This write-up describes the development and some applications of earth tube heat exchangers in Gujarat. Work outlined here was delivered as Nanubhai Amin Memorial Lecture at Electrical Research and Development Association, Vadodara as part of Technology Day, 11 May 2004.

This paper presents an analysis of the performance of India’s poverty alleviation programmes during the first three years of the Sixth Five Year Plan based on the mid term appraisal published by the Planning Commission. In relative terms, our poverty alleviation programmes have performed much...

In this paper we start with the problem of analysing unwanted consequences of large sample size in econometric estimation and find that the problem can be framed as special case to general problem of estimating a model subject to linear restrictions on the parameters. It is proved that use of...

This working paper owes its origin to a paper presented by the author at the first Regional Conference on the theme of Population Problem and Family Planning Effort, held at Ahmedabad in November 1980. The genesis of the problem is traced to the overall macro-level planning orientation and in...

Ours is a time of fundamental changes. Changes in our economy and politics, revolutionary manifestation of new technologies and the whole host of contemporary forces are shattering our taken-for-granted assumptions about self and society. In this contemporary context of epochal change and...

This paper brings out a few issues on how prevailing institutional conditions are inadequate for an efficient functioning of markets, and on the role of government policy in the transition period in the Indian context. We approach the issue of market institutions form the new institutional...

The paper has discussed the procedures and problems in acquiring institutional finance for production forestry projects in India. Some steps, e.g., accounting the returns from outputs other than timber and fuelwood, raising crops by interplanting during the first 3-5 years before the main crops...

This paper discusses the concept of controlled environment agriculture which may be necessary to bring arid areas like Kutch under production.

The sharp rise in prices in the last few years has stirred up a brisk debate on the meaning and measurement of business income. In computing income, the costs of labor and material are generally reflected in current prices, but the provision made for depreciation is generally not sufficient to...

In this paper a framework is developed to seek information from the decision-maker about uncertain events, and to use this information for identifying a preferred alternative. Existing methods are examined critically to determine the best strategy for eliciting subjective probabilities int he...