In peninsular India, water remains an extremely critical and valuable resource because of its scarcity. Being a semiarid region, demand for irrigation water competes with increasing demands from other sectors such as domestic and industrial uses. This paper analyses the impact of groundwater...

Fiscal stress in Karnataka has been on the increase in the late nineties. This is the outcome of a fall in the revenue resources of the State government coupled with unbridled revenue expenditure. As a result, the State, which had achieved revenue surplus in the mid-nineties, has relapsed into...

The environment of Orissa has been adversely affected by the degradation of natural resources in the state. Not only have the different patterns of development in the state led to the degradation of these natural resources but also other factors like growth of population, poverty level, and...

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the rural household characteristics and health expenditure in India. The study uses a nationallevel household survey and finds that health expenditure of the members of rural households in India is sensitive to changes in their income levels. The...

Investment in the power sector from the 50s to the 80s of the last century was almost wholly in the public sector. Power sector reform, which began in 1991, opened the doors to private investment but the response has been poor. Public sector investment in power as a part of Plan outlay has...

Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) is a frequently used non-market valuation method of eliciting use values of infrastructural projects in developing countries. The main criticism against it is that it has biases and the results are unreliable. Yet, it is used indiscriminately, especially in the...

Canal irrigation in India has been moving towards financial crisis in recent years. Some states have introduced innovative institutional reforms to mobilise the required funds. Karnataka is one such state that has set up Krishna Bhagya Jal Nigam Limited for this purpose. Although adequate funds...

This paper tests the unitary or common preference approach versus the collective models of household behaviour in India. Using the independent female unearned income as an indicator of female’s control over resources within the household in the bargaining strategy, we study the effect of...

Meant to be a tribute to M. N. Srinivas, this paper presents a longitudinal study of over forty years of the different paths of development of socio-economic changes that were triggered off by the Krishnarajasagar irrigation scheme in two South Indian villages that are situated near each other...

Applying a modified modelling framework of Feder (1983) and of Ram (1986) to macroeconomic data from China, this paper assesses the direct and indirect (externality) contributions of the non-state sector growth to China’s economic growth, particularly to state-sector growth during the initial...