This paper is for presention to GO-ESCAP Round Table on “Adaptation of Administration to India’s Rural Development” scheduled for 16-18 August 1978 at Delhi. The paper points out that there are inherent contradictions between the role and function of district administration and the...

Modigliani and Miller demonstrated the impact of corporate taxes on valuation. Miller, Jaffe and Modigliani among others further studied the impact of personal taxes on valuation. Amoako-Adu attempted to analyse the impact of dividend taxes on valuation. Hochman and Palmon studied the impact of...

In this paper we consider binary relations which are reflexive and complete. Such binary relations are referred to in the literature as abstract games. Given an abstract game a (game)solution is a function which associates to each subset a non-empty collection of points of the subset. In this...

Small producers face a variety of challenges - some related to markets and others related to capabilities. Inability to develop technological capabilities has often restricted small firms from growing large. In this paper, we present learning from three global networks , i.e., TAMA in Japan,...

The study of indigenous ecological knowledge has become an important building block of any participatory approach to natural resources management. It is not the outsiders alone who benefit from the study of indigenous ecological knowledge but even the communities themselves may benefit a great...

FDI has considered a major catalyst in promoting sustainable development in developing countries. FDI has the potential to generate employment, raise productivity, transfer skills and technology, increased income, enhance exports and contribute to the long-term economic development of the...

In this paper we propose restricted expansion independence as a criterion which may be satisfied by desirable choice functions and axiomatically characterize the proportional solution by using this criterion. We also show that the proportional solution satisfies an improvement sensitivity...

The National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) was established on 12th July 1982 by an Act of Parliament and it has been given the mandate to provide “credit for the promotion of agriculture, small scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural...

In this paper e study some issues in positive second-best theory, specifically the theory of optimal pricing of private goods produced by public firms; that is, firms whose objective departs from profit maximization. The approach in this paper differs from earlier analysis of the so-called...

This paper demonstrates that institutional finance must play a multi-functional role to fulfil its three-fold objectives of promoting (a) growth, (b) better equity, and (c) its own viability/profitability for agricultural and rural sector. It is further argued that sound and relevant...