Rapid industrialization and urbanization in India are responsible for the huge increase in the demand for water. The inefficient management of the resource has led to deterioration in water quality, posing new challenges for water management and conservation. Today, the hydrological cycle has...

This paper examines the role of stock markets and banks in promoting economic growth in India. Using the stock market development indicators viz., market size, liquidity, and volatility along with bank credit to GDP ratio as an indicator of banking sector development, and Industrial Production...

The objective of the present study is to examine, for India, the impact of financial integration on its capital market in terms of growth, volatility, and market efficiency. The results show that the primary stock market has grown significantly since the beginning of capital market reforms in...

The nation-specificity of environmental issues is true for some resources, though ultimately all usable resources become global issues if they cross the national border. Globalization of the post-Second World War period has led to increasing trade-related conflicts between the developed and the...

The power sector is undergoing a structural change in many parts of the world, involving dismantling of public monopolies. In India, power policy has changed since 1991, but the progress has been slow and uneven. The response of the private sector has been disappointing, mainly because of the...

On the basis of data collected from three villages in Orissa, Eastern India, this paper reveals that the rural poor have limited access to institutional sources of finance. When in need they borrow from their lessors or employers at exorbitant rates of interest charged either explicitly or...

The article highlights several conflicts over canal irrigation in Mandya district, which spearheaded the green revolution in Karnataka. Intensive cultivation of paddy and sugarcane, based on canal irrigation from the Krishnarajasagar dam and reservoir, has brought relative prosperity to the...

This paper attempts to assess the work of M N Srinivas and the appropriateness of his methodology. The distinction in methodology between idiographic and nomothetic sciences is crucial to any such assessment. Intensive fieldwork and participant observation propagated by Srinivas was appropriate...

Women are biologically hardier than or atleast as hardy as men. Thisis evident from the lower death rate observed for female babies till they complete one month of life. Thereafter, girls are at greater risk of dying than boys. In past studies, certain social, cultural and demographic facfon...

Prior to the expansion of the institutional sector. credit to agriculture was mainly provided by landlords, moneylenders and traders. Many a time all of these were the same person. The unequal bargaining position of small cultivators/tenants against the powerful classes in the village makes for...