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Operations research in India: the past, present and the future
(Annals of Management Science, 2017-11)
The purpose of this perspective article is to review the development of Operation Research (OR) as a discipline in the Indian context. Based on this review, we suggest a plan to re-energize the discipline.
Impact of security expenditures in military alliances on violence from non-state actors: evidence from India
(Elsevier pvt ltd., 2018-04-05)
In this paper, we investigate the impact of security expenditures from military alliances involving third-party intervention on violent incidents from non-state actors. Our main learning is a rather surprising factthat at ...
Emotional labour of rural women in difficult geographies of an emerging economy: narratives of community healthcare workers of India
(Inderscience, 2018)
This study attempts to find the existence, execution and outcome of emotional labour in the work of community healthcare workers. Through a ten-month field study comprising in-depth interviews with 26 accredited social ...
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 ...
Turning over a golden leaf? global liquidity and emerging market central banks’ demand for gold after the financial crisis Mohapatra
(ScienceDirect, 2018-11)
The quantity of gold reserves held by central banks in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has risen sharply in the years following the global financial crisis of 2008. EMDE central banks’ gold holdings rose ...
Disparity in the wages of agricultural labourers in India: an interval-valued data analysis
(Indian council of agricultural research, 2018-03-27)
This study explores the interval-valued data analysis techniques to witness the spatial disparity in the wage rates of farm labourers in India. Farm labourers constitute more than half of the total workforce engaged in ...
Job points model: an open source tool to determine the comparable worth of jobs
(i-scholar, 2018-04-01)
Comparable worth of jobs is very critical while taking compensation related decisions in any organization. Ascertaining the comparable worth of different jobs having varied levels of responsibility, decision-making, etc. ...
Food value chain investments and the small farmer linkage: Indian experience, potential and policy
(Policy Student Organization, 2018-03)
The agri-food value chains in the developing world are evolving fast due to many changes in policy and practice. In India, modern domestic food supermarkets have been present for more than 15 years now. Furthermore, in ...
Estimation of log‐odds ratio from group testing data using firth correction
(Wiley, 2019-01-15)
We consider the estimation of the prevalence of a rare disease, and the log‐odds ratio for two specified groups of individuals from group testing data. For a low‐prevalence disease, the maximum likelihood estimate of the ...