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Harvesting dew to supplement drinking water supply in arid coastal villages of Gujarat
(2009-08-03)
Shortage of drinking water is chronic, sever and widespread in Kutch - a hot and very arid region. It is specially acute in coastal villages where surface sources dry up rapidly and groundwater is not potable. Many of ...
Factors affecting Child Labour in India
(2009-08-03)
Child labour in India is a critical socio-economic problem that needs special attention of policy makers. In order to make effective policies to reduce child labour it is important to understand the specific factors that ...
A Unified Theory of Capability Building: Need and Response
(2009-08-07)
Strategy literature is replete with isolated contributions to the jigsaw puzzle of building capabilities by firms. The isolation is primarily caused by the way resource-based view and capability literature has developed ...
Leveraged Innovation Management: Key Themes from the Journey of Dewrain Harvest Systems
(2009-08-13)
Systems for harvesting dew for human consumption are new to India. This paper provides insights from the tracking of the innovation journey of dewrain harvest systems from incidental observation to commercialization. It ...
Mining Frequent Item sets in Data Streams
(2009-08-03)
From the last decade, data mining has become the key technique to analyze and understand the data. Typical data mining tasks include association mining, classification and clustering. These techniques help find interesting ...
Does the Gravity Model Explain India’s Direction of Trade? A Panel Data Approach
(2009-08-08)
In this paper we apply the gravity model to the panel consisting of India’s yearly bilateral trade data with all its trading partners in the second half of the twentieth century. The main conclusions that emerge from our ...
Process, People, Power and Conflict: Some Lessons from a Participatory Policy Process in Andhra Pradesh, India
(2009-07-30)
A large body of empirical literature highlights the need for stakeholder participation within the context of policy change and democratic governance. This makes intuitive sense and may appear to be a straightforward process ...
Decision Sheet and Learning Diary: New Tools for Improved Learning through the Case Method
(2009-08-03)
Of the three phases of learning through the case method, instructors have focused on the in-class phase in training of both teachers and participants. The other two phases, pre-class preparation and post class-reflection, ...
Resolving Business Disputes in India by Arbitration: Problems Due to the Definition of ‘Court’
(2009-07-25)
The definition of “Court” in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, is substantially different from that in the earlier law of 1940. Due to this new definition, there is tremendous load of work on the District Judge, ...