Considering the extensive use which policy makers in India make of the instrument of tax expenditures, what is needed is proper management of all tax expenditures. Four points are involved here. The first is concerned with identifying tax expenditures. In order to identify tax expenditures, one...

Environmental scanning is the process of acquiring , interpreting and controlling flows of environmental information by the organizations in order not to be blindsided by threats, unprepared for opportunities, or ineffective in managing interdependencies with resource controllers and other...

This chapter reviews research in attitudes and social cognition in India during 1975-84. The areas covered are attitudes, impression formation, attribution, and judgment and decision. It is noted that quality of research has improved considerably, and that Indian psychologists are doing not only...

The basic principle in developing an approach for the agricultural strategy in the Fifth Five Year Plan is that instead of super-imposing a growth rate of agricultural sector to be achieved in the Fifth Five Year Plan, it would be desirable to find out the achievable targets at the disaggregate...

The finance Act 1985 provides considerable reduction in individual tax liability, first, by across the board reduction in tax rates and second, by enlarging and reducing the number of tax brackets. The question investigated in this paper is “Are reliefs given to various income slabs...

The search for ethically responsible and scientifically precise alternatives for socially disadvantaged groups in high risk environments requires a multi disciplinary, multi market/multi institutional approach. Various groups of rural households diversify portfolios of their economic enterprises...

The objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that the share of wages in net value added will tend to decline in the early stages of industrial development. The data are drawn from the Annual survey of industries. An attempt has been made to examine the trend in share of wages in value...

This paper describes a Network Planning Model for formulation for power generation and transmission system planning in detail, illustrated by an application for the Northern regional power network in India. The Network planning model simulates the operation of existing and proposed generating...

In this paper we establish that a family of well-known normed compromise solutions for two-person claims problems respond appropriately to changes in the claims point.