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Bridging Data Gaps in ASUSE to Address the Enterprise Formalisation Challenge

The Annual Survey of  Unincorporated Sector Enterprises , introduced by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, was designed to...

14.08.2025 1

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Amit Singh Khokhar

Economic Growth and Sustainable Energy in India and China

The relationship between economic growth and sustainable energy in India and China is examined using the non-linear autoregressive distributed lag...

14.08.2025 2

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Dastgir Alam

Upskilling for Women

Skilling has emerged as a popular choice for corporate social responsibility funding. The evaluations of the skilling programmes have uncovered...

14.08.2025 1

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Monika

Staging the Revolution through Orality

The phenomenon of contemporary theatre in Kerala, characterised by its activism, rejects the notion of “art for art’s sake” by reconsidering the...

14.08.2025 5

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Shilpa Sajeev

Landslide Vulnerability as a Justice Issue

Landslides become an issue of justice when they disproportionately affect a particular section of society. Regrettably, Kerala’s socially,...

09.08.2025 1

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Ratheesh Mon P

DPRK’s Deviation from Tradition

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or North Korea has long prided itself on its growth and development in the guiding shadow of the Kim...

09.08.2025 1

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Porkkodi Ganeshpandian

Should the RBI Target Only on the Core Inflation?

Whether the Reserve Bank of India should target inflation excluding food prices is empirically evaluated. Using monthly data on year-on-year...

09.08.2025 2

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Anuradha Patnaik

The e-Shram Portal

The Ministry of Labour and  Employment launched the e-Shram portal to create a nati onal database of unorganised workers, including migrants. Since...

09.08.2025 2

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Kuldeepsingh Rajput

‘Make in India’ or Miss the Moment?

Despite a decade of “Make in India,” the country’s manufacturing ambitions remain hamstrung by a fundamental constraint of skills deficit rooted in...

02.08.2025 3

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Nitin Kumar Bharti

The Last Titan

W ith the passing of   V S Achuthan­andan on 21 July 2025, Kerala has lost the last titan of its communist movement. Despite being  much younger...

02.08.2025 2

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Prabhat Patnaik

Exploring the Linkage between Education and Financial Autonomy of Women Working in the Urban Informal Sector

The autonomy of women in terms of taking decisions in financial matters is crucial in accelerating empowerment and reducing gender biases....

02.08.2025 2

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Paramjit

Exploitation in Sri Lanka’s Plantation Economy

The way that Sri Lanka’s plantation elite manipulate tea pricing and productivity claims to suppress wages is examined. Their accounting deceptions...

02.08.2025 1

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Dhanusha Gihan Pathirana

Fiscal Aspects of the Sixth Schedule

The finances of Autonomous District Councils under the Sixth Schedule have not been extensively discussed, despite their key role as a unit of...

02.08.2025 1

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K Vanlalhruaitluanga

Beyond Snapshots

Current cross-sectional approaches to studying financial inclusion in India fail to capture the complex financial lives of women that are often...

31.07.2025 1

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Manoshij Banerjee