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Drop out enrollment and poverty: policy implications
(2010-03-29)Debate around the factors responsible for the drop-out phenomenon in elementary education focuses largely on two positions: (a) that parents, under economic compulsions, tend to {withdraw| their children from school, (b) ... -
Determining lags in export supply function in India
(2010-03-29)This paper considers a partial adjustment model of the export supply function in Indian economy at the aggregate level. A minimum of one month and a maximum of 12 months is considered as the plausible range of the length ... -
Learning relationships among classes specified by examples
(2010-03-29)Learning by examples is a commonly used method of knowledge acquisition in expert systems. The learning examples are past cases whose classification is known. When the number of classes is high, learning relationships ... -
Valid inequalities and facets for the capacitated lot-sizing problem with changeover costs
(2010-03-29)We study a scheduling problem with changeover costs and capacity constraints. The problem is NP-complete and combinatorial algorithms have not been very successful. We identify a general class of facets which subsumes as ... -
Effect of sexual illustrations on brand - product recall: an experimental study
(2010-03-29)This research study has attempted to experimentally measure effect of sexual illustrations on brand - product recall. The study is an extension of the work done by M. Ste adman and M.W. Alexander and Ben Judd, Jr. Published ... -
Income and price elasticities in India's trade
(2010-03-29)The paper estimates the export and import function for India both at the aggregate (rest of the world) as well as the important individual country levels, using annual time series data for the period 1960-61 through 1990-91. ... -
Appropriate measure of real value added and total factor productivity growth in Indian Manufacturing
(2010-03-29)It is a widely held hypothesis that the Indian industry experienced a significant turnaround in its Total Factor Productivity Growth (TEPG) during the decade of the eighties as compared to the seventies. Recently it is ... -
Is the BSE sensitive index better than the National Index?
(2010-03-29)Stock prices indices are used extensively by investors, brokers and portfolio managers as a general indicator of the stock market conditions. They are also used extensively in finance theory notably in operationalizing the ... -
Quest for a universal morality: Jurgen Habermas and Sri Aurobindo
(2010-03-29)Morals in the sociological and anthropological discourse have been looked at as a construction of culture and as an appendage of social norms. In the conventional sense, moral development culture. But such a notion of ... -
Indian technology policy : use of new & traditional technologies
(2010-03-29)The debate on Technology policy in India is not a recent phenomenon. The Indian Technology Policy has tried to maintain a balance between the anti-modern technological view of Gandhian philosophy and new modern technologies. ... -
Dilemmas of renewable energy: the case of the solar cooker programme in gujarat, India
(2010-03-29)This article presents a set of measures for evaluating a social development programme such as the non-conventional energy programme. The specific case discussed and evaluated here is that of the solar cooker programme. ... -
Reshaping State Government's role in industrial development
(2010-03-29)The state governments will have an important role to play in the new industrial policy framework. But they would have to rethink their role reflecting the changed scenario. Rather than distort market prices through subsidies ... -
Solar energy technology: Research & development in India
(2010-03-29)Solar energy is a direct and perrenial energy source. It is non polluting and is available freely. The technology of converting solar energy into heat and utilizing it for various applications can now be commercially ... -
Status of personnel in corporate structure: an empirical study
(2010-03-29)An analysis of the Annual Reports of the Top 150 Companies, as rated by Economic Times, 1975, was done to identify those companies having personnel departments. Further analysis was done on the basis of the industry and ... -
Negotiating strategies and skills- 1- A sociological study of the paradigms in the management of industrial relations in the Indian context - Current scenario and future directions
(2010-03-29)The most fascinating areas for investigation in the field of socio economic research has been the search for gaining new insights into the structure and process of choice behaviour in the management of industrial relations. ... -
Axiomatic characterization of the lexicographic utilitarian collective utility function
(2010-03-29)In this paper we axiomatically characterize the family of lexicographic utilitarian collective utility functions. As a by-product we obtain the utilitarian collective utility function by imposing a shift anonymity condition. ... -
Price elasticity of fertilizer demand in India: A review
(2010-03-29)The goverment of India has tried to assure a reasonable return to fertilizer industry so that indigenous production can keep pace with the projected increase in demand of fertilizers. At the same time the farmer have also ... -
Analysis of wagon utilization and estimating the optimal freight transport effort (loaded and empty wagon movement) for the Indian railways
(2010-03-29)Over the past four decades, the freight movement output of the Indian Railways has increased substantially. The tonnes originating increased over fourfold from 73.2 million tonnes in 1950-51 to 302 million tonnes in 1988-89. ... -
A negotiation procedure converging to the egalitarian solution
(2010-03-29)This paper proposes a negotiation procedure, solutions of which converge to the egalitarian solution in two person bargaining problems. In this paper, we have defined a procedure, solutions of which converge to the egalitarian ... -
Management of decentralized sectors: a conceptual framework
(2010-03-29)Decentralized industrial sectors are important features of the economies of most of the developing countries. This paper provides a contextual definition to the key words "decentralized" and "sector", explains the rationale ...