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Hamish McDonald
Ambani & Sons
Roli Books; New Delhi, India; 2010; 8174368140 / 9788174368140; First Edition; Paperback; New; 14 Cms x 23 Cms
Ambani & Sons is the riveting story of one of the wealthiest families in the world. Dhirubhai Ambani was a rags-to-riches tycoon whose company Reliance, is now one of India’s major corporations. His sons Anil and Mukesh took over after his death in 2002 and their respective arms of the company are bigger than the parent ever was. However, a family feud of colossal proportions, that has had political reverberations, ensued. The Ambani tale contains a bigger story about modern India, not only as an economic powerhouse, but about the complicated links between government and big business. Printed Pages: 408. 034297
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FICCI
An Illustrated History of Indian Enterprise
Oxford University Press; New Delhi, India; 2012; 0198089813 / 9780198089810; First Edition; Hardcover; New; New;
This volume provides an evocative account of Indian entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs from the dawn of civilization to the present. Broadly classifying the Indian business saga into pre- and post-Independence eras, it maps the trajectory of Indian enterprise with all its turns. Including contributions from Dwijendra Tripathi, R. Champakalakshmi, Shireen Moosvi, Purushottam Agarwal, Ashok Desai, T.C.A. Srinivasa-Raghavan, and Vikram Singh Mehta, this volume chronicles the Indian business narrative through the intersections of history, culture, and commerce to offer a multidimensional perspective. It examines the policies and institutions that have enabled growth, studies the entrepreneurial role of the private sector and the role and position of public sector enterprises in the current scenario, and also looks at the possible future course for Indian business. Documenting the incredible journey of Indian enterprise through the ages from the Harappan civilization through the Mughal reign to the making of the globally-recognized India Inc. brand this profusely illustrated volume will appeal to anybody interested in the India narrative as well as corporates, entrepreneurs, and students and teachers of business studies, management, economics, and cultural studies. About the Author Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) was established in 1927. The largest and oldest apex business organization in India, its history is closely interwoven with Indias struggle for independence, its industrialization, and its emergence as one of the most rapidly growing global economies. FICCI has contributed to this historical process by encouraging debate, articulating the private sectors views, and influencing policy. Contributors R.V. Kanoria has an MBA from IMD, Switzerland, and did an advanced management programme from Wharton, USA, before returning to take charge of his family business in chemicals, textiles, and jute. He has headed several joint business councils, was the chair of the Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, and part of the official Indian government delegation for the WTO inter-ministerial meetings in Seattle and Hong Kong. A past president of ICC India, he is past chairman of the Indian Jute Mills Association and the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry, and is on the board of several companies. Dwijendra Tripathi was formerly Kasturbhai Lalbhai professor of business history at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has played a pioneering role in promoting the study of and research in business history in India. Educated at the Allahabad, Wisconsin, and Harvard universities, Tripathi has to his credit several books on Indian business history, including the monumental book The Oxford History of Indian Business, and a large number of papers published in reputed national and international journals. He has been general president, Indian History Congress, and is a founder editor of The Journal of Entrepreneurship. R. Champakalakshmi was awarded the Governors gold medal for her M.Litt. thesis on Jainism in south India from Madras University. She has obtained her Ph.D. for her thesis on Vaishnava iconography in the Tamil country, which was later published as a book. An associate professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University from 1982 to 1997, she has published four books and has written frequently on art, religion, society, state, and urbanization in south India. She was general president of the Indian History Congress in 2010 (Delhi), and has presided over several regional history congresses. Shireen Moosvi is professor of history at Aligarh Muslim University. With 43 years of teaching experience, she has served as dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, chairman, Department of History, and coordinator, Centre of Advanced Study in History. She was secretary of the Indian History Congress (1997-2000) and has been secretary of the Aligarh Historians Society since 1998. Purushottam Agrawal is a member of the Union Public Service Commission. He was formerly a professor and chairperson, Centre of Indian Languages, School of Languages, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, New Delhi. Ashok Desai is a consultant editor with Business World. As a professional economist, he specializes in industry, trade, and technology. He has been a liberal critic of Indian economic policies for the past 40 years. In 1991, when those policies led to a serious crisis, he was taken into the finance ministry, where he helped design the economic reforms for two years. He has been propagating his ideas through the press since then. T.C.A Srinivasa-Raghavan is