India is a haven to 22% of the world’s poor. Such a high incidence of poverty is a matter of apprehension, in view of the fact that poverty eradication has been one of the major objectives of the development process. Really, poverty is a global dialog. Poverty eradication is considered...

Mango an important fruit crop in India, which accounts for about 45% of the world production, but fresh mango exports constitute only 8% of world output. The mango pulp exports and other mango processed product exports, are rising, in recent years. The paper identifies that India is having...

India is the world’s leading commercial producer of tea. It is popular not only as a stimulating health drink, but also as a foreign exchange earner for India. The product variations of tea consist of green tea, packet tea, tea bags or cans, instant tea and flavored tea in India. Though both...

This paper examines the empirical validity of law of diminishing returns to capital across 127 Indian industries (factory sector) for the year 1999-2000 by fitting a quadratic production function. The empirical evidence on the basis of sign, size and statistical significance of the regression...

Mauritian financial system has been through a long phase of financial reforms since the mid-1980s with interest rate liberalization as a major objective. The financial market, like the goods market can achieve equilibrium where demand for funds equals the supply of funds. There is evidence of...

Entrepreneurship and economic development are intimately related. Schumpeter opines that entrepreneurial process is a major factor in economic development and the entrepreneur is the key to economic growth. Whatever be the form of economic and political set-up of the country, entrepreneurship is...

The literature focusing on the geography of entrepreneurship has developed something of a schizophrenic approach. On the one hand is a series of studies, which have tried to identify characteristics specific to particular regions that account for inter-spatial variations in entrepreneurship. On...

This paper describes the methodological usefulness of the concept of the theory of the firm in managerial economics. The first part of the paper summarizes the different approaches to understanding the theory of the firm. The evolution of the concept, the different scholars associated with it,...

ater as a resource is scarce and finite. The uneven supply of this scarce resource in India is causing much concern. There is an increasing gap between the demand and supply of this vital resource. There are significant differences in the economic parameters of its use in industry and agriculture.

This article goes into some contemporary issues in the literature on business culture which has relevance to the Indian economic scenario. The first part sums up the theoretical and technical concepts with which the study of business culture relates in recent literature. It explains how this...