The Ford Foundation Project on “Globalisation and Decentralisation”
The Rajiv Gandhi Chair for Panchayati Raj Studies at the Gandhigram Rural Institute has conducted a study on the impact of globalisation on different sectors like agriculture, water, fisheries, dryland agriculture, artisans, plantations and handlooms in Tamil Nadu.

 Agriculture sector (pdf)
 Agriculture in Tamil Nadu Macro-level budget analysis (pdf)
Rural artisans (pdf)
 Fisheries sector (pdf)
 Handloom sector (pdf)
 Plantation sector (pdf)
 Water sector (pdf)