In the wake of the public sector reform programme, performance of public sector units in terms of profitability has become a highly debated issue in India, where major arguments given for inefficiency of public enterprises are over employment and lack of managerial autonomy. However, there is...

This paper examines the nature and extent of farmers’ indebtedness in India using the unit record data from the 59th round of the NSSO, provides a comparative picture of the major Indian States and an in-depth analysis of Karnataka. In terms of access to credit, seen through the extent of...

The beginning of the year 2002 has seen some concrete reform measures concerning the state- level public sector enterprises (PSEs) in Karnataka. One of the interesting features of this new initiative is to identify enterprises for privatisation not through the measurement of profit but on the...