Promotion of self-employment is one of the ways in which the Government of India has been trying to alleviate poverty. The modified version of the self-employment scheme called Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), launched in 1999, aims to promote micro-enterprise through...

The process of economic reforms in the 1990s has resulted in a paradigm shift in the health sector in India. This paper is a modest attempt to address these concerns by focussing on aspects of health equity interplay between private and public sector service providers, and determinants of...

Introduction : the COVID-19 pandemic, challenges, and policy / Indranil De, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, and Kingshuk Sarkar -- Policy response to pandemic : COVID-19 SOPs and guidelines / Shyam Singh -- The dichotomies of management and governance in the COVID-19 pandemic...

This paper examines how electricity reforms in India managed to influence the responses of generating firms. Indian electricity reforms have federal and state character. This paper utilises an extensive survey of generation units in Gujarat State. The findings suggest that reforms have created...