Two prime objectives of higher education are (a) to fight poverty of people through development of labour productivity of individual citizens within a country, and (b) to fight national poverty of a country through scientific and technological development. One significant departure from these in...

Compulsory schooling of children is used as an instrument for eliminating the incidence of child-labour in most countries. Given this context, the importance of parental domain as a separate entity in decision-making for primary schooling of children in India is highlighted. Since many children...

This paper describes the results of two specific primary surveys, one of IT professionals in the city of Bangalore and their role in making the city a corridor for international mobility of Indian professionals, and the second survey of health professionals (doctors and nurses) in the city of...

This paper provides estimates of the stocks and flows of human resources in science and technology (HRST) in India, and their breakdown by education and occupation. Furthermore, the paper provides estimates of the number of highly skilled people moving to India and out of India during the 1990s,...