North-South Project
In this project, the team made an effort to understand the economic discrepancies between the northern and southern Indian states as being dependent on a variety of indicators representing human skills, capabilities and awareness, law and order indicators, infrastructure, urbanization and resource utilization factors such as finances including revenues and expenditures. Partial funding for this project was received from the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
An article extracted from this study (Spending versus Outcomes) was published in The Economic Times on July 31, 2009. This article may be viewed at:
This work (authored by Samuel Paul and Kala S Sridhar) relating to the TN-UP cases is being extended and supplemented with qualitative research and in-depth interviews. A different paper extracted out of this (authored by Kala S Sridhar and Venugopala Reddy) is currently under review in the Asia-Pacific Development Journal (published by the UNESCAP).