341 research outputs found
Skills, Informality, and Development
Get PDFThis paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment which can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors which explain the inter-state variations include the industrial-informal sector wage gap, revenue expenditure, and development expenditure incurred by the government. Increased development expenditure brings in a decline in distress-led informalization. With improved education, health, and infrastructure facilities the employability of an individual goes up, which, in turn, reduces the compulsion to get absorbed residually. However, expansion in government activities measured through increased revenue expenditure raises in-migration, which in turn raises the supply-push phenomenon. We also observed that with an increase in distress-led informalization inequality tends to rise. Adoption of labour intensive technology in the organized industrial sector is indeed crucial for pro-poor growth. The other policy implication is in terms of enhanced investment in the areas of education, health and other infrastructural facilities.Informal sector, supply-push, development expenditure, stochastic frontier
Tea Tales – India’s ever evolving chai culture
Get PDFAs we observed International Tea Day on May 21, to peek into the vibrant history of chai and chai tapris in India, Village Square spoke to Arup K Chatterjee, professor of English at OP Jindal Global University. He is the author of widely acclaimed books including, The Purveyors of Destiny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways and The Great Indian Railways
6 Indians who helped make London the city it is today
Get PDFArup K Chatterjee, author of Indians in London, tells us about the Indian people who came to London and changed it — as well as Britain and the world — for good
Croissance de la productivité et efficacité technique dans l'industrie manufacturière des Etats de l'Inde. Le rôle des infrastructures
No full textProductivity growth and technical efficiency in indian state's manufacturing industries : the role of infrastructure
This paper provides panel data evidence on the productive role of physical, economic, and social infrastructure in the case of Indian State's manufacturing industries. Using principal components analysis, we construct a composite indicator for the availability of infrastructure at the State's level on the basis of 12 individual indicators. Our results strongly suggest that regional disparities in the availability of infrastructure account for differences in both total factor productivity and technical efficiency across States in almost all manufacturing industries.Croissance de la productivité et efficacité technique dans l'industrie manufacturière des États de l'Inde. Le rôle des infrastructures
Nous présentons des estimations en données de panel de l'effet productif des infrastructures physiques, économiques et sociales dans le cas des branches manufacturières des États de l'Inde. En utilisant l'analyse en composantes principales, nous élaborons un indicateur composite de la disponibilité d'infrastructures à partir de douze indicateurs désagrégés. Les différences régionales de niveau d'infrastructures sont à l'origine d'écarts régionaux à la fois de productivité globale des facteurs et d'efficacité technique dans la quasi totalité des branches manufacturières.Varoudakis Aristomène A., Véganzonès Marie-Ange, Mitra Arup. Croissance de la productivité et efficacité technique dans l'industrie manufacturière des Etats de l'Inde. Le rôle des infrastructures. In: Revue économique, volume 49, n°3, 1998. pp. 845-855
The combined incidence of taxes and public expenditures in the Philippines
Get PDFIncidence studies of fiscal policy in developing countries typically examine either the distribution of tax burdens or the incidence of public expenditures. But the central issue for policymakers is the combined or net incidence of fiscal activities. One reason that combined incidence studies are so rare is that they require detailed data on both taxation and public spending. The authors show that the net incidence of fiscal policy in a country with average data - the Philippines - can be estimated using a variety of data sources and tools, using simplifying assumptions. For 20 years, the Philippine economy has experienced a series of balance of payments crises triggered by fiscal crises. It has had an unsatisfactory record of poverty alleviation. The authors examine net fiscal incidence to find out how poverty will be affected by the rise in taxes and the cut in spending. They found that: 1) the incidence pattern of taxes is basically neutral. Contrary to expectations, indirect taxes are only slightly regressive; and 2) it is the pattern of expenditures that drives the combined incidence, which is progressive.Public Sector Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Systems Development&Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Economic Theory&Research,Health Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform
