Cases and Notes: Recent submissions
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SHGs as a Strategy or Mode for Reaching the Unreached for Rural Credit
(2010-08-18)This case, based on published literature and field visits, poses some questions as to whether SHGs can be a substitute for the existing "mode" or "strategy" of RFIs in reaching the unreached, which of three models of linkage ... -
Price and Non-Price Factors for Agricultural Development under New Economic Policies
(2010-08-18)This note first briefly discusses the new economic policies as they pertain to the agricultural sector. It then formally tests the impact of relative farm prices which these policies aim to improve and the non-price factors ... -
Is there a Trade-off between Agricultural Growth and Poverty Alleviation and Inflation?
(2010-08-18)This technical note is prepared with a view to share some of the new contributions agricultural growth makes in the process of economic development that more recent literature has identified and discussed. -
Irrigation Development: Rationale, Achievements, Problems and their Solutions
(2010-08-18)This note deals with (a) the theory of leading inputs, (b) irrigation potential, its development and utilization under successive five years plans, (c) the size and composition of public investment in harnessing various ... -
Farmers' Response to Price and Non-Price Factors for Various Commodity Groups and Anatomy of Inflation under New Economic Environment
(2010-08-18)Considering the new economic environment this note analyses farmers' output and marketed surplus responses to barter terms of trade which is likely to change in the wake of de-protection of trade and industry, besides ... -
Agro-processing Industries: Size, Strengths, Weaknesses, Importance and Changing Opportunities for Their Growth
(2010-08-18)This note first defines agro-processing industries and discuses their size in terms of value added and employment contributions. This is followed by the identification of their strengths and weaknesses, besides discussing ... -
Strengths and Weaknesses of Agriculture in India
(2010-08-18)This technical note discusses major recent strengths and weaknesses of Indian agriculture with some past perspective. The purpose is to introduce the students with the present basic strong and weak characteristics and ... -
Macro Organization and Management Model for Implementation of Technical Change in Agriculture
(2010-08-18)This note first discusses which of the three strategies of extensive farming, intensive agriculture, and seed and resource centred technical change may be chosen. Reasons for its choice are also briefly indicated, besides ... -
Dynamic Sensitivity of Sales to Advertising: A Case of Peanut Butter Industry
(2010-08-18)Brand and generic advertising is increasingly being used to promote food products. An important question is whether such generic and band advertising leads to increase in aggregate demand or simply brand substitution. Using ... -
Vastrapur Telephones
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The Market for Electives
(2010-08-18)The note uses the concept of demand and supply, of elective courses in a business school, to bring out the conditions under which market failures may take place, requiring institutional co-ordination and interventions. The ... -
Market Failures and Government Intervention
(2010-08-18)The note discusses the concepts of market failures and government failures, enumerates the conditions under which these might arise and summarizes the emerging views on market failures and government interventions. -
Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited (C)
(2010-08-18)A case dealing with fall-out of the use of derivatives in managing commodity (gold) price risk. Involves analysis of the linkages between corporate strategy, capital structure and the hedging strategy, as well as the risk ... -
Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited (B)
(2010-08-18)A case dealing with fall-out of the use of derivatives in managing commodity (gold) price risk. Involves consideration of asset sales and mergers as ways to deal with illiquidity and financial distress. -
Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited (A)
(2010-08-18)A case on the use of derivatives in managing commodity (gold) price risk covering strategic reasons for hedging, the linkages between corporate strategy, capital structure and the hedging strategy, as well as the risk ... -
Pune Flower Designs Limited
(2010-08-18)This case focuses on the owner/entrepreneur's perspective of a small enterprise in a new market (dried flower exports). Currently, a large part of the business risk is borne by the importer. The supply and processing risk ... -
Satluj Foods Limited
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Ram Prakas Marketing Concept
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Hukam Chand and Company - Price Determination
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Basic Statistics - Measurement in Basmati Rice
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