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Reservation Policy and its Implementation across Domains in India
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Niranjan Sahoo
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Author Detail ORF-Academic Foundation
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| 10 September 2009 |
| India runs the world's oldest and one of the most comprehensive affirmative action policies in the form of reservations or quotas for its disadvantaged sections. Ever since its adaptation, this critical public policy perhaps remains the most controversial and polarising public policy that the Independent India has adopted |
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Trade and FDI related reforms in the states, 1991-2007: The Case of Maharashtra
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Gitanjali Sen
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| 01 August 2009 |
| The liberalisation policy of India that was initiated in 1991 was designed to
dismantle the protectionist regime through removal of industrial licenses, thereby
reducing the strict bureaucratic control under which the country¿s foreign trade had been
suffering for decades. The Import and Export (Control) Act of 1947 was replaced by the
Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act of 1992, empowering the central
government to announce and amend the export and import policy, or trade policy as it is
called. |
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Food Security Policy Options for Tamil Nadu
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A. M Swaminathan
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ORF-Academic Foundation
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| 06 May 2009 |
| Throughout the world, distributuion of essential food articles by the State or State-sponsored organisations for the poor at subsidized rates is recognised as an ant-poverty and anti-inflationary measure. |
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Renewable Energy Technologies
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Amitav Malik, Nitant Mate & Devayani Bhave
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| 31 January 2009 |
| This volume on "Renewable Energy Technologies" has a special focus on distributed power generation (DPG) to highlight the easy applicability of alternative energy technology, particularly for the rural sector in India. |
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Caspian Pipeline Politics, Energy Reserves and Regional Implications
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P.L. Dash
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ORF-Pentagon Press
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| 29 April 2008 |
| The Caspian region is endowed with enormous offshore and onshore hydrocarbon resources, but their access to world markets is limited. Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the number of claimants to the Caspian Sea has increased from two to five States. |
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The Politics of Power Sector Reforms in India
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By Niranjan Sahoo
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| 16 June 2007 |
| This monograph examines the different processes that led to the 'political capture' of the power sector in India and critiques the attempts at reforms to change these processes. |
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The Royal Nepal Army: Meeting the Maoist Challenge
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Maj Gen (Retd) Ashok Mehta
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New Delhi: ORF-Rupa & Co, 2005
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| 14 November 2005 |
| Very little is known about Nepal except for its beautiful mountains. Still less is known about its people, their poverty and underdevelopment and its fallout -- the Maoist uprising. Even less has been heard about the Royal Nepal Army (RNA), till the Maoists pulled it out from its barracks. |
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The Islamic Boomerang in Saudi Arabia: Cost of Delayed Reforms
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MH Ansari
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ORF 2004
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| 10 September 2004 |
| Many developing countries are confronted with the twin imperatives of development and modernisation. Each has responded in a distinct manner to these impulses. The underlying premises and perceptions shape public policy. The developing societies in the Muslim world are a part of this wider process. |
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Pakistan's Economic and Social Development
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S. Akbar Zaidi
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| 04 September 2004 |
| The book examines Pakistan's development in an historical context, with particular emphasis on the period following General Pervez Musharraf's coup in October 1999. Author Akbar Zaidi is one of Pakistan's best-known and prolific economists. |
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