Tuberculosis is a major health care burden in developing countries. World Health Organization (WHO) has been assisting developing countries through their respective Governments to control this curable disease. The Amsterdam declaration aims to control tuberculosis globally by the year 2005. The...

The ‘inverted-U’ relationship between stress and performance is well-known. It is reasonable to assume a similar relationship between stress and creativity. However, very little is known about the reverse relationship; the stress potential of creativity has rarely been studies. The major...

This study argues that structural factors – principally population per capita income and population density – can explain a significant proportion of the variation in openness defined as (exports + imports)/gross national production. It also provides a conceptual and theoretical basis for...

For developing economies, technological change and micro level efficiency is as important as capital accumulation as a source of long term economic growth. International trade is an important source of incentives in generating both intentional and by-product technological change by increasing...

The Philippines government has undertaken a major reform programme since the early nineties to accelerate the growth in the economy. It is also attempting to upgrade the telecom services and infrastructure. The government views the private sector as a major source of investment. In Philippines,...

A property of allocation rules (in problems involving fair division of infinitely divisible goods amongst a finite number of agents) that has received considerable attention in recent literature is consistency. The property may be described as follows: apply a allocation rule to a problem within...

Both India and the U.S. were once colonies of Great Britain, the world''s first but short-lived global power. And both India and the U.S. ultimately threw off the imperialist yoke. Despite independence, both democracies inherited certain things from Great Britain. Whereas India inherited the...

An attempt has been made in this study to estimate the sources of economic growth of Indian economy during the period 1960-61 to 1993-94. The study presents the estimates of the contribution made by various factors such as labour input, land input, capital input and total factor productivity to...

Allocation of indirect costs among products sometimes yields a paradoxical result that unit cost for each product may increase under one method of allocation and may decrease for each product under another method. The Stalcup Paper Company case illustrate such behaviour of costs at the same,...

While describing how a favourable corporate image shared by different types of public like investors, merchants, dealers, administrators, political leaders, customers, business associates and company executives can provide invaluable services to a company, the paper presents a possible set of...