a senior associate editor of The Hindu Business Line. He has previously worked at Financial Express, Indian Express, Economic Times, and Business Standard. He has also worked as a consultant to the history of the Reserve Bank of India, and as advisor to the director of ICRIER and the Asian Institute of Transport. Vikram Singh Mehta is former head of Shell-India and has written extensively in journals and newspapers on the contribution of MNCs to the Indian economy since independence, and in particular over the last two decades. Omkar Goswami is an economist and the chairman of CERG Advisory Private Limited, a firm specializing in corporate and economic consulting. He did his MA from the Delhi School of Economics and his D.Phil from Balliol College, Oxford. Between 1982 and 1996, Goswami taught at the Delhi School of Economics, Tufts, Harvard, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Rutgers universities, and the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. After two years as the editor of Business India, he joined the Confederation of Indian Industry as chief economist, where he worked for six years, before starting CERG Advisory in April 2004. top Table of Contents 1. Messages From Past Presidents, Ficci 2. Introduction 3. Origins of Indian Enterprise from Ancient Times to 1947 4. Trade and Commerce in Early India 5. Trade and Merchants in Mughal India 6. The Indian Merchants of Astrakhan 7. Indian Enterprise since Independence: From Trade to Industry 8. India Inc: Policy Impact on Business (1947 - 2012) 9. Multinationals in India: A Dynamic Perspective 10. Conclusion: Hopes and Challenges 11. Profiles: Editors and Contributors Index Printed Pages: 324. 037449
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V. Santhakumar
Analysing Social Opposition to Reforms: The Electricity Sector in India
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2008; 8178298589 / 9788178298580; First Edition; Hardcover; New; New;
This book examines how market contexts shape the opposition of people to public sector reforms, with evidence from the Indian electricity sector. Based on a survey of 7,000 households in 14 Indian states and following a rational choice framework, it analyses the response of households to the prospect of privatization of electricity utilities. Analysing Social Opposition to Reforms: The Electricity Sector in India discusses the possibility of compensating losers and sequencing reform strategies. It uses empirical evidence from the Indian electricity sector to suggest that much of the opposition can be explained in terms of the (short term) losses due to reforms. The book uses insights gained from Indian data to discuss the likelihood of opposition to reforms in other public services and also to examine the performance of electricity reforms in other Asian countries. It is one of the few empirical studies on how gains and losses affect opposition/support to economic/institutional reforms globally and as such is a valuable contribution to development studies, political economy and governance. The book will be of great interest to development professionals, policy makers and researchers. Printed Pages: 248. 028565
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Anand A. Yang
Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 2000; 8121509262 / 9788121509268; First Indian Edition; Hard Cover; New; New; 16.5 Cms x 25 Cms
The present edition of the writings of the late Indrani Ray has been planned around certain identifiable factors that determined India's changing tryst with the Indian Ocean in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While the protagonist in these writings is the Indian merchant, the biographer is the French East India Company's Official. Using a wide array of French sources, the author reconstructed the changing world of the Indian merchant as he rubbed shoulders with the European trading companies in the palmy decades of the seventeenth century and retreated into his shell in the turbulent decades of the eighteenth. Taken together, these essays underscore both the prosperity and vitality of Indian trade in the seventeenth century as well as its inherent fragility in the face of political uncertainty and unrestrained competition in the succeeding years. The conclusions arrived at, tend to reinforce some of the better known propositions about the nature and orientation of pre-modern Indian trade and the making of its material context. Individually, the essays constitute important interventions in ongoing debates about the extent and logic of Mughal decline, the benevolence of the Mughal state towards matters maritime and about the relative importance of European trade vis-à-vis Asian trade in the economy of eighteenth century Bengal. The Introduction attempts to identify these interventions and knit the essays around the current debates on the eighteenth century crisis in Indian history. The introduction, will help to situate the relevance of the French connection in the complex trading grid of the Indian Ocean. The fact that the French were the most serious rivals of the English for empire and very nearly succeeded in the imperial game is often obscured in the flush of English victories. In terms of the historiography on maritime India, this has meant a subtle neglect of French language sources in the reconstruction of the trading world of the Indian merchant and seafarer. That this omission is entirely unwarranted is amply borne out by Indrani Ray's analysis of French archival sources and documents like the Roques' manuscript, which in terms of both range and detail is of enduring value. Printed Pages: 290. 001070
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Ivan Arthur and Kurien Mathews
