Sebastian Morris

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics

Professor (Retd. and Visiting)

Vastrapur

Ahmedabad 380015, Gujarat

India

http://sebastianmorris.org/

Goa Institute of Management

Senior Professor

Ribandar

Ribandar

Panaji, Goa 403006

India

http://sebastianmorris.org/

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1.

A Study of the Regional Determinants of Foreign Direct Investments in India, and the Case of Gujarat

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Working Paper No. 2004/03/07
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 22 Jan 2005
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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FDI, Gujarat, India, Regional-Development, Foreign, Investment, Offshoring

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Cost and Time Overruns in Public Sector Projects

Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 25, No. 47, pp.M154-M168, November 24, 1990
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Jan 2005
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, state-owned-enterprises, Public-Sector, delays, cost-overruns, project-implementation, government

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Towards Reform of the Land Acquisition Framework in India

Indian Institute of Management Working Paper No. 2007-05-04
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Feb 2011
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Land, India, Law, Reform, Land-Acquisition, Land-Market, Distortions, Infrastructure

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Land Markets in India: Distortions and Issues

INDIA INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT 2009: LAND - A CRITICAL RESOURCE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, Nirmal Mohanty, Runa Sarkar, Ajay Pandey, eds., 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2009
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 30 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris and Ajay Pandey
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics and O. P. Jindal Global University - Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
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India, land, acquisition, hold out problem, infrastructure, public policy, urban policies, land use, rents

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Understanding Export Led Growth and Late Industrialisation to Explain the Differences in the Post Reform Performance of India and China

Indian Institute of Management Working Paper No. 2005/03/02
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Feb 2011
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, China, Export-Led-Growth, Trade, Economic-Development, Macroeconomic-Policy, Exchange-rate, Undervaluation, Late-industrialisation

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Examination of Affordable Housing Policies in India

IIMA Working Paper Series No 2016-03-33
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Apr 2016
Anindo Sarkar, Udayan Dhavalikar, Vikram Agrawal and Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Housing, Urbanisation, Housing-Policy, Public Policy, Urban Design

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Economic Growth in Gujarat in Relation to the Nation and Other States in Recent Times - A Statistical Analysis

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, WP No. 2012-11-02
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Gujarat, India, Regional Economic Development, Industrialisation, Regional Analysis, Structure-Regional Decomposition, Public Policy

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India Infrastructure Report 2002 - Governance Issues for Commercialisation

India Infrastructure Report, 3inetwork, Oxford Univ. Press, 2002
Number of pages: 380 Posted: 19 Jul 2013
Sebastian Morris and Rajiv Shekhar
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
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India, infrastructure, economic development, law, policy, regulation, public policy, utilities, transportation, telecom, urban services, energy, government

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The Question of Land and Infrastructure Development in India: Urgently Required Reforms for Fairness and Infrastructural Development

Indian Institute of Management Working Paper No. 2010-03-02
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Feb 2011
Sebastian Morris and Ajay Pandey
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics and O. P. Jindal Global University - Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
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Land, India, Eminent-domain, Acqusition, Valuation, Law, Real-Estate, Government, Rent, Distortion

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Overestimation in the Growth Rates of National Income in Recent Years? – An Analyses Based on Extending GDP04-05 through Other Indicators of Output

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad-380 015 India, WP No. 2019-01-01
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Jan 2019
Sebastian Morris and Tejshwi Kumari
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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India, Growth, National Income, New Series, Manufacturing, Overestimation, Index of Industrial Production, Demonetization

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Explaining Foreign Direct Investments in Gujarat: A Study Based on an Opinion Survey of Persons Involved in the Foreign Direct Investment Process

IIMA Working Paper No. 2005/02/01
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 May 2011
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Gujarat, India, Regional-Development, Foreign-Direct-Investments, Opinion-Survey, Industrial-Location

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Determinants of the Sources of FDI into India

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Dec 2014
Prathyush Sarasa, Disha Singh and Sebastian Morris
Independent, Independent and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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FDI, India, International Investment, Gravity Model, OLI, eclectic-framework, allometric-model

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Role of Trade and Macroeconomic Policies in the Performance of Special Economic Zones (SEZS)

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Role of Trade and Macroeconomic Policies in the Performance of Special Economic Zones (SEZS)

Indian Institute of Management Working Paper No. 2007-09-02
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Feb 2011
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Special-Economic-Zones, Trade, Export-Led-Growth, East-Asia

Role of Trade and Macroeconomic Policies in the Performance of Special Economic Zones (SEZs)

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Aug 2018
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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SEZ, India, Exports, Trade- Policy, Export-Led-Growth, Import Substitution, Manufacturing

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Agriculture: A Perspective from History, the Metrics of Comparative Advantage, and Limitations of the Market to Understand the Role of State in a Globalising World

