The ASEAN region has become one of the attractive investment locations in the developing world and attracted a sizeable FDI during 1987-94. There was a spurt in the growth of global FDI flows during 1985-95. The FDI inflows ...

A major economic challenge facing India in the recent years has been stubbornly high food prices. It began with rising prices of manufactured food products, such as dairy products, sugar and oil cakes from January 2008, ...

A decade ago, India faced serious foreign exchange crisis, precipitated by an abnormal hike in the petroleum prices, which was further accentuated by a flight of NRI deposits. The country had to undertake a series of ...

East Aaian economies were considered as "miracle economies" because of their sustained high rate of economic growth during the last two decades. In 1997 these economies suffered financial crisis due to several reasons. An ...

The main factors identified for the collapse of East-Asian economies were capital liberalization, deregulation of the control of the domestic financial systems, vast international inflows of financial assets, and the deep ...

In pre-independent India, dock workers enjoyed little security of employment. Not only was work intermittent, there were no safety provisions while wages varied from contractor to contractor. With the setting up of the ...

This paper provides the overview of the principal developments in the agricultural sector since 1991, since the economic reforms and their likely consequence for the standard of living. The paper has been conceived more ...