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...

Women are increasingly becoming the victims of discrimination and deprivation despite the overall development of the society, economy and polity. That they are vulnerable and subject to humiliation and harassment even at homes – considered as safest place for all – is strange and painful....

India is now considered a knowledge-economy. Despite financial constraints, higher (tertiary) education is changing significantly in terms of its content and context. Its immense contribution to the country's human capital and economic development is well accepted and acknowledged. However, many...

Gender issues are no longer confined to biology and ecology. With steady growth of women enterprises, all over the world, female entrepreneurship has emerged as the focal point of resource and research. At the same time, women face time, human, physical, and social constraints that limit their...

Water the critical resource of agriculture, has not been well managed in India, despite the country being an agricultural powerhouse. It has some 195 MH of land under cultivation of which some 62 per cent is rain-fed and 37 per cent, irrigated. Agriculture uses 85 per cent of the water resources...

The word liberalisation is mainly used to denote that the Government is moving from licensing of commerce to de-licencing. Even though normally associated with Government ownership of Government in business entities, the real direction of liberalisation is moving away from planned economy to...

As the world has moved increasingly away from regulation towards integration – under the phenomena called globalization – the importance of language in general and of English language in particular has to be analysed in the changing circumstances. It is now widely acknowledged that under...

Our world is changing at dizzying speed. Globalisation, technological innovation, and demographic change are creating both new demands and opportunities. The Internet is fascinating and frivolously affecting our work and life. E-governance has become the order of the day. How do we respond? How...

Regarded as a fringe movement of dubious repute, organic farming started from rather meager roots; and yet has managed to gain respect and spread worldwide with sales in the order of about US$40 billion per year. Today one of the debates in this regards is whether organic farming is just a...