Purpose The study tests risk-taking and risk-aversion capabilities while distinguishing between business group firms and stand-alone firms and considering oil price volatility. Second, this attempt to study the linkage between risk-taking during market down movements and when the firms have...

Non-inclusive growth, faulty implementation and limited reach of various welfare schemes, lack of proper monitoring system at ground level, absence of functioning social infrastructure, low penetration of institutionalized credit, peculiarities of rural set-up are the reasons for less than...

The purpose of this study is to test whether the Indian pharmaceutical companies support efficient market hypotheses (EMH) and examine the efficiency of the Indian stock market in three forms, i.e., the weak, the semi-strong, and the strong form of market efficiency. For testing the weak form of...

This study examines the changing employment and livelihood patterns of rural labour households in tribal villages of eastern India. The study is based on the high frequency panel data collected under the ICAR-ICRISAT project on Village Dynamics Studies in eastern India from 2010 to 2014. The...

Long queues in front of every cold store in the potato belt of Agra (India) has intrigued many observers — a scenario that builds up every year at the peak of harvesting season which turns into a situation of never-ending queues in the year of bumper crop. The paper tries to find the reasons...

The study was undertaken to analyse the extent, diversity, inequality and determinants of income of rural households in Jharkhand-one of the most poverty stricken state of India. The study is based on the high frequency primary data collected from 160 rural households by resident investigators...

A village level in-depth study was undertaken to measure the income dynamics, inequality, determinants, and policy implications for sustainable livelihoods of tribal households in Jharkhand. Data were solicited from 160 households during 2011-12. Study shows vast gap in annual income of tribal...

The application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in agriculture is increasingly important. E-Agriculture is an emerging field focusing on the enhancement of agricultural and rural development through improved information and communication processes. More specifically,...