State Financial Corporations (SFCs) provide finance to industries. They were established with the purpose of promoting the growth of small, medium and large-scale industries in the country in order to augment the growth of industries and make the nation self-sufficient. They play a major role in...

Although teaching and research are considered as the two major tasks of any university, they are difficult to measure. To measure the relative efficiency of a set of Decision-Making Units (DMUs) that utilize the same inputs to produce the same outputs, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been...

The Indian savings experience has been marked by varied oscillations since the inception of planning in India. In the period following the independence, India has witnessed a rising trend in the gross domestic saving rate, accompanied by many fluctuations over time though. Also, there have been...

This paper dwells upon the problem of investments in the franchising system seen from a ‘pure technical’ point of view and it tries to identify new ways to apply some methods and techniques used in adopting optimum solutions in businesses. It resorts to two distinct methods—the Electre...

The paper analyzes the formally approved, notified, and approved in-principle Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in India in a number of ways for the period 2006 to mid-June 2009. It outlines the differences in approaches of Export Processing Zones (EPZs)/Export-Oriented Units (EOUs) and SEZs, and...

The present paper intends to study the changing structure and performance of the Indian registered manufacturing sector from 1980-81 to 2003-04 at two-digit level of industrial classification. To analyze the structure and performance, trend growth rates and structural ratios have been...

Capital is the life blood of any production and distribution activity, and it plays an important role among the factors of production. The need of capital arises not only at the beginning of the venture, but also throughout the life span of the venture. However, capital, especially when in short...

This paper presents the findings from a study of the structural relationship between household income and consumption expenditure in the township of Kohima. It is based on the primary data collected from 209 households inhabiting 19 wards of the township. The paper investigates into the...

The development cooperation policies of multilateral organizations and the European Union (EU) emphasize essentially the role of social entrepreneurship or Non-Governmental Development Organizations (NGDOs) to achieve sustainable, equitable and participatory human and social developments in the...

Over the years, while being confronted with increasing demand for more and better health care, the Nigerian government began to implement reform measures so as to complement spending as well as cope with the ever-increasing requirement for health spending. But, whether or not these increased...