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Productivity trends in public sector enterprises
(2010-03-28)This paper presents results of the second part of the study on Productivity in Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs). The aim is to determine trends of productivity in PSEs. The study period covers the years 1965-66 to 1976-77. ... -
Professionalism in co-operatives for rural credit
(2009-12-12)This paper deals with professionalism required in rural credit cooperative as business enterprise and also as an institution of its members in addition to that in formulation and implementation of macro rural cooperative ... -
Profile and impacts of tractorization
(2010-04-06)Out of 19 licensed tractor manufacturing companies were producing tractors in 1990-91. The import of tractors has declined with fluctuation from 2997 in 1961-62 to 10 in 1986-87 at the rate of -23.20 per cent per annum. ... -
Profile and performance of some Farm Input Industries
(2009-12-14)Modernisation of agriculture requires different farm inputs industries like seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, implements and machinery, feed for livestocks and electricity. This is because new technologies in agriculture are ... -
A Profile of Voluntary Health Effort in Gujarat
(2012-09-27)The role of voluntary (non governmental, non profit) agencies has been increasingly realized as significant, particularly in the organization and delivery of social services. Their contribution is functions and areas where ... -
Progress and challenges of health sector: a balance sheet
(2009-12-12)Considerable progress has been made in improving the health status of the population over the last half-century. Despite this impressive progress, many challenges remain. The life expectancy is still 4 years below world ... -
Project formulation and implementation: a framework for a rural credit project
(2010-03-14)This paper outlines a possible framework for credit project formulation and implementation exercise. For this purpose we have abstracted from the present realities and experiences of project approach of rural financing as ... -
Project is a compound - not a mixture conceptual problems in valuation
(2010-03-19)There is considerable literature in the field of finance concerning the valuation of negative cash flows. Consequently, it is widely held that a project should be valued by valuing each component of the project's cash ... -
Project management: comparison of practices in India and U.K.
(2010-03-27)Resources are committed primarily for two purpose. In one case it is spent on meeting ongoing requirements and in other case for creating new facilities. The first category is classified as operational requirements and the ... -
Project-linkage programme understand the process of evolution and review of pilot project experience
(2010-03-20)'Project-Linkage', is a new program initiated by Government of Gujarat with an objective of linking rural development with industrial development. Specifically, the programme attempts to build linkages which will facilitate ... -
Proof is in improved reading: same language subtitling on television in India
(2010-01-16)One - third of India's 7+ Population is literate, one - third non - literate, and one - third very partially literate. In declarations of literacy rates, the 285 million very partially literate people are counted as literate ... -
Properties of competing organizations
(2010-03-13)Competition is a pervasive feature of all societies in which the desired things of life are provided by alternative sources. The need to withstand competition must inevitably affect the structure and functioning of competing ... -
Property rights and policies for sustainable management of marine fisheries: the Indian scenario
(2009-12-12)India enjoy a vast and versatile resource base in respect of her fisheries. However, the country presently has reached a crossroad so far as sustainable tapping of this resource base is concerned. By defining sustainability ... -
Prospects for foreign direct investment in the nineties
(2010-03-26)FDI into India is more likely to take the form of joint-ventures and other so called ynon-equityz forms. As indigenous businesses have gathered strength over the period of sheltered growth in the eighties (and even earlier), ... -
Prospects of growth in fertilizer consumption in the Western region
(2010-03-12)Fertilizer consumption in the Western Region has come a long way in the last two decades - from less than 100000 tons in the early 1960s to about 550,000 tons by the early 1970s and further to about1.2 million tons by the ... -
Prospects of Indian castor oil exports under changing policy scenarios: an econometric analysis
(2010-03-27)This article develops an international castor oil market model using econometric techniques. The model is then used for various policy experimentation. Results of various scenarios give some insights to policy makers. For ... -
Protection to domestic industry: an empirical investigation
(2010-03-22)Recently there has been widespread debate on impact of protection on performance of domestic industry. It has been argued that protection to the Indian Industry during the last 40 years has resulted in poor performance of ... -
Provincial income disparity in Canada 1951
(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 ... -
Provision of Reproductive Health Services to Urban Poor through Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of Andhra Pradesh Urban Health Care Project
(2009-08-13)Andhra Pradesh had initiated the Urban Slum Health Care Project to provide basic primary healthcare and family welfare services to urban poor living in slums in 2002. As of now, the project has established 192 Urban Health ... -
Psychological and organizational factors in successful entrepreneurship: a small sample survey
(2010-03-13)This study on 16 small industry entrepreneurs (9 successful + 7 unsuccessful) focused on identifying some personal background attitudinal, organizational and managerial variables that discriminate the successful group from ...