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Indian democracy was a huge success from the beginning until recently when serious questions emerged about governance which we now must address. Economics (which the authors address in the book and forms its main theme) was a disaster at the outset because of a counterproductive policy framework, embraced and defended for long by most economists...   Read More

This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution and performance of SEZs from historical and comparative perspectives by tracing the experiences of SEZs in 23 developing countries including Korea, Taiwan, and China. Using a framework that integrates the basic tenets of the industrial cluster approach with existing theories, it proposes a set of evaluation...   Read More

The study report provides an assessment of the impact of expanding air travel and the civil aviation sector in India by using the experience of one of the largest international carriers operating in India - Emirates Airlines. Emirates began its operations in India in the mid-1980s and carried 12 per cent of India’s international passengers...   Read More

This paper examines whether and to what extent changes in inheritance legislation impact women's physical and human capital investments using disaggregated household level data from India. We use inheritance patterns over three generations of individuals to assess the impact of changes in the Hindu Succession Act that grant daughters equal coparcenary birth rights in joint...   Read More

Reservations enjoy great popularity to overcome deep-rooted inequality. However, in part due to a short horizon of analyses, evidence on the impact of reservations and the mechanisms through which they may work remains ambiguous. Nationally representative village- and household level data from India for the last 3 Panchayat periods allow us to explore dynamic effects...   Read More

This paper explores the impacts of the amendment to the 1956 Hindu Succession Act on Hindu females’ intergenerational transfers of physical and human capital. Information on the timing of three generations’ key life events helps isolate the causal effects. Our primary estimation strategy is a difference-indifference estimator in which we compare the share of total...   Read More

This study was undertaken by NCAER for the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India to evaluate the functioning of Tribal Research Institute (TRI) in Assam. The evaluation provides an analysis of TRI’s manpower capacity and its infrastructure, including building, museum and library. The evaluation also assesses research studies conducted by TRI over the years...   Read More

The primary objective of this study is to assess the readership status and pattern from the perspective of “leisure book” or “non-text” reading of north-east India. In order to have a relative understanding of the situation in the north-east, the study further aims to compare the results for the north-east with national level findings. It...   Read More

The global economy is on a recovery path after the shocks of the severe financial and economic crises of 2008 and 2009. This study, third in this area supported by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has focused on understanding the behaviour of households as investors in various financial instruments which are traded in markets regulated by...   Read More

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) of the Government of India, has been implementing schemes for electrification of remote villages through renewable energy sources since 2001-02. The early programme was renamed as 'Remote Village Electrification Programme' (RVEP) in 2003- 04 aligning it with and complementing the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) of...   Read More

The India Policy Forum (IPF) is an annual publication dedicated to analysing contemporary trends in the Indian economy. Its objective is to carry theoretically rigorous yet empirically-informed research on current issues related to India’s economic policy. A joint publication of NCAER and Brookings Institution, the IPF serves as the forum for a global network of...   Read More

The 4th issue of Gramsurajya has two articles. The first section is an opinion piece by Prof. Andrew Foster, Brown University, “The two elements of inclusive growth”. The second section contains a brief summary of NCAER-IDRC research findings “Do Changes in Inheritance Legislation Improve Women's Access to Physical and Human Capital? Evidence from India's Hindu...   Read More