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Indian economic forecast March 1993
(2010-03-26)Although not spelt out by the Finance Minister as preparing ground for the EFF/ESAF loan from the IMF, it is a path-breaking budget with a strong emphasis on restructuring the economy and the augmenting supply side of the ... -
Implications of the sectoral targets of India's eighth five year plan
(2010-03-26)The paper examines critically the implications of the sectoral targets of income and employment growth coupled with the investment allocations as envisaged in Indias Eighth Five Year Plan. The implications are worked out ... -
Management of large it projects: the passenger reservation system of Indian railways
(2010-03-26)The Passenger Reservation System of Indian Railways is a major computer application in a visible, consumer sensitive area. The involves a distributed database, spread over five host computers located in five metropolitan ... -
Prospects for foreign direct investment in the nineties
(2010-03-26)FDI into India is more likely to take the form of joint-ventures and other so called ynon-equityz forms. As indigenous businesses have gathered strength over the period of sheltered growth in the eighties (and even earlier), ... -
Strengthening primary health care services: insights from qualitative research in West India
(2010-03-26)Results and Implications: 1.) Acceptance of immunization is high, but needs institutionalization, through community preparation. Women are aware of vaccines(90%), but unaware of diseases, dosage, ... -
Affine cost share equilibria for economies with public goods
(2010-03-26)In this paper we propose the concept of an affine cost share equilibrium and show that under natural assumptions any optimal allocation corresponds to an affine cost share equilibrium. With linear cost functions and under ... -
Political processes in grievance resolution: managing meaning of due process in organization
(2010-03-26)This paper studies the actual process of grievance resolution from a political perspective in one of the largest integrated public sector steel plants in India. Six grievances case were analyzed from a political perspective. ... -
New trends in sensitivity training
(2010-03-26)The Indian and western forms of sensitivity training differ the content, process and the underlying perspectives. The two perspectives of sensitivity training are compared along with the differences in application in ... -
Financial sector reform: institutional and technological imperatives
(2010-03-26)This paper takes the view that financial sector reform is not only a matter of jettisoning old regulations nor even merely a matter of prudential regulation accompanying structural deregulation; it is intimately bound up ... -
Technology development in the Indian foundry industry: a case of choked potential
(2010-03-26)The paper presents the results of a field study covering 25 foundries and 5 institutions involved in education, consultancy, and R&D in the foundry sector. The field study was supplemented by interviews with foundry experts ... -
Malaysia's privatization programme
(2010-03-26)Malaysia is among the first few developing countries that launched a large scale programme of privatisation of public enterprises. Malaysia s experience of formulating and implementing the privatisation programme is generally ... -
Institution building: Intrapreneurship in academe
(2010-03-26)Somehow, manufacturing doesn t seem to grow naturally into a potential field of distinction for IIMA as other areas an uphill struggle. During the 1980s, the author found himself informally engaged in precisely such an ... -
Leaders in action: some illustrations and inferences
(2010-03-26)Cases of six outstanding organizational helmsmen who had successfully built up and nurtured enduring organizations form the leit-motif of this essay. These organizations are: the Oberoi chain of hotels built up to dizzying ... -
Enriched individual as a centre for growth
(2010-03-26)This paper discusses the shifting paradigms of what is considered enrichment of an individual. In the traditional agrarian society enrichment was around relationships and institutions of belonging, age, experience, wisdom ... -
Spatial dimension of the acceleration of economic growth in India
(2010-03-26)The study of 20 state economies of India over the period 1960-61 to 1989-90 reveals that the phenomenon of acceleration in economic growth is spatially dispersed and covers about two-thirds of the national economy. The ... -
Research on the Indian capital market: a review
(2010-03-26)In this paper we present a review of research done in the field of Indian capital markets during the fifteen years from 1977 to 1992. The research works included in the survey were identified by two search procedures. ... -
A framework for analysing-consumer orientation of biotechnologist
(2010-03-26)Analysis of the reasons for product success or failure showed that the major factor was a poor understanding of consumer needs by the people involved in the product development. In other words lack of consumer orientation ... -
Monotonicity with respect to the disagreement point and risk sensitivity of a new solution to nash's bargaining problem
(2010-03-25)We propose a solution to the bargaining problem which responds appropriately to certain changes in the disagreement point, for a fixed feasible set. If di increases, while for j i, dj remains constant, our solution recommends ... -
Aquaculture: marketing and economic in India
(2010-03-25)The paper is designed to analyse the existing marketing systems for aquaculture produce and their impact on the economics of aquaculture from the point of view of fish farmers. The paper is divided into five parts. Part I ... -
Performance evaluation of sales tax administration: a case study of Gujarat, India
(2010-03-25)This paper provides a methodology of evaluating performance of tax administration on the basis of available data on effort and achievement variables over a number of years. A case study of sales tax administration in Gujarat ...