Brands Under Fire
Penguin Portfolio; New Delhi, India; 2008; 0670082260 / 9780670082261; First Edition; Paperback; New; 14 x 22 Cm
Big brands, big companies, big budgets—and yet, things can still go wrong. In fact, four of the country’s most powerful brands were involved in major brand disasters: Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolates, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and UTI’s Unit-64 were hit by major problems—worms in chocolates, pesticides in colas and a catastrophe in the country’s favorite mutual fund. In Brands under Fire, brand experts Ivan Arthur and Kurien Mathews use these case studies to cut through the common thinking on brand behaviour to submit fresh insights into the brands of the 21st century. In this book, the two authors, together with India’s most respected personalities from the fields of marketing, communication, academics and social science, explore the whole meaning of a brand, not just in the reality of today’s marketplace but also in the new global environment. Are we witnessing the fading out of the traditional concepts of the brand as a deliverer of consumer expectations and the arrival of alternative models? What impact does the reach of new media, aggressive social activism, changing global sensitivities, agricultural, industrial and economic practice, the unpredictability and uncertainty of an increasingly complex environment, and, above all, a fully participating consumer who influences the product and brand dynamics, have on brand behaviour and a brand’s dialogue with the consumer? Brands under Fire questions whether there is a need to re-evaluate our relationship with brands and redesign it to make it more meaningful—to go beyond the traditional concept of the brand as merely a transaction between seller and buyer to new definitions of what today’s brands can be. Brands under Fire will earn a place on the bookshelves of frontline managers, strategists and practitioners alike. Printed Pages: 232. 026722
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Lloyd M. Field
Business and the Buddha: Doing Well by Doing Good
Wisdom Publications; Boston, USA; 0861715446 / 9780861715442; First Edition; Paperback; New;
All businesses want to do well, but can they also do good? Lloyd Field says yes, and moreover, no business can afford to focus simply on ?doing well.??? Increasingly, public assessment of a business???s worth must take into account its consideration of shared human values. That doesn???t mean a business can???t or should not compete; it means that investing in efforts to build a better society can, on many levels, be an asset. In this book, Field lays out the guidelines for putting social responsibility, both corporate and individual, into practice without sacrificing profits. Drawing from traditional Buddhist teachings, Field shows how, with attention to ethics, skillful means, and corporate responsibility, entrepreneurs and decision-makers can achieve new levels of happiness and security both inside the company and out, while acting as a powerful force for positive global change. Printed Pages: 212. 037422
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Robert East, Malcolm Wright, and Marc Vanhuele
Consumer Behaviour: Applications in Marketing
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2009; 8132103157 / 9788132103158; Reprint; Paperback; New;
Written in a focused and accessible form by respected marketing academics, Consumer Behaviour helps readers to develop analytical and evidence-based thinking in marketing and avoid more formulaic approaches that lack the support of research. With a strong focus on the use of research, this book will really appeal to the specific needs of higher-level students. The book covers important material that is often missing in consumer behaviour texts. For example, whole chapters are devoted to brand loyalty, brand equity, biases in decision-making, word of mouth, the response to price and the effect of advertising. Shorter reviews cover evidence on topics such as loyalty programmes, the response to delay and retail atmospherics. Chapters are quite short and divided into sections. Each chapter contains exercises designed to draw out key ideas and consolidate understanding, and there are suggestions for further reading. A website to support the book has an Instructor`s Manual that offers PowerPoint slides, discussion of exercises, computer programs, a suggested Masters-level course, and a Word file of references to assist students writing assignments. Printed Pages: 344. 031077
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Ramkishen S. Rajan with Sasidaran Gopalan and Rabin Hattari
Crisis, Capital Flows and FDI in Emerging Asia
Oxford University Press; New Delhi, India; 2011; 0198069723 / 9780198069720; First Edition; Hardcover; New; New; 15 x 23 Cm
The relative insulation and rapid recovery of emerging Asia from the global financial crisis has evoked considerable interest in the growth experience of the Asian region. This book offers a unique view of this phenomenon through a critical and in-depth analysis of international capital flows, FDI, and exchange rate regimes and choices. Using a combination of quantitative data and analytical rigour, the essays provide answers to a wide array of questions of contemporary relevance such as: • How has emerging Asia handled booms and busts in capital flows? • How important are worker remittances as a source of external financing? • How are FDI flows to emerging Asia from within Asia different as compared to those from OECD economies? • What are the de jure and de facto policies of foreign bank entry into emerging Asian economies? • What has been the role of bank lending in India’s robust growth? • How are emerging Asian currencies managed in the context of global imbalances? While the book covers India, China, and other sub-regions of East and South Asia, it also has valuable policy pointers for other emerging markets. Printed Pages: 273 with numerous b/w illustrations, maps, and charts. 036590
