Innovation Systems constitute an analysis framework, which helps in comprehending the socioeconomic structure of a territory. In this context, the present research intends to contribute a methodology and a set of indicators which help to increase the knowledge about interactions, and their...

By applying the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, this paper attempts to investigate the efficiency of Malaysian Non-bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) during the period of 2000-04. The results suggest that the merchant banks have exhibited mean overall efficiency of 78.1%,...

In this article, the authors consider mixed oligopoly markets for differentiated goods, where private and public firms compete either in price or quantity. This is a study of the welfare effect of privatization— interpreted as partial strategic delegation of the public firm to a private...

VAT basically means the tax likely to be levied on the value added by an organization, at each stage of its rendering services or producing goods. It is a simple transparent tax collected on sale, transfer of goods or services; and has the unflinching capacity to augment the economic development...

Every economy of the world intends to provide gainful and high quality employment opportunities to its population. Employment, in fact, is very crucial for the reduction of poverty. Increase in national income can only be obtained when the volume of employment and its average productivity...

This paper analyzes the extent to which the presence of multinational firms helps in technological capability building in Indian manufacturing industries, by comparing the technological performance of around 1800 domestic and foreign-owned firms in various industry groups after the...

The enterprise of running private schools has, of late, assumed the nature of an industry in India. Ever-increasing population, a race for providing education to one’s children, degenerating quality of education in government-run schools, unlimited supply of educated youths ready to work at...

Unmanaged urban solid waste poses a threat to public health and the quality of life for urban people, especially for the socially and economically weaker sections of society. In this paper, the problem of solid waste and environmental policies related to waste management in India have been...

The paper analyzes the dynamics of inter-industrial linkages for the economy of Uttar Pradesh within the Input-Output framework. It applies the Graph-theoretic approach for the categorization of industrial sectors and sectoral groupings, i.e., cluster analysis. This approach helps in classifying...

Learning leads subjects to significantly improve the performance at the evolution of the game. This is related to the effect usually named as ‘learning by doing’. Taking the proposition of Camerer and Weber as to how the efficiency of a firm’s merger is influenced by organizational...