In managing sustainability, the development thinkers and planners must have to align their thinking with the vision and missions of development. Building visions and missions of development has to be synchronized with modern sustainable concept with contextualization and prognostication on what...

Public-Private Partnerships which are an integral part of the new paradigm of good governance has its roots in the concept of New Public Management. The advantages of private sector as innovation, access to finance, knowledge of technologies, managerial efficiency and entrepreneurial spirit are...

In India, Global Compact (GC) is accepted with great appreciation and has achieved large participation that enabled it to create an advanced network structure. However, GC failed to involve all business houses into its network due to the partial acceptance of multi-stakeholder approach. Apart...

Consolidation of banks through mergers and acquisitions is an important force of change taking place in the Indian Banking sector. These are driven by the objective of leveraging the synergies arising from the process of M&A. Being banking is an important component of the financial system, these...

How do elite parties win over poor voters while maintaining their core constituencies? How can religious parties expand their electoral base? This paper argues that social service provision constitutes an important electoral strategy for elite-backed religious parties to succeed in developing...

In some technology sectors in India, particularly in software services, public policies and private initiative have yielded rapid growth and good private and social returns. But this has not been true for the case of the Internet, more so for broadband. There is strong belief among technologists...

The global sex panic around sex work and trafficking has fostered prostitution law reform worldwide. While the normative status of sex work remains deeply contested, abolitionists and sex work advocates alike display an unwavering faith in the power of criminal law; for abolitionists, strictly...

Construction workers are one of the most numerous and vulnerable segments of the unorganized sector in India. Women construction workers are not treated on par with men construction workers in wages and promotional opportunities, even though they form nearly half of the construction workforce....

Creation of road transport infrastructure, through its direct and indirect effects, has a bearing on sustainability of growth and overall development of a country. The models based on production or cost functions, that incorporate infrastructure, simply assume a positive effect on macroeconomic...

Purpose – Based on the agency theory, the purpose of this paper is to theoretically argue and empirically investigate how ownership structure impacts the capital structure of the listed mid-cap companies in India and whether the capital structure as exogenous variable has a role in determining...