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Conditions in which microfinance has emerged in certain regions and consequent policy implications
(2010-04-03)Meeting the health care needs of population goes beyond mere budget allocations. The organisation of programmes and commitment of people working in the health sector has significant bearing on sector performance and its ... -
Neutral taxation of risky investment and proportional sacrifice
(2010-04-01)In this paper, our purpose is to show that a tax schedule is neutral with respect to a concave utility function if and only if it is an equal proportional sacrifice tax schedule. -
Characterizing the equal income market equilibrium choice correspondence: Average envy freeness instead of individual rationality from equal division
(2010-04-01)In problems of fair division of a given bundle of resources, amongst a finite number of agents, individual rationality from equal division plays a significant role. In a society, where all resources are socially owned, one ... -
Mathematical modeling for demurrage reduction in coal transportation for an Indian thermal power plant
(2010-04-01)Competitive pressures on power plants have seen them attempting to reduce their operating expenses for profitable operations. In India, the plants use wagons of the Indian Railways to transport coal from the mines (in ... -
Towards mega faculties: the case - based learning of core capability development and management
(2010-04-01)In this paper, we introduce the concept of mega faculties, corporate abilities to change focal faculties from time to time over the long term. Since it is a tentative concept we propose a case discussion based approach to ... -
Axiomatic characterization of the equal income market equilibrium choice correspondence in non convex economies
(2010-04-01)A property of allocation rules (in problems involving fair division of infinitely divisible goods amongst a finite number of agents) that has received considerable attention in recent literature is consistency. The property ... -
Direct tax proposals in the union budget 1997/98: a preliminary analysis from a corporate finance perspective
(2010-04-01)The Union Budget 1997/98 has significant implications for corporate investment, financing and dividend decisions. While the lowering of corporate tax rates places a premium on efficiency and profitability, lowering of ... -
Management of intangibles in Indian railways
(2010-04-01)Managing intangibles is a major challenge before organizations. Increasingly there is an appreciation that for managing hard performance parameters, the softer aspects of management need to be looked into. In fact, several ... -
Determinants of growth in rice productivity in India, 1980-95
(2010-04-01)This paper analyses various price and non-price factors that induce rice productivity during 1980-95 using a multi-variate model. This is studied separately for states where rice is a multi-season crop and mono-season crop. ... -
Two commodity network design: the convex hull
(2010-04-01)We study the uncapacitated and capacitated one facility versions of the two commodity network design problem. We characterize optimal solutions and show that we can restrict the search for optimal solutions to feasible ... -
Policy strategy and instruments for alleviating rural poverty
(2010-04-01)The paper departs from the present policy emphasis for and more recent literature on rural poverty in advocating six major conclusions based on its validation of a multi-variate model explaining the behaviour of this poverty ... -
Cotton in India: analysis of differing performance
(2010-04-01)This paper attempts to investigate the performance of Indian cotton sector and impact of economic and biological factors on acreage and yield of cotton in the major cotton growing states of the country using time series ... -
Financing issues in proposed HIV/AIDS intervention of providing anti-retroviral drugs to selected regions in India
(2010-03-31)The development of antiretroviral therapy has given a new hope for people living with acquired immuno deficiency syndrome. In the face of increased disease burden due to HIV the global and political commitment towards ... -
Improvement sensitivity and invariance of solutions to group decision making problems with claims
(2010-03-31)In this paper we have developed a very general framework for studying group decision making problems with claims which subsumes the set of problems studies in axiomatic models of bargaining. Subsequently we proceed to ... -
Indian aluminium industry: a perspective
(2010-03-31)This paper looks at the various facets of the aluminium industry such as government policy, user profile, industry structure, financial and physical performance, exports and imports and firm level management issues, and ... -
Castor oil exports: a promising business
(2010-03-31)This paper highlights the scope of increasing caster oil export business and discusses potential market areas. -
Current problems of family welfare programme administration and principles and techniques of management applicable to family welfare and reproductive health programme
(2010-03-31)We have identified several key problems in the family welfare programme. Many of these problems are not peculiar to the health programme but are problems of general administration of the Government. Hence along with specific ... -
Revealed preference under rationing
(2010-03-31)In this paper we extend the weak and strong axioms of revealed preference to markets with rationing and establish that if the observed demand behaviour in such markets satisfy the strong axiom of revealed preference, then ... -
Castor revolution in Gujarat, India: what made it successful?
(2010-03-31)This paper explains why castor hybrids had a spectacular success in Gujarat. It develops a model and uses it to explain step by step changes that took place in the castor economy of Gujarat. -
Use of family planning during the firs year postpartum in Ahmedabad India
(2010-03-31)Indians urban population taken together would rank as fifth largest country in the world. Dynamics of contraceptive use in this group during postpartum period is not well researched. This paper reports results of a sample ...