This paper is an attempt to focus on the role of Science and Technology (S&T) on regional development of India by considering 21 Indian states. The Index approach using the Principal Component technique has been adopted. For analysing the impact, a set of three indices focussing on Current...

Youth constitutes the largest segment of the Indian population and being the primary productive human resources, the socio-economic development of youth directly linked to the development process. This paper is an attempt to see the various demographic characteristics of the Indian youth...

Countries world-wide routinely collate statistics on STS performance indicators such as R&D expenditure, science publications, citations and impact, high-tech employment, and penetration of hightech goods. In parallel there have been several, but often isolated, attempts to define complementary...

Over the years there has been a shift in the development discourse. Progress in development is no more defined on the basis of overall income growth of the economy, but rather on the quantum reduction in the share of population deprived of ‘basic needs’. The present report makes an attempt...

This paper aims to identify the poor households in terms of the levels of poverty and inequality by using income data from the nation-wide ‘National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure (NSHIE-2004-05)’ of the NCAER. The definition used by the Tendulkar Committee (41.8 per cent poor in...

This book maps the earning, spending and saving profiles of Indians in the post-liberalisation era. It studies how socio-economic, religious, and individual characteristics lead to inequality in the incomes of households. Among other aspects of the problematique, it reveals that while a...

The rapid rise in the country's middle and high income classes 1 is likely to lead to an even sharper rise in the demand for both consumer durable and consumables. Between 1995-96 and 2001-02, the demand for automobiles, for example, rose by 9.8 per cent annually and is projected to rise 1.5...

Despite a very large sample size, it has not been possible to extend the MISH-derived income distribution beyond Rs 1,80,000 a year to give robust estimates of consumption at higher income levels. The principal reason is the small cell sizes, which we do not believe should be extrapolated to...