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Identification of top performing economies
(2004-10-25)
In the era of globalization and liberalization, important investment and business
decisions have to carefully consider long-term performance and prospects of different
national economies. National governments would also ...
Comparative advertising in India: need to strengthen regulations
(2004-10-26)
With the liberalization and globalization of the Indian economy, firms have been aggressively and
vigorously promoting their products and services. In a comparative environment, every representation
of a product or service ...
Wage disparity and human capital accumulation
(2004-10-25)
When the acquisitions of skills and technological change have mutually reinforcing effects the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers increases. The cost of education is a deterrent to investment in skills that can ...
Logistics of tractor distribution in an agriculture-driveneconomy: an Indian case study
(2004-10-26)
This paper examines critical decision areas in the context of outbound logistics and their analytical
resolution (using operational research models) for a tractor company, which was among the market leaders
in the tractor ...
Role of state in contract farming in Thailand and India: experiences and lessons for Indian agribusiness policy
(2005-10-26)
The nation-states have been attempting large number of policy measures to institutionalize
contract farming as a solution to the problems of agricultural development. This paper examines
the role of the Thai state in the ...
Measuring bank performance: an application of DEA
(2004-10-25)
The current paper is an attempt to use Data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the relative performance of public sector banks in India. The DEA model is most meaningful when it is applied to observation sets of units ...
Sensitivity analysis of the greedy heuristic for binary knapsack problems
(2006-10-27)
Greedy heuristics are a popular choice of heuristics when we have to solve
a large variety of N P-hard combinatorial problems. In particular for binary
knapsack problems, these heuristics generate good results. If some ...
Term structure estimation in IIIiquid government bond markets : an empirical analysis for India
(2005-10-27)
With increasing liquidity of the Indian sovereign debt market since 1997, it has
become possible to estimate the term structure in India. However, the market is
characterised by several frictions that cause individual ...
Analysis of public and private healthcare expenditure
(2006-10-27)
The basic objective of healthcare systems is to meet a country’s health needs in the
most equitable and efficient manner, while remaining financially sustainable. Each
country, given the historical evolution of its ...
International marketing strategies in India: an application of mixed method investigation
(2005-10-27)
Internationalization drives and export orientation are prominent in the organizational strategies of
a number of leading Indian firms and multinationals located in India. This is a significant indicator
of the growing ...