The article examines the numeracy and financial literacy of the Indian forest-dependent communities (FDC) involved in the joint forest management (JFM) programme, launched by the Government of India in 1990. An understanding ...

This thesis studies numeracy, financial literacy, risk attitudes, and time discount rates (impatience) of the people in the bottom of the pyramid. These issues are addressed in the context of forest dependent communities ...

Nutritional status is one of the key indicators of the development in a society. Urban nutritional problems are increasingly becoming critical in India. This paper surveys the nutrition’s scans in Ahmedabad in relation ...

Over half of all women of reproductive age are affected by anaemia in India. In this paper we study the role that both household market integration and women's empowerment in agriculture can play in determining women's ...

The thesis of the paper is that OB can contribute richly to socio-economic development of poor Third orld societies. It can do so through research on OB-related problems of the strategic organizations of these societies ...