ICRIER Working Papers

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  Labour Regulations in India: Improving the Social Security Framework 

  Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2017-01-30)

  An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that affect households from time to time, such as illness, employment injury, death or old age. This paper critically reviews and analyses existing regulations in India that provide fall back mechanisms and ...

  An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that affect households from time to time, such as illness, ...
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  Domestic Value addition and Foreign Content: An Analysis of India’s Exports from 1995 to 2011 

  Goldar, Bishwanath; Das, Deb Kusum; Sengupta, Sreerupa; Das, Pilu Chandra (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2017-01-30)

  India’s merchandise trade has been growing in importance in recent years with increases in share in world exports and imports (Economic Survey, 2013-14). However with fragmentation of production process across countries, higher exports can no longer be linked to higher production as imports of intermediate products which are used in exports also increase. Against this background, it is very important ...

  India’s merchandise trade has been growing in importance in recent years with increases in share in world exports and imports (Economic Survey, 2013-14). However with fragmentation of production process across countries, higher exports can no longer ...
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  Improving Taxation Environment: Attracting Foreign Direct Investment 

  Singh, R. R. (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2016-06-15)

  With opening of the economy in 1991 and subsequent removal of regulatory and trade barriers, India became an attractive investment (Foreign Direct Investment-FDI) destination. A large number of multinationals have established operations in India to utilise the services of available skilled manpower. Indian tax administration was always perceived to be difficult. The economic liberalisation had created ...

  With opening of the economy in 1991 and subsequent removal of regulatory and trade barriers, India became an attractive investment (Foreign Direct Investment-FDI) destination. A large number of multinationals have established operations in India to ...
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  Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) & Financial Sector Regulation in India 

  Bhagwati, Jaimini; Khan, M. Shuheb; Bogathi, Ramakrishna Reddy (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2016-06-15)

  The Financial Sector Reforms Commission (FSLRC) which was set up in 2011 by the Ministry of Finance was mandated to study existing legislation and financial sector regulatory practices in India and to propose improvements. The FSLRC submitted its report in 2013 and four of its members recorded dissenting notes. This paper examines the changes in regulation in four G7 countries post the financial ...

  The Financial Sector Reforms Commission (FSLRC) which was set up in 2011 by the Ministry of Finance was mandated to study existing legislation and financial sector regulatory practices in India and to propose improvements. The FSLRC submitted its report ...

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