Indian Institute of Management Working Paper No. 2007-02-02
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Feb 2011
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Issues in Infrastructure Development Today - The Interlinkages

Chapter 2, of Morris, Sebastian (ed.) "India Infrastructure Report 2001 - Issues in Market Structure and Regulation, 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press. New Delhi, 2001
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Regulation, Infrastructure, Market Failure, market structure, Government, Governnace, Reform

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Efficient Subsidisation of Lpg: A Study of Possible Options in India Today (Based on a Report Commissioned by the Petroleum Federation of India)

Indian Institute of Management Working Paper No. 2006-04-07
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 09 Feb 2011
Sebastian Morris and Ajay Pandey
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics and O. P. Jindal Global University - Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
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Public-Policy, Subsidy, India, Oil, Kerosene, Pricing, Public-expenditure

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The Challenge to Governance in India

Morris, Sebastian and Rajiv Shekhar (eds.), India Infrastructure Report 2002 - Governance Issues for Commercialization, 3iNetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2002
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Corruption, India, Governnace, Infrastructure, Market Failure, Regulation, Law, Public Policy, Subsidy, Controls, PPPs

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Impact of the Proposed GST on the Consumer Price Index in India

Indian Institute of Management Udaipur Research Paper Series No. 2018
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Aug 2018
Sebastian Morris, Ajay Pandey, Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla and Astha Agarwalla
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics, O. P. Jindal Global University - Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management
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India, Public Finance, Taxation, Indirect Taxes, Goods and Sevices Tax, GST, Economic Reforms

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Slowdown and Crisis in the Indian Economy - A Study of the Macroeconomic Developments between the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Crisis (2011-12 to 2019-20)

WPS No. 01/EC/December 2020, GIM Working Paper Series
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 15 Dec 2020
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Economy, Macroeconomics, Reforms, Liberalisation Performance, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, Slowdown, Recession, Inflation in India, Crisis, Indian-Economy, Inflation-Targeting, Consumer Price Index, Modi I and II, National Income and Prices

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Steering the Macroeconomy With a Broken Compass and Stuck Rudder?

Research and Publications, W. P. No. 2019-09-02, September 2019
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 15 Oct 2019
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, GDP, Measurement, Controversy, Overestimation, National Income Accounting, SNA, Emerging Economies

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Infrastructure Development and Strategy for Gujarat

Chapter in Gujarat Development Report, Planning Commission and Gujarat Instittue of Development Research, 2006
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 05 Dec 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Gujarat, India, Economic Development, Regional Development, Public Policies, Electricity, Water, Tranportation, Tourism, PPPs, Infrastructure

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Public Investments in India: Delays and Cost Overruns

Chapter 5.1 in Morris, Sebastian (ed.), "India Infrastructure Report 2003 - Public Expenditure Allocation and Accountability", 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2003
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Public Investments, Planning Commission, Macroeconomics, Government Expenditure, Delays, Cost Overruns, Reform

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Economic Performance of Gujarat in Recent Times

Gujarat Institute of Development Research "Gujarat Development Report", for the Planning Commission, Govt of India, C.2006
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Gujarat, Regional Development, Industrialisation, Public Policy

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Does GST (Goods and Services Tax) in India Hurt Producing Regions? A New Estimate of the Tax Base Under GST of Select States

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad W. P. No. 2019-03-01
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Apr 2019
Sebastian Morris, Ajay Pandey, Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla and Astha Agarwalla
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management
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Taxation, Public Finance, Indirect Taxes, India, GST, Incentive Effects of Tax, Regional Development

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The Horror of Urban Development in India – Identifying the Real Issues

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, W. P. No. 2017-06-01
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Jul 2017
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Urban, Cities, Master Planning, Land Use, Local Government, Infrastructure, Public Services, Urban Planning, 74th Amendment, Urban Design, Transportation

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Financing Infrastructure in India - Issues and the Way Forward

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, W. P. No. 2019-03-02
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Apr 2019
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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A Quick Estimate the Likely Total Infections and Deaths Due to COVID19 in Select Countries (Version April 1, 2020)

Indian Institute of Management, WP No. 2020-04-01, April 2020
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Apr 2020
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Logistic Model, COVID19, Pandemic, Disease, Forecasting, Diffusion of Disease, Epidemic, Corona Virus, Containment, Iran, Italy, China, Korea, Germany, France

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Real Estate and Infrastructure Resolution

Indian Institute of Management, W. P. No. 2019-09-01
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 03 Oct 2019
Jayanth Rama Varma and Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Real estate, infrastructure, recession, India, asset –reconstruction, financial sector, asset-impairment

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The Rural Infrastructure Development Fund: A Review

Chapter 9.1 in Morris, Sebastian "India Infrastructure Report 2003 - Public Expenditure Allocation and Accountability, 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2003
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 26 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris and Alice Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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India, Rural Development, Infrastructure, RIDF, Priority Sector Lending, Banking, Local Government

