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    • Is India Ready for Online Dispute Resolution? 

      Agarwal, Anurag K. (2009-08-21)
      The Indian judicial system is marred by delays. Businesses suffer because disputes are not resolved in a reasonable time. Even with the use of methods of alternative dispute resolution a fair number of high value disputes ...

    • Is India's federal debt sustainable? Revisiting an old debate 

      Ram Mohan, T. T.; Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Karan, Navendu (2010-04-03)
      That India faces a yfiscal crisisz has been a recurrent refrain of the literature on Indiazs economic reforms. Indeed a central objective of the reforms process, one that has proved elusive so far, is the reduction in the ...

    • Is longer, faster, stronger, smarter life also the happier? Reflections on slower, sustainable and more inclusive life experience 

      Gupta, Anil K. (2010-07-20)
      Worldwide concern with advances in life extension and enhancement technologies has brought together scientists, corporate managers and ethicists together in the world Forum on Tomorrow’s People, Oxford University to debate ...

    • Is marketing a science: Debate revisited 

      Sharma, Dheeraj (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-04)
      In pursuance of determining the scientific status of marketing, this article first determines what constitutes science. Thereafter, the article conducts a formal analysis of various schools of thought of science. Specifically, ...

    • Is the BSE sensitive index better than the National Index? 

      Varma, Jayanth R. (2010-03-29)
      Stock prices indices are used extensively by investors, brokers and portfolio managers as a general indicator of the stock market conditions. They are also used extensively in finance theory notably in operationalizing the ...

    • Is the just systems also fairer? traversing the domain of knowledge, institutions, culture and ethics 

      Gupta, Anil K. (2010-07-20)
      In this case he deals with the issue of Prior Informed Consent and the ethics underlying the knowledge exchange between formal and informal system. The criteria for assessing the adverse consequence from knowledge providers ...

    • Is the past still holding us back? a study on intergenerational education mobility in India 

      P. K. V., Kishan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-03)
      This paper deals with intergenerational education mobility in India. We make use of IHDS-II (2011-12) and prepare a representative dataset that goes beyond co-resident pairs of son-father by utilizing a unique feature of ...

    • Is the Taiwan stock market efficient 

      Gupta, Jyoti P.; Pandey, I. M.; Chao-Fu, Chen (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)
      The main objective of the Taiwan Government in reforming the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) has been to establish Taiwan as an Asia-Pacific financial centre. The liberalisation and internationalisation of TSE is expected to ...

    • Is “make in india” constrained by indian labour market regulations? 

      Mathur, Ajeet Narain (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-01)
      This paper examines whether “Make in India” policies are constrained by over-regulation or under-regulation in the Indian labour market. Specific labour law provisions and the scope of circumventing them as evidenced from ...

    • ISO 9000 linked tax incentive: a better leverage point for growth 

      Morris, Sebastian; Raghunathan, V. (2010-03-26)
      The efficiency and efficacy of government instruments in implementing policy have been particularly problematic in India. For instance, the incentives, mostly fiscal, to boost been linked to investments, e.g., development ...

    • ISSUES AND CONCERNS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE OF HRIS 

      Krishnan, Sandeep K.; Singh, Manjari (2009-08-08)
      The paper looks at the issues and concerns faced by nine Indian organisations in implementing and managing HRIS. The organisations are diverse in terms of size and sector that they belong. The critical success factors and ...

    • Issues for research on rural development in south asia 

      Gupta, Anil K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)
      There has been tremendous upsurge in writings on rural development during last decade. Incidently the economic policies followed during this period in various countries of south asia have intensified the contradictions in ...

    • Issues in accounting standards setting processes in India 

      Agrawal, Rajesh; Raghunathan, V. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-10-01)
      The paper critically examines the accounting standards setting process in India and compares the Indian process with the processes prevailing elsewhere in the world. The paper concludes that the Indian standards setting ...

    • Issues in Infrastructure for Export of Marine Products from India 

      Raghuram, G.; Asopa, V. N. (2009-03-09)
      Indian marine products are wanted internationally. There is potential for a higher market share in importing countries. Shrimp contributed 62% by value and 28% by volume of exports in 2002-03. The potential market for ...

    • Issues in Infrastructure for Export of Rice from India 

      Raghuram, G.; Asopa, V. N. (2009-07-29)
      Rice is exported in two varieties, basmati (aromatic) and non-basmati. The basmati rice exports are in three categories: white, brown and parboiled. India earned Rs 18.4 billion in 2001-02 from exports of basmati rice and ...

    • Issues in measurement of productivity in India 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2009-12-12)
      A few conceptual issues having direct bearing on deriving the estimates of input productivities at the macro/aggregative level are discussed in the Indian context in the paper. The following issues are discussed in the ...

    • Issues in PPPs in ports in India 

      Raghuram, G.; Shukla, Niraja (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
      PPP mode of investment in Indian ports has made a significant headway and is preferred for investments today. The 12 major ports and about 200 minor ports along the 7,500 km coastline of the country have together traded ...

    • Issues in strategy for export promotion: an inter-industry analysis 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Dholakia, Bakul H.; Kumar, Ganesh (2010-03-24)
      The present paper points towards the need for integration between the new Exit policy and the 8th plan in India by considering direct and indirect effects of a unit increase in coefficients in each of the 47 commodity ...

    • Issues in the development of the most disadvantaged groups in South Asia 

      Bhatt, Anil (2010-03-14)
      0he paper discusses the efforts made in the development of the most disadvantaged groups (MDGs) in South Asia. It delineates four broad factors - the social political context of deprivation, the role of the central levels ...

    • Issues in water rights, institutional design and pricing that need resolution 

      Morris, Sebastian (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
      In this paper the core issues that need resolution before water development especially by the private sector, and efficient usage can happen are very briefly outlined. These are Water rights have to be defined more ...