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BOOK REVIEWS

Looking beyond privatisation Book>> Privatizing water: Governance failure and the world’s urban water crisis • by Karen Bakker • Orient BlackSwan • Rs 695 Economy that nurtures Book>> The great disruption, how the climate crisis will transform the global economy • by Paul Gilding • Bloomsbury • Rs 599 A holiday in bad air Book>> [...]

Financial reform in India From theory to practice

Aug 9th 2012/ The Economist A WORLD-CLASS economist accepts one of the world’s most poisoned chalices. That is the most tempting conclusion about the news that the next chief economic adviser to the government of India will be Raghuram Rajan. He is the author of Fault Lines, a superb account of the sub prime crisis; [...]

BOOKS REVIEWS

Anatomy of sleaze:Two books explore how corruption and black money thrive in our economy.(CORRUPTION IN INDIA: THE DNA AND THE RNA, THE DARKER SIDE OF BLACK MONEY: AN INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF FINANCIAL SECRECY AND TAX HAVENS) THE India Against Corruption movement led by Team Anna has focussed on the institution of a Lokpal [...]

Books/Reports/Edited Volumes

MOVING WITH THE TIMES Gender, Status and Migration of Nurses in India by Sreelekha Nair (Price INR 695.00) [Available at Routledge ] This book is an attempt to penetrate the silence that surrounds the lives of nurses as migrant women. It offers a perceptive understanding of the trials faced specifically by women from the state [...]

The Rise of Indian multinationals: Perspective of Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment, edited by Karl P. Sauvant and Jaya Prakash Pradhan with Ayesha Chatterjee and Brian Harley

Review by Arvind K. Jha Reserve Bank of India Occasional Papers Vol.32,No.1, Summer 2011 The book on ‘The Rise of Indian multinationals – Perspective of Indian Outward ForeignDirect Investment’ is one of the finest books recently published on Indian MNCs. The book, spread over nine different chapters contributed by noted experts on the subject, provides [...]

The Myth of Too Big to Fail, Imad A. Moosa (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, UK), 2010; pp XV+223, £65.

by Narayan Chandra Pradhan Reserve Bank of India Occasional Papers Vol.32,No.1, Summer 2011 In the aftermath of recent financial crisis, the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) issue is at the forefront of the debate on financial regulatory reform as witnessed in most of the developed economies like the United States, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. In much of Europe [...]

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