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Nick Lee
Doing Research Business: A Guide to Theory and Practice
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2010; 8132104544 / 9788132104544; First Edition; Paperback; New;
For anyone involved in developing a research project, this textbook provides an integrated, accessible and humorous account that explains why research methods are the way they are and how they do what they do. Unrivalled in its nature Doing Business Research addresses the research project as a whole and provides: - essential detail of philosophical and theoretical matters that are crucial to conceptualising the nature of methodology - a pragmatic guide to why things are important and how they are important - a huge range of things to consider that the reader can use to develop their research project further - a resource book, providing extensive suggested reading to help the researcher do their research. Printed Pages: 428. 029624
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Jonathan Wilson
Essentials of Business Research: A Guide to Doing Your Research Project
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2010; 8132105672 / 9788132105671; First Edition; Paperback; New;
Essentials of Business Research: A Guide to Doing Your Research Project is a concise, student-friendly text that cuts through the jargon of research methods terminology to present a clear guide to the basics of methodology in a business and management context. This extremely accessible book is informed throughout by the use of clear case studies and examples that serve to bring the research process to life for student readers. Unusually for a Methods text, Wilson also explicitly considers the importance of the supervisor in the dissertation process, and explains for the reader what lecturers are looking for from their students at every stage of the process in a good research project. This book aims to guide the student through the entire research process by using actual student case examples and explaining the role of the supervisor and how to meet their expectations. Key features include: - ‘You’re the Supervisor’ sections – helps students to meet their learning outcomes; - ‘Common questions and answers’ – provides students with an invaluable point of reference for some of the challenges they are likely to face while undertaking their research project; - Comprehensive section on ethical issues students need to consider when undertaking their research project; - A full student glossary. - - The book is packed throughout with student-friendly features such as helpful diagrams, student case studies, chapter objectives, annotated further reading sections and summary and references at the end of each chapter. Essentials of Business Research is accompanied by a companion website containing an array of material for lecturers and students. Printed Pages: 336. 033366
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Sujoya Basu
Gender Stereotypes in Corporate India: A Glimpse
Response Books; New Delhi, India; 2008; 8178298511 / 9788178298511; First Edition; Paperback; New;
A stereotype is a conceptual image that may lead to a simplified view of a person or a thing. Inaccurate stereotypes serve to constrict and limit vision and perception. Gender Stereotypes in Corporate India: A Glimpse explores the theme of `understated` gender stereotypes in the corporate domain in India, while delving into the antecedents and outcomes. Studies suggest that only an insignificant percentage of women managers ever reach the higher echelons of management in most organizations—a phenomenon which can be attributed to the glass ceiling, and the differential treatment meted out to women managers in terms of career mobility, recruitment, evaluation, compensation and other factors. Studies also suggest that gender stereotypes contribute largely to such phenomena. Through three broad studies, the book, a first of its kind, explores existing managerial gender stereotypes in Indian corporates, the antecedents of such stereotypes and the possibility of reducing such stereotypical inaccuracies. The book argues that a basic transformation at the level of policy making, along with a collective will for changing the mindset of the people, is needed to overcome gender differences in organizations as well as educational institutions. This book will interest a wide readership including women professionals, students and trainers in corporate training schools and business schools, sociologists, and organizational psychologists. Printed Pages: 240. 028614
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Charles Handy
Gods of Management: The Changing World of Organisations
Penguin Portfolio; New Delhi, India; 2008; 0143102850 / 9780143102854; First Edition; Paperback; New; 14 x 22 Cm