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Power Sector Reforms and Regulation: The Road Ahead

India Infrastructure Report 2001 – Issues in Regulation and Market Structure, Chapter 6.2, 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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utilities, electricity, power-sector, reforms, India, regulation, marketisation, unbundling, IPP, India

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Overview (of the India Infrastructure Report 2001 - Issues in Market Structure and Regulation)

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, regulation, unbundling, PPPs, land, infrastructure, reform, infrastructure finance, electricity, telecom, enivronment, Transportation, energy, muncipal finances, water, sewerage

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Overview (of the India Infrastructure Report 2003- Public Expenditure Allocation and Accountability)

3INETWORK, Sebastian Morris, ed., Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2003
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, public expenditure, public policy, soft-budget, budgetary process, centre -state relations, fiscal transfers, PPPs, PFIs, fiscal incentives, infrastructure, utilities, public services

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Expenditure Accountability in India: The Interlinkages

Chapter 2.1 in Morris, Sebastian (ed.) "India Infrastructure Report 2003 - Public Expenditure Allocation and Accountability", 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2003
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Public Expenditure, Accountability, Governance, Infrastructure, Planning, Public Investments, Fiscal Deficit, Economic Reform, Federal Government

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Overexploitation of Ground Water Can Be Overcome by Correctly Pricing Electricity and Diesel

Box 9.5.1 in Morris, Sebastian (ed.), India Infrastructure Report 2001 - Issues in Market Structure and Regulation, 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2001.
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 27 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Agriculture, Ground Water, Electricity, Oil, Pricing, Subsidy, Public Policy, Utilities, Infrastructure, Reform

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Issues in Water Rights, Institutional Design and Pricing that Need Resolution (in India)

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 06 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2014
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Irrigation, Water, India, Water-Policy, Rights, Pricing, PPP, Reform

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India Infrastructure Report 2004 - Ensuring Value for Money (Chapter 1)

Chapter 1 in Morris, Sebastian (ed.), "India Infrastructure Report 2004 - Ensuring Value for Money", 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2004
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Infrastructure, PPPs, PFIs, Privatisation, Regulation, Marketisation, Public Expenditure, Value for Money, Financial Institutions, Development Finance

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Further Estimations of the Likely Total Infections and Deaths Due to COVID19 in Select Countries (Version 2 dt. April 10, 2020)

Indian Institute of Management, W. P. No. 2020-04-02
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Apr 2020
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Logistic Model, COVID19, Pandemic, Disease, Forecasting, Diffusion of Disease, Epidemic, Corona Virus, Containment, Iran, Italy, China, Korea, Germany, France, UK, US, India

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India Infrastructure Report 2004 - Overview

Morris, Sebastian (ed.) India Infrastructure Report 2004 -Ensuring Value for Money, Chapter 1, 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2004
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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India, Governance, commercialisation, infrastructure, policy, regulation

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India Infrastructure Report 2002 (Overview)

Chapter 1 of Morris, Sebastian and Rajiv Shekhar (eds.), India Infrastructure Report 2002 - Governance Issues for Commercialization, 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2002
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Governance, Infrastrucutre, Commercialization, India, Market Failure, Corruption, Regulation, India

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Foreign Direct Investments From India: 1964-83

Occasional Paper No 13, 1991, Export-Import Bank of India
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Jun 2018
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Outward FDI, Foreign-Direct-Investments, India, Technology Export, International Investment, Joint-Ventures, Monopoly Houses, Groupos

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How Low Usage Charges for Drinking Water Act Against the Interests of the Poor (Box)

Box 9.5.1 in Morris, Sebastian (ed.) India Infrastructure Report - Issues in Market Structure and Regulation, 3inetwork, Oxford Univ Press, New Delhi, 2001.
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 27 Nov 2012
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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Delhi, India, Drinking, Water, Usage-Charges, Allocation Efficiency, Infrastructure, Subsidies, Merit Goods, Demand Elasticity

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Foreign Direct Investments from India 1964-1983 (Doctoral Dissertation /Thesis of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta)

Doctoral dissertation for Award of the Title Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Number of pages: 614 Posted: 23 Feb 2021
Sebastian Morris
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics
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FDI, Outward FDI, India, Joint Ventures, Cross Border Investments, Multinationals, Developing Countries

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International Foray of Karuturi Global Ltd.

Posted: 23 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2020
Sebastian Morris and Palakh Jain
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics and IIM Ahmedabad, Students

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Internationalisation, OLI Model, MNC, FDI

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Determinants of Outward FDI: Empirical Analysis of OECD Source Countries

Posted: 16 Feb 2016
Sebastian Morris and Palakh Jain
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Economics and IIM Ahmedabad, Students

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OFDI, determinants, empirical, regression, Gravity model