Women and Leadership Roles is culled from workshops conducted by Prof. Indira Parikh at the IIMA. From 1980 till date programmes exploring issues facing Women in Management are offered at the Institute. Issues surrounding leadership, work roles and authority are debated. The objectives are to...

This paper presents a framework to discuss economics of sustained rapid growth in India’s fertilizer consumption. Major considerations suggested by the framework are then discussed against the backdrop of the past growth in fertilizer use to identify key policy issues and draw conclusions....

In this paper we propose and characterize a class of new solutions to bargaining problems which uses a reference point and satisfies a property known as partial issue monotonicity.

The paper highlights that land degradation in India has been approaching a crisis level in spite of repeated emphasis on wasteland development and existence of apex level organisations for that purpose. One reason has been the policy emphasis on ownership and control rather than appropriate...

This paper discusses organizational designs for rural development with special reference to farm-industry linkages and integration of agrarian economy and industrial economy. Indian agriculture is predominantly small farm agriculture and increasingly going to be so in future. Over the years...

In this paper we show that for a continuum economy with public goods, every fair allocation corresponds to an Equal Income Lindahl Equilibrium under mild assumptions.

Initiatives in rural credit policies pertain to two instruments. These are institutional development and interest rates. Some of these initiatives are right for both these instruments, while some others are not. Former for the institutional development includes new equity, prudential norms,...

In service interactions the management of service employee’s emotion through emotional labor has gained prominence and is becoming an active method to affect consumer’s behavior. Several researches have indicated that self-concept of the consumer affects their buying behavior. However there...

This paper analyses various price and non-price factors that induce rice productivity during 1980-95 using a multi-variate model. This is studied separately for states where rice is a multi-season crop and mono-season crop. The non-price factors considered here include technology,...

The differences in homeostatic ability of various sections of the society influencing their risk adjustment capacity in drought prone regions seem to explain why more people stay on than why few people migrate out. In this paper, a framework for analysis of the problem of rural population...