India's fiscal federalism, though asymmetric in nature has so far worked well to keep the federation going. The asymmetry is both vertical as well as horizontal. Former is in terms of the disproportionate allocations of revenue sources and the responsibilities to be discharged to the Central and...

The global economic recession following the financial crises once again revived the debate over the efficacy of Keynesian solution to deal with the crises. Most of the country went in to offer bailout packages from the public budget which could be the reminiscent of such policies adopted earlier...

The paper is an attempt to analyse the working of Takaul in the world and its popularity in the insurance sector in the world. Keeping in view of Sharia we have also tried all possible aspects of insurance system popular in the world and tried to look at its possibility to familiarize more...

Contract farming seems to offer solutions to many problems agriculture in India face, more so the agriculture in Uttar Pradesh. Contract farming is supposed to help agriculture through strengthening the backward linkages. The paper explores the possibilities of contract farming practices in...

This is a textbook on Islamic Economics. The book is divided into four parts namely, Basic Concepts, Islamic Economic Theory, Islamic Economic System, and Islamic Economics: Past and Present. Of these, it is Parts II and III that give extensive coverage of conventional economics along with its...

Robust economic growth after the initiation of economic reforms and very slow growth of employment has been a cause of concern. Inability of fast growing sectors to generate employment has also been well exposed. Agriculture despite growing at a very slow rate in post reform period still holds...