Working Papers: Recent submissions
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A study of dew water yields on galanized iron roof in Kothara (North-West India)
(2010-04-08)In order to determine what amount of dew water can be collected without much investment during the dry season (October-May) in north - t India, a study was performed on plain, un-insulated, corrugated galvanized iron roofs ... -
Recommendations of the task force on revival of the co-operative credit structure: Implementation issues
(2010-04-08)This paper lists out the issues that are involved in implementing this ambitious financial package of Rs. 15000 carors.It first brings out the historic circumstances under which the co-operativefrom of organisation came ... -
Rethinking policy options for watershed management by local communities: combining equity efficiency and ecological - economic viability
(2010-04-08)The policy environment for management of land-use in India has been quite mud-died. Part of the reason is lack of accountability among senior level public administrators, policy planners and various constituents of the ... -
Assessing biological diversity and associative knowledge system: can ethics influence equity
(2010-04-08)Regions of high biodiversity are often inhabited by the poorest people. The irony is that many of local healers and other herbal experts do not even charge for their services to the community. They conserve biological ... -
Strategic human resource management: three - stage process and influencing organizational factors
(2010-04-08)A three-stage model for the process of strategic human resource management is developed in this paper. The three stages cover strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation. The inter-linkages in this dynamic model ... -
Rewarding creativity for conserving diversity in third world: can IPR regime serve the needs of contemporary and traditional knowledge experts and communities in third world
(2010-04-08)Regions of high biodiversity are often inhabited by the poorest people. The irony is that many of local healers and other herbal experts do not even charge for their services to the community. They conserve biological ... -
Managing research networks: a study of inter - organizational linkages
(2010-04-08)Many organizations have resources which may not be optimally used within the organization. Thus the redundancy of some resources and scarcity of others often generate the need for inter-organizational networks. At the same ... -
Treating HIV/ AIDS patients in India with antiretroviral therapy: a management challenge
(2010-04-08)India stands at a critical junction of HIV pandemic. Controlling spread of HIV is critical. Ignoring this will lead millions of Indians in grip of this pandemic. Ever since HIV/AIDS was acknowledged as a problem, the ... -
Algorithm for the min - max loss rule for claims problems
(2010-04-08)In this paper we provide an algorithm which gives us the unique solution to the problem of minimizing the maximum loss (where loss is measured by unsatisfied demands) for a claims problem. The answer lies crucially on the ... -
Reconsideration of some solutions for two dimensional choice problems
(2010-04-08)In this paper, the outstanding problem of axiomatically characterizing what is referred in the paper as additive c hoice function on the classical domain for choice problems is taken into account. Apart from an impossibility ... -
Managing environments sustainably through understanding and assimilating local ecological knowledge: the case of honey bee
(2010-04-08)Conceptually the developmental models can be arrayed on two dimensions: The time frame and decision making options or horizon. I have defined development as a process of well as the institutions (Gupta 1981, Gupta et al, ... -
New Logic of Indian Ventures Abroad: Three Case Studies
(2010-04-06)This paper reports the findings of a study to understand the logic of Indian ventures in the 1980s and beyond. Three case studies are analyzed in detail. The motives behind these ventures are compared with the motives of ... -
Does ghee sold by any brand smell as sweet? : quality attributes and hedonic price analysis of ghee
(2010-04-06)In the post-WTO scenario processed food industry is witnessing intra-industry trade, i.e., trade in similar products. It also means that there will be intense competition between foreign and Indian companies in the ... -
SolCaFe': a solar cooking facility for schools and small catering business in hot arid areas
(2010-04-06)A solar cafeteria, termed, `SolCafe’ was designed and commissioned at a residential school of hundred children in Kothara-Kutch. In this paper we present the experience of its first year of operation. Cooking modules of ... -
Financial goals choices and performance of firms in Malaysia
(2010-04-06)The objectives of the study are (a) to ascertain the financial goals pursued by companies in Malaysia and (b) to find out the relationship between firms’ financial performance and stated financial goals. Data on the ... -
In a freer WTO trade regime, food industry must focus on quality management
(2010-04-06)In the new WTO led freer trade environment, Indian food industry can compete globally only if it is price and quality competitive. While many have addressed price competitiveness, sensitising food industry on the importance ... -
Reciprocity: making development a two way street
(2010-04-06)As a follow up of agenda 21, Government of Netherlands took an initiative of forming a four country partnership among Bhutan, Benin, Costa Rica and Netherlands. The idea was to explore what kind of reciprocity can be ... -
Management of urban energy and air quality: case of Ahmedabad city
(2010-04-06)This paper explores the synergistic relationship between energy and environment in an urban system through a case study of the city of Ahmedabad, India. The analytical framework is based on estimation of sectoral fuel ... -
WTO agreements on SPS and TBT: implications for food quality issues
(2010-04-06)Trade liberalization, hoped to be achieved through WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) is expected to lead to export promotion and import substitution opportunities for Indian food sector. However, these opportunities ... -
Consistency and an axiomatic characterization of the market equilibrium solutions
(2010-04-06)In this paper, we present a unified theory for solutions to games of fair division, which are ordinal in nature and appear as non-symmetric variants of the equal income market equilibrium solution. We characterize the ...