Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were the major contributors to the growth acceleration in India after 1991-92. Although the Regional Disparity may increase temporarily, causality test provides support to the hypothesis about spread effects. The Regional growth...

Morals in the sociological and anthropological discourse have been looked at as a construction of culture and as an appendage of social norms. In the conventional sense, moral development culture. But such a notion of morality and moral development ignores the question of the Being and the...

IPO grading assesses the fundamentals of the Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and is reflected on a five-point point scale (1-5) with a higher score indicating stronger fundamentals of the IPO issuing firm. SEBI (India capital market regulator) introduced the IPO grading as a mandatory...

Inflationary trends in economy have led to increased media costs, forcing many companies to increased expenditure on sales promotion activities. It has been recognized that well-planned sales promotion activities have a strategic role to play in brand building and enhancing customer loyalty....

A solar cafeteria, termed, SolCafe was designed and commissioned at a residential school of hundred children in Kothara-Kutch. In this paper we present the experience of its first year of operation. Cooking modules of the café consists of two large box type solar cookers. One cooker has an...

To accelerate the growth of entrepreneurship, it is absolutely necessary to develop various support systems at least at the initial stages of growth. This paper examines the various kinds of need-based support system for development of small scale industries through self employment oriented...

In the absence of necessary institutional conditions, market reforms in developing economies cause rent seeking and unequitable distribution of income. This, in turn, could stun economic growth and also thwart the emergence of right institutions. It is important for government policy not only to...

As societies in transition, involved in modernisation, nation building, socio-economic transformation, and increasing globalisation of their economies, developing societies must evolve forms of organizational excellence appropriate to their context. Several meta processes drawing their strength...

It is clear that in order to achieve peoples’ development as a major objective of rural development programmes, it almost always would require structural shifts supported by a dialogical process of total mobilization of the rural people, suitable to the ecological and technological reality....

In axiomatic bargaining (choice theory), a choice function of some importance is the utilitarian choice function. Basically, this choice function selects the vector of utilities whose sum is greatest, among all utility vectors. There have been several axiomatic characterizations of the...