The paper (a) attempts a brief review of the price policy pertaining to the agricultural sector (b) examines the impact of the policy on the income of the farmers (c) studies the broad features of the small vs. lArge farmers, (d) examines the impact of the price policy on the income of the small...

The concept of peoples’ participation in national economic development has gained renewed significance in recent years. This paper, using a case method of analysis, studies the charging patterns of peoples’ participation in irrigation projects of the Himalayan ranges in India and identifies...

The paper briefly reviews the process of preparation of the district credit plans and the deficiencies of these plans from the view point of their implementation. To provide more insights into the problems in implementing the action plan based on credit plans, six selected credit plans have been...

In this paper we prove the validity of the revelation principle for arbitration games and also establish that a large class of game forms can be represented as a Bayesian Statistician. This adds force and appeal to the concept of an arbitration game.

We consider a finite universal set of alternatives and the set of all feasible sets are simply the set of all non-empty subsets of this universal set. A choice function assigns to each feasible set a non-empty subset of it. In such a framework we propose and study necessary and sufficient...

Based on an analysis of the budget 2001, the paper highlights assumptions underlying the proposals that are expected to lead to national growth. It suggests that the budget should be evaluated in terms of the net outcome to the nation rather than on the promise it makes for the future. It...

Costly monitoring is an important market imperfection in developed as well as developing economies. In developed countries monitoring costs are usually minimized through intermediation. The intermediation process is hampered, however, by market fragmentation typical of developing agrarian...

A question which has remained under explored in Research on the Cooperatives and Rural Development is whether the Western European Models of organizing cooperatives further based on Agri-business concept as it evolved at Harvard will be able to invoke cooperation amongst the poor and between the...

Advertising is a reflection of the total environment of the society; hence advertisers are expected to respond to the changing needs and expectations of their potential audience. To find out the changing trend of themes, the study emphasized the objectives of developing the broad framework for...

Ensuring a fair distribution of public resources has remained a concern of planners and socially conscious academists for a long time. The limitation of market forces in catering to such needs of people which at current level of deprivation and scale cannot become ‘reasonable’ demand is well...