‘It was always a myth that there is one best way to manage, but it has been a pervasive myth and a damaging one, to both individuals and organizations. The Greeks at least recognized a variety of gods, even if each had his or her favourite. We need a law of requisite variety in management as well as a theory of cultural propriety.’ The four gods of the title symbolize the very different styles of management and culture to be found in today’s organizations. Zeus is the dynamic entrepreneur who rules over companies of the club cluture, characterized by speed of decision and rapid, intuitive communication. Apollo, god of order and bureaucracy, is the patron of the role culture, based not on personalities but on definition of the jobs to be done. Athena, goddess of craftsmen, recognized only expertise as the basis of power and influence: hers is the task culture. Dionysus is the god preferred by artists and professionals within the existential culture, people who owe little or no allegiance to a boss. Under this witty and sparkling allegory, Charles Handy, Britain’s foremost business guru, makes a serious analysis of the changing patterns of work and business. Gods of Management is a world bestseller which is required reading for managers, business students and everyone who wants to be a survivor on a world of constantly changing organizational culture. Printed Pages: 272. 026720
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Tarun Khanna
How China and India are Reshaping Their Future and Yours
Penguin/Viking; New Delhi, India; 2008; 0670081485 / 9780670081486; First Edition; Hard Cover; New; New; 16.5 x 25 Cm
For the first time since the rise of Western capitalism, entrepreneurs in China and India can ignore New York and London—and still build companies worth billions. Thanks to social and economic revolutions, Asia has captured the best minds and money from all around the world. In Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna uses on-the-ground stories and thorough research to show how China and India are embracing the world on their own distinct terms. Entrepreneurs are powering change through new business models and bringing hope to countless people. Through intriguing, often provocative comparisons of triumphs and travails in both countries, the author illuminates such critical areas as: * The challenges of governing 2.4 billion people with entrepreneurial tendencies * The need for information accessibility, transparency, and reliability * The balance between private property rights and public interests * The need to encourage and fund indigenous enterprise * The role of overseas Chinese and Indians in development back home * The rise of medical tourism and the inequality of health care This book reveals how such differences will influence China’s and India’s future development as well as what the two countries can—and must—learn from each other today. A compelling account, Billions of Entrepreneurs paints a vivid picture of how China and India are reshaping business, politics, and society around the world. Printed Pages: 368. 021391
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Rajesh Shukla
How India Earns, Spends and Saves: Unmasking the Real India
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2010; 8132104765 / 9788132104766; First Edition; Hardcover; New; New;
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 household’s income is primarily dependent on socio-economic factors (occupation, education and age of its chief earner), its economic prosperity is impacted by factors like its spending and saving levels, sectors of employment of members, state of residence, and so on. The book is based on the results of the National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure (NSHIE) 2004–05, conducted under the aegis of the National Council for Applied Economics Research (NCAER). It not only offers valuable insights for economic analysts, policy makers, development professionals and academics, but the primary data of the survey also offers opportunities for further research. Printed Pages: 232. 033379
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Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth, and Arvind Panagariya (eds)
India Policy Forum: 2005-06: Volume 2
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2006; 0761935401 / 9780761935407; First Edition; Paperback; New;
The India Policy Forum (IPF) is an annual publication dedicated to analyzing contemporary trends in the Indian economy. Its objective is to carry theoretically rigorous yet empirically informed research tacking current issues relating to India’s economic policy. In particular, it will address issues related to the scope, speed, and desirability of economic reforms in India and their fundamental impact on the country’s social and economic welfare. A joint publication of the National Council of Applied Economic Research in India and the Brookings Institution in the United States, the IPF serves as a forum for a global network of scholars interested in India’s economic transformation. Among the topics covered in the 2005-06 volume are: – The Impact of Excessive Budget Deficits – Trends and Issues in Tax Policy and Reform in India – Whether an Inflation-Targeting Framework is applicable to India – Employment, Wages, and Inequality – Universal Telecommunications Service in India Printed Pages: 308. 028570
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Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth, and Arvind Panagariya (eds)
India Policy Forum: 2006-07: Volume 3
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2007; 0761936327 / 9780761936329; First Edition; Paperback; New;
India Policy Forum is a journal which is jointly promoted by the National Council for Applied Economic Research, New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., with the objective of presenting high-quality empirical research on the major economic policy issues that confront contemporary India. The papers cover a diverse set of macro and microeconomic topics of relevance to policymakers. The prime objective of this volume is to make the policy discussion accessible to a broad nonspecialist audience within India and abroad. This journal is also expected to assist in the development of a global network of scholars interested in India’s economic transformation. Printed Pages: 296. 028569
