ICRIER Working Papers

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  Factors Influencing Indian Manufacturing Firms’ Decision to Hire Contract Labour 

  Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Kukreja, Prateek; Abhishek, Kumar (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2017-07-01)

  The present study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm’s decision to hire contract workers. We use information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by ICRIER, as part of a World Bank funded project ‘Jobs and Development: Creating Multi-Disciplinary Solutions’. The survey covered 500 firms in five states, namely Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil ...

  The present study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm’s decision to hire contract workers. We use information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by ICRIER, as part of a World Bank funded ...
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  Environment and Labour on the Trade Agenda: Lessons for India from the TPP Agreement 

  Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2017-07-01)

  This paper undertakes an evaluation of the Labour and Environment chapters of the TPP Agreement, with a view to determining India’s stand if the same or similar provisions are proposed in multilateral, plurilateral or bilateral agreements in future. Analysis in the paper shows that if TPP like provisions are incorporated in multilateral trade agreements, for India there would be only a small area ...

  This paper undertakes an evaluation of the Labour and Environment chapters of the TPP Agreement, with a view to determining India’s stand if the same or similar provisions are proposed in multilateral, plurilateral or bilateral agreements in future. ...
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  Can Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) be Part Solution to the Indian Debt Problem? 

  Bhagwati, Jaimini; Khan, M. Shuheb; Bogathi, Ramakrishna Reddy (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2017-04-30)

  The Indian debt overhang issue is one of the major reasons that fresh investments are currently not being made in the scale required to promote higher growth and boost employment. Among banks the public sector banks (PSBs) are burdened with the bulk of net non-performing loans (NNPAs). These NNPAs are concentrated in long gestation projects, for example, in the steel, power and infrastructure sectors ...

  The Indian debt overhang issue is one of the major reasons that fresh investments are currently not being made in the scale required to promote higher growth and boost employment. Among banks the public sector banks (PSBs) are burdened with the bulk ...
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  Making Rapid Strides-Agriculture in Madhya Pradesh: Sources, Drivers, and Policy Lessons 

  Gulati, Ashok; Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Sharma, Pravesh (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2017-04-30)

  This paper forms a part of the study on agricultural growth and its linkages to poverty alleviation in six selected states of India, namely Bihar, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Odisha, Punjab, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh (MP). Bihar, UP and Odisha have experienced low to moderate growth in agriculture over the period 2000-01 to 2014-15. Punjab has been the seat of the green revolution and was a front-runner ...

  This paper forms a part of the study on agricultural growth and its linkages to poverty alleviation in six selected states of India, namely Bihar, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Odisha, Punjab, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh (MP). Bihar, UP and Odisha have experienced ...

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