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Economic Globalization: Boon or Bane for African Health?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The effect of globalization, especially economic liberalization, on socioeconomic development has long been debated in development economics. There is a view that globalization is not beneficial to the underdeveloped and ... -
Economic Growth in Gujarat in Relation to the Nation and Other States in Recent Times - A Statistical Analysis
(2013-11-21)Growth rates of regions (states) have generally followed the national level growth rates over time with small lags or leads. We find much coherence between the aggregate performance of regions over time and that of the ... -
Economic importance of biogas in integrated rural energy system
(2010-03-14)This paper discusses the impact of dung availability and economic importance of biogas plants in Integrated Rural Energy System (IRES). Fixed Cost, maintenance cost, feed-stock cost and manpower costs of community biogas ... -
Economic incentives versus institutional frictions: migration dynamics within Europe
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The immobility puzzle in European Union takes the form that the observed level of migration within Europe is substantially less than is expected in an union which allows free labor mobility, indicating that there are ... -
Economic Liberalization & Rural Land and Labour Markets in India: A Study
(2009-08-08)The paper examines the rural land and labour markets in the context of economic liberalization in India. Land and labour are the two fundamental resources available to the rural people for income generation. The access to ... -
Economic order quality when a discount is offered on cash purchases
(2010-03-23)Classical Wilsonzs EOQ model assumes that the payments for goods are made at the time of delivery and therefore a sufficient portion of carrying cost is incurred due to money blocked in inventories. In many situations, ... -
Economic order quantity when ordering costs are lot size dependent
(2010-03-23)Classical EOQ model assumes that the ordering cost A is constant and independent of lot size. This paper deals with the case when A depends on the lot size and increases at a decreasing rate. Firstly A is assumed to increase ... -
Economic policy reforms and trade performance of private corporate sector in India
(2010-01-18)After 1991-92, India has witnessed widespread policy reforms in order to integrate its economy with the rest of the world. In this fact-finding study, the balance-sheet data of 557 private sector companies are considered ... -
Economic reforms and institutions: a few issues and policy implications for India
(2010-07-22)In the absence of necessary institutional conditions, market reforms in developing economies cause rent seeking and unequitable distribution of income. This, in turn, could stun economic growth and also thwart the emergence ... -
Economics of gobar gas plant
(2010-03-14)The oil crisis has led us to explore the alternative sources of nitrogen. One of the alternatives for nitrogen is cow dung (Gobar). Scientists have invented a gobar gas plant which gives methane gas for fuel and rich slurry ... -
Economics of joint forest management programme: a case study of soliya village, gujarat
(2010-03-27)This paper discusses the organizational and economic issues related to the Joint Forest Management programme in India with respect to Soliya Village in Gujarat. Using the private-benefit cost analysis (PBCA), the case study ... -
Economics of scale in the Indian cement industry
(2010-03-14)The paper purports to investigate the existence or otherwise of economies of scale in the Indian cement industry. The investigation is attempted through the estimation of cost-output (sales) relationships both from the ... -
Economics of sustained rapid growth in India's fertiliser consumption
(2010-03-12)This paper presents a framework to discuss economics of sustained rapid growth in Inida's fertiliser consumption. Major considerations suggested by the framework are then discussed against the backdrop of the past growth ... -
Economies of scale and scope of district central co-operative banks
(2010-01-16)The paper is divided into 6 sections. Section 2 briefly reviews the application of various methodologies in examining the cost attributes of multi product banking firms. Section e describes the methodology employed and the ... -
Economy demand factor in regional industrialization
(2010-03-24)In the present study it is argued that policies to achieve reduction in regional inequalities in industrialization in India so far have been guided by theories emphasizing the role of supplies of factors of production, ... -
ED 24 and BHEL's current cost accounts
(2010-03-18)In May 1979, Accounting Standards Committee of U.K. has issued Exposure Draft 24 "Current Cost Accounting". The purpose of this article is to prepare the BHEL financial statements for the last three years (1975-76, 1976-77 ... -
Education and Employment among Muslims in India: An Analysis of Patterns and Trends
(2013-11-22)After the submission of the Sachar Committee Report, several studies have undertaken data-based analysis of the socioeconomic and educational conditions of Muslims in India. Many researchers, policy makers and, in ... -
Education for development: some experiences from an action research project
(2010-03-12)The concept of action research emerged out of disillusionment with research contributing to the improvement of a practice, or resulting in social action. The gap between research and action, between theory and practice, ... -
Education for social action the fellowship programme in social management
(2010-03-29)The Fellowship Programme in Social Management, run by a non-governmental organization, aims at training development workers. It can be located within the tradition of non-formal educational experiments which try to develop ... -
Educational activities
(2010-03-13)Various organizations are recognizing the social responsibilities. One of the responsibilities of the organization is to look at change in a more planned way. The various innovations which the organization can make may be ...