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Reproductive health camps: as innovative approach to integrating reproductive health intervention in primary health care
(2009-12-12)The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held at Cairo in 1994 recommended a comprehensive Reproductive Health (RH) programme to replace domographically oriented Family Planning (FP) programmes. ... -
Requiem for shareholders? the acc takeover an`d the issues in perspective
(2010-01-18)The acquisition of a large block of shares owned by the Tata group in the cement giant. The Associated Cement Companies Limited (ACC) by the Gujarat Ambuja Cement group (GACL) in December 1999 has kicked up a major ... -
Research in organisation behaviour in India 1970-1979: A critique
(2010-03-14)The present paper reviews the research literature Organization Behavior in India between 1970 and 1979. It identifies three dominant themes in the literature, viz. Person themes; Process themes and Action themes. Over 50 ... -
Research methods for human resources management
(2010-03-14)The objective of this paper is to highlight research methods which are relevant to the understanding of rsonnel decision making. These methods have been briefly discussed and illustrated by specific studies published in ... -
Research on rural savings in India
(2010-03-13)Rural savings are determined by both 'ability' and 'incentives' to save. All except two studies reviewed emphasize 'ability', though some qualitatively analyze 'incentives'. This relative neglect is justified when positive ... -
Research on the Indian capital market: a review
(2010-03-26)In this paper we present a review of research done in the field of Indian capital markets during the fifteen years from 1977 to 1992. The research works included in the survey were identified by two search procedures. ... -
Research relevant to population education: survey from India
(2010-03-14)After discussing a general modular paradigm of population education consisting of curriculum building, system building and diffusion process, the relevant researches from behavioural sciences are reviewed. These researches ... -
Research reports - Publishing at what cost and quality?
(2010-07-27)By using a better reproduction technology than duplication and by having a judicious mix of alternatives, an educational/research institution can produce better research reports than it does now and that too at a lesser ... -
Reshaped fifth five year plan: Responses to changed environment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1977-02-01)This paper highlights the salient features of the revised fifth plan and contrasts them with those of the draft fifth plan. It also evaluates the revised exercises as a response to changed environment. -
Reshaping State Government's role in industrial development
(2010-03-29)The state governments will have an important role to play in the new industrial policy framework. But they would have to rethink their role reflecting the changed scenario. Rather than distort market prices through subsidies ... -
Resolving Business Disputes in India by Arbitration: Problems Due to the Definition of ‘Court’
(2009-07-25)The definition of “Court” in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, is substantially different from that in the earlier law of 1940. Due to this new definition, there is tremendous load of work on the District Judge, ... -
Resource mobilisation strategies for financing of transport infrastructure and services
(2010-03-27)Transport infrastructure development in India has been slow and unsatisfactory due to the excessive dependence on budgetary support from the State and due to the dominance of state controlled enterprises. Future investment ... -
Resource monotonicity of bargaining solutions
(2010-07-13)In this paper we establish that main solutions to bargaining problems display a resource monoticity property in bilateral monopoly situations when preferences exhibit consumption externalities. Suitable assumptions are ... -
Resourcefulness: a proximal conceptualisation of entrepreneurial behaviour
(2010-01-18)This paper highlights the confusions surrounding prevailing conceptualizations of entrepreneur/entrepreneurship that have limited our understanding and predictability of the phenomenon. An alternative conceptualisation ... -
Response to increasing competition by business organizations in India: voluntary retirement schemes and their outcome
(2010-01-16)Companies in India have responded to the challenges of globalization in various ways. One of the strategies to survive in the market was to reduce the cost by reduction in the number of employees with the help of Voluntary ... -
Restricted Expansion Independence for Choice Problems
(2010-03-27)In this paper we propose restricted expansion independence as a criterion which may be satisfied by desirable choice functions and axiomatically characterize the proportional solution by using this criterion. We also show ... -
Restrictive trade practices in India, 1969 -91: experience of control and agenda for further work
(2010-07-27)This paper purports to apprise principally the experience of control of Restrictive Trade Practices (RTP) in India by the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTP) Commission under the MRTP Act, 1969. This experience ... -
Restructuring Gujarat Electricity Board: outline of a strategy and proposal for action
(2010-01-16)This note argues that the GEB needs to be restructured urgently. The principal challenge is really to overcome that major agency problem that results in leakage of enormous revenue. Plugging the leakages alone would make ... -
Restructuring public systems through administrative innovations: will civil service respond
(2010-03-24)When the role of the state is being redefined in the wake of recent economic crisis, a discussion on making public systems and enterprises more responsive to social concerns may be quite appropriate. But that was not the ... -
Restructuring rural financial institutions
(2010-04-08)This paper first identifies major proposals being considered now for restructuring rural financial institutions (RFIs). It then discusses main reasons which may have prompted these proposals. These are (1) inefficiencies ...