Browsing Working Papers by Author "Dholakia, Ravindra H."

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    • Liberalization in Gujarat: review of recent experience 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2009-12-12)
      Gujarat s industrial sector has substantially gained form national policy of liberalization particularly after 1990-91. The state has also followed consistent policies and taken further measures to liberalize the state ...

    • Macroeconomic Framework for Development in Gujarat 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2009-09-02)
      The paper begins by discussing need for developing a regional accounting framework and estimating relevant variables to formulate realistic growth targets and appropriate development strategy in the reform era for the ...

    • Macroeconomic performance and tax revenue the case of gujarat state 

      Dholakia, Archana; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-01-16)
      It is hypothesised that the tax revenues of a state economy would be sensitive to the macroeconomic performance of the state economy measured in terms of inflation and the growth of real income. The case of Gujarat state ...

    • Malaysia's privatization programme 

      Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (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 ...

    • Measurement issues in state income from registered manufacturing sector – case of Gujarat 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Pandya, Manish B.; Pateria, Payal M. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
      The present paper discusses some important issues involved in estimation of state income originating in the registered manufacturing sector with illustrations drawn from Gujarat. It highlights the present practices in ...

    • National demand and regional industrialization 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-14)
      Interstate disparity in the industrial output has been increasing in India in spite of our planned efforts to reduce the same. Out policies in this regard were based on the growth theories emphasising the role of factor ...

    • On estimating home workers in India 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-14)
      Although home-working is a phenomenon prevalent in almost all societies, it sometimes takes disturbing form especially in the labour surplus countries of the third world. It is artued that from the viewpoint of social ...

    • On estimating women's contribution to national product 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-14)
      In order to measure the extent of economic independence of women in the third world countries, the use of indicators like Female Workforce Participation Rate (FWPR) or the relative contributions of males and females based ...

    • On regionalizing a national inter-industry table 

      Choudhry, Nanda K.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-14)
      Interstate disparity in the industrial output has been increasing in India in spite of our planned efforts to reduce the same. Out policies in this regard were based on the growth theories emphasising the role of factor ...

    • Problems and prospects of village pasture development project in a mixed economy 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-18)
      The present case discusses the pasture development (PD) project in Sayla Block of Surendranagar District of Gujarat state in India. The PD project was identified as the key project for the block level plan (BLP) scheme in ...

    • Provincial income disparity in Canada 1951 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-23)
      In the present paper, we have examined the pattern of the provincial income disparity in Canada in the benchmark years 1951, 1961, 1971 and 1981. The data reveal that the rankings of provinces have remained more or less ...

    • Regional aspects of industrialization in india 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)
      Removal of regional disparity in the levels of economic development as a national goal is translated into the removal of regional disparity in the levels of industrialization for the industrial policy. With the state as a ...

    • Regional Sources of Growth Acceleration in India 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
      Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu were the major contributors to growth acceleration in India after 1991-92. Although regional disparity may increase temporarily, causality test provides ...

    • Regionalizing a national input-output table 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-23)
      In the present paper it is argued that the most popular among the non-survey methods to estimate regional input-output tables, namely the RAS methods is not a consistent and efficient alternative non-survey methods is, ...

    • Sacrifice ratio and cost of inflation for the Indian economy 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Indian Institute of Managment, Ahmedabad, 2014)
      Traditional concept of the Sacrifice Ratio measures the loss of potential output sustained by the society in the medium term to achieve reduction in the long-run inflation by one percentage point. This concept is critically ...

    • SHORT-TERM AND MEDIUM-TERM PROSPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN GUJARAT – SOME POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Datta, Samar K.; Sharma, Vijay Paul (2009-09-02)
      By mid-September, 2003 it is becoming clear that Gujarat is likely to experience a bumper crop in the year 2003-04. The State Ministry of Agriculture is looking for some concrete suggestions, advice and policy recommendations ...

    • Some issues in microlevel planning based on experience of action research in India 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Iyengar, Sudarshan (2010-03-22)
      The concept of microlevel planning is operationalized in India through special programmes involving allocation of specified funds over given sectors, space and time. While working with the district and block level ...

    • Sources of economic growth in India implied by the seventh five year plan 1985-90 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-14)
      Two volumes of the 7th plan released by the government of India have provided a reasonably good empirical base to look into the implicaitons and consistency of the plan targets. In the present short paper, all attempt is ...

    • Spatial dimension of the acceleration of economic growth in India 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (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 ...

    • Specialist Services in the Indian Rural Public Health System for Maternal and Child Healthcare – A Study of Four States 

      Iyengar, Shreekant; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The present study attempts to examine the role of specialist services in rural public health system of India in the areas of maternal and child healthcare. The study uses primary data collected through a survey of doctors ...