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COVID-19 and period products usage among menstruating women in urban and rural India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-03)This paper estimates the impact of the lockdown across various zones on the period product consumption for menstruating women in India. We have used the national-level panel data from the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household ... -
Covid-19 crisis, pandemic resilience and linkages to land: An exposition
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-05-08)For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain – rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only influences the outbreak ... -
Creating demand systems in drought prone regions: random thoughts and personal field notes from a group action - research project - journal II
(2010-03-14)Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad had initiated an action-research project in three districts with similar ecological and social stress but dissimilar administrative system. A group of faculty members from Centre ... -
Creation of a Single National ID: Challenges & Opportunities for India
(2009-07-25)A National ID for all citizens and residents of India has long being considered a critical necessity, albeit the related projects have been in pilot mode for the past several years and no distinct road ahead seems to be ... -
Creative approaches in advertising in India in the early nineties what criteria
(2010-03-25)The paper developed while exploring the anomaly that the best adjusted creatives are not necessarily the best performers, despite uniformity in other marketing inputs. It examines (1) current trends in creative approaches, ... -
Creative restructuring
(2010-01-18)In the context of liberalization of globalization of economy, the changes required in the functioning of corporates need to be vast. Corporate restructuring has become an important means for achieving such changes in India ... -
Credit Arrangements for Drought Prone Regions: Policy Prescriptions and planners Reaction
(2012-09-27)IIM-A Collaboration with NABARD and Swiss Development cooperation conducted a field study to identify policy option for rural credit in drought prone regions. A joint monitoring team for field study comprising of professionals ... -
Credit policy for small and marginal farmers - a second look
(2010-03-13)The National Commission on Agriculture has advocated that the new agricultural credit policy must satisfy that all activities financed under its registration. -
Crew scheduling in Indian railways: a case study of Vadodara division passenger train crews
(2010-03-14)In this paper we discuss the crew scheduling problem in Indian Railways and propose a methodology to minimize crew requirements. In Particular, we deal with the scheduling of passenger train crews in Vadodara Division of ... -
CRISIL Rating: When does AAA mean B?
(2010-03-22)In this paper an attempt is made to assess the quality of credit rating function being performed by CRISIL, hitherto the sole credit rating agency in India. The paper attempts to answer, two important questions, namely: ... -
Crisis responses of competing versus noncompeting organizations
(2010-03-12)The purpose of the paper is to identify responses of organizations undergoing crisis when they are subjected to either much competition or little competition. -
Critical appraisal of past strategies for rural development in India
(2010-03-28)The paper examines the past experiments in RD in India, thinking from 1952 onwards, the three models available to India during the First Plan, the Community Development (CD) design, and administrative and economic strategies ... -
Critique of the history of higher education in India
(2010-04-17)The main argument of this paper rests upon the assumption that while the post-colonial education policy has emphasised the need for a truly national goal of education, arguing for a departure from the British racist system ... -
Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration
(2009-07-25)Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of ... -
Cropping in Arid Area Greenhouse
(2009-08-21)In hot, arid regions, yields are low and unstable, growing season limited to one. Greenhouses can stabilize and improve yields and extend seasons. But their adoption is impeded by the requirement of large amount of water ... -
Cross cultural surveys and interviewing
(2010-03-13)Survey and interviews are the most widely used methods in cross cultural research. Some basic questions about designing of surveys have been raised. A paradigm of interview as a form of communication has been proposed. The ... -
A cross-cultural study of teaching effectiveness of the case method versus the lecture method of teaching in lecture-oriented environments: some preliminary findings
(2010-03-14)This paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing study in two West German Universities and the University of the Philippines which examines the comparative effectiveness of the case vs. lecture method of teaching. ... -
Cult of vishnu and Indian's economic development
(2010-04-17)The nature of the work ethic of a society may significantly shape the character of its economic development. It is argued that the cult of Vishnu and its associated work ethic have played a notable role in the economic ... -
Culture as a moderating factor on the effect of contextual variables on operating organizational structure
(2010-03-12)Organizational structure has been the focus of many studies in recent years. In most of these studies, the impact of culture on organizational structure is not considered. This paper argues that cultural values of the ... -
Culture development and task differences in prediction of performance: an information integration analysis
(2010-03-14)Past research showed that Indian children average information about motivation and ability in prediction of performance. However, a multiplying-type rule develops from an adding-type rule in American children. The present ...