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Some aspects of value added tax in Indian economy
(2010-07-27)Comprehensive tax reform has always been an integral part of the overall package of economic policy reforms introduced in a large number of developing and newly industrialising economies in recent years. A crucial ingredient ... -
Some auto-power divergence measures for stationary time series of categorical data
(IIM-A Publication, 2013-05-05)For stationary time series of nominal categorical data or ordinal categorical data (with arbitrary ordered numberings of the categories), autocorrelation does not make much sense. Biswas and Guha (2009) used mutual information ... -
Some comments on the debate on India's economic growth in the 1980s
(2010-03-23)In this paper an attempt has been made to identify the exact year in which India broke the so called {hindu| rate of growth by employing the switching regression technique. The study suggests that the year 1981/82 is the ... -
Some concepts of distributive justice in bargaining problems
(2010-07-27)In this paper we study the problems associated with distributive justice in an abstract framework originally conceived for the analysis of social choice and bargaining problems. Induced social choice correspondences are ... -
Some conceptual designs for understanding adoption and diffusion process in action
(2010-03-15)This is the collection of some conceptual design for understanding adoption and diffusion processes in action. The topics covered are (1) Linking Individual adoption process with diffusion process in a community (2) ... -
Some implications of structural changes within the sample
(2010-03-13)An implicit assumption underlying least squares estimation procedure is that the unknown coefficient remain invariant over sample observations. In actual practice, however, one tends to use larger and larger numbers of ... -
Some issues in microlevel planning based on experience of action research in India
(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 ... -
Some issues in the design and delivery of government aged social development programme: the case of DWCRA in Gujarat
(2010-03-23)The paper shows that the record of implementation in Gujarat has not been particularly successful. The difficulties of finding suitable women officers to implement this programme at various levels, the lack of orientation ... -
Some key issues in policy, pricing,regulation and financing of irrigation development in India today
(2010-04-03)In this paper we discuss the stylised problems relating to water and irrigation in India and argue that most of the inefficiencies, misuse and environmental damage have their roots in the mispricing of water and electricity. ... -
Some methodological and practical aspects of accounting the returns from clearfelling natural forests in the evaluation of intensive forest development projects
(2010-03-21)The Forest Development Corporations (FDCs) in India have the responsibility of formulating and implementing intensive forest development projects for their respective areas. Since the FDCs operate on the lands currently ... -
Some natural resource management aspects of commercial cultivation of hybrid eucalyptus in Gujarat: India
(2010-03-25)The paper has presented the results of financial analysis of a 160 acres eucalyptus farm in Ahmedabad District. The soil on the farm is sandy loam type and the water is brackish. The fixed capital investments in the business ... -
Some notes on equal yield income and expenditure taxes
(2010-03-14)In this paper the efficiency, savings and inequality effects of income and expenditure taxes are reexamined. It is shown that current welfare is likely to be promoted by a mix of the two taxes rather than either tax alone. ... -
Some properties of optimal schedule of jobs with a common due date
(2010-03-13)Kanet (Naval Research Logistics Quarters, 1981) considered the problem of minimizing the average deviation of job completion times above a common due date. Under the condition that the common due date exceeds the makespan ... -
Some properties of solutions for two dimensional choice problems reconsidered
(2010-04-03)In this paper, we take up the outstanding problem of axiomatically characterizing what we have referred to in the paper as the additive choice function on the classical domain for choice problems. Apart from an impossibility ... -
Some propositions about institution building
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1977-09-01)Institution building has become a technical term being used for the process of helping institutions develop through transfer of knowledge, the term institution building can be used to denote the process of the growth and ... -
Some remarks on properties for choice functions
(2010-03-28)In this paper, we present five catagories of results by studying the interrelationships between properties for choice functions. The first catagory of result is about the localization assumption. The second catagory of ... -
Some results in finding a lower bound of the efficiency of least square estimates relative to best linear estimates in regression model
(2010-03-15)Consider the usual regression model Y = X? + ?. The standard estimators of ? are (i) Least squares estimator and (ii) Best linear estimator. The paper gives some results on finding an attainable lower bound on the efficiency ... -
Some results on the use of random numbers in sampling from finite and infinite populations
(2010-03-14)Conceptual framework is provided for some of the well known ideas relevant to the use of random numbers for sampling. Results on the efficient choice of d (the number of digits in the column of random numbers) are envisaged ... -
Some solutions for abstract games: axiomatic characterisations
(2009-12-14)In this paper we consider binary relations which are reflexive and complete. Such binary relations are referred to in the literature as abstract games. Given an abstract game a (game) solution is a function which associates ... -
Some thoughts on our trade unions
(2010-07-27)Punekar represented the first generation of post independence social scientists who began to examine the social implications of urban and industrial growth in our country. Also at the same time some western scholars ...