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Measures of efficiency for family planning evaluation
(2010-04-17)During the past ten years evaluation and management specialists have separately developed procedures for assessing program performance. -
Return, risk and optimum portfolio of stocks in Malaysia
(2010-04-17)The paper computes the return and risk (systematic and unsystematic) from investments in stocks, determines the optimum portfolio of stocks, and develops a fundamental model for beta of stocks, using data of the Malaysian ... -
Stock price behavior in Malaysia
(2010-04-17)The paper examines the validity of the three theories of stock price behaviour in Malaysia: Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)/Random Walk Hypothesis (RWH), Technical Analysis and the Fundamental Theory. The sample consists ... -
Adjusting education policy: opportunity for institutional reform
(2010-04-17)Educational policy-making has been motivated in independent India by a concern for equity and the belief that education is an instrument for reducing social inequalities. However, in spite of impressive achievements in ... -
How firms make technological improvements: observations from a field study
(2010-04-17)The paper presents observational data impressionistic accounts emerging from a study aimed at understanding the determinants of technological dynamism, and the role that publicly funded technology institutions play in ... -
Empowerment for sustainable development: building upon local creativity and entrepreneurship in Vulnerable environments
(2010-04-17)A transition towards sustainable development requires recognition of the fundamental contradiction between the strategies which build upon what people do not know or have and the ones which take people s knowledge systems ... -
Sebi's regulatory priorities: need for change
(2010-04-17)Genesis and Function: SEBI was created in 1988 to reform and regulate the securities markets in India. It was given statutory powers in 1992 and assigned the following functions and responsibilities: * Make rules and ... -
Bureaucratization of drought conditions: a critique of drought policies
(2010-04-17)India s policies and programmes designed to address problems of drought prone areas represent a Bureaucratic ethos and a development regime . Hinged on naturalistic and technocratic approaches to the definition and ... -
Academics and rural development: lessons from the Dharampur project
(2010-04-17)There is a growing demand on the educational institutions to contribute to the development process, particularly in the rural areas. The academicians have responded to this demand in a favorable manner. In the IIMA a faculty ... -
Structure, firm size and technical efficiency: some observations on Indian industry
(2010-04-17)The empirical results of this paper, for a sample of firms belonging to a light Indian engineering industry, show that very small and large firms are relatively technically inefficient in production. The larger size group ... -
Trends in the economic efficiency of Indian railways
(2010-04-17)This paper aims at examining the performance of Indian railways based on the criterion of total factor productivity. The paper makes an attempt to analyse the available data on output and factor inputs to estimate the rate ... -
Implementation of information processing systems
(2010-04-17)The use of computers in Management has ranged from Processing or Operational Data to Development of Corporate decision models. Planning of Information Processing System as a Part of the Management Information Systems in ... -
Viability of Inland Water Transport (IWT) in India
(2010-04-17)This paper attempts to assess the viability of movement of passengers and freight by inland water transport (IWT) in India. -
Governance of private sector corporate hospitals and their financial performance: preliminary observations based on listed and unlisted hospitals in India
(2010-04-17)This paper analysis financial performance of corporate hospitals in India. While studying the financial performance of hospitals in our previous work we observed that there are some distinct differences between unlisted ... -
Strategic Marketing Alliances, Partnerships and Networks – The Logic of Cooperation, Roots, Evolution and Advantage
(2010-04-17)The marketing discipline is evolving and so is its agenda with the advent of relationship marketing, networks and other related sub-fields. Till recently, business literature focused largely on competition, and cooperation, ... -
Spotting difficult weakly correlated binary knapsack problems
(2010-04-16)We examine in this paper that the possibility of quickly deciding whether or not an instance of a binary knapsack problem is difficult for branch and bound algorithms. We first observe that the distribution of the objective ... -
Interactions between corporate strategy and financial strategy: some propositions for practicing managers
(2010-04-08)This paper discusses the implications of corporate strategy choices for financial strategies of the firm, and the implications of finance theory for strategic decision-making of the firm. Some propositions of potential ... -
Dialectic between globalization and localization: economic restructuring women and strategies of cultural reproduction
(2010-04-08)The economic arrangement of all social systems is now in the midst of a fundamental restructuring, necessitated by the crisis of varieties of command economies and bureaucratic regulation of production, distribution and ... -
Restructuring rural financial institutions
(2010-04-08)This paper first identifies major proposals being considered now for restructuring rural financial institutions (RFIs). It then discusses main reasons which may have prompted these proposals. These are (1) inefficiencies ... -
On the optimal staffing of surgeons and efficient scheduling of surgeries at a high-volume eye hospital
(2010-04-08)In this paper we consider an algorithmic approach of arriving at such an optimal level staffing given some practical constraints. We apply this approach to the surgery department of the paying section of the Aravind Eye ...