The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country, persistent since the late nineties, which also coincided with the period of a policy thrust on...

A bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to companies. [Ministry of Corporate Affairs]. URL:[http://www.mca.gov.in/Ministry/pdf/The_Companies_Bill_2012.pdf].

This report identifies some of the factors complicating the debate on role of the company in society. It focuses particularly on the changing models of ownership and differing time horizons and on how these have interacted in some ases to produce undesirable consequences.

Using data of non-financial listed firms over a period of 1999-2010, this paper investigates the effectiveness of balance sheet channel in monetary transmission mechanism in Pakistan. By classifying firms as SME and large, this paper finds a strong evidence for the existence of net worth channel...

Review of Corporate Social Responsibility: Past, Present and Future by Sanjay Kumar Panda; The Icfai University Press; 373pp, 2008.

Scientific authors who pay to publish their articles in an open-access publication should be congratulated for doing so. They also should be aware that they may not be getting full open access from some publications that charge for publication under the ‘‘open access’’...

The analysis seeks to look at inflation as a political economic phenomenon, based on a framework devised by Jonathan Nitzan and christened differential accumulation. The theory of differential accumulation rejects the conventional definitions of capital and draws upon Veblenian economics to...

Irrefutable is the fact that trafficking of women and children is a grave violation of Human Rights and one of the most serious organized crimes of the day, transcending cultures, geography and time. In order to understand the issues from a holistic perspective, it is essential that before...

This paper explores the interplay between two neighbors that have been victims of history, Japan and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, also known as North Korea). [ISDP Asia Paper]. URL:[http://www.isdp.eu/images/stories/isdp-main-pdf/2012_edstrom_japan-dprk-non-relations.pdf].