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Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth, and Arvind Panagariya (eds)
India Policy Forum: 2007-08: Volume 4
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2008; 8178299100 / 9788178299105; First Edition; Paperback; New;
India Policy Forum is an annual publication jointly promoted by the National Council for Applied Economic Research, New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., with the objective of presenting high-quality empirical research on the major economic policy issues that confront contemporary India. The papers cover a diverse set of macro and microeconomic topics of relevance to policymakers. The prime objective of this volume is to make the policy discussion accessible to a broad non-specialist audience within India and abroad and assist in the development of a global network of scholars interested in India`s economic transformation. Printed Pages: 308. 028568
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Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth, and Arvind Panagariya (eds)
India Policy Forum: 2008-09: Volume 5
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2009; 8132101499 / 9788132101499; First Edition; Paperback; New;
India Policy Forum 2008–09 (Volume 5) comprises papers and highlights of the discussions from the fifth India Policy Forum (IPF) conference, held on July 15-16, 2008, in New Delhi. The annual examines India’s reforms and economic transition using policy-relevant empirical research. It generates theoretically rigorous and empirically informed research on important current and unfolding issues of Indian economic policy. The first paper examines the growth of private schools in India and their influence on the quality of education being imparted. It is an extension of the recent issues of this journal that have evaluated the performance of India’s education system. The second paper addresses the major question of why the growth of manufacturing output and employment in India has been disappointingly low. The final three papers share a common focus on India’s external financial relations. The third paper analyzes the process of capital account liberalization and the integration of India’s financial institutions into the global financial system. The fourth paper measures the evolution of prices in the nontradable and tradable sectors of the Indian economy and seeks explanations for the rise in the relative price of nontradables. The last paper addresses the issue of the adequacy of India’s current foreign exchange reserves. The volume would be useful to researchers and policy-makers in the fields of economics, policy studies, development studies, and political economy. Printed Pages: 320. 028567
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Suparna Karmakar, Rajiv Kumar, and Bibek Debroy (eds)
India's Liberalisation Experience: Hostage to the WTO?
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2008; 0761936572 / 9780761936572; First Edition; Hardcover; New; New;
This book reviews India`s liberalisation measures in the last decade, in cognisance of the impact of the country`s World Trade Oraganisation (WTO) membership on the same. The collection of articles by subject experts recognises that the changes mandated by WTO membership are but one of the three-pronged liberlisation measures that the country has been subjected to—in the external, domestic (industrial policies) and financial sectors. The lucid analyses bear out that rather than being WTO-induced, external liberalisation of most sectors has been part of India`s general economic reform programme, having been shaped by domestic compulsions. India`s Liberalisation Experience: Hostage to the WTO? also analyses how the country has coped with and benefited from its obligations and rights as a WTO member. It attempts to evaluate the impact of the domestic reforms on the country`s economy and the implications thereof on its performance as a WTO negotiator. It tries to dispel the myths regarding the impact of international trade negotiations on India`s ongoing reform processes and its developmental and poverty/livelihood concerns. Thus, it will appeal not only to WTO experts, but also to trade policy analysts, academicians, research students, policy-makers, scholars and economists. Printed Pages: 416. 028564
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Joginder K. Chawla
India's Overland Trade with Central Asia and Persia during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 2006; 8121511607 / 9788121511605; Reprint; Hard Cover; New; New; 14 Cms x 22 Cms
The thirteenth century opened new vistas in the world history, particularly Asia. It witnessed the rise and fall of different dynasties and ultimately allowed the Mongols to survive as the mightiest power in China, Russia (Kipchak), Central Asia, and Persia for more than a century. They brought under their sway the Islamic lands of the Orient except India where the Turks had already established themselves as a powerful state during this period. The present study is the first of its kind dealing with India's overland trade with Central Asia and Persia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book seeks to interpret the working of the political forces in India and her neighbouring countries which shaped the commercial network of the medieval period. Despite the Mongol devastatations, the yasa of Chingiz Khan and the zeal displayed by the Turks created an aura of mercantile activities. Printed Pages: 196 with 2 folding maps. 030623
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David Avison and Gholamreza Torkzadeh
Information Systems Project Management
