There has been a great deal of concern all the world over about sustainable development. However, unlike the developed industrialized countries with high standard of living, the sustainability debate in countries like India ...

The main objective of the Taiwan Government in reforming the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) has been to establish Taiwan as an Asia-Pacific financial centre. The liberalisation and internationalisation of TSE is expected to ...

In this paper we study the problem of universally reducing a multistage vector optimization problem to a one-stage vector optimization problem. This paper draws heavily and modifies on results obtained in Aixerman and ...

Kutch is extremely arid, hot and short in agricultural quality ground water. Greenhouse is expected to reduce water requirement in such conditions. It is for this reason that this approach is being followed. In the write-up ...

In this paper, I first discuss the key concept of IPR and its relevance for our conditions. I particularly refer to the opportunities that exist globally with specific reference to patent expiration, biodiversity based ...

As a consequence of economic reforms, the Indian manufacturing sector faces a variety of technology related challenges. It not only has to quickly develop world-class manufacturing capabilities but also gear up to develop ...

The second half of 1997 witnessed a major financial crisis in several East Asian countries characterized by massive depreciation of their currencies and crash in the stock markets. The crisis occurred despite fairly ...

Countries in both developed and developing regions are placing more importance on the role of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in the growth of companies, and thereby to the economic development of their countries. M&A ...

Extraction of local knowledge of people has gone on for a very long time without any reciprocity or accountability towards the knowledge providers. The paper looks at several kinds of accountability of researchers such as ...

The individual urge to extend one's responsibility for social change beyond mandated or formal duties is far more pervasive than is generally assumed. However, not each individual with such an urge takes voluntary initiatives. ...