The government has begun preparing the people for the second phase of reforms by frequently pointing out that the next phase of reforms would be harsher but enrich their lives later. The tougher decisions about liberalisation in the field of labour law, agricultural reform and privatisation are...

This study is part of an on-going work on assessing the information content of the term structure in India for future inflation, future short rates and real interest rates. In this part, first the Indian term structure is modeled using three alternative specifications and changes in slope of the...

Organizations have responded in many ways to deal with the horizontal integration of their different segments. A variety of lateral linkage mechanisms like coordinators, teams, committees and matrix structures has been used. The paper presents the report of devising two such linkages in a...

The paper examines the rural land and labour markets in the context of economic liberalization in India. Land and labour are the two fundamental resources available to the rural people for income generation. The access to land and to employment for labour become basic determinants of well-being...

This working paper discusses the dependence of Indian agriculture on uncertain rains. In addition the farmers experience other production risks as well as marketing risks related to different crop enterprises and for different agro-climatic regions and areas. It then argues on the need for crop...

Information on brand-variety performance is critical for small farmers in India since every year they need to make crucial decisions on which brand-variety seeds to plant. The livelihoods from their small farms and returns on all the inputs used depend critically on this decision. Yet no...

One of the Govt. programme to tackle energy problem in rural areas, particularly for the poorer sections is the establishment of Community Biogas Plant. The present case study deals with techno-economic and managerial problems in implementing the community Biogas plants in rural areas. It brings...

The working paper on ‘Manufacturing Resources Planning’ or in short MRP-II present a study of one of the most significant software developments to have taken place in the field of Manufacturing Management in recent years. MRP-II can be regarded as a successor to an earlier development called...