Using a logistic model of cumulative cases and deaths it would soon become possible to give estimates to the final numbers of cases and deaths that are likely on account of COVID19, for countries which have gone through about 60+ days since the first cases were recorded. Such estimates assume...

The horror of India's urban spaces cannot be understood without recognizing the core errors in planning and in the approach of infrastructural development. These stem mainly from the low FSI's that are used, the lack of any recognition of central place needs of different economic activities, the...

Optimal approaches that recognise the specific kind of market failure/s, in the policy and design of infrastructure, greatly reduce the financing costs and improves the ability of to attract finance in the private provisioning of infrastructure. When state systems are weak organisationally it is...

Quarterly indices of output like those of Industrial Production, other measures of production like net sales, exports, of companies for which data is available, besides proxies like credit to the sector, and indices of price levels have been used to forward project the growth rates of GDP04-05,...

Special economic zones following the enormous success of China have been widely imitated. But it is to be entirely anticipated that the results would vary greatly. Earlier avatars of SEZs in the form of Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) and Export Promotion Zones (EPZs) were important in the export led...

Karuturi Global Ltd. (KGL) is an Indian MNC which expanded overseas and has developed as one of the world's top 25 transnational corporation in less than 15 years of its incorporation. It is one of the leading producers of cut roses with operations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Netherlands and India....

The study analyzes the relationship between outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) stocks pertaining to 34 OECD source and 160 destination countries. The principal findings are: (i) The gravity model variables explain nearly 50 per cent of the variation in the OFDI stock. (ii) Common language...

In this paper we bring together the findings of Subramanian, A. (2019) and Morris and Kumari (2019), and others to claim that the problems with the new national income series are real and need to be addressed. The CPI11-12 too is problematic since the weight of basic food in the CPI11-12 is as...

Inward FDI flows over 2000-01 from many source countries into India, one of the fastest growing large developing economies in the period, have been explained by an extended gravity model and the an extended allometric models by incorporating other variables such as common language, tax status,...

In this paper the core issues that need resolution before water development especially by the private sector, and efficient usage can happen, are very briefly outlined. These are Water rights have to be defined more functionally to include tradability. There is a need to move away from price...