The management of community service organisations (CSO) needs to be concerned with managing the operating system and relating the system to its environment. Many factors in the CSO’s internal environment might inhibit it from carrying out the latter managerial function and encourage a...

This paper is an attempt to examine the issues underlying the current debate about reintroducing the badla system. The differences between badla system on one hand and options and futures markets on the other are highlighted. Then it is argued that for an efficient security market, facility of...

Growth of Indian manufacturing in the 80s was market-driven: policy changes enabled an expansion in output in response to growth in demand. Output growth led to productivity increase which came from material and labor savings, in that order of importance. Ten percent of the productivity increase...

The present paper describes the vision and practice of different religious movements in the contemporary United States such as Moral Majority and Habitat for Humanity. This description is presented with a view that contemporary Indian debate on secularism and religion must be based upon informed...

Two decades of discussion has still to clear the fog surrounding the validity of the PLC concept. This paper reviews available evidence, and attempts to identify some of the issues that PLC researchers need to address. Literature pertaining to the following dimensions of the PLC concept have...

To what extent can changes in money account for changes in price level? The model presented in this paper seeks to explain changes in price level through the divergence between nominal money supply fixed by monetary authorities and warranted money supply determined by changes in real income....

Since the first energy price shock of 1973 a number of studies have reported the impacts of rising energy prices on agriculture sector. However, in the recent years real energy prices are falling in the international market. Casually one tends to believe that falling energy prices are good to...

This paper is designed to asses the need for a Management Course in Fisheries at Post-Graduate level and identify the preconditions for a contextually relevant introduction of such a course. Accordingly, this paper is divided into five sections. Section-I deals with the emerging of growth in...

The report is divided into two parts. In Part I, while discussing the strategies of rural development in India pursued since the 1950s, the author argues that these have been influenced by two distinct schools of thought: first, advocating pro-found structural changes, particularly those in land...

Western Region (comprising of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Mahareshtra and Goa) accounts for about one-sixth of India’s fertilizer consumption and more than one-third of fertilizer production. Substantial additional capacity of fertilizer production is being installed in the region. Because of...