The largest 25 emerging markets (by population size) will need to make about four trillion dollars worth of investments by 2020. What does this mean for investors looking to cash in on the boom in government (and hopefully private) spending on infrastructure? Which markets will generate the most...

This study discusses the role of institutional investors in financing infrastructure in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). It analyzes the present level of involvement as well as the future investment potential of new financing sources such as public and private pension funds,...

Overview of the theme covered in the India Infrastructure Report - Highlights the issues involved in promoting commercialisation of infrastructure and especially public private partnerships. Also reviews and presents the various articles in the book India Infrastructure Report 2004 - Ensuring...

Even though knowledge economies are a by-product of the increasing use of ICTs worldwide, its impact seems biased only towards developed countries. Latin America still faces a digital gap, despite having laid some ties with the global economic and informational system. Therefore, it is a region...

Kerala has a high status in infrastructure development in India and her experiences in social infrastructure development rank her one among many developed countries. This study seeks to analyse the development experiences of Kerala, and to examine what worked behind these experiences. A...

For an emerging economy like India, fast economic development is possible essentially by embracing ICT in a big way, as ICT alone can provide the requisite competitive edge that is essential for fast and sustained economic growth in a globalized environment. In its endeavor to become the...

Making the development of an adequate telecommunication infrastructure has become one of the major goals of policy makers in India. Telecommunication infrastructure consists of many components. It is a combination of civil works, towers, antennae and cables, coupled with hardware and software...

The paper analyses the emerging trend and issues in the IT and ecommerce sector in the wake of new knowledge economy and explores the viable policies and strategies to be adopted in future for the development and growth of the said emerging sector in India.

The main objective of this study is to analyse importance of e-commerce in economic growth process. Therefore in this paper the attempt is made to examine the economic implications of e-commerce in India and Canada. So we can have a comparative picture of the role of e-commerce in economic...

The paper studies the relationship between inequality and economic growth. This is done in a two sector model of endogenous growth with agents characterized by heterogeneity of factor endowments. The private sector consists of a large number of competitive ¯rms who produce the only ¯nal good...