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How effective is the Indian polity in making laws and policies to address changing ground realities? How do its gears work? Which stakeholder groups are more successful in bringing about policy change, through what methods, and in what contexts? Seeking to answer these questions, Shaping Policy in India takes a close look at nine landmark Indian laws and legislative attempts to reveal the sociopolitical process of policy formulation in the world’s largest ...
What are the contours of the field of public policy? How has it evolved? What broad questions does it grapple with? How do policymaking, implementation, and evaluation work in India? What are the steps involved in law-making and what often holds back its implementation? How well do the globally hailed policymaking theories actually work in India?
This short introduction addresses such debates and more. Tracing the evolution of the policymaking process in India, ...
This is the story of the carefully planned resurgence of the State Bank of India (SBI) from a laid-back incumbent under threat from private players to a customer-oriented competitive organization that has outperformed rivals despite several constraints. The leadership at SBI succeeded in reshaping perspectives and profitability at the bank, which employs a staggering 200,000 people, notwithstanding salary restrictions and regulatory bottlenecks. While the primary ...
The past decade of liberalization and globalization has instilled a considerable degree of professionalism and transparency in the style and functioning of financial market analysts and practitioners. This volume studies some major recent developments and trends in the Indian financial sector. It looks at how rapid globalization is transforming Indian equity markets as well as the emergence and role of equity analysts in India. Presenting rigorous empirical ...