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2010; 8132105702 / 9788132105701; First Edition; Paperback; New;
There are a number of books out there on project management. What is different and specific about this book? - There is a balance between socio-cultural and technical aspects and there is a balance between qualitative and quantitative aspects – project management is seen as both an art and a science. - It provides an information systems orientation for project management: neither information technology oriented on the one side nor production and operations oriented on the other, but of application to both within an organizational-wide view. - It stresses information systems as a whole, not just software development – no project is successful if only software aspects are considered. - It gives a truly international view of the domain – examples and experiences from different parts of the world add richness as well as context to the material. Globalization has ensured that most projects take on an international dimension. - The book provides a coherent explanation of the concerns of the project manager as the project develops through the project life cycle – it does not follow a ‘kitchen sink approach’. - Each chapter has the following consistent structure: introduction and outline, an exhibit, the main text with examples, chapter summary, exercises, discussion questions, interview with project manager and appendix – this structure provides coherence and consistency. - The exhibit, interview and appendix contain real-world examples, experiences, case studies, discussion material, software descriptions and professional codes – these provide material for class discussion and group work. - The material has been used on our courses in the United States, Europe and Australia, given to practitioners as well as students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) – it has been well tested as part of our own project management the material in this text has been proven successful through repeated use in courses in the United States, Europe, and Australia, by practitioners as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students. Printed Pages: 496. 033367
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A. Ganesh-Kumar, Kunal Sen and Rajendra R. Vaidya
International Competitiveness, Investment and Finance: A Case Study of India
Routledge; New Delhi, India; 0415312329 / 9780415312325; First Edition; Hardcover; New; New; 14 Cms x 22 Cms
Studies on international competitiveness have tended to focus primarily on factors such as productivity, costs and technological capabilities, largely ignoring the role of financial factors. In this book the authors offer a fuller account of the determinants of international competitiveness. Using India as a case study, this well-written, concise book covers everything one needs to know to understand how a country becomes internationally competitive, Showing that reforms that pertain to the real sector alone, such as industrial deregulation and trade reforms, are not enough to enhance a country`s competitiveness, the text makes a compelling case for complementary financial sector reforms. Of interest to academics studying international trade, industrial economics and development economics, this book is also guaranteed to be extremely useful for professional economists and those involved with policy making in developed and developing countries. Contents List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Competitiveness, investment and finance: analytical links 2. The policy environment in India 3. The balance of payments and national competitiveness 4. The determinants of sectoral competitiveness 5. Outward orientation: a firm-level analysis 6. Finance constraints, persistent exporting and investment 7. Conclusions and policy implications Appendix Notes References Index. Printed Pages: 159. 027036
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Fred Carden
Knowledge to Policy: Making the Most of Development Research
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2009; 8178299305 / 9788178299303; First Edition; Paperback; New;
Does research influence public policy and decision-making and, if so, how? This book is the most recent to address this question, investigating the effects of research in the field of international development. It starts from a sophisticated understanding about how research influences public policy and decision-making. It shows how research can contribute to better governance in at least three ways: by encouraging open inquiry and debate, by empowering people with the knowledge to hold governments accountable, and by enlarging the array of policy options and solutions available to the policy process. Knowledge to Policy: Making the Most of Development Research examines the consequences of 23 research projects funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Key findings and case studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America are presented in a reader-friendly, journalistic style, giving the reader a deeper grasp and understanding of approaches, contexts, relationships and events. The book will be useful to academics, researchers and students of political science, public administration, development studies, and international affairs; professionals in donor and development organizations worldwide; policy- and decision-makers in government (local and national levels) and international arenas (particularly trade and finance); and development agencies and civil society (non-governmental) organizations concerned with integrating the voice of citizens into policy- and decision-making processes. Printed Pages: 236. 028562
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam (ed.)
