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This paper reports some new evidence from an all-India household survey on demand and supply issues in schooling. In India, most studies attribute poor educational performance to poverty. Though this factor is important, the recent survey evidence shows that lack of interest in schooling is the major factor explaining low enrolment and high dropout rates...   Read More

The objective of this paper is to study the changes in public expenditures on social sector, as a result of the structural adjustment programme, that might have an impact on the sector's outcome. Therefore, an effort is made to assess the relationship between per capita public expenditure and the outcome across major states. The findings...   Read More

There are at least two reasons why the debate regarding the impact of openness through liberalization on oil productivity growth is unresolved. First, there is the adequate theory of TFP growth and second, the empirical measurement of TFP is fraught with difficulties. An important methodological issue that has attracted limited attention in India is regarding...   Read More

In census enumeration a person is counted as literate if he or she can read and write in any language with understanding. In earlier censuses the whole population has been classified into literates and illiterates. From 1951 the questions on literacy have been canvassed among those aged 5 and above only. Since 1991 this classification...   Read More