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Higher education in India: trends and bibliography
(2010-03-13)This report is based on our survey of the work done in India on higher education. A lot of documented literature is available on higher education, most of which is general and impression based. While very few researches ... -
Pattern of industrial location in Gujarat: An analysis of new factories 1960-70
(2010-03-13)This study portrays the locational pattern of the new factories started during 1960-70 in Gujarat among its districts. The aspects examined are: share of incremental industrial activity going to each districts,in aggregate ... -
Why poor people don't cooperate? a study of traditional forms of cooperation with implications for modern organizations
(2010-03-13)A question which has remained under explored in Research on the Cooperatives and Rural Development is whether the Western European Models of organizing cooperatives further based on Agri-business concept as it evolved at ... -
Development orientation of charity case of Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala rural development project
(2010-03-13)This is the study of a Rural Development Project initiated by the Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Temple. As a project of the temple it has certain unique features and advantages in implementation. The design and implementation ... -
Income inequality across nations over time, how much and why?
(2010-03-13)The paper aims at the (a) measurement of the extent of income inequality across countries, (b) measurement of the change in income inequality over the last decade, (c) examination of the factors responsible for the income ... -
Efficiency of Several generalised least squares estimators
(2010-03-13)Econometric theory, as developed till today includes a number of estimation procedures whose small and large sample properties have been analysed at different places by different authors. Looking at these works one can ... -
Socio-ecology of land use planning in semi-arid regions
(2010-03-13)Land use planning in tropical developing countries has posted a tremendous challenge to planners owing to high ecological diversity. The problem is particularly complex in semi-arid regions where due to high degree of ... -
International transfer of technology to India: the case of the tractor industry
(2010-03-13)Based on an indepth study of five major manufacturing firms both in the private as well as the public sectors, this paper discusses the process of technology acquisition and assimilation in the tranctor industry and draws ... -
Export performance of Indian industries in terms of net foreign exchange earnings and implications for export policy
(2010-03-13)The purpose of this note is to evaluate the export policy and performance of Indian export industries in terms of the criterion of net foreign exchange earnings and to analyze its implications for the formulation of a ... -
Designing and conducting microlab for training
(2010-03-13)Microlab is a technique evolved originally as a part of T-group technology to unfreeze the participants before their participation in a T-group. This technique has been used in several innovative training programmes to ... -
Educational activities
(2010-03-13)Various organizations are recognizing the social responsibilities. One of the responsibilities of the organization is to look at change in a more planned way. The various innovations which the organization can make may be ... -
Infrastructural needs of small scale industry in Gujarat
(2010-03-13)This paper spells out a case for better planning of relevant infrastructural facilities for small industries in general. Thereafter we discuss birth, death and sickness rates in Gujarat along with problems encountered by ... -
Corporate investment in 1978: a forecast
(2010-03-13)Investment in the private corporate sector, including the joint sector, has shown a substantial rise in 1977 as compared with 1976. However, this substantial rise has been contributed largely by the projects in the joint ... -
India - Asean economic relations
(2010-03-13)This paper highlights the salient features of economic relations between India and the five member countries of the ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) grouping, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore ... -
Two problems in cognitive algebra: imputations and averaging - versus - multiplying
(2010-03-13)Imputations are important, but they have received only scattered attention. Most studies of information integration present specific pieces of information that control the judgment. The wide success of cognitive algebra ... -
Measurement of capital input and estimation of time series production functions in Indian manufacturing
(2010-03-13)This study makes an attempt to examine the impact of errors in the specification and measurement of capital input on the estimates of time series production functions in Indian manufacturing. -
Technology transfer in agriculture - Case of hybrid bajra
(2010-03-13)Efficient management of the process of the development of the adaptable technology and the transfer of technology is crucial in achieving economic growth. An adaptable technology may not be transferred if the process of ... -
Formal vis-a-vis informal credit supply sources in tribal areas: a case of Dharampur taluka
(2010-03-13)This paper first discusses the main features and operations of both the sources of credit supply in Dharampur. It then presents a framework that conceptualizes the substitution process from the standpoint of the inhabitants ... -
Behaviour of firms subject to imperfect markets
(2010-03-13)Survey of available theories in economic literature would reveal that analysis of a firm's behavior is performed, either, under the assumption of perfect competition in factor as well as output markets or by letting ... -
Options for the fifth sector: a discussion of the workers' sector proposal
(2010-03-13)In Lok Sabha a proposal to create a "Fifth Sector" by investing the funds accumulated under the compulsory deposit scheme (CDS). In the proposed fifth sector the government hopes to create a genuine workers sector in line ...