Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a buzz word in all public platforms, research conferences, universities, politics and media. CSR is neither new in India, nor widespread in its real sense. Few companies carried out implicitly and seldom explicitly CSR activities as part of their routine...

Urban centers are drivers of economic growth. Normal principles of economics apply here and due to economies of scale, because of larger population, synergies take place. In hunger of self-interest, and if system fails to optimize benefits vis-à-vis cost, the cities become hell rather than...

The globalization brought series of global indices developed based on critical indicators. There is no central data base to retrieve all global indices, but some research institutes are a good source to get information on this. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation,...