"Demonetization" is a multi-dimensional phenomenon with far reaching impact on all sections of the society just like a budget i.e. impact on home-makers and households, on taxpayers, savers and investors, on farmers and industrialists, on hoarders and tax evaders and so on. When India adopted...

The general issue of Gender and Entrepreneurship seeks to access and address multiple strands in the scholarship of entrepreneurship around women. The nexus between successful entrepreneurship and sustainable development of women is at the centre of this essay. The purpose of the paper is to...

Open and constructive exchange on effective teacher policies and practices are the need of the hour. There is lot of debate and discussion around at government circles and teacher organisations regarding need for high-performing and rapidly improving college and university systems, as certified...

The present century is an era of fast growing cities. While the big cities are the centres of brisk trade and voluminous business, they are also becoming the homes for the poorest. Urban poverty makes women the main victims of discrimination and alienation. Women not only encounter the harsh...

While there is a strong feeling around that globalisation is tapering there are also serious concerns about continuing marginalisation of sections of population in India. Millennium Development Goals, Human Rights Advocacy, Economic Empowerment and Inclusive Growth have, therefore, become watch...

Karnataka leads the biotechnology revolution today with its modern infrastructure and highly integrated environment of research. This has had great impact on the state's agribusiness sector in general and food processing industry, in particular. Yet our finding is that some problems like...

This paper focuses on some new thinking and initiatives on public private partnership processes in tourism promotion and development, with reference to India. While tracing the nature of collaboration of the PPT type in general and that of tourism sector in particular, we analyze the nature and...

While ‘society' is a web of socio-cultural relationship, ‘economy' which emerges from the society cannot but be influenced by culture and society, and their sub sets. While this influence is part of an evolutionary process of ‘transformation' and is reinforcing, the nature and speed of...

While economic growth has historically been associated with rise in national incomes of the economies, economic development is related to the structural changes that either precede or accompany or succeed the ‘rise'. The most common structural changes that have been observed and documented is...