In India, logistics cost, in average, is much higher as compared to many other economies. India’s flagship programme ‘Make in India’ cannot be successful if its logistics industry remains weak. Movement of goods in production involves a certain logistic cost. The more the logistic cost, higher...
There are two basic business models linked to app-based businesses. The first entails usage of various apps to ease the processes involved in various businesses. Secondly, businesses are directly conducted through apps. Purchasing of a variety of products including food items, renting of cars and ma...
The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector’s growth and employment generation capacity is high. In the last fiscal, it grew about 11% and increased employment by 14%. Its contribution to the export market is also considerable. At times, many MSME units go in for innovation of products....
The Indian banking industry has been suffering from an extensive Non-Performing Assets (NPA) crisis. The Public Sector Banks (PSBs) are hard hit but privatebanks are also not completely immune from it. It is claimed that the PSBs and private banks are not on the same plane.The PSBs are expected to p...
The recent outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Bihar leading to a rising death toll of children points to the dilapidated public healthcare system in the country. According to the latest data available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, about 79.5% of the 1,719 villages of ...
The Indian eco-nomy has been facing problems like weak agriculture, low job creation, slowdown in manu-facturing and mining, and low private in-vestments. Even private consumption, which had been one of the main drivers of growth of the Indian economy for quite some years, may gradually lose steam i...
An important feature of the very high rate of growth of higher education in India, particularly since the beginning of the 1990s, is an alarming growth of the private higher education sector. The size of the private education sector is about twice that of the public sector in terms of the number of ...
Indian economy is to a large extent an agrarian economy. Agriculture’s contribution to the GDP of India has been falling from the 1950s. Price stability of the economy depends much on the performance of agriculture. In this article the role of inputs used in agriculture and its performance is disc...
There have been a number of researches on land size and productivity in the Indian agriculture sector. The point of debate is whether the scale of land has any significant influence on agricultural productivity. Adam Smith had envisaged the concept of economies of scale in the 18th century. The theo...
A lot of researches are going on regarding global warming and climate change in India. The studies vary widely. Sometimes it becomes difficult to draw conclusion from that. At present, it seems that the discussions on global warming are losing steam. But studies on climate change are gaining strengt...
