Bihar Government's programme of distributing bicycles to school girls may be a modest intervention but is leading to big changes. A new research-based paper, brought out in August 2013, corroborates the success of the programme and testifies that it is leading to improved school enrollment of girls and arresting their dropout rates (See links below to read full paper and earlier studies on the subject). Based on econometric and statistical models,...
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India will not accept snooping by any country: Kapil Sibal
-PTI NEW DELHI: India will not accept any kind of surveillance as it has been reported about the US agencies snooping into email and other type of communications of foreign citizens, telecom and IT minister Kapil Sibal said on Friday. The minister also said that the government can take a position on such type of surveillance by a foreign country only when it has complete information about what data and content have...
More »Microfinance and the Challenge of Financial Inclusion for Development-Jayati Ghosh
-Macroscan.com The author reviews the effectiveness of microfinance in developing countries by studying the experience of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Please click here to Access the entire article This article was originally published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics 2013, 1 of 17. ...
More »India to seek photocopy right for students -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: India will seek changes to international copyright regulations so that students and researchers can procure photocopies of expensive books without having to pay royalties, a senior government source said. Come December, he said, the Union human resource development ministry will ask the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) to relax its norms that protect authors' and publishers' commercial rights over their books. The ministry will suggest at the next general...
More »Financial and Distributional Implications of the Food Security Law-Prachi Mishra
-Economic and Political Weekly The financial implications of the National Food Security Bill, which has now become law, are going to be huge. This analysis points out that one needs to take into account not only the cost of the food subsidy but also the costs of setting up or running new institutions and bureaucracies, and the costs that are likely to arise if there are political pressures to protect the...
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