Institute for Studies in Industrial Development

The Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), formerly Corporate Studies Group (CSG), is a seat of higher learning, formed by under the umbrella of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, by the Government of India with an aim to assist the government in formulating national level policies. The Institute is located at Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India and is headed by Padma Vibhushan winner, T. N. Chaturvedi.

Institute for Studies in Industrial Development
Former names
Corporate Studies Group (CSG)
TypeRegistered Society
ChairmanT. N. Chaturvedi
Location
Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
,
Delhi
,
India

28°32′36.9″N 77°08′53.2″E
NicknameISID
Websitewww.isid.org.in
Indian Council of Social Science Research subsidiary
The countries in green are considered to be newly industrialising nations. China and India (in dark green) are special cases.

Profile

The Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) was started in the eighties, when the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) revamped the erstwhile Corporate Studies Group (CSG) by expanding the mandate to make the institute, a nodal agency in matters related to industrial policy development in India. It is a public funded, non profitable organization and acts as an advisory body to ICSSR.[1]

The activities of the Institute is broadly classified into various themes.[2]

ThemeActivity
IndustrializationLand acquisition, Special Economic Zones, Agricultural land, Manufacturing sector and Training and skill formation
Corporate SectorStructure, Corporate Governance, Internationalization
Trade, Investment and TechnologyCross-border capital flows, Mergers and Acquisitions and FDI
Regulatory MechanismStudy of regulatory authorities in the light of India's own and international experience, competition issues
EmploymentEmployment growth, Non-farm employment, Distributional issues, Migrant labour and Workforce transitions
Public HealthHealthcare financing, Health expenditure, Corporatisation, Pharmaceutical industry, Occupational health, Environment and Health communication
Media StudiesMultimedia techniques and Dissemination of knowledge
Other IssuesEducational policy and planning

Facilities
The effect of Industrialisation shown by rising income levels since 1800. The graph shows the gross national product (at purchasing power parity) per capita between 1750 and 1900 in 1960 US dollars for First World nations (Europe, United States, Canada, Japan) and Third World nations (Asia, Africa, Latin America).[3]

ISID Campus

ISID activities are housed at three main buildings, Academic Block, Office Block and Conference Block, extending to approximately 200,000 sq. ft, sitting on a land with an extent of 1.5 hectares, in the Institutional Area of Vasant Kunj, in New Delhi. The campus is home to:

  • Library
  • Faculty rooms
  • Conference and lecture halls
  • Guest house
  • Pantry, dining hall and cafeteria
  • Auditorium

It also holds recreational facilities for the staff and faculty of the Institute.

Library

The Library stocks an extensive collection of books, journals and reports in subjects such as industrial economics, foreign investment, employment and labour, media and corporate sector, including publications of GATT/WTO, Reserve Bank of India, World Bank, UNCTAD, CMIE (EIS), NSSO and CSO. Some of the other notable collections are:

  • Bombay Stock Exchange Official Directory
  • Publications of Department of Company Affairs
  • Dun & Bradstreet’s Who Owns Whom
  • Jane's Major Companies of Europe
  • Handbook of Economics Series (59 volumes—view list)
  • New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (8 volumes)
  • Encyclopaedia of Cities and Towns (27 volumes)
  • United Nations Library on Transnational Corporations (20 volumes)

It also stocks reports, policy statements, committee reports, plan documents, statistical sources, government acts, rules and guidelines and a collection of prospectus of more than 6,000 companies. ISID Library maintains a digital database of CDs, films and online repository as well. It also subscribes to several journals and magazines.

The users of the library has access to JSTOR database, Elsevier Science Direct—Economics, Business and Finance, EconLit Full Text, Wiley- Blackwell Social Science and Humanities, CMIE Prowess, EPWRF On-line Data Series- 13 modules, SANSCO online annual reports and IMF e-library Statistics. It also provides user services such as reference queries, referrals, reprographics and inter-library loan.

