With the ratification of the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) in 2016 under the aegis of the World Trade Organization, India has launched a comprehensive agenda for trade facilita­tion reforms to fulfil its legal commitments and improve its global...

The trade relationship between India and Pakistan is considered to be one of the most important determinants of the South Asian regional integration initiative. There have been several initiatives taken by India and Pakistan for strengthening...

Women’s minimal leadership role in national and local political spheres remains a serious concern worldwide. The Commonwealth Gender Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005–2015 calls on governments to introduce measures to promote at least 30 per ...

In the mid-1980s and 1990s, an era of liberalisation and market reforms, India’s GDP growth rate was consistently above 5 per cent (Nagaraj 2012). This was matched by a corresponding reduction in the share of income poor, though the measured extent...

This chapter examines the intergovernmental transfers (IGTs) structure in India, comprising transfers from the central government to the state governments and from the state government to the local governments. It begins with a discussion of the...

India’s IT and BPO sector has grown in the last decade or so, from about 1.1 per cent share in global services exports to about 2.6 per cent. So it has more than doubled its share in services exports, which is a phenomenal growth rate.

The teaching profession in India cannot be said to have been feminised, in the sense of women statistically dominating the teaching profession. Rather the overall picture indicates a shortage of female teachers, and the need to expand recruitment of ...

The Commonwealth Secretariat has played a pioneering role in conceptualising genderresponsive budgeting (GRB) and initiated the development of relevant tools and methodo - logies. The promotion and implementation of GRB has been a key focus of the...

As commercial institutions that derive profit from providing education to a non-elite clientele, private schools have a history of more than two decades in India. In the 1970s, fees were abolished in government schools and public funding extended to ...

For this project, I organised two village meetings with the help of SACHETANA, one in Bakcha on 31 March 2006 and another in Kaichidanga on 7 April 2006. Each was also organised with the help of a local NGO that had long worked in that area and had...

At the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, representatives from the developing world shared their growing impatience about the slow pace of improvements in gender relations. Even in countries that had long ratified the Convention on the...

For the GOI, the most important change in its resource mobilisation practices was the shift in the composition of its tax receipts. As Table 2.2 showed, the weight of taxes on trade has gone down significantly while that of direct taxes has risen...