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Pushing India’s small-scale industries to the economic forefront
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015India currently stands on the brink of being reckoned as the fastest growing economy in the world: In 2016, its projected growth rate is 7.6 percent. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship 'Make in India' programme is expected to herald India into its era of growth.DocumentProspects for the Asia Pacific Region
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014Proceedings of the 7th joint conference organised by ORF and Moscow's Experimental Creative Centre. This report follows the highlights of the conference that sought to examine the current challenges faced by the Asia Pacific region:DocumentRethinking security in the 21st Century: Jodhpur Security Dialogue 2014
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015India's neighbourhood is unique: It has about 15,106 km of international border; 7,000 km of it with two nuclear powers, who share close strategic ties with each other. With most of the remaining neighbouring countries, India has long-standing bilateral security-related problems.DocumentIndia's intelligence agencies: in need of reform and oversight
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015The national security threats that India confronts today are much more diverse and complex than ever before. These threats range from nuclear-armed adversaries like China and Pakistan, to Maoists, and militancy and terrorism arising from within its borders and beyond.DocumentDeveloping the guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): elite commitment and inclusive growth
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012Recent research on the long-run of economic growth emphasises that the historical emergence of sustained and broadly shared prosperity is a shift to institutions that support inclusion. This paper addresses the question: “what role does elite commitment play in promoting inclusive growth?”DocumentThe political economy of implementing the National Rural employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is an Indian programme that provides a legal guarantee for at least one hundred days of employment in every year to adult members of any rural household willing to do unskilled manual work at the notified wage.DocumentMethods in governance research: a review of research approaches
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2013The literature relating to the relationship between governance and inclusive growth does not appear to have reached convergence towards a preferred methodological approach. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different social science research method approaches in the analysis of governance in developing countries.DocumentInstitutions, incentives and service provision: bringing politics back in
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2013This paper outlines a conceptual framework for analysing the politics of service provisioning. The paper uses as its point of departure the well-known “accountability framework” of relations between citizens, clients and service providers, laid by the World Bank.DocumentTrillions gained and lost: estimating the magnitude of growth episodes
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2013“Steady state” growth rates are bounded below by zero, and historical observation on the economically leading countries suggests 2% annum as an upper bound.DocumentRethinking spatial inequalities in development: the primacy of politics and power relations
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014This paper offers a political explanation to the problem of spatial inequality in developing countries, paying particular attention to the implications of patronage politics and inter-elite power relations for the spatial distribution of public goods.Pages