Download or read book India Infrastructure Report 2002 Governance Issues for Commercialisation written by Sebastian Morris and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IIR 2002 focuses on one of the most fundamental building blocks of a reform agenda, namely, governance frameworks for commercialization. It was in December 2000 that we first mooted the subject of governance for this issue of the IIR. Subsequent developments, such as the Enron saga, the Orissa power sector reforms, delays in the introduction of the Convergence Bill, and the CNG vehicle programme in Delhi, against the backdrop of further deteriorating infrastructure services, all played a role in forcefully proving the point we had been trying to make all along - good infrastructure needs good governance. Governance should encompass the creation, protection and enforcement of certain basic rights such as rights to land, clean air, information, and to earn a livelihood. Our approach to these rights defines the framework in which our societies operate and the extent to which we can tolerate inequities and unbalanced growth of opportunities. Thus, it has implications both for welfare considerations within a country as well as at the international level. The inability to solve the problems of dispossessed peoples around the world lies at the root of international terrorism. The right to good governance in terms of policies to promote 'public good' arises precisely from these foundations. We ignore these fundamental issues at our own peril. What we are witnessing in India is the failure of the government to re-invent itself to meet the changing realities of our times. It was amply evident the world over that an omnipresent government attempting to do everything from maintaining law and order to providing goods and services to people, is not feasible. The business of the government is to provide good governance at least cost. This cost is the yardstick of success. The citizen comes first in any governance framework. In India, we saw the government provide services, but this came with enormous wastage of resources, deteriorating service quality, an inability to invest in improvements and safety standards, high and rising subsidies, large and unfounded pension liabilities for employees of the system, massive cost and time overruns of crucial projects, and, above all, an inability to reform encrusted institutional mechanisms that oversee this juggernaut. Many of these symptoms are illustrated in government owned and operated infrastructure services in the past such as railways, airlines, hotel and tourism services, road building and maintenance, hospitals, and education. Clearly we need a new paradigm that will gradually dismantle what we have built since independence and replace it with an enabling environment which encourages private participation. The answer to many of our problems lies in public-private partnerships that use available resources effectively. Defining these partnerships in a manner which can be operationalized, is the challenge for the coming decade. IDFC is working on this paradigm, using UK's Private Financing Initiative, which has enormous implications for India: privatize where possible (where commercialization possibilities exist and users of services are in a position to cover the full cost of its provision); and where this is not possible and where the government retains its accountability, to tax payers for service provision (such as education, health services, national savings, and defence), use private financing and management of services with governments paying the final bill and thereby reaping huge efficiency gains. There are many possibilities that can bridge the transition from where we are to where we wish to go. It is not the choice of means that poses a problem, as the clarity in determining the ends and setting-up objectives to be attained. This can only be done through good governance mechanisms. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable. The challenge for India is to decide in which direction we wish to head. This report fulfils a gap in our understanding of governance issues for successful commercialization of infrastructure services.
Download or read book India Infrastructure Report 2002 written by Sebastian Morris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, the second in a series, provides rich and detailed statistics of infrastructure governance, focusing on why Indian is making so little progress.
Download or read book India Infrastructure Report 2002 Overview written by Sebastian Morris and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the Overview to the Report and reviews each of the chapters in the report. The theme of governance in India in the context of commercialisation of infrastructure is introduced and issues raised by the various papers are linked together to present an agenda for reform.
Download or read book 20 Years of G20 written by Rajat Kathuria and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses contemporary issues such as global financial architecture and regulatory practices, trade, investment and the multilateral process, the future of work, the role of technology for adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and financing infrastructure for sustainable development. With increasing global connectivity, events in one part of the world immediately affect or spread to the other parts. In this context, G20 has proved to be an effective forum, particularly after the Asian financial crises. Furthermore, over recent decades, G20 has been instrumental in managing financial crises and international conflicts by deploying global cooperation as a functional tool. As a body responding to crises, the G20 has played a central role in providing the political momentum for the strong international cooperation that ensured greater policy coherence and helped ease situations that could otherwise have been decidedly worse. The G20’s agendas have encompassed short-term but critical issues of economic recovery, the sovereign crisis of Europe, high unemployment and financial sector regulation. But since moderate stabilization in the global economic environment, the focus of the group has also embraced long-term areas of governance and development. For emerging economies, such as India, the G20 has been an important platform framework to promote an inclusive global economic architecture that seeks to achieve equitable outcomes. This book reviews the past 20 years of the G20, since it was conceptualized as a replacement for the G-7. While issues such as global financial order have been a constant area of discussion, one of the failures has been not recognizing and acknowledging the importance of issues like trade, climate change and future of work. Featuring academic papers by experts in the area, this book provides a platform for the necessary discourse on these issues.
Download or read book India s Economy and Society written by Sunil Mani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of fifteen contributions that undertake a detailed analysis of seven broad dimensions of India’s economy and society. All the contributions approach the problems in their respective areas empirically, while being theoretically informed. The book begins with a section containing detailed and empirically supported chapters on the recent crisis in India’s agricultural sector and the reforms in the agricultural markets. Another section is dedicated to the issue of infrastructure financing, and new ways of financing large infrastructural projects are critically examined. Other sections are related to innovations and technology impacts on industry; international trade; health and education; labor and employment; and the very important issue of gender. The selected discussion topics are both of contemporary importance and expected to remain so for some time. Most of the chapters introduce readers to data in addition to methods of analyzing this data, to arrive at policy-oriented conclusions. The rich collection carries learnings for researchers working on a wide range of topics related to development studies, as well as for policymakers and corporate watchers.
