World recession, courtesy Lehman Brothers, caught companies world over in various stages of preparedness. Many mega corporations declared bankruptcy and applied for government support. The smaller, medium sized businesses and individuals were not so fortunate and they still struggle with recession-related challenges. In India the scene was tad different due to timely intervention of Reserve [...]

In the aftermath of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, the “rationality of the market” began to be widely referred to as a “myth.” Too many market participants were supposedly irrational – that is, they behaved inconsistently with economists’ standard of rationality. But the alternative mathematical behavioral finance models that have gained currency since the crisis imply [...]

Recently, many of us must have read in newspapers or magazines about National Population Register (NPR). But what is NPR? What is its purpose? And above all how is it going to benefit the common man? To know about National Population Register, it becomes essential to know something about Census. The first census in India [...]