Three questions are examined in the paper. First, does the recent performance of Indian agriculture indicate deceleration in the long term growth rates of production? Second, how does one explain poor growth performance of recent years in the face of substantial growth in the use of inputs?...

This paper examines hedging effectiveness of futures contract on a financial asset and commodities in Indian markets. In an emerging market context like India, the growth of capital and commodity futures market would depend on effectiveness of derivatives in managing risk. For managing risk,...

Consider a rooted acyclic graph G with weights on arcs. In this graph, a minimum weight rooted arborescence (MRC) can be defined as one whose sum of arc weights is less than or equal to that of any other rooted arborescence (RA) in that graph. We introduce a Lagrangian heuristic for this problem...

Rapid growth in urban population has made Solid Waste Management an important issue for civic administration. The 74th amendment of the Constitution of India and Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules 2000 has made municipal solid waste management the responsibility of urban...

Innovation is a fundamental virtue of marketing. In this paper, a case is made to promote the use of innovative and novel combinations of research methodologies to derive new insights of business phenomena. This study is an attempt to understand and explain the sales and distribution channel...

The paper provides an empirical view of the range of promotions launched in the Indian market place from 1996 to 2003. The different promotions include free gift offers, price offs, extra product offers, exchange offers, buy-more-and-save offers, contests and sweepstakes. The most frequently...

This is an exploratory study to develop a scale to measure attitude towards computers and test some hypotheses about relationship between some background factors and personality variables with perception of and attitude towards computers. Data were collected only from two units. Since there was...

Malaysia is among the first few developing countries that launched a large scale programme of privatisation of public enterprises. Malaysia’s experience of formulating and implementing the privatisation programme is generally hailed as a success story. An attempt has been made in this paper to...

For the rural economy of India, characterized by growing unemployment and poverty, the labour intensive economic activities like Khadi and Village Industries are deemed to assume greater relevance than ever. But the past trends of growth of this sector reveal that the pace of employment...

This paper attempts to interpret a part of the findings of a communication experiment carried out in India in the light of the communication effects gap hypothesis. Recent research in the U.S. mainly concentrated around the issues of perceived inequalities – the knowledge gap – created by...