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Achieving MDG-5: Is India serious
(Bulletin of WHO, 2008-11-10)
India has the largest number of births per year (27 million) in the world.1 With its high maternal mortality of about 300–500 per 100 000 births, about 75 000 to 150 000 maternal deaths occur every year in India.2,3 This ...
Returns and Economics of Bt Cotton vis-a-vis Traditional Cotton Va- rieties in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu
(2009)
Major advances in biotechnology have led to many developments and one has been the introduction of Bt cotton. Given the controversy, the study evaluates the performance and returns of Bt cotton across the major cotton ...
Radio Mirchi Private Limited: Redesigning Product for the Bangalore Market
(2008)
The objective of this case development is to analyse strategies adopted by Radio Mirchi in the Bangalore market to face the tough competition from new players. The case analyses the issues related to design of product ...
Impact of e-government on clients
(2008-07-24)
The expected stock returns of Malaysian firms: A panel data analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-09-01)
We used panel data set of 1729 observations (247 Malaysian companies listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange for 1993-2000) to identify variables that could explain expected returns of Malaysian stocks. Our results are ...
A preliminary study of psychological aftereffects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by earthquake: The Ahmedabad experience
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-04-01)
The present study is a preliminary study intended to investigate a various psychological symptoms related to post-traumatic stress caused by an earthquake of severe magnitude. The main objective of this study was to ...
Societal change, states and governance: Insights from history and other societies
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-10-01)
The nature of governance has differed widely across societies, and what is more interesting, within any particular society depending upon the stage of development. Governance is better defined in functional rather than in ...
Analysis of claims and reimbursements made under mediclaim policy of the General Insurance Corporation of India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-08-01)
The analysis suggests that the number of policies and premiums collected have grown at significant rates, more than 30 per cent during 1998-99 and 50 per cent during the year 1999-00. The growth had implications for the ...