Download or read book India Infrastructure Report 2012 written by Idfc Foundation and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, India’s education sector remains a victim of poor policies, restrictive regulations and orthodoxy. Despite being enrolled in schools, children are not learning adequately. Increasingly, parents are seeking alternatives through private inputs in school and tuition. Students are dropping out from secondary school in spite of high financial returns of secondary education, and those who do complete it have inferior conceptual knowledge. Higher education is over-regulated and under-governed, keeping away serious private providers and reputed global institutes. Graduates from high schools, colleges and universities are not readily employable, and few are willing to pay for skill development. Ironically, the Right to Education Act, if strictly enforced, will result in closure of thousands of non-state schools, and millions of poor children will be left without access to education. Eleventh in the series, India Infrastructure Report 2012 discusses challenges in the education sector — elementary, secondary, higher, and vocational — and explores strategies for constructive change and opportunities for the private sector. It suggests that immediate steps are required to reform the sector to reap the benefits from India’s ‘demographic dividend’ due to a rise in the working age population. Result of a collective effort led by the IDFC Foundation, this Report brings together a range of perspectives from academics, researchers and practitioners committed to enhancing educational practices. It will be an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers and corporates.
Download or read book OECD Investment Policy Reviews India 2009 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of India's investment policy charts India's progress in developing an effective policy framework to promote investment for development, focusing on policies towards investment, trade, competition and other elements of the business environment.
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Download or read book Privatisation and Labour Restructuring written by Gopal Ganesh and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On privatisation and labour restructuring in India and Sri Lanka.
Download or read book An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights written by Peter Ho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a neo-liberal, neo-classical paradigm, secure, formal and private property rights are crucial to fostering sustained development. Institutions that fail to respond to shifting socio-economic opportunities are thus forced to make new arrangements. The enigma is posed by developments on the ground. Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions during the Arab Spring or Iraq War not increase market efficiency but rather cause the reverse, while China and India, despite persisting insecure, informal and common institutions, featured sustained growth? This collection posits that understanding these paradoxes requires a refocusing from form to function, detached from normative assumptions about institutional appearance. In so doing, three things are accomplished. First, starting from case studies on land, it is ascertained that the argument can be meaningfully extended to labour, capital and beyond. Second, the argument validates the ‘Credibility Thesis’ – that is, once institutions persist, they fulfil a function. Third, the collection studies ‘development, broadly construed’, by including the modes of production and beyond, the rural and urban, the developed and developing. This is why it reviews property rights from China and India, to Turkey, Mexico and Malaysia, covering issues such as customary rights and privatization, mining and pastoralism, dam-building and irrigation, but also state-owned banks, trade unions and notaries. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Download or read book Regulatory Reforms in India written by Anjali Garg and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Assesses Th Eimpact Of Regulatory Reform In The Electricity And Telecom Sectors In This Context. This Book Will Be Useful For Those Who Shall Have To Comply With Reformed Statutes. It Will Be Particularly Useful To Policy-Makers, Regulators, Executives, Academicians, Researchers, Donors, Consultants And All Those Involved In The Design And Implementation Of Reform Programmes.
Download or read book Gujarat Perspectives of the Future written by R. Swaminathan and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experts on the economy, industrial growth, urban and town planning, environment, and information technology, this volume of 11 essays charts out policy prescriptions for the Indian state of Gujarat to maintain and accentuate its contribution to the Indian economy and show the path for sustainable and equitable growth. Gujarat is India's second most industrialized state and has emerged as the second most important investment destination, the guide explains, noting that success in Gujarat is essential for India to maintain its economic growth trajectory.
Download or read book Infrastructure Development Theory Practice and Policy written by Rachna Gangwar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium presents the papers presented in the conference 'Infrastructure Development Theory, Practice, and Policy' held on 29th and 30th April, 2021. It brings together the select papers from the conference and other contributions from experts and researchers. The compendium puts together the research under various themes, and we hope that the theoretical findings will impact the practice and policy in the future, as well as pave the way for future research in the direction of achieving more efficient, and more humane infrastructure.
Download or read book Infrastructure Development and Its Environmental Impact written by Prabha Shastri Ranade and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book India Infrastructure Report 2006 written by 3iNetwork (India) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report focuses on regulation and industry structure and spells out an agenda of reform and privatization to improve the infrastructure's effectiveness, targetting, and efficiency.
Download or read book Holding the State to Account written by Samuel Paul and published by Public Affairs Centre. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the status of human and municipal services and evaluation of administrative agencies in Bangalore; study done through Public Affairs Centre.
Download or read book India written by John N. Mayor and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India, long known for its huge population, religious conflicts and its status as not-quite best friend ally of the United States has moved from the backwaters of world attention to centre stage. Afghanistan and Pakistan with whom India is in almost conflict, are neighbours. India has developed a nuclear capability which also has a way of grabbing attention. This book discusses current issues and historical background and provides a thorough index important to a better understanding of this diverse country.
