This paper aims to identify principal problem areas for research on Productivity in Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs). A brief review of the existing research in the field is provided, along with a critical appraisal. Stemming from this, areas for further investigation are identified.

The cities in India are rapidly growing and the manifestation of urban crisis in a variety of areas viz., environment, food, energy etc. can be directly traced to the unbridled growth of cities. Urban landuse patters are changing dramatically due to the pressure of population and the role of...

In problems of fair division of a given bundle of resources, amongst a finite number of agents, individual rationality from equal division plays a significant role. In a society, where all resources are socially owned, one cannot argue in terms of equal ownership of the social endowment. One...

On the eve of the present government’s anniversary of assuring office, pessimism towards stabilisation and reforms were well entrenched in the media. With the help of hindsight one may opine that it was the loss of political grip and later certain irregularities in the money market which...

The paper provides a brief account of the scope and developments in macro economic theory and policy. In particular, it highlights the significant determinants of economic well-being and of the effectiveness of economic policies. Factors responsible for the limitations of macro policies have...

Telecom sector in India has been growing very fast and changing very rapidly in service delivery mechanisms used, target segments addressed, technogical platforms for service delivery etc. Globally also the growth scenario is very positive. This means that this sector offers employment...

The paper examines critically the implications of the sectoral targets of income and employment growth coupled with the investment allocations as envisaged in India’s Eighth Five Year Plan. The implications are worked out on the labor income per unit of investment, required economic rate of...

In this paper, we present a two-stage heuristic which identifies the most economical way to connect the nodes of a date communication network. We formulate this network design problem as a star-star concentrator location problem. To solve this problem, a Lagrangin relaxation procedure is...

The paper seeks to distinguish between occupational wage structure and skill-based wage differentials. It is hypothesized that the wage widening factors are responsible for increasing skill differentials but they have also led for a narrowing of occupational wage structure. To substantiate the...

An attempt is made in this paper to forecast investment in the private corporate sector for the year 1974 by using the data available with the three leading term lending institutions. The data cost relevant in this context are the time phasing of capital expenditures on projects sanctioned by...