Spiraling food prices and low productivity in Indian Agriculture has made food security a cause of great concern, more so in rural India (FAO, 2011; ADB, 2011; Kaur 2013; IFAD, 2011). Despite India’s good economic performance, it is home to the largest number of hungry people in the world. In the ranking...

Introducing reforms for the State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) has been an integral part of the reform process initiated in India since 1990s. While reforming, the concerns about ownership, competition and regulation, which have a direct bearing on the issue of the relative performance of publicly...

In many developing and developed countries, privatization through transfer of ownership from public to the private hands is considered as a cure for most of the problems faced by the public sector enterprises (PSEs.) However, policy makers tend to forget that both the systems – private and...