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| This is a study of India's PSES: their size, industrial and geographical spread, governance, cost structure, profitability, financial distress, employment, and their future. This study explores three aspects. First, it compares the performance of PSE'S vis-à-vis their competitors in the Indian private sector with respect to various measures of profitability, capital utilization, financial structure, and costs. Second, it invokes costs that arise out of principal-agent relationships and the theory of incentives to claim that ownership matters. Third, as a consequence, it argues for a well-sequenced but rapid privatization of PSE'S, beginning with luxury hotels and extending to all tradable under the competitive threats of entry and progressively lower tariff. Indeed, it argues that the long-term corporate growth of the better-off PSE'S demands that these companies be privatized and liberated from the fetters of bureaucracy. |
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| The study looks at the outlook for selected infrastructure sectors in the context of the needs & the policies, international experience & constraints on development. The analysis would be both at the overall economy level & also for specific sectors. |
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| The project provides insights into ownership, stock and purchase patterns of manufactured goods (which includes both consumer durables and consumables) by households and links it to household characteristics. The information provided is a useful tool for marketing professionals and business-planners, as it would enable them to identify their target consumers, their spending pattern and predict the future demand for their goods based on the demand trends found in the past and present. The project undertakes an extensive detailed analysis of household ownership of major consumer durables and the change in ownership patterns across time. It is observed that the ownership patterns have been changing drastically over years, with the middle class being the drivers of growth. This is attributed to the fact that the middle class is seen to be the group where the maximum demand is generated. The analysis also extends to projecting the growth of households and in turn the growth of the middle class. Various consumer durables like ACs, refrigerators, cars, washing machines, TVs etc. have been considered. |
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