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Revitalizing the state: 7. options for India
(2010-04-03)Successful experiments in governance the world over suggest a number of options for revitalizing the Indian state. Several options are first considered for revamping the political system. These include options for achieving ... -
Factors influencing the perceived priority of tuberculosis in India
(2010-04-03)The objective of this study was to understand the priority attached to tuberculosis in India by the major stakeholders in the National Tuberculosis Programme, to explore the underlying factors, and to suggest illustrative ... -
Badla system: a reappraisal
(2010-04-03)The badla system, which allowed transactions to be carried forward from one trading valan to the next, was banned by the SEBI in March 1994. SEBI was hoping that for the purpose of speculative trading, an internationally ... -
Some properties of solutions for two dimensional choice problems reconsidered
(2010-04-03)In this paper, we take up the outstanding problem of axiomatically characterizing what we have referred to in the paper as the additive choice function on the classical domain for choice problems. Apart from an impossibility ... -
Revitalizing the state: 6. the performance of the Indian state
(2010-04-03)The performance of a state depends upon how effectively it copes with its crisis points. These crisis points can arise because of arbitrariness, excessive bureaucratizaiton, insufficient democratization, insufficient ... -
Why are we junking engine of growth?
(2010-04-03)Over the last year and a half, the real value of the rupee has been going up. Neither the government in its budget or otherwise, nor the RBI, seems to be concerned about the deleterious effects of the same on export growth. ... -
Supporting line property and the additive choice function for two dimensional choice problems
(2010-04-03)In this paper, we provide an axiomatic characterization of the additive choice function using the additivity property due to Myerson (1981). It is seen that along with Pareto Optimality, symmetry, and a supporting line ... -
Linking telecome technologies: complementarities, capabilities and policies
(2010-04-03)This paper is a preliminary exploration to develop a methodology for assessing the technological capabilities and needs of the telecommunications sector in India. It makes a case for strategic policy interventions to build ... -
Trade regimes and productivity: exploring the impact of tariff policy on firm level technology strategies
(2010-04-03)The economic reforms initiated in 1991 were broadly based on the view that the strategy of state dominated industrialisation with high protective barriers was either a mistake of has outlived its usefulness. And this ... -
The battle of sexes - ingratiation, gender and LMX
(2010-04-03)The hypothesis that subordinate ingratiation and subordinate gender will interact to influence LMX quality, such that ingratiation will have a stronger positive impact on LMX relationships for female subordinates than ... -
Indian money market: market structure, covered parity and term structure
(2010-04-03)In the context of the relatively recent deregulation of interest rates in India, this paper analyses the structure and inter-relationships of money market interest rates and studies the extent to which covered interest ... -
An efficient algorithm for frequent pattern mining for real - time business intelligence analytics in dense datasets
(2010-04-03)Finding frequent patterns from databases has the most time consuming process in data mining tasks, like association rule mining. Frequent pattern mining in real-time is of increasing thrust in many business applications ... -
Are you risk averse over other people's money?
(2010-04-03)We examine the question in the simplest possible setting using controlled laboratory experiments. We find a remarkable results: when an individual makes a decision for an anonymous stranger, he tends to exhibit less risk ... -
What's keeping the apples way? addressing the market integration issue
(2010-04-03)Apples have been grown in India for a century. At present apple production exceeds 1.4 million tonnes a year. Still, there are wide variations in the apple prices across the country. We test the price data for market ... -
Process oriented approach to waiting line management in a large pilgrimage center in India: a case study
(2010-04-03)This article documents an innovative approach to manage waiting line in the largest pilgrimage center in the world. By a judicious combination of process orientation and advances in Information Technology, the pilgrimage ... -
Trade cost, trade policy and trade volume: a study of Indian apple market
(2010-04-03)Trade Cost form a significant part of moving goods from producer to consumer. These cost are particularly high in developing countries. As a representative country, we look at Indiazs apple trade. Although tariff on apple ... -
Format choice of food and grocery retailers
(2010-04-03)Format choice is recognized as a cognitive process. Like any other purchasing decision format choice also is an information processing behavior. A store is chosen based on the confidence that the customer has regarding the ... -
Health system in India: opportunities and challenges for improvement
(2010-04-03)Health and Socio-economic developments are so closely intertwined that is impossible to achieve one without the other. While the economic development in India has been gaining momentum over the last decade, our health ... -
Labour reforms: a delicate act of balancing the interests
(2010-04-03)In this study we examine the issue of the need of labour reforms in the globalised economy. The two legislations discussed in detail are: Chapter VB of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947- provisions relating to layoff, retrenchment ... -
PRIVDAM: privacy violation detection and monitoring using data mining
(2010-04-03)Privacy, its violations and techniques to bypass privacy violation have grabbed the centre-stage of both academia and industry in recent months. Corporations worldwide have become conscious of the implications of privacy ...