Research Reference CD (RRCD)

ISID offers online referencing assistance[4] and in addition to that, has released a reference database on the subject in CD format, under the name, ISID Research Reference CD which contains index to articles, discussion notes, editorials, Union Budget Speeches, Sections of Economic Survey, key statistics on the Indian economy, Global Development Indicators, reports and web site addresses of institutions and scientists.[5]

Projects

ISID has carried out several important projects for the Government of India.[6]

  • Ports as Infrastructure, Ports as Cities: The Indian Port System from Colonialism to Globalization
  • Regulating FDI in MBRT: Some Key Concerns
  • Ports as Infrastructure, Ports as Cities: The Indian Port System from Colonialism to Globalization
  • A Multi-dimensional Study of Imperial Order and its Journey towards Neo-liberal Imperialism under Globalisation
  • ISID-PHFI Collaborative Research in Public Health (2013-2015)
  • Crony Capitalism and Contemporary India
  • Survey of Corporate Governance in India
  • Internationalization Process of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Indian Multinationals in Global Economy
  • Changing Pattern of Corporate Ownership and Implications for Monitoring Company Managements

Publications
  • Sakthivel Selvaraj; Dinesh Abrol; K.M. Gopakumar (2014). Access to Medicines in India. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
  • Professor S.K. Goyal (2014). India's Policy Milieu: Economic Development, Planning and Industry. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
  • Satyaki Roy (2013). Small and Medium Enterprises in India: Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters. Routledge, Oxon.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao; Biswajit Dhar (2011). India’s FDI Inflows: Trends and Concepts. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
  • Sunanda Sen; Byasdeb Dasgupta (2009). Unfreedom and Waged Work: Labour in India's Manufacturing Industry. Sage Publication India.
  • T.S. Papola (2008). Labour Regulation in Indian Industry (Volume 1–10). Bookwell Publishers.
  • S.R. Hashim; K.S. Chalapati Rao; K.V.K. Ranganathan; M.R. Murthy (2008). Indian Industrial Development and Globalisation: Essays in Honour of Professor S.K. Goyal. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
  • T.P. Bhat; Atulan Guha; Mahua Paul (2008). India and China: Building Complementarities and Competitiveness into WTO Regime. Bookwell Publishers.
  • Jaya Prakash Pradhan (2008). Indian Multinationals in the World Economy: Implications for Development. Bookwell Publishers.
  • S.R. Hashim; N.S. Siddharthan (2008). High-tech Industries, Employment and Global Competitiveness. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Jaya Prakash Pradhan; Partha Pratim Sahu (2008). Transnationalization of Indian Pharmaceutical SMEs. Bookwell Publishers.
  • Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (2006). ISID Index Series: Volume One (Revised Edition). Economic and Political Weekly (1966 - 2006).
  • T.S. Papola; D.N. Awasti (2004). Enterprise Development in Mountain Areas: Guidelines for Entrepreneurs, Promotional Agencies and Policy Makers. Himalaya Publishing House.
  • Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) and Indian Economic Association Trust for Research & Development (1998). ISID Index Series: Volume Two, Sixteen Economic Journals. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
  • Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1998). ISID Index Series: Forty Years of The Indian Journal of Labour Economics Index: 1958-1997. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development & Indian Society of Labour Economics.
  • Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1996). ISID Index Series: Volume One (Economic and Political Weekly 1966-1996). Institute for Studies in Industrial Development & Indian Economic Association Trust for Research & Development.
  • Delhi Atlas, 2d Edition. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. 1996.
  • Pitou van Dijck; Rao K.S. Chalapati (1994). India's Trade Policy and the Export Performance of Industry. Sage.
  • Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1994). Economic Liberalization and Indian Agriculture. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
  • Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1993). Delhi Atlas: Colony and Area Maps. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
  • Chandra Sekhar (1992). Political Economy of India. Vikas.
  • Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1989). Patterns in Indian Agricultural Development: A District Level Study. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
  • S. K. Goyal (1979). Monopoly Capital and Public Policy. Allied Publishers.

ISID also offers full text downloading facility of select research studies on the Internet.

See also

References
  1. "INFLIBNET" (PDF). UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium. 2008. p. 5. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  2. "ISID Home". ISID. 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  3. Paul Bairoch (1995). Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes. University of Chicago Press. p. 95.
  4. "Online referencing". Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  5. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (2004). ISID research reference CD. New Delhi: Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. ISBN 9788190037778.
  6. "Projects". Retrieved 6 July 2014.

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