Articles by Jaya Mehta

Poverty alleviation cannot work unless we know who are the poor. The Planning Commission must undertake a review of the methodology of poverty estimation. The definition used at present has conceptual problems and poverty is consequently underestimated. ">

Jaya Mehta The GDR economy is normally classified as a 'centralised command model' incapable of any worthwhile solutions. But it was in fact the first to introduce decentralisation reforms in 1963, which however, did not succeed for a number of reasons. One of the most significant developments in this direction since then in the 70s and 80s has been the reorganisation of the intermediate level authority and the introduction of combine management.

Theory of Pricing in Socialist Countries Jaya Mehta A GLANCE at my paper (February 23) would have revealed the motivation clearly enough. It was never my intention, as B Debroy (BD) suggests (August 31) it ought to have been, to compile the most extensive index of names possible. While he gratuitously drops a long list of names, he mostly fails to relate these to any points of substance made by these authors and not included in my paper. In his occasional attempts in this direction, he betrays a considerable lack of acquaintance with the subject matter at hand as well as the contents of my paper. This is clear from the following.

August 25,1984 tion to impose restrictions which would affect only a minor section of the community rather than prevent a larger section more vociferous and militant." Apply this touchstone to the Kashmir case and you find a majority being stopped by a minority from exercising its rights by invoking section 144 and the armed police forces of the Centre in its support. The law was violated with impunity and for long and the citizen was powerless to seek redress.