Past two decades have seen increasing research in the broad area of beneficial non-task employee behaviors. Several concepts have been proposed to capture such behaviors, like organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), prosocial behavior, organizational spontaneity, extra-role behavior,...

In this paper, an attempt is made to discuss approaches to valuing environmental impacts of forestry project. More specifically, how the static basic exchange model can be modified and simplified for valuation of the same. It is suggested that the social benefit-cost analysis can be used to the...

Voluntary agencies have played many roles in the developmental sectors of the country. These roles have ranged from that of a provider of relief during disasters to a facilitator of long-term development programmes and a social activist. Over the years, these agencies have gained a great deal of...

The paper is designed to analyse the existing marketing systems for aquaculture produce and their impact on the economics of aquaculture from the point of view of fish farmers. The paper is divided into five parts. Part I presents an overview of demand-supply scenario and resource potentials....

Provision of ambulance services in remote areas is an important policy intervention to strengthen the referral system and improve the quality of emergency care. The financial requirements resulting out of capital costs and operating expenses are huge. Given the financial constraints facing the...

This paper presents a case for assured return in mutual fund industry. The retail investor is willing to take the market risk but would like to limit their losses due to intermediation risk which arises because of poor institutional accountability and lack of complete faith in the integrity of...

This paper discusses fertilizer pricing policy in the context of the need to generate sustained rapid growth in India’s fertilizer consumption. Section I provides a brief overview of past growth and future needs for consumption. Section II, which traces the evolution of fertilizer pricing...

We used panel data set of 1729 observations (247 Malaysian companies listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange for 1993-2000) to identify variables that could explain expected returns of Malaysian stocks. Our results are based on the fixed effects regression model as it performed better than the...

With the discovery of massive frauds in the Indian and International capital markets, regulators and legislatures have increasingly turned towards making corporate governance standards mandatory and have attached penalties to violation of these corporate governance guidelines. This paper...

In this paper the effect of tax-subsidy policies on the personal income distribution is studied using the mobile capital Harris-Todaro model of Corden-Findlay-McCool. It is shown that tax subsidy packages with efficiency promoting properties also have attractive effects on the personal...