Research to pursue answers to the problems of poor in dry regions, tribal backward scarcity prone areas and drought prone districts has been pursued at CMA for over a decade. Effort has been made in this note to review some of the select studies. The reviewers biases have been made explicit...

The objective of this paper is to review the empirical understanding of wage trends and wage differentials in Indian Industries. Such a review provides the empirical base for policy related issues raised in the second section of the paper. The administrative problems are highlighted. It is...

Most urban areas are facing an ever increasing demand for fresh water due to population and industrial growth. This paper proposes an integrated approach for optimal design of urban water supply and waste disposal systems. A network model is presented for evaluating alternatives for supplying...

The purpose of this paper is to prove by induction the theorem (in Aizerman and Malishevsi [1981]) that a choice function which satisfies Chernoff’s axiom and Outcasting can always by expressed as the union of the solution sets of a finite number of maximization problems. The proof we offer is...

We study the capacitated version of the two commodity network design problem, where capacity can be purchased in batches of C units on each arc at a cost of wij greater than equal 0, dk greater than equal 0 units of flow are sent from source to sink for each commodity k. we characterize optimal...

Management of change in organizations has been one of the most important concerns of professionals in the recent times. A manager, an administrator or a consultant, who wishes to understand the dynamics of change, is most frequently confronted with questions, such as what is the concept of...

In this paper, we have conceptualized the entrepreneurial process as comprising of three stages -–the decision to become an entrepreneur, which field to be an entrepreneur in, and the actual creation of an organization. Each stage makes certain demands on an entrepreneur. This paper examines...

This paper analysed the malaria control and eradication activities in India from 1953-54 to 1976-77. The total cost of the disease to the nation with the control and eradication programme and what it would have been if the programme were not to be launched were estimated for each of the years....

We propose a solution to the bargaining problem which responds 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 agent i’s payoff, in agreement with intention. We...

The Paper “Conclave on Family Business Strategising the Future” explores the family owned organization where many success stories have been written of fathers, sons and brothers. Today these organizations are at the cross-roads as new paradigms of managing organizations are emerging. The...