The objective of this paper was to examine the causal relationship between national income and public expenditures in Nigeria in the shortand long-run. The paper adopted the cointegration procedure to investigate the causal relationship between public expenditure and national income (per capita...

Transferring to grassroots organisations, the responsibility of running the participatory process within their communities is a key requisite for ensuring the sustainability of any participatory and integrated watershed management process. However, successfully transforming this responsibility...

This paper broadly examines the process of municipal waste management in our cities, focusing on the situation in Karnataka. The paper is reflective in nature, drawing on a case study of solid waste management process in Bangalore. It highlights the characteristic of municipal waste generated,...

This paper delineates a set of non-monetary indicators for identification of rural poor households through the scientific method ‘Discriminant Analysis’. An analysis of the NSS household data brings out a different set of indicators with varying degrees of discriminating power for the...

In this paper, the contribution of community banks (CBs) to the supply of credit in the rural areas of Nigeria has been investigated by using appropriate model and estimation technique. The results reveal that the contribution of CBs is not significant as compared with other major suppliers of...

The higher transaction costs in the bi-modal agrarian structure tend to reduce efficiency due to the moral hazards of labour and high cost of supervision. The findings indicate that in the states where the land reforms reported amazing achievements, the development indicators also reciprocated...

his review paper attempts to bring together various issues in the light of recent developments in the irrigation sector management in India. The paper emphasises the need for an integrated approach for water management and governance. Different governance structures are in operation depending on...

Cost leadership, product differentiation, or delivery time is traditionally chosen as a competitive strategy (Dess and Davis 1984; Miller 1988; Chen 2002b; Porter 1980, 1991; Porter and van der Linde 1995). Today, the integration of environmental problems with trading has worked as a driving force to formulate...

Notwithstanding the Constitutional guarantees and developmental interventions, the goal of bringing the Scheduled Castes (SCs) into the mainstream has proved to be a distant dream. It is turning out to be a daunting challenge especially in the light of ongoing economic changes, as the public...