Contested Understandings in the Global Garment Industry after Rana Plaza

Globalized Garment Systems: Theories on the Rana Plaza Disaster and Possible Localist Responses

Neoliberalism and Contested Policies of the Power Industry in India

This paper, adopting a political-economy approach, examines the evolution of electric-power policy in India by drawing linkages between global and local/national discourses, of development. The study focuses on the objectives and goals of the post-colonial developmental state of India, and examines the transition of India’s electricity policy regime from Keynesianism to neoliberalism. I argue t...

Benchmarking the Supply Chain Performance in Indian Garment Industry

Measuring supply chain performance is very necessary for a company, however, it is more important to identify the proper indicators based on which the performance can be evaluated. The paper benchmarks the performance measurement metrics which has been further validated by measuring the performance of garment companies in India. The analysis provides the importance of inventory turnover (ITR) a...

Global Governance : Reconstructing a Contested Social

Global Governance has become a buzzword in the social sciences in general and in International Relations (IR) in particular. Many different phenomena, from the influence of civil society on international decision-making processes to the role of intergovernmental organisations and transnational corporations in world politics, are invoked as examples of global governance. However, upon closer ins...

“Mass casualty management (Rana Plaza Tragedy) in secondary military hospital-anesthesiologist experience: case study”

Major challenges in the management of mass casualty have been identified as lack of human resources, lack of material resources, lack of communication and co-ordination. Our hospital has limited resources of manpower and disposable items. The Departments of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care have been seriously disrupted by the influx of 155 severely injured patients following the collapse of a...