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Leveraging correlates of innovative teacher behaviour for educational development in developing societies
(Science and Education Publishing, 2016)
The public system of elementary education in developing countries is often criticized for its poor performance, but a better understanding of the innovative teachers in this system who achieve their educational goals might ...
Does implementing problem-solving projects affect decisional style? developing governance capabilities in school management committees
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-11-29)
Faith in the power of local decision-making underpins decentralised democratic governance, but the evidence for its effectiveness is mixed. It is in this context that school management committees (SMCs) were established ...
Impact of the introduction of call auction on price discovery: evidence from the Indian stock market using high-frequency data
(Elsevier, 2015)
Call markets are claimed to aggregate information and facilitate price discovery where continuous markets may fail. The impact of the introduction of call auction has not been found uniformly beneficial, possibly due to ...
Supporting and sustaining state-initiated women’s empowerment: Learning from a national programme in India
(Wiley, 2019)
State-led women’s empowerment initiatives are usually indifferent to the tensions between the processes of transformation they initiate at the grassroots and the intermediary support structures they create to sustain ...
Contextualising educational decentralisation policies in India
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2018)
The impact of the local contextualisation of successive rounds of educational decentralisation reform on organisational learning and capacities of rural educational governance structures is examined. From locating schools ...
An evaluation of mid-day meal scheme
(Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, 2012)
With the twin objectives of improving health and education of the poor children, India has
embarked upon an ambitious scheme of providing mid day meals (MDM) in the government and
government-assisted primary schools. ...
Changing dynamics of inflation in India
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2018-03)
Using the latest consumer price index (combined) series, it is found that the dynamics underlying India’s inflationary process have changed substantially. Significant reduction found in the inflation persistence reflects ...
Self presentation in online environments: a study of Indian Muslim matrimonial profiles
(Asian Journal of Communication, 2013)
This study examines the self presentation practices of Indian Muslim men and women in online matrimonial advertisements. Findings indicate that while Indian Muslims are using the new medium to adhere to traditional cultural ...
Which interpretational route will the Supreme court of India follow when faced with the contentious civil liability for nuclear damage act, 2010?
(Oxford University Press, 2018-04-10)
The Civil Nuclear Liability for Damages Act of India enacted in 2010 has been a matter of concern to international suppliers and vendors. This is due to the perceived deviation of the law from the principle of legal ...
An integrated decision support system for strategic supply chain optimisation in process industries: the case of a zinc company
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-24)
We introduce a menu-driven user-friendly decision support system (DSS) for supply chain planning based on optimisation. The DSS is based on a multi-source (supplier), multi-destination (warehouse) network having multiple ...