A recent report by ACNielsen (Shopper Trends, October 19, 2006) paints a rosy picture of an emerging retail boom in India, "with one modern store for every 400,000 population" at present.Among the......
The debate on the income distributional effects of globalisation rages unabated. A fresh salvo has been fired by the International Labour Organization in a new study: Global Wage Report 2008/09. It......
World Development Report 2006 (WDR 2006) makes a persuasive case for equity as the guiding principle of development. Equity denotes equality of opportunities to pursue a life of one's choice and......
This year's estimated 9.2 per cent growth is particularly impressive as this is despite agricultural growth decelerating from 6 per cent to 2.7 per cent, and this has been more than made up by......
Whether the poor respond to economic incentives is fiercely debated and the battle lines between different groups of economists are sharply drawn. In an important contribution, T Besley and S Coate......