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Trade Rules in E-commerce: WTO and India

Arpita Mukherjee; Avantika Kapoor (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-03-30)

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is an integral part of business activities, and various models of e-commerce have emerged with liberalisation and technological developments. Global e-commerce trade has seen fast growth, which is predicted to continue in the future. The sector is now discussed in various international forums, and a group of countries are exploring the possibility of open, transparent ...

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is an integral part of business activities, and various models of e-commerce have emerged with liberalisation and technological developments. Global e-commerce trade has seen fast growth, which is predicted to continue ...
Scaling up Rooftop Solar Power in India: The Potential of Municipal Solar Bonds

Saurabh Trivedi; Indro Ray; Gregor Vulturius; Amrita Goldar; Labanya Prakash J; Sandeep Paul; Aarsi Sagar (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-03-30)

India has made great progress in reaching its ambitious goal to scale up renewable energy capacity to 175 GW in 2022. Solar power plays a central part in achieving this goal and installations of utility scale power have seen a dramatic increase in the last few years. Rooftop solar, however, is lagging and more needs to be done to achieve its 40 GW capacity target by 2022. To meet the remaining rooftop ...

India has made great progress in reaching its ambitious goal to scale up renewable energy capacity to 175 GW in 2022. Solar power plays a central part in achieving this goal and installations of utility scale power have seen a dramatic increase in the ...
Crop Insurance in India: Key Issues and Way Forward

Ashok Gulati; Prerna Terway; Siraj Hussain (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-02-28)

Farmers in India are exposed to large agriculture risks due to vagaries of nature. One of the most effective mechanisms to mitigate agricultural risks is to have a robust insurance system. Although crop insurance has been in the country since 1972, yet it has been beset with several problems such as lack of transparency, high premium, delay in conducting crop cutting experiments and non-payment/delayed ...

Farmers in India are exposed to large agriculture risks due to vagaries of nature. One of the most effective mechanisms to mitigate agricultural risks is to have a robust insurance system. Although crop insurance has been in the country since 1972, yet ...
Demonetisation – A Golden Opportunity for Widening the Taxpayer Base

Singh, Rajiva Ranjan; Bagchi, Anandita (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-01-30)

The demonetisation exercise announced by the PM on November 8, 2016, aimed to tackle the problems of black money, fake currency, corruption, and terror funding. With time, more targets were added such as the creation of a cashless economy, curbing real estate prices, and broadening the taxpayer base. Although black money cannot be wiped out in a single stroke the shock effect of demonetisation clearly ...

The demonetisation exercise announced by the PM on November 8, 2016, aimed to tackle the problems of black money, fake currency, corruption, and terror funding. With time, more targets were added such as the creation of a cashless economy, curbing real ...