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From climate change impacts to adaptation: A development perspective for India
(2007-11-02)
India has good reasons to be concerned about climate change as it could adversely affect the achievement of vital national
development goals related to socio-economic development, human welfare, health, energy availability ...
Sustainable development as a framework for developing country participation in international climate change policies
(2007-11-02)
The paper presents a number of ideas on how climate change policy
implementation in developing countries can be supported by alternative international
cooperation mechanisms that are based on stakeholder interests and ...
Turnaround excellence six studies of corporate renewal
(2007-11-08)
Organizations are mortal. They can fall sick and die or recover. They can starve
to death. They can bleed to death. Even when they are healthy, they may
die if the external environment turns hostile. They, however, have ...
A GIS approach to plan and deliver health care services to urban poor: a public-private model for Ahmedabad city, India
(2007-11-08)
Purpose – To provide a public private partnership (PPP) model for urban health centres (UHC) in
developing countries that can be useful for urban local governments and private service providers
willing to enter into ...
Conditions in which microfinance has emerged in certain regions
(2007-11-09)
The paper looks at some macro data on the availability
of infrastructure, economic growth, density of
population and the availability of formal financial
services to examine if any of these factors explain its
growth ...
Whose future? dilemma of the Gandhian eskimo
(2007-11-02)
Hope and despair are two threads of anxieties that belong to paradoxes of globalisation
[1]. In a contribution to this journal 7 years ago, Jerry Ravetz [2] raised an important
question whether it may be too late to do ...
Dividend behaviour of Indian companies under monetary policy restrictions
(2007-11-08)
Purpose – The dividend payout behaviour of firms is a well-studied subject in finance. In recent
times, the influence of macro economic factors and understanding their implications far corporate
financial decisions has ...
Does culture influence learning styles in higher education?
(2007-10-29)
This paper develops a framework for understanding the relationships
between approaches to learning adopted by students in the context of higher
education and the culture of the country they were brought up in. The ...
On the representation of the one machine sequencing problem in the shifting bottleneck heuristic
(2007-11-08)
The Shifting Bottleneck heuristic decomposes the Job Shop problem into a series of One Machine Sequencing Problems
(OMSPs) with release and due dates, precedence constraints and the minimization of maximum lateness ...
An optimization based decision support system for strategic and operational planning with in-process industries: case of pharmaceuticals industry in India
(2007-10-29)
We describe how a generic multi-period optimization-based decision support system (DSS) can be used for
strategic planning in process industries. The DSS is built on five fundamental elements—materials, facilities,
activities, ...