The Institute of Economic Growth organised a seminar on the World Development Report, 1991 (Report for short) on September 17, 1991. Besides a large number of professional economists from the government departments and academic institutions the seminar was attended by Dr. Vinod Thomas of the...

This paper presents a comprehensive composite index of shelter deprivation for the rural and urban households in the major states of the Indian union for a recent period. It combines indicators relating to four dimensions of shelter deprivation: (a) stark houselessness, (b) deprivation with...

Comparable all-India estimates of the number of workers and unemployed in 'below-poverty-line' households - together defining the poor in the Indian labour force - are presented for 1993-94 and 1999-2000. Also presented is the gender, activity-status and the rural-urban composition of this group...

Drawing on international trade and industrial organisation theories, this paper identifies variable affecting (a) export decision function i.e. to export or sell in domestic market, and (b) export performance function i.e. share of exports in output. These functions are estimated for Garment and...

This book details the remarkable transformation of India from a slow growing economy till late eighties to one of the fastest growing economies of the world. It examines and evaluates the economic reform process intiated fifteen years before in 1991 by the government at the centre,