Search Results for: paisa study
India’s Financial Drain
Global Financial Integrity recently published a study, The Drivers and Dynamics of Illicit Financial Flows from India: 1948-2008, that found that India has lost $462 billion in illegal assets during the period, as a result of corruption, bribery and tax evasion. $125 billion dollars were lost in just the past decade, and nearly half the … Continue reading "India’s Financial Drain"
Watching the Red Tape
In June 2010, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, a Hong Kong based group announced the result of a survey of 1300 business executives undertaken in 12 Asian countries. The result of the survey – amongst the countries polled, India has the greatest amount of red tape. In fact, a BBC report goes so far as … Continue reading "Watching the Red Tape"
India’s Whistleblower Bill: A Comparison with International Best Practice Standards
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has produced a study comparing India’s Whistleblower Bill (Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making the Disclosures Bill, 2010) with international best practice standards. This comparison is useful to identify potential improvements that can be made to the Bill. The comparison is across similar laws operational in countries both … Continue reading "India’s Whistleblower Bill: A Comparison with International Best Practice Standards"
There’s no such thing as a local Plan
Recently, in a move that has been rightly acknowledged as the first tangible step toward radically overhauling the Five-Year Plan process, the Planning Commission unveiled a new approach to the Twelfth Plan, aimed at making it an inclusive and participative process. To start, the commission has put together a strategy matrix for the approach paper … Continue reading "There’s no such thing as a local Plan"
The RTI Act Turns 5
The cornerstone of the UPA government’s agenda when it was elected to government in 2004, the RTI Act celebrates its fifth birthday today, 12 October 2010. Some might say that five years is not a long time in the history of a law, but perhaps no other legislation has captured the imagination of the public … Continue reading "The RTI Act Turns 5"