This paper discusses the impact of rising crude oil prices on the Indian agricultural sector in general and on the food grain sub-sector in particular, using a mix equation econometric model.

The paper addresses the question of government expenditure allocation among sectors by extending the model developed by Archana Dholakia (1993) and illustrates its application by using the data on major Indian states from 1971 to 1991. It is argued that on margin, the changes in the expenditure...

Although there have been numerous studies of the impact of teacher expectation on student performance, the manner in which expectations are formed has remained unexplored. The present research tested the hypothesis that teachers develop expectation of student performance by averaging information...

Learned Helplessness is a cognitive state of being which believes that whatever it does is not going to alter the outcome of an event. In the other words, it comes to believe in response-outcome-non-contingency. Role efficacy can be seen as the psychological factor underlying role effectiveness,...

An analysis of the Annual Reports of the Top 150 Companies, as rated by Economic Times, 1975, was done to identify those companies having personnel departments. Further analysis was done on the basis of the industry and sector (public/private) classification. The remuneration of the personnel...

The Economic reform process initiated by the Government of India since July 1991 envisaged a major shift from an over regulated and protected regime to a deregulated and market oriented system. The period since 1991 has seen some important changes in the approach to and the content of India’s...

The unintended consequences of industrialisation in the form of social problems are a matter of growing concern. An even more challenging task is to industrialise the pre-industrial societies without creating similar problems. The authors contend that this requires a viewpoint which integrates...

Most dynamic models involve expectation of one or more variables. Existence of several expectation hypotheses, none of them being preeminent for all situations, makes it difficult to choose an expectation process while building models. In this context it would be helpful if empirical validity of...

Water scarcity is a characteristic of north-western states of India, such as Gujarat. Over time, the continuous increase of the population as well as the financial, administrative and technical deficiencies of the new supply system have lead to the deterioration of the water service in the city....

conserving the nature which surrounds us requires dealing with out perception of natureiii. Often we do not realize that the attribution of human feelings in our discourse with non-human sentient beings mimics rules of out own social order. Animals and plants, then, are supposed to operate by...