Production of coal from opencast and underground mines involves different mix of technological, capital, labour, energy and material input configurations. Planning and designing of coal mine operations depend partly on these input characteristics and partly on scale factors which are based on...

This paper analyses the problem of the urban poor in India from a primarily macro-economic perspective, tracing the origins of their economic status to their low share in the factor earnings generated in individual industries. A macro-economic model then simulates the implications for them of a...