https://172.31.19.68:8443/jspui The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:22:57 GMT 2025-08-10T22:22:57Z https://shodhratna.thapar.edu:8443/jspui/handle/tiet/269 Title: The Philippine Development Crisis: Learning from East Asian Countries Authors: Lanzona, Leonardo A.; Singh, Lakhwinder; Singh, Sukhpal Abstract: The main aim of this special issue introduction is to develop the conceptual framework to contextualize the contributions and develop the idea why some countries like Philippines fall into the middle-income trap and why others are able to pass through the trap. The six articles presented in this issue are novel and unravel factors such as corruption, agriculture, education, labour market, technological progress and R&D policies that inhibit the sustained rise in the GDP. To achieve sustained growth and move out of the middle-income trap, the policy suggestions based on major findings are anti-corruption reforms, agricultural reforms, education reforms, labour-market-related policies, technological transformation and restructuring R&D policies. The policy change is outlined to offset the public goods used by the political elite to nurse their constituencies and to remove the inefficiencies of the markets in the allocation of resources to make the Philippine economy dynamic. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://shodhratna.thapar.edu:8443/jspui/handle/tiet/269 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://shodhratna.thapar.edu:8443/jspui/handle/tiet/268 Title: Economic Development of Punjab: A Strategy for Making Punjab’s Economy Dynamic Authors: Gill, Lakhwinder Singh; Shergill, Baldev S. Abstract: The development pace of the Punjab economy has moved from a fast growing to a slow growing economy. This has generated a concern for investigating the long-term dynamics of the Punjab economy. In this paper an attempt is made to examine these long-term dynamics of the Punjab economy with the perspective of tracing the historical and current factors responsible for generating constraints that limit the growth processes. A political economy approach is adopted to understand the dynamics of Punjab’s economic development and attempt is made to identify policy lessons to elevate the constraints for an inclusive and sustainable economic development of Punjab economy. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://shodhratna.thapar.edu:8443/jspui/handle/tiet/268 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://shodhratna.thapar.edu:8443/jspui/handle/tiet/267 Title: Innovations, Structural Transformation and Employment across Space and Time Authors: Singh, Lakhwinder Abstract: Innovation triggered economic transformation of an economy has a far-reaching implication for employment opportunities. In this paper, an attempt is made to understand the historical patterns of economic transformation across space and time. The underlined theory of structural change is reviewed to identify the causes of successful economic transformation for learning lessons to enact public policy for a developing economy such as India. The stylised facts emerging from the west-ern developed countries are reinterpreted for understanding the empirical regulari-ties, which are supplemented from the recent experience of the newly industrialised countries of East Asia. It is abundantly evident that there are differential impacts of innovation driven by structural transformation on employment. This requires a suit-able design of public policy that changes the infrastructure both hard and soft as per the stage of economic development to draw substantive advantages. From empirical evidence and informed debate on the India’s structural transformation shows that industrialisation is required for attaining the level of a developed country status. However, the complementarity of manufacturing and services economic activities can be harnessed for faster, inclusive, sustainable development, and employment growth. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://shodhratna.thapar.edu:8443/jspui/handle/tiet/267 2025-04-29T00:00:00Z https://shodhratna.thapar.edu:8443/jspui/handle/tiet/266 Title: Queering Kumbh Mela Kinnar Akhada, the World’s First Transgender Hindu Spiritual Order Authors: Goel, Ina Abstract: This paper examines the emergence of the Kinnar Akhada, a monastic order of hijras (a “third” gender community), at the 2019 Kumbh Mela in India. Their groundbreaking participation in one of the world’s largest pilgrimage festivals challenged the conventional patriarchal dominance of Hindu religious practices, marking a significant moment in the history of the Kumbh Mela and highlighting the evolving nature of religious traditions and the growing visibility of transgender communities. By examining the impact of this participation, this paper aims to shed light on and bring out the contradictions in the changing dynamics of gender, religion, and social inclusion in contemporary India. Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://shodhratna.thapar.edu:8443/jspui/handle/tiet/266 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z