Muchkunda Dubey had a remarkable career in Indian diplomacy and international affairs concentrating in peace and stability in ...

These estimates in the HCES allow us to estimate welfare transfer payments provided by both the union and state governments.

Invoking the notion of climate change politics as advanced by Borras and Franco, its impact in shaping mobilities and displacement is analysed. The focus of the analysis is on the institutional and ...

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The author thanks the chairperson and director of the Institute for Development Studies Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam for granting permission to use their data and an anonymous reviewer whose comments ...

Mumbai is suffering a twin calamity in its public bus services, being a drastic reduction in both fleet size and service quality: a reduction in fleet size due to the municipality’s refusal to buy new ...

Using household-level data from the recent nationally representative farm survey in India, the impact of farm credit on productivity and risk in agriculture is assessed. The results show that credit ...

The nature, process and impact of large-scale natural resource extraction in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh are examined. Through an ethnographic inquiry, the neo-liberal political economy of ...

The authors would like to acknowledge research assistance from Praneet Singh Butran and comments and suggestions made by an anonymous referee. The standard disclaimer applies. Industrial concentration ...

Although forest cover has increased, net ecological benefits have not improved. Alarmingly, the total forest and tree cover of 1,74,394.70 sq km in the north-eastern region, which is 67% of their ...

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