The History of World's most significant International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) is more than 200 years old. Various countries at various points in time of their Economic Development took initiative to develop International Financial Centre to provide International Financial Services. Over...

Transfer pricing rules in India, were introduced in 2001, however, there are issues of tedious documentation, complicated procedures, rigorous penalties. Therefore, this subject has emerged as biggest source of courtroom battles. Recently, system has been improved by incorporating APAs, SHRs,...

Financing resources play a significant role in escalating export ventures particularly of MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) which face a stiff competition from the larger firms. Finance is essential not only for successful operation of current activities of the firm but also aids in...

Unitech Engineers, a manufacturer of high tensile fasteners, was established by the Modi brothers – one a commerce graduate and the other a technocrat with engineering and managerial degrees. From a small workshop, the company gradually crossed many hurdles, and by investing in technological...

Global Recession to Global Recovery: It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some...

The Indian textile and clothing industry is the second largest employer after agriculture. Cessation of quota-based curbs on January 1, 2005, offers the industry an opportunity to expand textiles and garments exports and generate substantial employment. However, the industry is going through a...

Medical tourism is one of the major sectors amongst the trade in services that has been growing significantly the world over particularly with the establishment of General Agreement of Trade in Services (GATS) under WTO. This sector falls under Mode II - known as “Consumption Abroad” of...

Technological developments in developing countries are governed by the nature of socio-economic structure of the countries concerned, and depend on factors like technological absorption capacities, administrative and management efficiencies, prevailing technological base, available R&D...

The evolution of the settlement pattern of any area is governed by a number of forces which vary from one region to another and hence, we get varying patterns in the spatial distribution of settlements. The conventional visual judgment of the settlement pattern as sparse, dispersed, agglomerated...

Various studies concerning urbanized regions show a general relation among different socio-economic and demographic variables. This study, worked out in the mirror of the distance framework, has the principal object to find out the relation between economic variables (work participation in...