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Maternal health in Gujarat, India: a case study
(Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2009-11-10)
Gujarat state of India has come a long way in improving the health indicators since independence, but progress in reducing maternal mortality has been slow and largely unmeasured or documented. This case study identified ...
Maternal health financing: Gujarat's Chiranjeevi scheme and its beneficiaries
(Journal of Health,Population and Nutrition, 2009-11-09)
Maternal mortality is an important public-health issue in India, specifically in Gujarat. Contributing factors are the Government's inability to operationalize the First Referral Units and to provide an adequate level of ...
Regional cooperation towards trans-country natural gas market: an socio economic assessment for India
(2009-04-29)
Purpose – India began gas imports since 2004 through liquified natural gas (LNG) route. Imports
through trans-country gas pipelines could help in bringing gas directly into the densely populated
Northern part of India, ...
Dettol: managing brand extensions
(2009)
“What next?” pondered Vishal Khannaa, General Manager
(Marketing), Reckitt Benckiser India Limited (RBIL), as he
sat gazing at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix of
Dettol brand extensions (Exhibit 1). It was ...
Primary education in India: current status and future challenges
(2009-04-15)
Education can act as a powerful tool for reducing poverty and unemployment,
improving health and nutritional standards, and achieving a sustained
human development-led growth1. Within the purview of overall education,
primary ...
Coal and energy security for India: role of carbon dioxide capture and storage
(2009-04-29)
Coal is the abundant domestic energy resource in India and is projected to remain so in future under
a business-as-usual scenario. Using domestic coal mitigates national energy security risks. However coal
use exacerbates ...
Understanding trade union existence in the Zeitgeist of the global: an interpretive journey
(2009-05-03)
Trade unions represent employee collec
tives ' voice to otherwise disaggregated
employees to check the arbitrary use of
managerial power. In the age of
globalisation, where state policy, free
movement of capital ...
The Satyam story: many questions and a few answers
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2009-11-11)
The unfolding of the shocking Satyam fraud has brought to the fore the wide ranging implications to a multiplicity of stakeholders in the company. The need to dialogue, share, discuss, and reflect is very important at this ...
Analysis of misclassified correlated binary data using a multivariate probit model when covariates are subjected to measurement error
(2009-04-15)
A multivariate probit model for correlated binary responses given the predictors of interest has been
considered. Some of the responses are subject to classification errors and hence are not directly
observable. Also ...
Analysis of mixed outcomes: misclassified binary responses and measurement error in covariates
(2009-04-15)
This paper considers regression models for mixed binary and continuous outcomes, when the true predictor
is measured with error and the binary responses are subject to classification errors. The focus of the paper is
to ...