Technical efficiency of coffee and inter crops is measured through the estimation of a stochastic frontier production function using the data for the year 2003-04. Variation in technical efficiency index across production units is explained through a number of managerial and estate...

This paper examines the economic theory behind State’s intervention in the provision and financing of health care. The paper is a meta-analysis and a) reviews critically the approach to health policy by various countries and examines the link between public health spending and the allocation...

Development theories recognise that employment is central to the alleviation of poverty and the enhancement of well-being. This means that at the practical level, it is understood that labour-intensive growth and greater labour-force participation by women are necessary elements for poverty...

Manufacturing has been seen as a means of economic development in the country since independence. Moving people out of agriculture for better wages meant the need to develop a diversified and growing industrial sector. The economic reforms launched in the early 1990s were rooted in the need for...

This paper focuses upon the nature and function of ritual in neighbourhood temples in Bangalore city in South India. The paper examines how modified rituals are created by entrepreneur priests as ‘strategies of engagement’ ostensibly to make Hinduism more accessible to an emergent class of...

In this paper, a classical K-L production function augmented with human capital and technological progress to estimate the effect of income inequality on economic growth in Taiwan has been employed. The generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) and/ or ARCH models have...

Poverty and adult illiteracy are cited frequently as causal factors behind child labour and schooling deprivation. However, the impact of parental literacy has been found to be more consistent than that of poverty. Still, poverty encourages child labour and discourages school participation of...