Journal of Indian School of Political Economy

M. R. Narayana ¹

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1 Economics Unit, Institute for Social & Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore-560072, IN

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This paper develops a general policy framework for identification of composition, and estimation and aggregation of volume, of implicit budgetary subsidies to aided and government institutions by types and levels of higher education.

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M. R. Narayana ¹

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1 Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore-560072, IN

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India's commitment to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements have resulted in continuous national and state level policy changes with implications for production, employment, investment and exports of small scale industries (SSIs). Due to lack of database for constructing performance indicators and indices, the direction of policy changes and impact of the WTO agreements have remained unestimated and non-monitored at the state level. Based on the experiences in Karnataka State, this paper offers policy lessons and options for creation of new databases by (a) consolidating available scattered data in different institutional sources; (b) using the decentralised planning machinery for data collection at local levels; (c) drawing international experiences in construction of competitive indices; (d) modifying the entry of origin of exported goods by states and SSIs in the shipping bills; and (e) implementing the recommendations of the National Statistical Commission. In addition, public-private partnership in establishing, managing, and cost sharing of new databases is emphaised. These analyses and implications offer useful guidelines to build new databases, and serve as benchmarks for comparative studies on state level databases, on the SSIs under the WTO regime in India.

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M. R. Narayana ¹

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1 Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Nagarabhavi, Bangalore-560072, IN

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This paper provides an analysis of impact of select recent changes in the reservation and de-reservation policy, the Open General Licensing policy, and import tariff policy on small-scale industries (SSIs) in India. The analysis is carried out under the framework of India's commitment to agreements under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and uses the Quick Results of the III All India Census of Small-Scale Industries in 2002-03. The paper finds: continuation of reservation policy for the SSIs is incompatible with the removal of quantitative restrictions (QRs) on imports under the WTO agreements; protection to the SSIs under import tariff policy has declined in recent years; the wedge between applied and bound import tariff is advantageous for India to maintain flexibility to use import tariff as an instrument for promotion of the SSIs, a proposal for complete reduction of import tariff by developed countries should not be accepted by India, as it would be hurtful to the competitiveness of the SSI sector; and the recent outcome of the Ministerial Meeting at Cancun has no remarkable implications for the SSI sector in India.

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M. R. Narayana ¹

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1 Quantitative Analysis Unit, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Nagarabhavi P.O., Bangalore-560072, IN

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This paper makes a descriptive analysis of the impact of liberalisation measures on India's coffee sector in terms of recent changes in production, consumption, marketing, pricing and exporting of coffee. As a background to this description, corresponding changes in world coffee are analysed. This analysis implies that the: (i) recent changes in India's coffee sector cannot be strictly and solely associated with the domestic liberalisation measures since the simultaneous global changes have been of much influence on the domestic coffee situation; (ii) growers and marketing agents have been reaping windfall profits Which may not be conducive to long run production and production condition, especially when output prices start falling in the presence of downward inflexibility of factor prices; (iii) market prices have steeply gone up for domestic consumers, resulting in a loss of domestic consumption/demand; and (iv) complementary government policies, such as export tau policy and foreign exchange rate policy, in general, have been favourable for growers and exporters in the domestic coffee sector as well. These implications are useful for (a) understanding of the nature and direction of recent policy changes, and (b) formulating alternative future policy interventions in India's coffee sector.

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M. R. Narayana ¹

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1 Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore, IN

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This paper argues that in a cross-section data as in India, migration by different durations of residence can provide information on temporal distribution of migration during a period. Since this information is also available for migration between different regions (or states) as well as for sectoral and gender patterns of migration, this paper undertakes a systematic analysis of the spatio-temporal patterns of inter-regional migration in India. These analyses imply, among others, 'that migration is a dynamic process occurring in time and space and its distinctive patterns between regions, sectors and gender may add new insights into the actual disaggregate migration process. These implications are hoped to providing perspective for researchers on determinants and consequences of inter-regional migration in India.

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