A5021629146- Political Economy and Marxism
- Social and Economic Development in India
- Indian Economic and Social Development
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Marxism and Critical Theory
- Economic Theory and Policy
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- South Asian Studies and Diaspora
- Global Health and Epidemiology
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- School Choice and Performance
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Political theory and Gramsci
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Indian History and Philosophy
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
2013-2024
South Asian University
2013
Abstract In the dominant policy discourses, informal sector is often treated as composed of millions entrepreneurs who are stuck at small scales business with low levels productivity and incomes because market imperfections, institutional rigidities, or regulatory bias. Technological inclusion considered a solution to problem exclusion that owners face. Such policies based on assumption behave like entrepreneurs. However, there also an alternative view forced run businesses their own account...
AbstractThere are two divergent perspectives on the impact of subcontracting firms in informal sector. According to benign view, formal sector prefer linkages with relatively modern sector, and enables capital accumulation technological improvement latter. exploitation extract surplus from stagnant, asset-poor that use cheap family labour home-based production. However, direct, firm-level evidence determinants is thus far lacking literature. We apply a modified Heckman selection model Indian...
The India–Bangladesh border is the world's fifth longest land border, a focus of political tension in an area with vibrant informal economies. Cross-border communities share culture and language cross-border trade (ICBT) well-established. This article explores ICBT on Indian side examining its actors, power relations spatial dimensions, vulnerabilities those involved. Debates social cultural roots ICBT, vulnerability small-scale entrepreneurs to complicit state, powerful middlemen lucrative...
Purpose In the context of India, this article proposes an integrated multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) regression-based methodology to evaluate input-level performance schools and investigate impact along with contextual factors, i.e. medium instruction location school, on school's output level performance, student pass rate. Design/methodology/approach First, Shannon entropy-based approach is applied for weight assignment different parameters. Then, VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I...
This paper explores the deep connections between experiences of health and changes in local ecology, farming, food consumption practices among tribal people Odisha, a state India. The role governmental market actors initiating reinforcing these is analysed political ecology framework using relational understanding 'place'. It allows us to think changing outcomes perceptions communities as they simultaneously experience access forest resources farming practices, consequent dietary changes....
The New Education Policy (NEP), 2020, adopted by Government of India, envisages significant and far-reaching reforms in higher education sector India. In this article, I foreground certain peculiar features the process massification including privatisation fragmentation. locate political economy India tensions inherent centre–state relations pressure to respond popular aspirations on one hand maintain standards other. NEP, 2020 does not appear acknowledge these historical processes. Instead,...
The growing popularity of welfare schemes across several developing countries is crucially predicated on whether incumbent governments can derive consequent electoral benefits. A federal structure like India’s, characterized by overlapping policy design and implementation responsibilities, provides opportunities for diffused credit attribution. Therefore, the question returns depends ability voters to assign benefits different levels government. We investigate voter attribution policies...
In this paper we pay tribute to Stephen Resnick (1938-2013), a major contributor the Marxian theoretical tradition. We present brief introduction works of and trace his intellectual journey highlight factors that had influence on work, in particular Louis Althusser. note emphasis epistemological considerations class exploitation Resnick’s Marxist works.