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Good governance and corruption in the health sector: Lessons from the Karnataka experience
(2011)
Strengthening good governance and preventing corruption in health care are universal challenges. The Karnataka Lokayukta (KLA), a public complaints agency in Karnataka state (India), was created in 1986 but played a prominent ...
Study of blood-transfusion services in Maharashtra and Gujarat states, India
(International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
Blood-transfusion services are vital to maternal health because haemorrhage and anaemia are major causes of maternal death in South Asia. Unfortunately, due to continued governmental negligence, blood-transfusion services ...
Financial fluctuations anchored to economic fundamentals: A mesoscopic network approach
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
We demonstrate the existence of an empirical linkage between nominal financial networks and the underlying economic fundamentals, across countries. We construct the nominal return correlation networks from daily data to ...
Advertising competition under consumer inertia
(INST OPERATIONS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT SCIENCES, 2003)
We construct a multistage game-theoretic model of advertising and price competition in a differentiated products duopoly, in which proportions of consumers exhibit latent inertia in favor of repeat purchase. Advertising ...
The limitations of markets
(Morris, Sebastian (2013) "The limitations of markets "Farmers’ Forum, 13, 4 (2013) , 20 - 36
https://issuu.com/Farmersforum/docs/ff_aug-sep_2013_final_full_low_res, 2013)
Influential multilateral agencies and
economists have for long been urging
laissez-faire in agriculture that has met with
limited success even in the rich countries.
This is despite commitments under the WTO.
Worse, ...
Acquisition of technology by Indian industry
(2010-05-12)
High speed rail in India
(Raghuram, G. (2014) "High speed rail in India" Traffic Infra Tech, Mass Transport, 2014)
The Railways first proposed high speed rail routes during the 2007-08 Railway budget. One route each was proposed in the Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern regions of the country. The trains were proposed to run at ...
The politics of loan waivers
(Transforming India, 2008-11-11)
On examining broad numbers of indebted farmers commiting suicide, we realise that these farmers are not necessarily the small and the marginal. From the statistics of the Reserve Bank, it is evident that while agricultural ...
Budget of Gujarat government: 2003-04
(2002-07-19)
Contract farming for agricultural development
(2008-07-24)