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Point of Purchase Communication: Role of Information Search, Store Benefit, and Shopping Involvement
(2011-05-27)Point of Purchase (PoP) is the place where a customer is about to buy the product. This is the crucial point where the exchange takes place. It offers a last chance to remind or attract customers. In spite of a considerable ... -
Police and the rule of law: recent developments in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)For a country like India, which is committed to the rule of law, the role of police is undergoing changes very rapidly. It is primarily due to the fact that the country has transformed from a police state to welfare state ... -
Police performance, image and a desired future
(2010-04-06)Designed as a follow-up of an earlier study, the present investigation aimed at identifying Strengths, Weaknesses and a Desirable Future as perceived by the Senior Police Officers. The study revalidates the previous ... -
Policies for growth in fertilizer consumption the next stage
(2010-03-14)Annual consumption of fertilizers has increased from less than 100,000 metric tons of nutrients in the early 1950s to 8.2 million metric tons (mmts) by 1984/85. The Seventh Five Year Plan aims at raising it to 14 mmts by ... -
Policies for rapid growth in use of modern agricultural inputs: the case of fertilizers
(2010-03-14)Accelerated growth in agricultural production of developing countries depends on fuller exploitation of the existing production potential and continuously raising the potential through technological changes. This requires ... -
Policy and the problem of policy change: some issues
(2010-03-25)During the eighties there have been stop-start attempts at liberalization and at policy change to give new direction to the economy which had been drifting ever since serious planning had been given up in the mid-sixties ... -
Policy barriers preventing access to emergency obstetric care in rural India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-11-01)India with its one billion people contributes to about 20% of all maternal deaths in the world. Even though infant mortality has declined in India maternal mortality has remained high at about 540 per 100,000 live births. ... -
Policy Gaps for Promoting Green Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge in Developing Countries: Learning from Indian Experience
(2013-11-23)Society for Research and Initiatives for Technologies and Institutions [SRISTI] has pioneered a knowledge intensive model for transforming institutional context of problem solving at community level. In this paper, the ... -
Policy initiative of centre - sponsored programmes in the health sector and its implications for financial and other reource flows
(2009-12-12)The central sponsored programmes (CSPs) have been one key policy initiative of the Government of India to support the health sector programmes directly, even though the health has remained the State subject. The Centre ... -
Policy issues for long term growth of fertilizer use in Bangladesh
(2010-03-14)This paper discusses policy issues relevant to sustained rapid growth in Bangaladesh's fertilizer consumption. Section II is an overview of fertilizer consumption as it has evolved over the years. It also provides comparative ... -
Policy reforms evolution of domestic market structure and exports: a study of Indian engineering industry
(2010-03-31)The policy reforms initiated in India since the eighties have caused entry of quite a few multinational firms into Indian industries. This has significant implications on the evolution of domestic market structure into a ... -
Policy strategy and instruments for alleviating rural poverty
(2010-04-01)The paper departs from the present policy emphasis for and more recent literature on rural poverty in advocating six major conclusions based on its validation of a multi-variate model explaining the behaviour of this poverty ... -
Political economy of eletric power of India
(2010-04-05)Science the cancellation of the Dabhol Power Project (Dpp), which was being set up by the Enron Corporation and its associates, the debate about electric power in India has come into the public view, raising hopes that ... -
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. ... -
Politics of articulation mediating structures and voluntarism: from 'chauraha' to 'chaupal'
(2010-03-15)There is a considerable concern in India about the 'silence' of a large number of disadvantaged groups who have either learned to be helpless or articulate their problems rather feebly. The nature of articulation, mediating ... -
Population - resource dynamics in an Indian village
(2010-03-13)The paper presents a simulation model of population dynamics in an Indian village and discusses its usefulness to a policy maker concerned with the economic and social development of such a village. The model contains some ... -
Population and Development: integrating linkages
(2010-04-17)Concern on Population-Development issues has been a long standing one in the demographic literature. Major emphasis of research and thinking in this area has been on the impact of population growth on certain developmental ... -
Population Heuristics for the Corridor Allocation Problem
(2013-11-22)The corridor allocation problem is one of assigning a given set of facilities in two rows along a straight corridor so as to minimize a weighted sum of the distances between every pair of facilities. This problem has ... -
Population monotonicity and the constrained equal awards solution for rationing problems
(2010-04-06)In this paper, we axiomatically characterize the Constrained Equal Awards Solution for Rationing Problems, using the axioms of No-Envy, Population Monotonicity, Resource Continuity and replication invariance. -
Portfolio allocation with heavy-tailed returns
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)In this paper we propose two new methods of portfolio allocation which are applicable for all return distributions. It i found that the new methods perform appreciably in terms of growth of wealth as well as protecting ...