Textiles is the oldest industry in the country and employs directly and indirectly a large number of people, is linked to a major agricultural crop, earns nearly 25% of export earning and caters to one of the basic needs of the population. The human cost of sickness in this industry therefore is...

In order that fiscal policy can be of help in dealing with the problem of poverty, it must be such that (a) it induces higher levels of growth, (b) it creates conditions such that the poor are able to significantly contribute to growth, and (c) it ensures that growth equitably reaches the poor....

The paper deals with the procedures and practice of identifying operational research projects (ORPs) sponsored by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), and the ORP areas. It is based on case studies of three ORPs implemented in 1974 in different States of the Indian Union by the...

In this paper we axiomatically characterize the family of lexicographic utilitarian collective utility functions. As a by-product we obtain the utilitarian collective utility function by imposing a shift anonymity condition. Finally we axiomatically characterize the family of rank k-dictator...

It has been argued that respondents behaviour in research settings is not only determined by research manipulation but a variety of uncontrolled human factors/ Literature that suggests the existence of such factors is reviewed. In addition, the reasons of why this happens the way it does and...

The paper examines the unsettled issues on the demand for money function with a particular reference to India. It uses the annual time series data for the period 1954-55 through 1982-83. A special feature of the study is that it generates a uniform series on the narrow money concept (M1) for the...

Conceptual framework is provided for some of the well known ideas relevant to the use of random numbers for sampling. Results on the efficient choice of d (the number of digits in the column of random numbers) are envisaged to be of use to the practitioner in designing a simulation exercise. The...

This Paper reviews the historical background of public policy towards monopolies and restrictive trade practices, the development leading to enactment of MRTP Act in India and the impact which this Act has had on the concentration of economic power and restrictive trade practices. All the orders...

We present a simulation based decision support system to decide the inventory ordering policy in the context of a single commodity, multi pack, and finite horizon situation. The multiple objectives include (a) Minimizing the end of the season inventory, (b) Maximizing the operating profit, (c)...