The small establishments engaged in trade, commerce, manufacturing and service activities constitute a crucial segment of an urban economy from the viewpoint of their magnitude, essentiality of absorbing large mass of job seekers. The present study focuses on the growth of these establishments,...

This paper attempts to answer the question whether management training the exclusively for single sex group or mixed groups where both men and women undergo training jointly. The paper first explores the introduction of management training in the third world countries. It examines the focus,...

This paper highlights some aspects of the practice of discrimination by the United States of America in its import policy for regulating the imports of “textiles” (including textiles and clothing) from selected developing Asian Countries under bilateral agreements within the framework of the...

An exploratory study of scientific goal setting in dry farming areas was pursued during 1985. The post-graduate students as well as scientists engaged in dry farming research from a North Indian agricultural university and its regional station were interviewed besides the scientists from All...

India has an extensive network of hospitals and health centres with a large field staff in the government sector which has been providing primary health care. Of late this infrastructure has been effective in delivering immunization services to the community. The Child Survival and Safe...

Organizational research indicates that large organizations involved in many different activities can counteract the diseconomies of size and complexity, tendency to bureaucratization, and to increasing resistance to innovation by breaking up into relatively autonomous, self-contained units such...

An attempt is made in this paper to examine various aspects of housing demand and housing investment in India. The main objectives of the study area: (i) to estimate the income and price elasticity of demand for housing in India; (ii) to examine the interstate Differences in the elasticities of...

The paper “Strengths and Weaknesses of Family Business: The Indian Context” was written and presented in CII, Family Business Meet at Jaipur. The paper examines the location and status of family businesses in the industrial context of India. Indian Family businesses shifted from trading and...

The paper reexamines the logic and relevance of the big push in transforming the rural poor. Theories of circular causation of poverty and immanent economic controversies, such as the critical minimum effort, balanced vs. unbalanced growth are examined. The economic and social relevance of big...

In this paper we obtain an axiomatic characterization of the value function for the class of all bimatrix games satisfying the equivalency and efficiency properties.