011; Kaur 2013; IFAD, 2011). Despite India’s good economic performance, it is home to the largest number of hungry people in the world. In the ranking...

What's fuelling the food prices? While several reasons abound, the role of fuel prices in fuelling food prices cannot be negated. Evidence suggests that there is an increasing co-movement between world oil prices and agricultural commodity prices, with rising demand for bio-fuels also impacting...

Global warming, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions have been the context of several deliberations since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Climate change is a critical issue, especially for the developing economies of South Asia. The region’s geographical dynamics, accompanied by the presence...