April 2026

By Rajesh Kumar, Dr. Firdous Ahmad Malik and Dr. Anand Jaiswal
he paper focuses on the structural development of Centre-State fiscal relations in India through three parallel official sources of information, namely, the Reserve Bank of India State Finances. A Study of Budgets 2025-26 (Reserve Bank of India, 2026), the Report of the Sixteenth Finance Commission to 2026-31 (Finance Commission of India, 2025/2026), and Further macroeconomic background is elicited by Economic Survey 2025-26 (Ministry of Finance Economic Survey, 2026)…

By Dr. Dimitra Skandali
Universities are central to knowledge-based economies because they generate research, develop human capital, shape policy agendas, and foster innovation. Yet their contribution to development depends not only on academic output but also on the ethical quality of the institutional environments in which knowledge is produced…