Empirical investigation of the economic benefits of public housing in India has largely remained a relatively unexplored field of research. The present study tires to make a small contribution towards filling this crucial gap in our understanding of the economics of housing in India by...

Union Budget for 1995-96 was the fifth consecutive budget presented by Dr. Manmohan Singh, the main architect of India’s recent economy policy reforms. Formulation of this budget was, however, a more difficult task than the earlier ones for various reasons. An attempt has been made in this...

Indian economy has been facing a major economic crisis and the situation has become quite serious after August 1990. The main elements of India’s economic crisis are deepening foreign exchange crisis, growing fiscal imbalances, increasing rate of inflation, slackening of overall economic...

An attempt has been made in this study to estimate the sources of economic growth of Indian economy during the period 1960-61 to 1993-94. The study presents the estimates of the contribution made by various factors such as labour input, land input, capital input and total factor productivity to...

The optimal pattern of scarce national resources involving housing vis-a-vis other sectors of the economy can be determined only after a comparative evaluation of the strength of inter-sectoral linkages of investment in housing and other sectors. The present paper makes an attempt in this...

In the present paper it is argued that the most popular among the non-survey methods the RAS method is not a consistent and efficient method to regionalise the national input-output tables. An alternative non-survey method is, therefore, proposed as a solution to the problem when data on...

An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the wage structure in consumer goods industries in relation to that in capital goods industries in the light of the two major hypotheses, viz., ‘the expected ability to pay hypothesis’ and ‘the technology hypothesis’ which constitute the...

Input coefficient matrix and input transaction matrix for Kerala State are estimated in the present paper for 50 x 50 commodity sectors for the year 1984-85 at current prices. The sectors and methodology followed here are compatible and consistent with those of the national I-O tables which form...

In the present study the sources of Growth of Indian agriculture have been estimated for three sub-periods during 1950-51 to 1988-89. It also estimates the contribution of adverse weather conditions and intensity of resource use to total factor productivity growth. It is found that TFPG has...

This paper presents a macrolevel energy model and its application for energy planning for three States in India – namely Gujarat, Kerala and Rajasthan. In conjunction with energy modelling at national level, the Advisory Board on Energy, Government of India, envisaged regional energy planning...