For India's economic reforms policy to succeed, its programmes should be firmly anchored in the reality of the social and micro-institutional context-something our policy makers often regrettably ignore. To break out of 8 or 9 per cent growth rates, we need more appropriate skill sets,...

This study analyses the performance of macroeconomic policy in South Africa in 2007- 2020 and outlines challenges for policy in the coming decade. After remarkable economic growth in 1997-07, South Africa's progress slowed dramatically in 2009 with the global financial crisis. Real GDP growth...

India's common people : who are they, how many are they and how do they live? -- More on India's common people : a regional profile -- Growth sans Employment : a quarter century of jobless growth in India's organised manufacturing -- Dualism, informality and social inequality -- The long road to...