Middle class Indians want the World Cup. No they dont want to develop a soccer culture that truly loves and understands the beautiful game and celebrates its inherent equality. They dont want to push an uncaring and inept state to provide basic facilities for sports at every school and make sports part of of children’s education instead of an ‘extra curricular’ activity
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India and the World Cup. Wrong questions and wrong answers
We bring you a guest post from two dynamic legal academics, Prabhash Ranjan and Daniel Mathew . Both are assistant professors at NUJS Kolkata, with Prabhash being on temporary leave to finish his PhD at King’s College, London. Ranjan and Mathew argue that moves to amend the Indian Arbitration Act to facilitate enforcement of foreign commercial arbitral awards fail to take into account the dynamics of one species of international commercial arbitration (ICA), namely investment related disputes.
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The Enigma of Foreign Commercial Arbitration and India
A recent speech by Usha Thorat, Deputy Governor of RBI, neatly summarizes the central bank’s understanding of and plans for financial inclusion. Right up, the bank is clear that financial inclusion cannot be achieved without access to a bank account (para 2)
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Financial Inclusion: Central Bank’s Perspective
While making a trip to the field in a remote hamlet in West Bengal on one of those days in December last year, I saw an ailing poor old man in his 80s, who was being carried by his son on a cycle van coming from the opposite direction. The son was holding the man firmly so that he wouldn’t fall from the van as the road had many potholes. The road was so narrow that my van puller asked me to get down in order to let the other van pass off.
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Managing Money Under Uncertainty and Financial Inclusion
Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation (APGENCO) Limited invites Online Applications for the recruitment to 475 posts at following positions. Apply Online Between June 05, 2010 and 25, 2010. An Article from GJ Tutorial Submit Your Resume Online
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APGENCO Notification 2010: Recruitment of Trainees
Uttarakhand Public Service Commission (UKPSC) holds a written test for the recruitment to various posts via Combined Lower Subordinate Services Exam. The exam is conducted in two phases: preliminary and mains. Download the pattern and syllabus of the exams.
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Uttarakhand Public Service Commission Syllabus for Combined Lower Subordinate Services Exam
The Uttarakhand Public Service Commission (UKPSC) will hold Combined Lower Subordinate Services Examination, 2010 for the recruitment of 337 posts at various levels. Last Date to apply via the OMR application form is June 30, 2010. Download more details and syllabus
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Uttarakhand Public Service Commission (UKPSC): Combined Lower Subordinate Services Exam 2010
Why do EEI scores make sense? Almost a year after the launch of the Economic Environment index ( http://economicgovernance.com/ ), I decided to shove the dust off this index which was the center of all heated debates and conversations during its launch. So what exactly does the index do?
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The Economic Environment Index Revisited
Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) invites application for the Recruitment of Insurance Medical Officers at Baddi (Himachal Pradesh), Bhiwadi (Rajasthan), Manesar (Haryana) , Gurgaon (Haryana), Adityapur (Jharkhand) & Sanath Nagar (Andhra Pradesh). Last Date to apply June 15, 2010. An Article from GJ Tutorial Submit Your Resume Online
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ESIC Recruitment of Medical Officers 2010
Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission (MPPSC) invites Online Applications for the Recruitment of Medical Officers in Madhya Pradesh (MP) Public Health and Family Welfare Department. Apply between May 21, 2010 and June 22, 2010
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Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission (MPPSC): 1109 Medical Officers
Indian Coast Guard invites application for the recruitment of Assistant Commandants in the General Service and Pilot Navigator of the General Duty Branch and Technical Branch, as a Group ‘A’ Gazetted Officer. Last Date is May 28, 2010.
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Indian Coast Guard Fast Track Recruitment 2010: Assistant Commandants
Migration from rural to urban areas in search of jobs and higher wages is not a rare phenomenon and it has been seen that such a migration, in most of the cases, aggravates poverty of the individual migrant (against expectations) because of various psychological and socio-economic reasons.
Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), Shillong invites applications for Recruitment of Teachers 2010, in the prescribed format for filling up of vacancies in States Of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh And Sikkim as given below An Article from GJ Tutorial Submit Your Resume Online
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Navodaya Vidyalaya Recruitment 2010: 128 TGTs, 03 PGTs
Punjab Communication and Information Technology Education Society (PICTES), Government of Punjab invites Online Application for the posts of Computer Teachers on contract basis in all the district of Punjab in ICT Project on contract for one year initially. Apply online from April 30, 2010 to May 21, 2010 on the CDAC Mohali website.
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PICTES, SSA Punjab: Recruitment of 826 Computer Teachers
Subsequent to the broad changes that the 26th November 2009 notification introduced, RBI has gone a step further today to basically allow any individual to be enrolled as a BC, subject, of course, to the banks’ satisfaction. The Business Correspondent (BC) model, first introduced in 2006 has witnessed mixed results so far with no bank in a position to claim that they have successfully designed and executed a sustainable BC model. Amid claims and complaints of RBI’s original norms making the model inviable, RBI constituted a working group whose recommendations basically formed the 26/11 notification.
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BC Norms Further Unshackled
A quick search on the history of cook stoves using Google’s nifty timeline feature provides a snapshot reaching back to the 1740′s, when one of the Founding Fathers of the US, Ben Franklin, began pondering the problem of inefficient cook stoves. “…[Benjamin Franklin] devised means to correct the excessive smoking of chimneys and invented, around 1744, the Franklin stove, which furnished greater heat with a reduced consumption of fuel.” (Source: http://www.fjcollazo.com/fjc_publishings/documents/BFranklin.htm ) Fast-forward over two hundred and fifty years to today as the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is in the process of launching a new program, the National Biomass Cookstove Initiative
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The Improved Cook Stove: Looking at an Age-Old Problem with a New-Age Design Solution
Building off of my colleague Sushmita’s (who is a research associate on the Spandana study) thoughtful blog on microfinance networks’ response to the impact evaluations of last year, and David Roodman and Rich Rosenberg’s related commentary, I’ve been thinking a lot about the way impact evaluation research results are presented to microfinance stakeholders and what we can learn from their responses. This examination is fairly personal for me, as for the last 20 months I’ve been part of the Knowledge Management and Dissemination Unit at the Centre for Micro Finance.
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Between the Ivory Tower, the Hype and the Grassroots: How to talk about Microfinance Research?
T he benefits of improving financial access are widely discussed in conferences, round-tables, and forums around the developing world. Despite attending several of these, I find that nothing is comparable to field experiences that teach me these very lessons. In India , the Business Correspondents (BC) model, mobile banking, and no-frills accounts are common concepts associated with improving financial access.
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Consequences of lacking financial access: A different route
In an interesting column in the Indian Express, Mihir Sharma ponders over ‘The Four Rights that millennial India has promised its people — to information, to food, to education, and to (rural) employment’ and notes that they ‘aren’t just remarkably ambitious for a state that has never impressed with its efficiency.
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Legislating Rights: Parliament, Courts and Separation of Powers
Shameless plug for an upcoming event: IFMR, CDF and CSO Partners welcome Dr Wayne Visser of CSR International for a seminar: “New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility” About the Event Dr Visser will discuss how the current dynamics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have failed us globally. He will describe a new approach we need: CSR 2.0, ‘corporate sustainability and responsibility.’ He will illustrate each of the five principles of CSR 2.0 (creativity, scalability, responsiveness, ‘glocality’ and circularity) with practical case examples
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Corporate social responsibility, or corporate sustainability and responsibility? Upcoming seminar in Chennai