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Mishra: Rural India in Grip of Loan Sharks
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Girish Mishra
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Ever since days of India’s freedom struggle, there has been a repeated emphasis on the need of liberating rural population from the grip of moneylenders. Soon after Independence the Reserve Bank of India conducted All-India Rural Credit Su...
Mishra: Reserve Bank of India and Globalization
Znet Article, November, 11 2005
Girish Mishra
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is, by its position as central bank, the guardian of country’s banking sector. With the help of suitable monetary policy instruments, it manages and directs the various financial institutions of the country ...
Mishra: Criminal Capitalism and Quixotic Devotee
Znet Article, October, 26 2005
Girish Mishra
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Raymond W. Baker knows of the working of world capitalist system in all its intricacies to the minutest details as he worked for almost four decades in Africa and South America as a prominent businessman. Later, he was associated with two prominen...
Mishra: A Realistic Look at Call Centres
Znet Article, October, 18 2005
Girish Mishra
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For quite some years, call centres have come to symbolize a new optimism for the ruling circles in India. They hope, these call centres will go a long way to boost foreign exchange earnings, provide high value employment opportunities to the educa...
Mishra: Whither Globalization?
Znet Article, September, 10 2005
Girish Mishra
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on the morrow of Independence Day, was interviewed by Rajat Gupta of The McKinsey Quarterly. Towards the end of the interview what Manmohan Singh, in response to the question: “What message would you like to ...
Mishra: Nehru's Economics
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Girish Mishra
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Till the end of the 1980s, the demand for abandonment of Nehru’s ideas and thinking was confined only to a few of the non-Congress parties in India. Communalists of all varieties, Lohia and his followers, sectarian Communists, Swatantra Pa...
Mishra: On Disinvestment in India
Znet Article, August, 03 2005
Girish Mishra
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The process of disinvestment means selling off partially or wholly the assets of state owned undertakings to private sector. Obviously, private sector comes to influence or fully control the management and production decisions of the firms concern...
Mishra: Two Reports, One Aim
Znet Article, July, 20 2005
Girish Mishra
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Recently, two reports have come, one from the American consultancy firm A.T.Kearney and the other from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Government of India. Their aim, however, is the same: paving the way, unmindful of harmful consequences, for F...
Mishra: World Bank in Bihar
Znet Article, July, 08 2005
Girish Mishra
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The World Banks has been recently showing a keen interest in Bihar, the third largest State in India. It has brought out a report, Bihar: Towards A development Strategy, running into more than a hundred pages, prepared by a team led by Mark Sund a...
Mishra: Forced Labour
Znet Article, May, 28 2005
Girish Mishra
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Ever since the beginning of human civilisation, forced labour has been in existence. Almost all the ancient monuments, be it Taj Mahal or Asokan Pillar or the pyramids of Egypt or the Great wall of China, at which we marvel, were built on the basi...
Mishra: White Collar Thievery in India
Znet Article, May, 17 2005
Girish Mishra
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One is bewildered why the BJP-led NDA tried to disrupt the working of Indian parliament, and the media, both the print and the visual, were worked up during the last week of April on the issue of Lalu Yadav being chargesheeted in fodder scam while...
Mishra: Outsourcing Porn
Znet Article, May, 09 2005
Girish Mishra
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America has a multi-billion pornographic moviemaking industry. It turns out on an average around 4,000 films every year, which yield revenue of $13 billion (The Observer, April 18, 2004). Thousands of people are engaged in it from its production t...
Mishra: India: Hullabaloo on Population
Znet Article, April, 08 2005
Girish Mishra
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As soon as the data on the growth of population of religious groups were released by the office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner on September 6, 2004, they were seized by the Hindu communal elements to grind their political axe. Th...
Mishra: World Bank on India's Fiscal Policy
Znet Article, March, 13 2005
Girish Mishra
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In the early days after Independence, India was not only conscious of but asserted its sovereignty in policy making in every sphere of life, be it economic, social, political and defence. It listened to all but took its own decisions keeping in vi...
