Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Union Territories (UTs) without a legislature have been grappling with many complex problems -- structural, administrative and fiscal. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshadweep Islands are the five UTs...

Against the background of a series of macroeconomic, agriculture marketing and price policy reforms initiated from the early nineties, this paper seeks to empirically measure the extent to which reforms have led to a higher and quicker integration of agriculture markets across the states. It...

Service-driven economies are more developed than predominantly manufacturing economies. This paper attempts to understand the regional disparity in the development of service sector in Goa. The study is based on the data collected from the Directorate of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation,...

The Nobel Peace Prize to Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus and the concept of Grameen Bank (GB) has refreshed the public’s interest in GB and microfinance in general. Looking into the GB model of microfinance, this article argues that there is a need to take stock of the services currently being...

Meeting the housing needs of the depressed sections has emerged as a major challenge. Social housing schemes, being the only avenue of meeting the housing and amenities needs, have been very ineffective in terms of the coverage due to inadequate financing by the government. Since public...