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The Role of the District Public Health Nurses: A Study from Gujarat
(2011-05-26)The role of District Public Health Nurses (DPHN) and District Public Health Nurse Officers (DPHNOs) as supervisors of the Public Health nursing and midwifery staff in a district was investigated. Thirteen DPHNs and DPHNOs ... -
Role of Trade and Macroeconomic Policies in the Performance of Special Economic Zones (SEZs)
(2009-08-03)Special economic zones following the enormous success of China have been widely imitated. But it is to be entirely anticipated that the results would vary greatly. Earlier avatars of SEZs in the form of Foreign Trade ... -
Role of Universal Service Obligation Fund in Rural Telecom Services: Lessons from the Indian Experience
(2011-05-26)This paper outlines India’s experience of increasing rural teledensity, including its recent policy initiative to increase penetration through creation of a Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) that supports a variety ... -
Role of welfare officers in family planning and welfare
(2010-04-17)This study aims at sharing the experience of conducting a phased action research in family planning and welfare. The rationale for action research lies in the increasing gap between efforts to create positive attitude ... -
Role of women in risk adjustment in drought prone regions
(2010-03-20)In the wake of extreme environmental fluctuations inherent in arid and semi-arid ecological regions it is inevitable that different classes of rural households evolve over a period of time specific risk adjustment strategies. ... -
Role orientation and role performance of Indian managers
(2010-03-29)The paper explores the tend and differential movement of the managers from the processes of social identity to the emergence of work identity in Indian organizations. The focus of the Social Identity is maintenance of ... -
Role set based assessment center approach to personnel selection
(2010-03-21)This paper presents a role set based assessment center approach to personnel selection. According to this approach an assessment center should be established in any organization interested in personnel selection and appraisal ... -
Role stress and job satisfaction amongst doctors
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)The present study was undertaken with the intention of examining the nature of role stress and job satisfaction among doctors, and to explore the relationship between these variables. A group of 35 junior doctors working ... -
Rosenzweig's PF study as a discriminator of accident - prone drivers
(2010-03-14)The present investigation attempts to find out whether Rosenzweig’s PF Study can be used as a predictor of accident behaviour or not. The investigation was conducted at the passengers transport but depot of the U.P. State ... -
Rough information sets
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02)The information sets are recasted as information granules by using the fuzzy equivalence relations. The proposed information granules can be visualized as the entropies corresponding to the information source values, drawn ... -
Rupee convertibility and exit policy
(2010-03-23)The successful of partial convertibility of rupee and adequate foreign reserves have boosted confidence of the government. It is more than likely that we are going to see a convertible rupee on trade account before the end ... -
Rupee-dollar option pricing and risk measurement: jump processes, changing volatility and kurtosis shifts
(2010-03-28)Exchange rate movements in the Indian rupee (and many other emerging market currencies) are characterised by long periods of placidity punctuated by abrupt and sharp changes. Many, but by no means all, of these sharp changes ... -
Rural banking in India - its performance and problems
(2010-03-29)This paper discusses in aggregate terms the performance of the formal rural financial market (RFM) in India. Considering three different aspects of this market several criteria are applied for this purpose. Thee three ... -
Rural banks for rural development - the Indian experiment
(2010-03-12)The purpose of this paper is to examine the background and the salient features of the scheme for establishing the RRBs and to evaluate their performance in the short period of their existence. The paper also presents the ... -
Rural development - some issues and approaches
(2010-03-13)The study of the rural development programmes in our country and abroad would suggest that these programmes have certain discernable attributes, some of these are reflected in their basic approach to economic development ... -
Rural development in India; Problems and prospects
(2010-03-13)During the past 25 years, a large number of rural development projects were taken up in many countries. India India, a beginning was made in this direction through the community development programme, followed by programmes ... -
Rural development programme in India: analytical review at the district level
(2010-03-13)The paper aims to analyse (a) the actual coverage of developmental programmes (b) the actual beneficiaries and (c) its impact on the overall rural development. Seven special rural development programmes sponsored by the ... -
Rural development programmes: a management approach
(2010-03-14)Rural development programmes (RDPs) can be broadly classified as enterprise oriented and labour service oriented programmes. This paper discusses the strategy that needs to be adopted for ensuring effective implementation ... -
Rural Management Education in India: A Retrospect
(2009-08-22)The paper reviews the state of rural management education in India. Using the setting up of the Institute of Rural Management Anand [IRMA] as a pivot, the paper examines the difficulties in establishing specialized management ...