Institutions and Economic Performance explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. Even taking into account disparities in resources, including physical and human capital, large economic discrepancies remain across countries. Why are some societies but not others able to encourage investments in places, people, and productivity?

<p>"This book is prepared exclusively for the CS-Executive Entrance Test (CSEET) of the Company Secretary Examination requirement. It covers the questions (topic-wise) &amp; detailed answers strictly as per the latest syllabus of ICSI. This book tests the understanding of the following: To test the understanding of Micro &amp; Macro Economics concepts, with a focus on the Indian Economic System. To test the understanding of various crucial elements of the business environment.</p><p>The Present Publication is the 2nd Edition for CSEET | January 2023 Exams. This book is authored by Dr Ritu Gupta, with the following noteworthy features: Strictly as per the Latest Syllabus of ICSI, Coverage of this book includes: Past Exam Questions (Topic-wise), Questions from the CSEET e-Bulletin of ICSI, Memory Based Past Exam Questions along with important questions for the Exam, [Marks Distribution] Chapter-wise marks distribution from August 2020 onwards.</p><p>The detailed contents of this book are as follows: Economics, Basics of Demand and Supply &amp; Forms of Market Competition, National Income Accounting and Related Concepts, Indian Union Budget, Indian Financial Markets, Indian Economy, Business Environment, Entrepreneurship Scenario, Business Environment, Key Government Institutions."</p><div><br></div>

<p>"More than 1300 MCQs with relevant hints, Bulleted presentation of matter with more than 50 graphs for better understanding, Model Test Papers"</p><div><br></div>

<p>"This book is prepared exclusively for the Professional Level of Company Secretary Examination requirement. It covers the questions (topic/sub-topic wise) &amp; detailed answers strictly as per the syllabus of ICSI.</p><p>The Present Publication is the 5th Edition for CS-Professional | June/Dec. 2023 Exams. This book is authored by CS Divya Bajpai, with the following noteworthy features: Strictly as per the New Syllabus of ICSI, Coverage of this book includes, Fully-Solved Questions of Past Exams; Topic-wise, including: Solved Paper: CS Professional December 2022 | New Syllabus, [Arrangement of Questions] Questions in each chapter are arranged sub-topic wise, [Important Additional Questions] with Answers are provided, [Marks Distribution] Chapter-wise marks distribution from June 2019 onwards, [Past Exam Trend Analysis] from December 2019 onwards, [ICSI Study Material] Chapter-wise comparison with ICSI Study Materials.</p><p>The contents of this book are as follows: Compliance Framework, Compliances, Documentation and Maintenance of Records, Search and Status Report, Know Your Customers (KYC) Guidelines, Signing and Certification, Segment-wise Role of Company Secretaries, Audits, Secretarial Audit, Internal Audit, Concepts and Principles of Other Audits, Audit Engagement, Audit Principles and Techniques, Audit Process and Documentation, Forming an Opinion and Reporting, Secretarial Audit – Fraud Detection and Reporting, Quality Review, Values, Ethics and Professional Conduct, Due Diligence – I, Due Diligence – II."</p>

<p>"This book is prepared exclusively for the Professional Level of Company Secretary Examination requirement. It covers the questions (topic/sub-topic wise) &amp; detailed answers strictly as per the syllabus of ICSI.</p><p>The Present Publication is the 5th Edition for CS-Professional | June/Dec. 2023 Exams. This book is authored by CS Divya Bajpai, with the following noteworthy features: Strictly as per the New Syllabus of ICSI, Coverage of this book includes.</p><p>Fully-Solved Questions of Past Exams; Topic-wise, including: Solved Paper: December 2022 | New Syllabus, [Arrangement of Questions] Questions in each chapter are arranged sub-topic wise, [Important Additional Questions] with Answers are provided, [Marks Distribution] Chapter-wise marks distribution from June 2019 onwards, [Previous Exam Trend Analysis] from June 2019 onwards, [ICSI Study Material] Chapter-wise .</p><p>The contents of this book are as follows: Part A – Corporate Funding (60 Marks), Indian Equity Public Funding, Real Estate Investment Trust, Infrastructure Investment Trust, Indian Equity – Private Funding, Indian Equity – Non-Fund Based, Debt Funding – Indian Fund-Based (Corporate Debt), Debt Funding – Indian Fund Based (Govt. Debt &amp; Banking Finance), Debt Funding – Indian Non-Fund Based, Foreign Funding – Instruments &amp; Institutions, Other Borrowing Tools, Non-Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares, Securitization, Part B – Listing (40 Marks), Listing – Indian Stock Exchanges, International Listing, Preparing a Company for an IPO and Governance Requirements, Documentation."</p>

<p>RBI Governors provides an in-depth look at the tenures of the eminent men who have held the role of the chief of the Reserve Bank of India. </p><p>From its creation in the late 1930s under the guidance of experienced British administrators to the present-day reign of technocrats, the men leading the RBI have left an indelible mark on it, changing forever its systems and procedures. </p><p>Some have clashed with the political leadership at various times and tried to impress their own ideas upon fiscal policy. Filled with trivia and anecdotes from the history of the institution, this book is the ultimate primer on the people who lead one of our country’s most celebrated and powerful institutions. </p><p>This book provides a profile of all the RBI governors past and present.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">It is well-researched and documented. The book also contains several lesser known anecdotes and trivia regarding the RBI.&nbsp;</span></p><div><br></div>

An ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism’s failure to deliver equality, and suggesting possible ways out. The retreat of liberal democracy in the twenty-first century has been impossible to ignore. From Wisconsin to Warsaw, Budapest to Bangalore, the public is turning against pluralism and liberal institutions and instead professing unapologetic nationalism and majoritarianism. Critics of inequality argue that this is a predictable response to failures of capitalism and liberalism, but Pranab Bardhan, a development economist, sees things differently. The problem is not inequality but insecurity—financial and cultural. Bardhan notes that antidemocratic movements have taken root globally in a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic groups. In the United States, older, less-educated, rural populations have withdrawn from democracy. But in India, the prevailing Hindu Nationalists enjoy the support of educated, aspirational urban youth. And in Europe, antidemocratic populists firmly back the welfare state (but for nonimmigrants). What is consistent among antidemocrats is fear of losing what they have. That could be money but is most often national pride and culture and the comfort of tradition. A World of Insecurity argues for context-sensitive responses. Some, like universal basic income schemes, are better suited to poor countries. Others, like worker empowerment and international coordination, have broader appeal. But improving material security won’t be enough to sustain democracy. Nor, Bardhan writes, should we be tempted by the ultimately hollow lure of China’s authoritarian model. He urges liberals to adopt at least a grudging respect for fellow citizens’ local attachments. By affirming civic forms of community pride, we might hope to temper cultural anxieties before they become pathological.

Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity. Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new “participatory” socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power. Capital and Ideology is destined to be one of the indispensable books of our time, a work that will not only help us understand the world, but that will change it.

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

It’s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It’s a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us.