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Agricultural biotechnology in India: ethics, business and politics
(2010-07-22)Development of sustainable pest management strategies in agriculture has become necessary in view of increasing non-viability of chemical based approach. Among various approaches for the purpose, policy makers have paid ... -
International trade and long term economic growth: a few issues on growth strategies for India
(2010-07-22)For developing economies, technological change and micro level efficiency is as important as capital accumulation as a source of long term economic growth. International trade is an important source of incentives in ... -
Analysis of public expenditure on health using state level data
(2010-07-22)Increasingly the governments are facing pressures to increase budgetary allocations to social sectors. Recently there has been suggestion to increase the government budget allocations to health sector and increase it to ... -
Non - rationalizability of utilitarian consistent choice functions
(2010-07-22)In much of the applied welfare economics, one finds the recurrent use of utilitarian objective functions, in arriving at social decisions. Apart from being completely insensitive to distributional issues, the utilitarian ... -
Classification of empirical work on sales promotion: a synthesis for managerial decision making
(2010-07-22)Sales Promotion activities have gained strategic focus as markets are getting complex and competitive. Key managerial concerns in this area are budget allocation across elements of promotions as well as trade vis. ... -
Management of Blood Transfusion Services in India: An Illustrative Study of Maharashtra and Gujarat States
(2010-07-22)Blood is a vital healthcare resource routinely used in a broad range of hospital procedures. It is also a potential vector for harmful, and sometimes fatal, infectious diseases such as HIV, HBV, and HCV. Morbidity and ... -
Capacity management of intensive care units in a multi- specialty hospital in India
(2010-07-22)The paper describes the capacity management of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in a 300- bed multi- specialty hospital where the alternative ICU is utilized when the appropriate ICU is full for a set of two types of ICUs. ... -
IIMs Expansion - Myths, Realities and Policy Choices
(2010-07-22)This paper suggests a roadmap for IIM Ahmedabad to increase its intake substantially with available resources in its flagship 'Post Graduate Programme in Management' (PGP equivalent to MBA). Solutions for other IIMs should ... -
An empirical investigation into randomly generated euclidean symmetric traveling salesman problems
(2010-07-22)The traveling salesman problem is one of the most well-solved hard combinatorial optimization problems. Any new algorithm or heuristic for the traveling salesman problem is empirically evaluated based on its performance ... -
Likelihood integrated method for exploratory graphical analysis of chagne point problem with directional data
(2010-07-20)In this paper authors have introduced a new likelihood based method, called the likelihood integrated method, which is distnict from the well known integrated likelihood method. We use the likelihood integrated propose a ... -
Unified concept of bottleneck
(2010-07-20)The term 'bottleneck' has been extensively used in operations management literature. Management paradigms like the Theory of Constraints focus on the identification and exploitation of bottlenecks. Yet, we show that the ... -
CBD and TRIPS: empowering knowledge rich, economically poor people through IRP reforms
(2010-07-20)The discussion in the recent COP 8 meeting ending on March 31,2006 the subject of prior Informed Consent and protection of intellectual property rights of knowledge holders remained very contentious. Here discuss various ... -
Is the just systems also fairer? traversing the domain of knowledge, institutions, culture and ethics
(2010-07-20)In this case he deals with the issue of Prior Informed Consent and the ethics underlying the knowledge exchange between formal and informal system. The criteria for assessing the adverse consequence from knowledge providers ... -
Is longer, faster, stronger, smarter life also the happier? Reflections on slower, sustainable and more inclusive life experience
(2010-07-20)Worldwide concern with advances in life extension and enhancement technologies has brought together scientists, corporate managers and ethicists together in the world Forum on Tomorrow’s People, Oxford University to debate ... -
Innovation insurgency: A new Paradigm for Engaging the Angry, Rebellious Youth of the Country
(2010-07-20)In the current euphoric mood of economic growth, many times we forget that there has been another extraordinary growth which should cause us concern. This is the growth in the number of districts affected by naxalite ... -
Synthesis Paper on Strengthening Policy Reforms for Transport Infrastructure Development
(2010-07-20)This paper presents the results of a series of eight resserach papers commissioned by the Asian Development Bank and the Dept. of Economic affairs, in the area of transport infrastructure development in India. The research ... -
Measuring performance of small farmers' development agency
(2010-07-20)The purpose of this paper is to evolve certain methods of analysis and indicators for measuring the performance of the Small Farmers' Development Agency and apply these to the type of data which is normally collected by ... -
Energy price impact modelling in agriculture sector
(2010-07-20)This paper surveys the voluminous literature on energy price impacts studies; both types of impacts and techniques used to estimate them are reviewed in detail. Different types of energy price impacts are classified into ... -
Financing public enterprise investments in India: the case of central government enterprises
(2010-07-20)This paper provides a perspective on how Central Public Enterprises' plan investments are financed. It reveals that although budgetary support continues to be a major source of financing Central Public Enterprises' plan ... -
Attitude toward computers: development of a scale
(2010-07-20)This study reports the development of an instrument to measure attitude toward computers. The importance of attitude in attaining the full potential of computerization is highlighted and possible uses for the attitude ...