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Impact of export fluctuations on income: a cross country analysis
(2010-03-14)
The degree of export fluctuations and its impact on income have been subject to a number of investigations. A major bone of contention has been whether developing countries experience a greater degree of fluctuation in ...
Poverty inequality and development in dual economics with urban informal sectors
(2010-03-13)
In this paper a general model of dualistic economies with urban informal sectors is proposed. The model is able to encompass a wide variety of distortions and institutional features which may affect such economies. Within ...
Determinants of inter - industry wage structure in India
(2010-03-13)
This paper deals with an analysis of the main factors explaining the inter-industry wage differentials in manufacturing sector of the Indian economy. It examines the basic theoretical framework which can provide a satisfactory ...
On deficit financing
(2010-03-13)
The main conclusion emerging from the analysis is that the inflationary impact of a budget deficit depends upon the method used to finance that deficit. Using a static and a dynamic macroeconomic model it has been shown ...
Environmental scanning for corporate planning in India
(2010-03-13)
The need for environmental scanning acquires great policy significance for both the micro - unit and the macro - economy in a developing country like India which is trying to achieve the objectives of economic development ...
Initiatives in rural credit policies under new economic environment
(2010-07-26)
Initiatives in rural credit policies pertain to two instruments. These are institutional development and interest rates. Some of these initiatives are right for both these instruments, while some others are not. Former for ...
Non - rationalizability of utilitarian consistent choice functions
(2010-07-22)
In much of the applied welfare economics, one finds the recurrent use of utilitarian objective functions, in arriving at social decisions. Apart from being completely insensitive to distributional issues, the utilitarian ...
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 ...
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 ...
Behaviour of firms subject to imperfect markets
(2010-03-13)
Survey of available theories in economic literature would reveal that analysis of a firm's behavior is performed, either, under the assumption of perfect competition in factor as well as output markets or by letting ...