Federalism without a Centre: The Impact of Political and Economic Reform on India's Federal System. By Sáez Lawrence. New Delhi and Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2002. 251 pp. $64.95 (cloth).

2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 835-837
Author(s):  
Rahul Mukherji
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Federal System ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Impact

Indian Women Working in Call Centers

2012 ◽  
pp. 156-168
Author(s):  
Doreen J. Mattingly
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Call Centers ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Family Control ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
The Impact

This chapter draws on recent (2005) interviews with 20 call center workers in the New Delhi metro area to analyze the impact of employment in international call centers for young middle-class Indian women. Providing a wide range of telephone and occasionally Internet services to customers in the US, UK, and Australia, call centers are a booming source of employment for young English-speaking Indians. Roughly half of the growing workforce is female, and the wages are high by Indian standards. Nevertheless, the need to work at night to service customers on other continents creates special hardships and complications, particularly for young women who traditionally would not be allowed to go out at night. While acknowledging the hardships and obstacles presented by the work, this chapter shows that that working in call centers changes the relationships between the young women workers and their parents. Specifically, it argues that young women working in call centers are implicitly rejecting traditional patterns of family control over daughters, and in doing so they are resisting subordination.

scholarly journals Economic Reform, Labour Markets and Informal Sector Employment: Evidence from India

Economies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Nihar Shembavnekar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Employment Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Tariff Reductions

Theory and economic intuition suggest that domestic institutions influence the employment impact of economic reform, but the evidence base is thin. This paper seeks to address this by examining the extent to which differences in regional labour market flexibility shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in informal (unregistered) manufacturing enterprises in India (1990–2001). It employs a difference-in-differences strategy and finds that tariff reductions are not associated with significant employment shifts in informal enterprises, a finding that may be attributable to the fact that these enterprises rarely engage in international trade. However, on average and ceteris paribus, delicensing (FDI reform) is associated with statistically significant increases (increases) in informal employment and informal enterprise numbers in inflexible (flexible) labour markets. There is some evidence that the delicensing effect is attributable to increases in product market competition in delicensed industries. However, the channel underlying the result associated with FDI reform is less clear. In light of the persistent primacy of the informal sector in India and other developing economies, these findings have substantial policy relevance.

scholarly journals The Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Pakistan’s Federal System

Asian Survey ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-465
Author(s):  
Filippo Boni ◽  
Katharine Adeney
Keyword(s):  
Federal System ◽  
Centripetal Force ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
Federal Structure

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is often portrayed as the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative. While much attention has been devoted to its geopolitical repercussions, its impacts on Pakistan’s federal system and interprovincial relations have not yet been explored. Organized around interviews conducted in 2015, 2018, and 2019, this article demonstrates that the construction of the economic corridor is acting as a centripetal force in Pakistan’s federal structure, despite the potential for such a large external investment to redress the disparities between provinces.

The Impact of Reinventing Government on State and Federal Parks

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Lowry
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Reinventing Government ◽  
Bureaucratic Agencies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

Over the last dozen years of the twentieth century, one major change affecting many American public policies consists of increased demands for efficiency. As a result, the demands on bureaucratic agencies responsible for delivery of public goods and services are daunting. Political authorities prescribe economic goals of efficiency and self-sufficiency for agencies while not reducing demands for attainment of political goals like efficacy and equity. Public officials have used techniques encouraging efficient behavior such as downsizing and evaluation through performance-based standards to make government more streamlined while still being effective. Have these changes occurred in different ways at different levels of the federal system? How can we explain those differences? Does the impact on the delivered goods and services vary significantly by level of government?

The Impact of the Internet on Values in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki R. Lane ◽  
Jiban Khuntia ◽  
Madhavan Parthasarathy ◽  
Bidyut B. Hazarika
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Indian Consumers ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

In this study, the authors examine how the internet is changing two critical personal value dimensions of India's youth. Based on values theory, and using data that spans a decade from 2004-2014, they contend that time spent on the internet is an influential factor in changing self-enhancement and self-transcendence values. Given the tremendous increase in exposure to western products, ideals, and people-to-people interaction via internet connectivity (India has over 275 million internet users who communicate in the English language), the authors posit that young Indian consumers would adopt values associated with self-enhancement and individualism, forsaking self-transcendence related ideals. Data pertaining to the Rokeach value scales were collected in New Delhi, and the results support the notion that these values have indeed changed substantially in such a short amount of time, largely due to IT as opposed to other media vehicles such as TV, and print media. Implications of this noteworthy change in values due to the internet in a relatively short period are discussed.

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