T S Papola V N Misra The rationale for the emphasis on rural industrialisation in the development policy in India lies primarily in the following objective conditions. First, agricultural growth,...
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In this kind of functioning, it is possible, of course, that West Bengal should experience difficulties with allotments of foodgrains from the Central pool for its public distribution system and...
S R Charsley The Karnataka Silkworm, Seed, Cocoon (Supply, Distribution and Control) Distribution and Control Amendment Act, passed in September 1979, requires producers of raw silk to sell only...
NEW DELHI Who Needs Institutions? B M INDIRA GANDHI in her second spell as the Prime Minister is obviously very much in a hurry. She is anxious, it appears, to accomplish things in as many months as...
A Kerala Fishing Village J Ph Platteau J Murickan A Palatty E Delbar This paper, based on fieldwork in a traditional fishing village in South Kerala, attempts to understand the working of rural...
THE return of the Congress party under Indira Gandhi to power at the Centre in the beginning of this year was facilitated as much by the failures of the Janata party government as by the promise by...
Almost simultaneously with the Green Revolution, that widely publicised strategy designed by the United States to 'wipe out hunger' in the poor countries by modernising crop production, great...
For a large country like India with enormous regional disparities in development and differences in the institutional framework deriving, in quite a few cases, from cultural diversities, any single...
The demand problem in the Indian economy is much better viewed as an important tendency that has got built into the system rather than as a projection of the experience of the last few years.
his life's ambition, by turning the political life of the Capital into something resembling the spectacle of Haryana's floor-crossing, double-talking and horse- trading, but his ambition will be...
In the light of the experience of the less developed countries (LDCs) with aid from and trade with the West, it is important to carefully examine Soviet aid and trade relations with the LDCs.
and the rural rich, which is increasingly coming into the open. Given mass poverty and the growing reliance on chemical inputs which has raised the costs of cultivation, government price support at...
Many efforts are presently being made at the international level to strengthen the capability of underdeveloped countries in dealing with transnational corporations which are a global source of...
An attempt is made in this paper to (a) estimate employment in the Indian economy in 1977-78 (the base year of the Draft Plan, 1978-83); (b) estimate the relationship between output growth and...
THERE is a view gaining ground that the Indian economy is basically sound and that if its growth potential is not being fully realised the reason is to be found in the prevailing political situation...
