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Mass migration from rural India: A restudy of Kunkeri village in Konkan, Maharashtra, 1961-1987-2017
(Sage, 2018)
This article examines a particular village—Kunkeri—in Konkan, Maharashtra, characterized by persistent mass outmigration for over five decades, by combining a field study in 2017 with detailed ethnographic and statistical ...
Stitching infrastructures to facilitate telemedicine for low-resource environments
(ACM, 2018)
Telemedicine can potentially transform healthcare delivery in
low-resource environments by enabling extension of medical knowledge to remote locations, thus enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the larger healthcare ...
Impact of affirmative action in higher education for the other backward classes in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-07-18)
This paper measures the impact of quota-based affirmative action in higher education (HE) in India for Other Backward Classes (OBC), implemented from 2008. Since the immediate impact would be felt by OBCs who were eligible ...
Post-adoption experience of hybrid rice in India: farmers’ satisfaction and willingness to grow
(Agricultural Economics Research Association, 2018)
Through this study we try to understand the post-adoption experiences of hybrid rice technology of the Indian farmers and its influences on their level of satisfaction, as well as their willingness to continue with the use ...
Reforming agricultural markets in India: A tale of two model acts
(Economic and political weekly, 2018)
The union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare
had prescribed a model Agricultural Produce Marketing
Committee Act in 2003. The state-level adoption of the
act has been tardy and varied in terms of both ...
Smart beta strategies theoretical vs real world alpha
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
There have been significant studies and evidence that Smart Beta strategies can outperform the market capitalization-based indices in the long run. Smart Beta investment offers the investors the benefits of passive strategy ...
Moving towards a super-app for India: what it takes to be a one stop solution for an Indian netizen
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
The world of e-commerce strategy, especially in India, is going through a massive upheaval. Be
it the rise of the mobile as the primary device or the rising need of personalization, e-commerce
giants are scrambling to ...
Energy system transitions and macroeconomic assessment of the Indian building sector
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-10-03)
India’s energy sector has grown rapidly in recent years with buildings playing a major role as they constitute about 40% of India’s final energy demand. This paper provides a quantitative model-based assessment of the ...
Partially empowering but not decent? The contradictions of online labour markets
(Springer, 2017)
Online labour markets (OLMs) are new global workplaces that represent the latest wave of offshoring. Indians have a strong presence on OLMs, being freelancers on both international and national platforms, adding to the ...