Inflation is one of the periodic happenings, which very rarely captured the minds of the people and the media in the past. Fortunately, today, inflation has become the pivotal element of economic, political and social discussions in and around the globe. Inflation is gaining tremendous public...

India has been experiencing a very rapid demographic transition in the recent times. This process is likely to gain further momentum in the coming years. The impact of demographic transition on various socioeconomic and cultural variables has been extensively debated by the researchers. However,...

Customers are becoming increasingly demanding in terms of responsiveness, level of service, quality of products and cost. Firms can attain these goals simultaneously, only if they invest in new technologies. A new technology that has received considerable attention from academics and...

This paper examines the relative performance of 38 Indian apparel firms for the year 2007 using multiple input-output evaluation method. The study is based on the cross-sectional as well as panel data collected from the CMIE PROWESS database. A nonparametric method, known as Data Envelopment...

The present paper tries to identify the socio-political and economic characteristics of borrowers of different types of loans and loan sizes, on the basis of a primary household survey on around 300 households carried out in two villages in the district of North 24-Parganas in West Bengal,...

The aim of this paper is to establish relationship between industrial integration and social development in developing countries by investigating how education is related to labor market outcomes in the manufacturing sector for those countries which have liberalized. The results reveal that...

Ship-breaking activities hold potential as they create economic opportunities for thousands of laborers and contribute to the economic growth of regions in need of private sector investment. Practically, 100% of the ship is recycled. In this perspective, ship breaking can be claimed to be a...

This paper examines whether foreign bank entry affects the operations of public sector banks in India for the period 1996-2007. It studies how net interest margin, non-interest income, profitability, overhead expenses and non-performing loans of public sector banks are affected due to the...

This study is intended to assess the introduction of increased capitalization requirements in Ukrainian insurance firms. To do so, the paper employs up-to-date frontier efficiency analysis. The analysis suggests that an increase in size occurs not only because of the regulator’s requirements,...

Growth and productivity can be termed as two prominent factors that serve as the basis for the competitiveness and survival of an industry. The present study is an endeavor to investigate the growth pattern and productivity trends of small-scale electrical machinery and parts industry in Punjab....