It is virtually impossible for any industry to remain relevant for centuries but the handloom industry in India has been surviving since time immemorial. It is popularly believed that this industry has survived due to the monetary and regulatory interventions of the government. It is true that...

In 1982, the Indian Government presented its first tourism policy. In retrospect one could argue that the novely of the subject, its low priority and the belief in its potential as a social engineering tool (in keeping with Indian public ideology at that time), contributed to a rather simplistic...

National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is bold and ambitious, yet, only the effective implementation will define its success as measured by the true exercise of the right to education (RTE) for our children from age 3 onwards. The provisions and programs of NEP 2020 will have to be backed up by a...

We examine the relationship between firm performance and diversity among corporate directors, proxied by diversity along religion and caste, a deep-rooted institution that divides India's Hindu society into hundreds of communities. To identify directors' caste, we build the first data-driven...

The results of the studies on the influence of network structure of entrepreneurs on firm performance have been inconclusive. This could be due to the fact that in these studies, networks have been taken to be a conduit for single type of content. That ties are multiplex in nature is known but...

Beginning with a brief review of the major developments in the field of corporate governance especially during the last decade, this paper identifies some of the major challenges that hinder good corporate governance, which broadly fall under three groups - board independence and effectiveness,...