India and Finance policy
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- Search for the latest finance-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Assessing the determinants of private saving in India and Malaysia
- J. Ang; K. Sen / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
- This paper compares the evolution of private saving in India and Malaysia, and analyses how policy changes in the financial sectors and pension systems help explain differences in their saving performance. It assesses whether the &lsq...
- Mandatory systems to expand pension coverage to informal sector in Asia are unlikely to work
- L. MacKellar (ed) / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2009
- The unprecedented speed at which Asian populations are ageing requires a rapid forward looking response from governments in the region to provide protection against the risk of poverty in old age. Given the large and sometimes growing...
- Persuading those who have little today to save for tomorrow
- D. Uthira; H.L. Manohar / International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009
- The new pension system (NPS) introduced by the government of India is South Asia’s first DC (defined contribution) pension scheme. It provides individual retirement accounts, product choices, professional fund management b...
- Impact of financial sector reforms in India
- B.B. Chakrabarti; M. Mohanty / Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, 2006
- This paper analyzes and discusses the impact of financial reform and related institutional change on the process of financial intermediation. The authors argue that from within the confines of the goals it had set itself, India’...
- Indian pension scheme improves quality of life through greater independence
- HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009
- Poor older people in India have had the benefit of a means-tested social pension for over 10 years. Selection of beneficiaries is a responsibility of local government, and there are reports that the scheme does not always benefit the ...
- Designing flexible pensions systems to encompass more workers
- Y. Hu; F. Stewart / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
- Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing co...
- What Asia must do to ensure sustainable pensions?
- A. Reilly (ed); E. Whitehouse (ed) / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
- Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes. A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future ad...
- Governments’ policies on pension provision are badly misguided
- P. Booth (ed); N. Juurikkala (ed); N. Silver (ed) / Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009
- This survey of government interventions in pension provision examines the different issues surrounding pensions and public policy in a range of high, middle and low-income countries.In particular it argues that wid...
- What can we learn about the new dimensions of growth from the Indian Economy?
- C.P. Chandrasekhar / Third World Network, 2008
- This paper discusses the Indian economy as one of the economies in the developing world that is a “success story” of globalisation. This paper suggests that this success is defined by the high and sustained rates of growth...
- Views on the current financial crisis from the global South
- Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored it...
- Centre for Development Finance (CDF)
- The Centre for Development Finance focuses on improving the delivery of public goods that contribute to inclusive social and economic opportunity in India.
- India Post
- Indian Government department running postal services, part of Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & IT.
- Strategic Foresight Group
- Strategic Foresight Group seeks to undertake forward-looking research in geopolitical, economic, technological and societal changes. Their research examines future trends and discontinuities in spaces where geopolitics intersects with business, economy, society, religion and technology.
- Agricultural Financing Corporation Ltd. (AFC)
- Agricultural Finance Corporation Limited is an agricultural & rural development consultancy established in 1968. AFC Foundation undertakes grass root level project implementation for poverty alleviation and livelihood promotion through financial and non financial services. They also provide training and capacity building services to the various stakeholders in the agriculture and rural se...