Land, Politics and Trade in South Asia
Oxford University Press; New Delhi, India; 2004; 0195667077 / 9780195667073; First Edition; Hard Cover; New; New; 14 Cms x 22 Cms
Originally planned as a festschrift for Dharma Kumar, this collection of outstanding essays has recently appeared as a special issue of IESHR. The essays represent a diversity of views and methods, all of which are brought to bear on issues concerning various aspects of the economy, society and culture of colonial India. Particular topics focused on include the agrarian history of South India, common lands in western India, the nexus between trade and production, the textile trade in twentieth-century South India, the nature of collaboration and conflict between the Dutch East India Company and private Portuguese traders in the Indian Ocean, adventurers who accompanied and participated in the colonial transition in South India and the rise of the coffee house in colonial Tamil Nadu. In the Introduction Sanjay Subrahmanyam attempts to carry out the difficult exercise of making sense of Indian historiography . For the book version, the editor has expanded on this Introduction, an d he has also added two more essays: Ravi Ahuja s State Formation and Famine Policy in Early Colonial India', and Thomas Trautmann's 'Dr Johnson and the Pandits: Imaging the Perfect Dictionary in Colonial Madras'.Eminent historians have contributed to this volume in memory of Dharma Kumar, whose intellectual contribution as an economic historian and editor is undisputed. This collection of outstanding essays represents the dynamic aspect of the history writing about the colonial period, with one eye always trained on its effects on understanding contemporary India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam s lucid introduction fulfils the task of making sense of Indian historiography and its evolving profile. Among the range of areas addressed by these essays, issues relating to south Indian agrarian history are covered by David Ludden and Tsukasa Mizushima, and the regional-language documentation regarding common lands in western India by Sumit Guha. Ravi Ahuja analyses the famine policy of the ea rly East India Company, and John Richards, Tirthankar Roy and Om Prakash address different aspects of the issue of trade in colonial India. Subrahmanyam uses a set of biographical instances to map colonial transitions in South India. Thomas Trautmann s essay looks at early colonial dictionaries in Madras to better understand the nature of early colonial cultural policy. A. R. Venkatachalapathy describes the rise of the coffee house in Tamil Nadu through an engaging combination of social and cultural history. Printed Pages: 336. 033290
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Sairam Bhat (ed.)
Law of Business Contracts in India
Sage Publications; New Delhi, India; 2009; 8132102231 / 9788132102236; First Edition; Hardcover; New; New;
Law of Business Contracts in India brings together in-depth, wide-ranging articles by legal experts in the area of business contracts. It focuses on the modern forms of business contracts and exposits on the historical evolution, judicial interpretation and future applications of such contracts. The articles bridge the gap between the theoretical understanding of contract law and its practical orientation, need, relevance and challenges. The key features of the volume are: - Comprehensive coverage of modern laws on contract formation. - Discussion on the relevance of international laws in the global business context. - Delineation of the modern style, practice and challenges confronting new forms of contracts. - Description of the application of contract law to special contracts. - Discourse on the issues of international taxation and multinational contractual jurisdiction. - Research-based analysis of the common law approach with the Indian perspective on contract law application. The compilation views modern business contracts in a wide variety of commercial segments—from infrastructure to consortium loans, from joint ventures to outsourcing. It will serve as an excellent reference material for students of law, especially commercial law and business contracts. It will also be an exhaustive guide for lawyers and entrepreneurs. Printed Pages: 352. 031078
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Domingo Cavallo, Joaquin Cottani, Sergio De La Cuadra, Dominique Hachette, Edgardo Favaro and Pablo T. Spiller; Demetris Papageorgiou, Michael Michaely, and Armeane M. Choksi (ed.)
Liberalizing Foreign Trade, Volume 1: The Experience of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
Basil Blackwell; Oxford, UK; 1991; 0-631-166666-1; First Edition; Hard Cover; Very Good; No Jacket; 16 Cms x 24 Cms
Printed Pages: 259. 003927
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