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Moving to opportunity or isolation? network effects of a slum relocation program in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
A housing lottery in a large Indian city provided 110 out of 497 participants the opportunity to move out of a slum and into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years after housing assignment, relative to ...
Tabu search for multi-period facility location: uncapacitated problem with an uncertain number of servers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
This paper supersedes the work presented in WP.No.2014-02-06. We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers (PHC). We model the problem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under ...
Agribusiness franchising in India: experience and potential
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Agribusiness or agricultural franchising is quite new in India, though it is quite commonly used in other businesses like fast food, hotel and other service industries where service quality is crucial to maintain brand ...
Economic geography and networks: role of local and non-local ties in cluster evolution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The organization of geographic clusters plays an increasingly significant role due to the presence of network ties that exist within the location and beyond. This has proven to be particularly true for knowledge-intensive ...
Priority service system optimization under service level constraints
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
We consider a service system that serves one class of customers, which is willing to pay a premium for a faster delivery, with priority over the other class, which is more price sensitive but is willing to wait longer. The ...
Framework for identifying appropriate roles for the public and private sector in national broadband deployments in emerging economies: the national broadband plan of India
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-09)
Emerging economies recognize the substantial economic impact of broadband and hence are increasingly focusing on National Broadband Plans (NBPs). There is recognition that there are significant challenges in designing the ...