This paper attempts to examine the different types of outsourcing in India. It is usually believed that globalisation has encouraged the developed countries to outsource their production to the less developed countries. In this way we see a shift of capital from the North to the South. In India...

This paper discusses the role of co-operatives are one of the means of emancipation of the marginalised sections of the working class. It begins with a brief outline on the industrial situation in India and the need to forge alternative production processes through worker cooperatives. This is...

Review of Ela R Bhat's 'We are Poor, But So Many Oxford University Press, 2006.

The process of increasing informalisation of the labour market is creating a gap between trade unions and a growing number of workers who have no forms of collective representation at their places of work. This has been labelled the Representational Gap. In part this gap is the result of a trend...

The process of increasing informalisation of the labour market is creating a gap between trade unions and a growing number of workers who have no forms of collective representation at their places of work. This has been labelled the Representational Gap. In part this gap is the result of a trend...

This paper aims to demonstrate that the economic behaviour of ordinary men and women in the pre-colonial Deccan was as much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The difference in the economic trajectories of the two societies can be reduced to different...

*Bank Rate kept unchanged *Cash Reserve Ratio to be increased by 50 basis points to 7.0 per cent with effect from the fortnight beginning August 4, 2007 *GDP growth projection for 2007-08 retained at around 8.5 per cent, barring domestic or external shocks

The paper is an analysis of food aid, rising food prices and its implications.

Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method, however, was used in the South Asia Migration study (SMS) conducted by the Centre for...

A brief introduction to Reserve Bank of India, followed by glimpses of the Indian economy. A detailed account of reforms in India’s financial sector, in particular, the banking sector, and financial markets [Speech delivered at the Central bank of Russian Federation].