The rate of social and technological change is overtaking our problem-solving capability. There is urgent social need for institutions which will effectively work on the analysis of public policy and design of public systems along with surveys of the alternative futures which may befall us. Can...

The paper has argued that the overall impact of the economic, social, political, cultural, legal, administrative and technological variables does not appear to be conducive for the desired and deserved growth of the forestry sector in India. The sector has a vast potential for contributing to...

The idea of a function which associates with each set and a binary relation a non-empty subset of the given set has a long history whose exact origin is very difficult to specify and in any case is unknown to the author. In Laslier (1997) can be found a very exhaustive survey of the related...

The paper examines the extent and the causes of variations in economic growth across twenty-nine developing countries. The sample countries come from Asia, Africa, and South/Central America. It finds that while Brazil, Cameroon and Korea have witnessed a relatively higher growth rates; Chile,...

In this paper the efficiency, savings and inequality effects of income and expenditure taxes are reexamined. It is shown that current welfare is likely to be promoted by a mix of the two taxes rather than either tax alone. Additionally, it is conceivable for ability to save to be at a maximum...

In a stratefied rural society, different classes of landless pastoralists or cultivator cum pastoralists are expected to have varying stakes in the protection of environment. ‘Assurance’ mechanism suggested by Sen and Rauge has been used to understand the institutional arrangement required...

In this paper we show that rationalizability of a bargaining solution by a symmetric metric implies that the bargaining solution is anonymous. We further show that rationalizability of a bargaining solution by a metric implies that the solution satisfies metric respect for unanimity.

In a recent paper, Campbel (1994) shows that if a choice correspondence satisfies Arrow8217;s choice axiom then it has a complete, reflexive and transitive rationalization, even if the domain does not include any set with fewer then m members, where m is a given positive integer. The purpose of this...

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad had initiated an action-research project in three districts with similar ecological and social stress but dissimilar administrative system. A group of faculty members from Centre for Management in Agriculture and Public Systems Group pursued the idea of...

The paper argues that the wish to pioneer and innovate is essential if talented persons are to give their best to society. The paper reports the relationships between the pioneering – innovating and five other motives, namely, growth, effectiveness, conscientiousness, status, and safety, for a...