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Corporate planning in the context of national planning
(2010-03-13)Identifying the opportunities and constraints in the environment is considered as the essential first step in formulating a corporate plan. To what extent is this task rendered easy when a national plan exists for a country? ... -
Development programmes for the poor: do strategies make a difference?
(2010-03-13)The seventies have witnessed a number of development programmes whose objectives was to benefit the weaker sections of the society. Their accomplishments in relation to this objective have been varied. While many factors ... -
Network model for urban water supply system including desalination and wastewater renovation
(2010-03-13)Most urban areas are facing an ever increasing demand for fresh water due to population and industrial growth. The paper presents a network programming model to evaluate alternatives for supplying water from various sources ... -
Environmental scanning for corporate planning in India
(2010-03-13)The need for environmental scanning acquires great policy significance for both the micro - unit and the macro - economy in a developing country like India which is trying to achieve the objectives of economic development ... -
Social change
(2010-03-13)There is a dearth of significant psychological researches on social change and social development. This is evident from the fact that Rath (1972) devotes only one page to social change and development in the trend report ... -
Managing grass roots organisations: a study of voluntary agencies in development programmes
(2010-03-13)Voluntary agencies have played many roles in the developmental sectors of the country. These roles have ranged from that of a provider of relief during disasters to a facilitator of long-term development programmes and a ... -
Management interventions in established bureaucracies: IIM's experiences in population programme management
(2010-03-13)The paper describes the process of designing the implementing management interventions in the health department of Uttar Pradesh. The interventions were in the areas of planning, monitoring and performance evaluation, ... -
On deficit financing
(2010-03-13)The main conclusion emerging from the analysis is that the inflationary impact of a budget deficit depends upon the method used to finance that deficit. Using a static and a dynamic macroeconomic model it has been shown ... -
Scope of agricultural economics and role of agricultural economists
(2010-03-13)The rapid developments in the agricultural and rural environments in India during the last decade suggests that agricultural economists should review their role as well as the scope of the subject. Such a review is important ... -
Need - based family planning programmes: content and treatment guidelines
(2010-03-13)This article presents three models of human behaviour with special emphasis on the process of decision makingat the individual level in the adoption of family planning practices. The first model describes how the adoption ... -
Action research for micro level planning: a self appraisal
(2010-03-13)This paper summarizes experience of an action-research project on district Project Planning in six drought prone regions in which both the authors were involved for 3 years (1977-78 - 1980-81). Major thrust of this effort ... -
Information technology for developing countries: priority sectors and preferred technology
(2010-03-13)Priority areas for computer - based information system are located in developing countries, and preferred technology (midi- computers) is identified. After describing the priority areas where information management and ... -
Quantification of distributional impact of Government expenditure on selected social services
(2010-03-13)This paper deals with empirical quantification of distributional impact of government expenditure on selected social services like education, health, medical and family planning at state level. The distributional impact ... -
Practice stories
(2010-03-13)This is a continuation of Technical Report No. 77. There are 5 sets of practice stories. Scoring system is described at the end of each set. Reliability coefficients have to be computed on the basis these stories and the ... -
Opeartions research in national and multi - level planning
(2010-03-13)Rapid increase in the productivity of all sectors is required in developing countries for the betterment of their people and removal of abysmal poverty. This may be achieved through the institution of planning at the ... -
Learning from Antyodaya: some leassons for IRDP
(2010-03-13)The Antyodaya programme was launched by the Rajasthan government to improve the socio economic well being of the 'last man' in 1977. Benefits were to be first extended to the poorest families in all of the villages in the ... -
Perception of college environment, work - values and professional aspirations of students of a medical college
(2010-03-13)This study sponsored by ICSSR, attempted to assess the perceptions of campus climate by the first, second and third year medical students. Differences in the work-value patterns and Professional aspirations were also ... -
Cases development: process and problems
(2010-03-13)In this paper it deals with the questions relating to the statement of case problem, disguise of the identify of the organization, confidential nature of information and 'Quid-Proquo' for case writing facility. It also ... -
Experiment on individual investment decision making process
(2010-03-13)This working paper reports an investigation into the decision making process of individual faced with a set of risky investment opportunities. An experiment was conducted on a set of students and the data generated from ... -
Simpson's reversal paradox and cost allocation
(2010-03-13)Allocation of indirect costs among products sometimes yields a paradoxical result that unit cost for each product may increase under one method of allocation and may decrease for each product under another method. The ...