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Trade in Services and Trade Agreements
Perspectives from India and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A comprehensive assessment of how trade complementarities and agreements help facilitate trade in services between India and the European Union
A first of its kind, it addresses policy initiatives on services trade between two economies that are actively engaged in trade agreements. It establishes...
India Policy Forum 2013-14
Volume 10
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The India Policy Forum (IPF) is organized by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in New Delhi in partnership with the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. It aims to examine India’s economic reforms and its economic transition using policy-relevant empirical research. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in the Asia Pacific region.
This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four sub-regional groupings. The...
by Professor Tuhin Ghosh, Professor Indrajit Pal
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Natural disasters are more common now than they have been ever before. Globally, climates are changing and natural hazards are becoming routine. This book is a study of natural hazards and how they turn into disasters—with a focus on Asian countries. It takes a holistic view of the subject and discusses...
New Frontiers in Asia–Latin America Integration
Trade Facilitation, Production Networks, and FTAs
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Economic ties between Asia and Latin America are growing as a part of a global shift toward more South–South cooperation. Yet trade costs remain high, which may impede future interregional trade and integration. Furthermore, an emerging trans-Pacific trade architecture based on free trade agreements...
The Prabhakaran Saga
The Rise and Fall of an Eelam Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
This is the story of the man who defined the armed struggle for an independent Eelam for over three decades and who lived by the gun and died by the gun-Velupillai Prabhakaran. A home-grown guerilla who built the LTTE into a ruthless war machine and controlled its world-wide network from his hideout...
Settled Strangers
Asian Business Elites in East Africa (1800-2000)
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Settled Strangers aims at understanding the social, economic and political evolution of the transnational migrant community of Gujarati traders and merchants in East Africa. The history of South Asians in East Africa is neither part of the mainstream national Indian history nor that of East African...
Embattled Media
Democracy, Governance and Reform in Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Embattled Media is the first book to look comprehensively at the evolution of news media in post-colonial Sri Lanka, with a focus on media policy, law and education. It offers valuable insights into the importance of independent media for democratic governance in the wider South Asian region.
The...
Human Rights and Peace
Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements redefines the ambit of peace, presenting a radically different perspective of looking at its relationship with human rights. It deals with the transformation of both the definition and practice of peace, showing how it has now taken the...
Left-Wing Extremism and Human Rights
The Role of Civil Liberties Groups in Andhra Pradesh
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Left-Wing Extremism and Human Rights unfolds a mosaic of social issues, especially of the weaker and marginalized section, closely intertwined with internal security.
Based on an empirical study of the Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) movement in Andhra Pradesh, once the citadel of LWE, it offers...
Urban Villager
Life in an Indian Satellite Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Urban Villager is a superbly etched and finely detailed representation of the life of an ‘urban villager’ in a modern satellite town of India. It describes how Delhi, as a city, is growing radially, stretching its way into the rural fringes of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that border the city to...
Gorkhaland
Crisis of Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Gorkhaland is an attempt by a journalist to unravel the various layers of the ongoing crisis in the Darjeeling hills, where the Nepali-speaking community is locked in a political struggle with the state of Bengal, of which it is a part. The author endeavours to delve into the deeper recesses of the...
Vocalizing Silence
Political Protests in Orissa, 1930-42
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book is a detailed study of the different facets of the Indian national movement in Orissa during the phase between the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Quit India Movement. It documents the role of different social groups during that period along with the social reach of these movements....
by Shri Krishan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
The processes of political mobilization and identity formation in the rural regions of Bombay Presidency between 1934 and 1947 are the major focus of this work. Studying the politics of the masses, their aspirations and demands—both within the formal institutional frameworks of the colonial `public...