The continuum model of dimerized polyacetylene (CH)x is reduced to the Zakharov-Shabat (ZS) spectral problem and their correspondence is analysed. This helps to find through the inverse scattering technique the topological as well as the nontopological general soliton and polaron solutions to...

Generation of social capital among the poor village women through micro-finance participation emerges an important aspect of rural development programme. This paper presents a method of calculating Social Capital Index and on the basis of two periods longitudinal primary data establishes the...

The government of India had initiated bank payments of wages under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGP). This initiative is undoubtedly a big financial inclusion drive particularly among the rural poor of India. This paper has tried to evaluate this financial...

This paper attempts to assess whether participation in a microfinance program helps households generate personal savings, as distinct from savings through compulsory contributions to the program. We consider a microfinance program initiated by the Government of India (the SGSY scheme),which is...

The paper explores the impact of a government sponsored microcredit program in India on women's decision-making agency across different socio-religious communities. The paper shows that women's participation in the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojona (SGSY) has resulted in varied patterns of...

In this paper the relationship is assessed between participation in microfinance program under SGSY scheme through forming Self-Help Group and getting employment through Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (MGNREGP). Using Tobit Model with endogenous covariate method it is...

In this paper, micro-finance programme through joint liability credit contract is explained with the help of two-stage game when the programme is operated by a non-motivated NGO with the help of commercial bank and government. We find that even in the presence of public-private cooperation and...

Wage and employment differences between male and female agricultural labourers in the under developed countries including India is not new. With the help of a simple theoretical model it is here proved that public policy like implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)...

Research on organization design, its transformation, change management, organizational restructuring for the last two decades makes it a challenging and complex research area. The central problem is to design organizations for superior performance on the basis of mechanisms such as uncertainty,...

In this paper, microfinance program through joint liability credit contract is explained with the help of a two-stage game when the program is operated by a non-motivated NGO with the help of a commercial bank and government. It is observed that even in the presence of public-private cooperation...