The paper aims at assessing the requirement of high yielding seeds of major cereal crops in 1985 and the corresponding requirement of foundation and breeder seeds. Five major cereal crops – wheat, paddy, maize, bajra and jowar are considered. The estimation model attempted to project area...

The study of 20 state economies of India over the period 1960-61 to 1989-90 reveals that the phenomenon of acceleration in economic growth is spatially dispersed and covers about two-thirds of the national economy. The study also finds that most of the states experiencing growth acceleration are...

This paper is based on several years experience of the author in working in close touch with Bureaucracy at several levels of administration. Based on this experience, the paper conceptualize the basic nature of bureaucracy and its constraints in performing the role of leadership in people’s...

How can we understand an individual? To understand him, there are several different sources of information, for e.g. his physical characteristics or collecting information indirectly through his friends and acquaintances, or else we may observe his over actions. Attribution refers to the process...

Accelerated growth in agricultural production of developing countries depends on fuller exploitation of the existing production potential and continuously raising the potential through technological changes. This requires sustained rapid growth in the use of inputs like seeds of better quality,...

Developing countries have been adversely affected by the four-fold increase in oil prices of late 1973. As Energy sectors and other economic sectors are competing for the limited investible resources, increasing energy import and development costs might constrain the economic growth rate in the...

There has been a world-wide increase in the incidences of downsizing practice across economies and across organizations. This has been considered as the basis for coping with increasing competition. The present paper looks into some studies on downsizing. The focus of the paper is majorly on the...

Many of the developing countries of Asia and Africa with large and increasing populations are currently at low levels of economic development but represent large potential markets for consumer as well as industrial products. Some developing nations in these continents have initiated economic...

Despite the large size and rapid growth of public enterprises, empirical research on their behaviour is meagre. The research that exists compares public with private enterprises. It is not able to establish any significant differences to support the thesis that they belong to a different genre...

Investment in the corporate sector showed a substantial decline during 1975. However, the prospects for 1976 appear to be better even though corporate investment in 1976 may not exceed the level attained in 1974. The study entailed an analysis of all the projects sanctioned by the all India Term...