Browsing Working Papers by Author "Datta, Samar K."
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Can globalisation be an unqualified key to success? the case of Indian Rice
Datta, Samar K.; Kapoor, Sanjeev; Awasthi, M. K. (2010-03-31)For a variety of reasons, reaping higher international prices of rice in responsw to the demonstrated comparative advantages of India is not as easy a task as the recent calculations of global competitiveness coefficients ... -
Changing perspective on rural credit between mid - 80s and mid - 90s - experiences of two West Bengal villages
Datta, Samar K.; Chakrabarti, Milindo (2010-07-27)Credit is a pure service transaction between two points of time rather than a spot market transaction in pure goods . Because of the time gap involved between sanction and realization of credit, the players in the market ... -
Competitive strategies for Indian agri - business cooperatives - a perspective for the next decade
Datta, Samar K.; Chakrabarti, Milindo; Gupta, Kriti Bardhan (2010-04-03)Inspite of the current rhetorics on the concept of Swadeshi , the increasing trend towards liberalisation and globalisation can neither be wished away, nor is it feasible and profitable at this juncture to completely ... -
Management perspective for sustainable fisheries under globalised market conditions: the Indian scenario
Datta, Samar K.; Chakrabarti, Milindo (2009-12-12)India enjoys a vast and versatile resource base in respect of her fisheries. However, the country presently has reached a crossroad so far as sustainable tapping of his resource base is concerned. Defining sustainability ... -
Monitoring cost transaction interlinkage and the selection of optimal loan contracts: evidence from rural India
Erickson, Christopher A.; Ghosh, Soumendra Nath; Datta, Samar K. (2010-04-17)Costly monitoring is an important market imperfection in developed as well as developing economies. In developed countries monitoring costs are usually minimized through intermediation. The intermediation process is hampered, ... -
Perspective on farmer-market interface-results of a revisit to selected villages from West Bengal, Gujarat and Maharashtra
Datta, Samar K. (2009-12-12)Markets do not operate in vacuum. They need an institutional structure for them to function competitively and efficiently. This revisit study based on intensive study of eight villages six from West Bengal and one each ... -
A Perspective on Fisheries Sector Interventions for Livelihood Promotion
Datta, Samar K.; Singh, Srijan Pal; Chakrabarti, Milindo; Biswas, Subho; Bittu, Sah (2011-05-26)The distinctive features of fisheries resources, fishers and their geographic contexts, on the one hand, and broad stylized features of the existing lacklustre performance of this sector, on the other, call for specialized ... -
Perspective on land use planning for eastern India
Datta, Samar K.; Chakrabarti, Milindo (2009-12-12)Of all the natural resources endowed upon mankind, soil cover on the mother earth has been one of the most important basic resources which plays a strategic role in determining the living standards of human beings. Given ... -
Property rights and policies for sustainable management of marine fisheries: the Indian scenario
Datta, Samar K.; Chakrabarti, Milindo (2009-12-12)India enjoy a vast and versatile resource base in respect of her fisheries. However, the country presently has reached a crossroad so far as sustainable tapping of this resource base is concerned. By defining sustainability ... -
Redefining property rights for sustaining the wetlands around Calcutta
Datta, Samar K.; Choudhury, Mukut Roy (2009-12-12)By defining sustainable resource use as one with long-term economic viability besides having both ecological and social compatibility, this paper applies the property rights framework and the economics of fist production ... -
SHORT-TERM AND MEDIUM-TERM PROSPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN GUJARAT – SOME POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Datta, Samar K.; Sharma, Vijay Paul (2009-09-02)By mid-September, 2003 it is becoming clear that Gujarat is likely to experience a bumper crop in the year 2003-04. The State Ministry of Agriculture is looking for some concrete suggestions, advice and policy recommendations ... -
Tapping Economies of Scale and Scope in Consumer Cooperation – A Case Analysis of Possible Cooperation among Selected Cooperatives
Datta, Samar K.; Nilakantan, Rahul (2009-08-21)Because of its narrow and negative perspective of safeguarding the interests of only poor consumers against unethical practices of the private traders, consumer cooperation in India seems to have failed, except probably ...