Interview with Arup K Chatterjee
No full textArup K Chatterjee was awarded his doctorate at the Center for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in 2015. He has taught English, as an Assistant Professor, at colleges in the University of Delhi. In 2014-15 he was a recipient of Charles Wallace fellowship to the United Kingdom. He is the founding-chief-editor of Coldnoon: International Journal of TravelWriting & Travelling Cultures <http://www.coldnoon.com/>. He is the author of The Purveyors of Destiny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways (Bloomsbury, 2017). He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, O.P. Jindal Global University.</jats:p
Globalization, Growth and Poverty in India
Get PDFglobalization, economic growth, poverty, inequality, population shift effect, decomposition, India
The Global Financal Crisis: Learning from Regulatory and Governance Studies
No full textW swoim artykule Christopher Arup analizuje wyniki badań nad procesami tworzenia regulacji, rządzenia oraz nad wpływami wielkich korporacji na światową gospodarkę przed globalnym kryzysem finansowym i podczas jego trwania. Autor podkreśla konieczność wypracowania szerszej demokratycznej kontroli nad zasobami finansowymi przy jednoczesnym ograniczeniu uzależnienia od kapitalizmu ściśle finansowego takich dziedzin, jak najważniejsze rodzaje usług ubezpieczenia społeczne i ochrona środowiska naturalnego.In his article, Christopher Arup analyses the impacts of different studies on the processes of shaping regulations, governance and responsibilities of corporations and their influence on the world's economy prior to and during the recent global financial crisis. The author emphasizes the need for a greater democratic control of financial resources and, at the same time, calls for less dependence on finance capitalism in the fields of essential services, social security and environment protection
Guruji: Life and Spiritualism
Get PDFThe book unravels the depth of regional history, intricacies of psycho-analysis of different phenomena in our life - starting from dream to several transcendental experiences, the intellectual clarity of concepts, the systematicity of rationality and finally, the all-inclusive supreme divinity, overarching our complete existence. While detailing the personal experiences the author brings out the spiritualism simplified and reinstated for individual absorption.
 
IT and ITES as an Engine of Growth : An Exploration into the Indian Experience
Get PDFIndia emerged as one of the fastest growing economies of the world during the 1990s because of the spectacular dynamism shown by the services sector. Indias services sector has been burgeoning fast and one of the major drivers of the growth of services sector is information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITES). It is well documented in literature that IT impacts growth by different channels. In this study we try to empirically verify the question : Can IT and ITES be an engine of growth? Using micro-level data of 100 households of 20 IT and ITES firms along with secondary data we tried to estimate the extent of indirect employment generation at macro level and the share of IT and ITES in total employment and total value added. According to our study, one job for skilled professional employed in IT and ITES spins off jobs for 0.48 semi-skilled, low skills or unskilled workers. As per our estimates, the 16 lakh workers who are expected to be directly employed in IT sector in the FY 2008 would generate secondary employment for 7,68,000 people which would constitute 0.16 % of total employment. However, the share of consumption expenditure of 16 lakh professionals would be 20% of total value added. Assuming the consumption expenditure of the IT and ITES workers and total value added to be the same/constant when we tried to assess the contribution of consumption expenditure of 2.3 million workers (who are projected to be directly absorbed by IT sector by 2010, NASSCOM, 2005) to total value added it comes out to be 29% of total value added. The study says that the proportion of IT-ITES in total employment may be small but its contribution to total value added is still very high. Indeed IT and ITES can be an engine of growth in Indias economy by way of generating demand impulses in the economy as has been hypothesized and shown through the present study. Keeping in view the contributions of this sector and its huge untapped potential as evident from the present study and various other studies, there is a need for introduction and implementation of policy initiatives to address the challenges faced by this sector and to sustain the growth driven by the services sector.fastest growing economies, spectacular dynamism, the services sector, burgeoning fast, IT and ITES engine of growth, employment generation
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