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• The new role of states

  Created: 2011-11-15 02:51:04 Author: Sangeeta Singh

  Bihar CM wants the GDP of Bihar to grow by an annual 20%, and is seeking a similar increase in gross budgetary support from the Planning Commission. ...

• Down the drainpipe

  Created: 2011-11-14 05:55:34 Author: Hindustan Times

  According to a survey of 423 cities conducted in 2009 by Indicus Analytics, an economic research firm, no Indian city qualified as healthy and clean. ...

• Urban sanitation goes down the drain

  Created: 2011-11-10 03:41:42 Author: Indicus Analytics

  No city in India qualifies as clean and healthy ...

• How the states were ranked

  Created: 2011-11-07 09:25:38 Author: Bibek Debroy & Laveesh Bhandari

  If you want to rank states, there are two broad roads to follow. First, you can administer questionnaires and respondents reply to specific questions. This route, however, presumes that respondents know about all the states you wish to rank. Second, you c...

• Investment should be given a big push to ease inflationary pressures

  Created: 2011-11-05 07:53:27 Author: Indicus Analytics

  Whatever the reason, there is a sense that the run of negativism is touching the trough. Optimism and pessimism are relative terms, and what does this really mean for growth? ...

• Kolkata Businessmen Chant to Wealth Goddess as Singh Ally Deters Investors

  Created: 2011-11-04 09:17:30 Author: Pradipta Mukherjee & Andrew MacAskill

  The Kolkata businessman is taking time out of the office this week to chant prayers with about 20 of his peers as they seek divine intervention in the fortunes of the Indian state of West Bengal.  ...

• India: Backdoor Monetization

  Created: 2011-11-04 03:47:02 Author: Anantha Nageswaran

  Monetization becomes inevitable later unless the Indian Government risk is acceptable to the market at the yields at which the bonds are sold. ...

• India's grid-lock

  Created: 2011-11-03 03:33:07 Author: Indicus Analytics

  Despite its good performance, the electricity sector has consistently lagged demand. ...

• Occupy Dalal Street?

  Created: 2011-10-30 04:11:12 Author: Sharon Fernandes

  Though India saw its share of protests with the anti-corruption, Anna Hazare movement, the anger against greedy capitalism, targeting traders or financial dealings does not rise till a scam is exposed. ...

• Over 300,000 jobs created in India between July & September 2011

  Created: 2011-10-20 05:26:27 Author: Indicus Analytics

  The organized sector in India created 346,000 jobs between July and September 2011 and is expected to add another 326,400 by end 2011, according to the latest findings of Ma Foi Randstad Employment Trends Survey – Wave 3.  ...

• Tracking urban households

  Created: 2011-10-10 14:57:34 Author: Indicus Analytics

  At each life stage, there are different income and consumption patterns; as the chief wage earner moves into the older years, the family structure also changes. ...

• Regulators and government should attend to the needs of the economy and end policy drift

  Created: 2011-10-10 14:02:31 Author: Indicus Analytics

  While inflation has been declining in primary products, there has been a small uptick in recent months, and manufactured products WPI as well as consumer price indices show, and will continue to show, inflation persistence. ...

• Small durables—a growing market

  Created: 2011-09-26 04:47:02 Author: Indicus Analytics

  Aspiration levels being high across urban India, the demand to spruce up households as soon as money starts coming in is strong. ...

• Markets waiting to be tapped

  Created: 2011-09-12 13:48:42 Author: Indicus Analytics

  With consumer aspirations merging across India, a large part of these goods have become daily necessities for urban households, and there are various brands catering to the disparate income segments....

• E-money issuers- Risks, Rewards and Regulatory Framework: : Policy Brief on Financial Inclusion in India

  Created: 2011-09-09 13:04:55 Author: Indicus Analytics

  While e-money has great potential to revolutionize the reach and efficiency of payment systems in India, it is still at a nascent stage....

• Agent Network Management - Corporate retail networks as business correspondents of banks : Policy Brief on Financial Inclusion in India

  Created: 2011-09-09 13:01:10 Author: Indicus Analytics

  While branchless banking through business correspondents (BCs) has been in force since 2006, for-profit companies have been allowed to operate as BCs for banks recently in September 2010. ...

• The M-PESA Model- An Overview: Policy Brief on Financial Inclusion in India

  Created: 2011-09-09 12:54:42 Author: Indicus Analytics

   Mobile revolution across developing economies has made mobile phone a mass market product, paving way for tapping the unbanked segments. ...

• The Business Correspondent model - An overview: Policy Brief on Financial Inclusion in India

  Created: 2011-09-09 12:50:14 Author: Indicus Analytics

  There are many benefits of using ICT in conjunction with business correspondents in the pursuit of financial inclusion.  ...

• Models to enable universal inclusion: Policy Brief on Financial Inclusion in India

  Created: 2011-09-09 12:34:16 Author: Indicus Analytics

  Financial inclusion is a key policy goal because it allows people to transact through reliable bank accounts as opposed to unreliable informal channels.  ...

• No Speeding Ticket: Growth Tips at 8.5%

  Created: 2011-09-09 04:54:00 Author: Indicus Analytics

  Strong demand is being under-emphasised  ...