Rapid economic progress has resulted in the formation of pockets of growth which are acting as attractor of economic activities. This is causing huge rural-urban migration thus causing greater economic disparity between urban & rural areas and socio-economic problems in the urban areas...

Significant impact of economic growth on poverty alleviation is eroded by high income inequality. This article revisits Kuznets Hypothesis which suggested that inequality and growth have an inverted U shaped relationship. This article differs from previous articles on this subject, by being...

This paper analyzes and identifies the deficiencies in the current migration governance system, delineates pressing and structural challenges to global governance of forced migration and recommends pathways through which the Group 20, which is an informal forum comprised of the 19 most...

The “Anchoring” concept is new to most Market Systems Development projects, and Katalyst is probably the first project to have a full-fledged anchoring mandate in a large-scale MSD project. Since the widely used Adopt, Adopt, Expand, Respond (AAER) paradigm does not adequately capture the...

Social discount rate (SDR) reflects a society's relative valuation on today's well-being versus well-being in the future. This paper reviews various methods of measuring social discount rate, with particular emphasis on Social Rate of Time Preference (SRTP) and Social Opportunity Cost of Capital...