Companies in India have responded to the challenges of globalization in various ways. One of the strategies to survive in the market was to reduce the cost by reduction in the number of employees with the help of Voluntary Retirement Schemes (VRS). This paper examines different types of VRS...

This paper reviews major innovations in primary education in India. The innovations are organized from most simple to the most complex. At the end, the authors have attempted to summarize lesson from the experiences of various innovative projects.

Governments in many developing countries acknowledge they are facing difficulties in their attempt to meet the basic health needs of their populations. They rely on contracting out to private (for-profit and not-for-profit) organizations as a strategy to meet the needs of underserved...

In view of the national goal to reach a net reproduction rate of 1 by year 2000, there is a growing debate in India about the type of incentives and disincentives for promoting the practice of Family Planning. This paper reviews past experience with respect to incentives-disincentives in the...

This paper examines the potential motives and effects of corporate takeovers that occurred in Malaysia for period 1980-1993. Mueller’s (1980) methodology which has been adopted in Australia, U.S, U.K, and five European countries are employed in order to provide evidence on Malaysian takeovers...

This paper attempts to estimate the working capital required for the procurement and distribution of foodgrains. To arrive at the financial requirements for foodgrains distribution, estimates of the marketed surplus are needed. Instead of assuming a certain percentage of the total foodgrains...

Budgetary subsidies in the health sector in Gujarat are estimated by following the methodology of the White Paper on Subsidies in India (1997). It includes both the explicit and implicit subsidies for the merit and non-merit sub-sectors in the state. These subsidies are estimated for the recent...

This paper explores the role played by academic institutions in Bangalore and Pune cities of India. It shows that there exists a large variety of linkages between industry and academia in the two Indian cities; a hierarchy of institutions satisfies a hierarchy of local demands ranging from...

The study, conducted in an Indian organization, aims to examine differences, if any, across genders in the use of face threatening acts (FTAs) while reporting incidents of upward influence (UI). The nature of incidents reported for use of UI entails the possible use of FTAs, that is, challenging...

The objective of the study was to help children conceptualise and develop an on-line magazine and observe changes in their skills and confidence as communicators due to their experience of developing this online magazine. A single group Post-test Post-test design was used for this study. A...