The forthcoming State visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presents an opportunity for the Prime Minister to take the leadership on issues where the United States and India have common interests but also differences in approaches. Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, whose writings in the mid-1960s --with Professor Padma Desai, he wrote the celebrated book, India: Planning for Industrialization which ...

In this article, we study popularity functions for the French President and Prime Minister. We show that the responsibility hypothesis is validated for the unemployment rate but not for the inflation rate. We also show that voters have not a behavior compatible with the rational expectations hypothesis for the Prime Minister’s popularity, and that voters have an asymmetric behavior for the unem...

The theme of this conference, ‘New Days, New Ways’ is very appropriate and timely given the nature of the challenges currently facing the Australian Public Service (APS). It could be argued that the APS has been steadily evolving towards a more private sector orientation over the last decade or so more so recently as a consequence of the momentum of the National Competition Policy reforms See I...