This paper focuses on the evolution and transformation of what is known as Laboratory Training or Personal growth Labs or PG Labs. The experience of the participants in the lab is for the self to explore the inner world of feelings and meanings around relationships and quest for purpose and...

Briefly the proposal is for market competition in generation, through the development of a hybrid wholesale and retail (for bulk consumers alone) market. It is not a marker for all the electricity in the system, but largely a market that would allow distribution-cum-generation companies to...

This paper discusses the shifting paradigms of what is considered enrichment of an individual. In the traditional agrarian society enrichment was around relationships and institutions of belonging, age, experience, wisdom and sagacity meant an enriched individual. In to-days industrialised...

The purpose of this paper is to evolve certain methods of analysis and indicators for measuring the performance of the Small Farmers’ Development Agency and apply these to the type of data which is normally collected by all the SFDAs operating in the country for preparation of quarterly and...

An approach to the computation of Bahadur Efficiency was proposed by Bahadur and Raghavachari in their paper in Proceedings of Sixth Berkeley Symposium. The objective of the paper is to exhibit this approach to the Computation of Hodges – Lehmann efficiency for a few examples. Many of the...

This study makes an attempt to examine the trend in Total Factor Productivity in the public sector enterprises by estimating and analyzing the contributions made by major factor inputs to the growth rate of not product originating in the public enterprises. It is divided into six sectors. After...

We propose a solution to the bargaining problem which response appropriately to certain changes in the disagreement point, for a fixed feasible set. If di increases, while for j=I dj remains constant, our solution recommends an increase in ageni’s payoff, in agreement with intuition. This...

In this paper we propose a negotiation procedure for the bilateral monopoly problem, solutions of which converge to the Nash bargaining solution.

Consumerism movements like ‘Truth in Advertising’ have prompted formulation of legal and other public policy measures to regulate deceptive advertising. While a great deal of effort has gone into evolving mechanisms to protect consumers from deceptive advertising. Surprisingly little...