Journal Articles: Recent submissions

  • What do We Know about Productivity Growth in Indian Industry ? 
    Balakrishnan, Pulapre; Pushpangadan, K.* (Economic and Political Weekly, 1998-08-22)
    If the growth in toal factor productivity in the manufacturing sector during the 1980s may be used as teh testing ground for our understanding of the phenomenon we must recognise that our knowledge is limited. Two equally ...
  • Vision and Illusion in Fiscal Correction 
    Balakrishnan, Pulapre (Economic and Political Weekly, 2000-04)
    In a bid to contain the fiscal deficit, the government has in this budget targeted outlay on subsidies. This note focuses on the likely consequences in the case of the food subsidy.
  • Trade Liberalisation and Productivity Growth in Manufacturing: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data 
    Balakrishnan, Pulapre; Pushpangadan, K.*; Suresh Babu, M.* (Economic and Political Weekly, 2000-10-07)
    Using panel data comprising firm-level drawn from groups within manufacturing industry which have experienced the most significant tariff reduction, this study investigates teh trend in productivity growth since 1988-89. ...
  • Trade Disputes under WTO: Trends and Features 
    Rameshan, P. (Foreign Trade Review, 2004)
    The Dispute Settlement Mechanism is one of the best elements of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) system since it addressed the earlier concerns under the GATT system, of lack of transparency, non-enforceability, ...
  • Trade and Investment Flows in SAARC Region 
    Bhatt, P.R. (Man & Development, 2001-09)
  • There is a future in farming 
    Sthanu, R. Nair (Hindu Business Line, 9-11-20)
    The fact that the agriculture sector in India has not experienced any significant growth during the post-economic reforms period is well established. For the revival of the sector, policy makers have suggested among others, ...
  • TFPG in Manufacturing: The 80s Revised 
    Balakrishnan, Pulapre; Pushpangadan, K.* (Economic and Political Weekly, 2002-01-26)
    Establishing accelerated productivity growth in the 1980s is contigent on the use of single deflation, a procedure flawed in principle. There is no credible option to double deflation when working with value added as the ...
  • Public Sector Telecom Companies Under Telecom Reforms: Past Performance and Future Prospects 
    Rameshan, P. (Management and Change, 1999-12)
    Analysis of this study has been done in the background of the telecom and other reforms initiated in India since 1991. The study attempts to evaluate the financial and operational performance of the three public sector ...
  • Prosperity versus Food Policy 
    Balakrishnan, Pulapre (Economic and Political Weekly, 1999)
  • The Output Gap: Measurement, Related Concepts and Policy Implications 
    Nandakumar, Parameswar (2000)
    This paper compares the various approaches to the measurement of potential output and the NAIRU,j and identifies practical policy implications. The respective advantages an disadvantages of each method - the Okun's Law ...
  • Oil Shocks: How Destabilising are they ? 
    Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy (Social Scientist, 4-04-20)
    One of the most striking conclusions reached in Prabhat Patnaik's recent book The Value of Money (2008) is that the world monetary system is still de facto a commodity money world, despite having broken all de jure links ...
  • Indian Industry and Ethinicity: A study of two organizations in Mumbai 
    Noronha, Ernesto; Sharma, R.N.* (Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2000)
    With the process of globalization becoming all pervasive, mobilization on the basis of class seems to not only recede but is also being replaced by ethnicity. It was thus decided to conduct a study to look into this ...
  • India-ASEAN Investment Flows: Policies and Trends 
    Bhatt, P.R. (Foreign Trade Review, 2000)
    The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was created in 1967 through the Bangkok Declaration. It is a group of ten nations, viz. Brunei, Cambodia, Indonasia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, ...
  • India's Trade Competitiveness and Exchange Rate Policy 
    Bhatt, P.R. (The Journal of Applied Economic Research, 2008)
    There is a general view that the export performance of India is unsatisfactory because of its low competitiveness, but no systematic attempt has been made to validate this view. India needs a 12 per cent compound annual ...
  • India's Textiles & Clothing Trade: Moving from Big Hopes & Small Gains to Big Hopes & Big Gains 
    Rameshan, P. (Foreign Trade Review, 2005)
    In this paper we examine the textiles and clothing export performance of India and China during the ATC and post-MFA period, with fous on the two leading consumer markets, viz, the European Union (EU) and USA. We evaluate ...
  • The Impact of Working Climates on Employees's Performance: A Survey on Technical Institutions in India 
    Akella, Devi (2001)
  • Higher Education Needs a Longer View 
    Balakrishnan, Pulapre (Economic and Political Weekly, 2006-08-12)
    The decline and fall of the publicly-funded higher education system in india has its origins in the fact that there has been a steady expansion of institutions without any concern for quality of the faculty. Unless such ...
  • Growth and Distribution in Indian Industry in the Nineties 
    Balakrishnan, Pulapre; Suresh Babu, M.* (Economic and Political Weekly, 2003-09-20)
    In a study of the evolution of the Indian manufacturing sector over close to three decades we find the annual average rate of growth in the nineties to have risen almost across the board at teh two-digit level of industry. ...
  • Growing services in India an inter-sectoral analysis based on state-level data 
    Chakravarty, Deepita (Economic and political weekly, 2006-07-08)
    This study is an explorative, inter-sectoral analysis of state domestic product data to understand the determinants of services sector growth in India during recent years. It is a demand side analysis where the services ...
  • Globalisation: The Impact on Port and Dock Workers in India 
    Noronha, Ernesto (The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2003)
    By the 1970s, countries all over the world started reviewing their policies that stressed on demand-driven economic growth and state-let import substitution. In order to avoid economic and political marginalisation, the ...

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