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News & Analysis of State budgets 2007-08
Posted on March 17, 2007 | 1 CommentThe following are automatically generated news on state budgets covering many states To check out budget news from South Indian states, click here. -
Karnataka budget 2007-08: News and Analysis
Posted on March 17, 2007 | 1 CommentThe finance minister of Karnataka – Yediyurappa just presented the state budget highlighting the ban of arrack and lottery. For news and analysis on the budget, read on. Also, see my post on why there is curiously high interest in Karnataka budget. The following are automatically generated from Google News by carefully selected search terms. Most of these should be relevant, but there is a chance that some are not. For 2007-08 Budget click here. Also available is the medium term fiscal plan. -
Union and State budgets, India: Websites, documents, tools
Posted on March 11, 2007 | 8 CommentsThis page gives links to websites of State and Union governments in India with detailed information on budgets. Brief descriptions of sites are given. Despite the importance of budgets, very little information is available about them in the Indian context. The Union budget gets a national coverage and information is widely available. Much less is know about state budgets. The good news is that most state governments now have websites, often with extensive information. As a first step, I’ve put together information on all of them in one place. I updated this page to reflect the websites in February 2011.... -
Webcast of conference on institutions and development
Posted on March 4, 2007 | No CommentsMany talks and interviews with well known people are now available online. I’ve put together a series of them that I have specially enjoyed. To see the rest, click here. This conference held at the Princeton has many interesting speakers including Amartya Sen and Douglass North. The session is called “From the Coffee House to the World Bank – Institutions and Development”. Like most conferences there are interesting moments and long dull moments as well. What I “enjoyed” most was listening to the questions in the conference. The webcast of the conference is available here. Other talks in Princeton are... -
Webcast of interview with Amartya Sen: Reflections on theory in social sciences
Posted on March 4, 2007 | No CommentsMany talks and interviews with well known people are now available online. I’ve put together a series of them that I have specially enjoyed. To see the rest, click here Amartya Sen, in my opinion, is the economist who has probed the limits of economics as a discipline. In this interview he talks of nature of theorising, especially in economics, and makes many interesting observations. The interesting feature of Sen’s analysis is that he rarely dismisses the philosophical basis of the discipline. Instead he brings out the limitations involved and the need to bring in greater diversity to the informational... -
Review of Easterly’s Elusive quest for growth
Posted on January 27, 2007 | 2 CommentsThe Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics Rating: 3 out of 5 Author: William Easterly Year: 2002 Category: Economics, Development, Growth theories, Institutional Economics Publisher: MIT Press The review has been shifted to my academic blog. Sorry for the inconvenience, please click here to read the review.
