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Manipur Mortgaged
Introduction
Specter of economic crisis looms over Manipur. It is a crisis characterized by: (a) dependence on the import of commodity and money, (b) capital accumulation at the market dominantly controlled by Indian monopolists that the drain wealth of the people, (c) corruption, misappropriation and...
Local Dynamics, Universal Context: Border Trading Through Moreh, Manipur
A small hill town in the state of Manipur bordering Myanmar, Moreh has come to be the focus of a great deal of attention since it was declared a Free Trade Zone by the Government of India in 1995. Though there are literally no reliable official estimates of the volume of the trade that passes through...
The Terrorist Economy In India’s North-East — Preliminary Explorations
If entrepreneurship is the imaginative pursuit of position with limited concern about the means used to achieve the purpose, then we can expect changes in the structure of rewards to modify the nature of the entrepreneur’s activities, sometimes drastically. The rules of the game can then be a critical...
Microfinance Program In North-East India
A microfinance customer of Ujjivan Financial Services, a Bangalore-based Microfinance Institution. Image Credit: Microfinance Focus.
Microfinance program, such as the SHG-BLP, has been extending credit to poor households using innovative delivery approach like group lending. In spite of being successful,...
Understanding Underdevelopment: State Of Economy In The North-East
Tea Gardens in the North-East...
Indian intellectual discourse on development has conspicuously ignored the inextricable relationship between modes of development and modes of production. Instead, backwardness of the region has been analyzed through an a priori integrationist model working towards a...
Border Trade Between India And Myanmar Through Moreh: Its Trends And Problems
Introduction:
No economy in the world is perfectly independent. Every country is interdependent to one another economically. In the absence of international trade, it will be very difficult for a country to develop. As a result of this, international trade is regarded as the engine of growth of an economy....
