Prof. Sebastian Morris

Research & Publication





2020-12-01

Slowdown and Crisis in the Indian Economy - A Study of the Macroeconomic Developments between the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Crisis (2011-12 to 2019-20)

Working Paper No1, 2020 /Goa Institute of Management, Panaji In this paper we bring out the performance of the Indian economy and review the approach of macroeconomic policy especially demand management in the Indian economy. After the shock of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), India&r

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2010

Container Train Operations: Introducing Competition (A)

In May 2005, the Committee on Infrastructure took a decision that Ministry of Railways, in consultation with Planning Commission, would prepare a policy for permitting private and public sector operators to run container trains through the Indian Railways (IR) network

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2010-12-31

Container Train Operations: Introducing Competition (B)

In October 2005, the representatives of the Planning Commission, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and Ministry of Shipping met to discuss the RITES recommendations to work towards framing a policy document for running container trains by private

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11-04-2006

Rural Infrastructure Needs A Fillip

The article evaluates the scope of rural development in India. It demonstrates that the Indian states weaknesses in cross-functional policy design and in coordination across departments and functions is the obvious cause of lack of rural development, and urges to reco

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2003

Privatisation Today: A Discussion

The paper holds a discussion on the prospects of Privatization in India today. It suggests that privatization as such is no longer an issue in the country. The issue today is how best to carry the process forward and the priorities for privatization. It highlights tha

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2003

India Infrastructure Report 2004: Overview

The text discusses and summarises the principal findings of the various articles in the report. It also develops the theme of ensuring value for government expenditures through inter alia Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and Public Finance Initiatives (PFIs). Government expenditures on vital so

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2002

Commercial Aircraft Industry And Governments

This paper deals with the evaluation of the civil aeronautics sectors since the 1930s in the background of Government intervention & technological changes. The paper has tried to contrast the active interference by European nations in the domestic aviation sector

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06-08-2001

The Growth And Transformation Of Small Firms In India

The book covers the growth and transformation of small industries in the nineties and before. It  addresses policy issues and makes radical suggestions on how small industries can become the leading edge of India's competitiveness. Inter alia it covers the i

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29-07-1999

Competition Policy In India

In India protection and controls are being replaced by a competitive and de-regulated open economic system. In the pre-reform era, various restraints to competition existed, which have now been relaxed. One key issue in the phase of transition is of ensuring and manag

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1998

Constraints To Export Growth In The Small Firm Sector

This paper analyses exports from small firms and brings out the constraints in expansion and growth of the same. A large primary survey of over 1200 firms is used to bring out experiences of small firms. Small firms would have to have a major role in exports from Indi

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27-07-1994

Some Issues In The Debate On Policy

Indian economy’s liberalization in the 90s can no more be seen as a response of the government to balance of payment crisis; the reforms of 1992-93 cannot be attributed to the pressure from the World Bank or the IMF. While the most of the Left intellectuals argu

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1993

Policy And The Problems Of Policy Change: Some Issues

During the eighties there have been stop-start attempts at liberalization and at policy change to give new direction to the economy which had been drifting ever since serious planning had been given up in the mid-sixties with the onset of the recession then. The perio

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