The study attempts to investigate the factors responsible for the inter-state variations in women’s labour force participation in India by using the NSSO 61st round (2004-05) data. Two separate regression models for rural and urban women between women’s labor force participation as dependent...

Study attempts to measure the efficiency level and its determinants of a sample of microfinance institutions operating in India by applying stochastic frontier approach for unbalanced panel of 40 microfinance institutions for the 2005-08. It has been found that mean efficiency level of...

To supplement the findings of the Sachar committee report current study explores the changing dynamics of trend and composition of employment of Muslims in India during last two decades. Analysis of employment trends shows that there is a decline in labour force participation of Muslims during...

Study attempts to measure the efficiency level and its determinants of a sample of microfinance institutions operating in India by applying stochastic frontier approach for unbalanced panel of 40 microfinance institutions for the 2005-08. It has been found that mean efficiency level of...

The present study examines the Overall Technical Efficiency (OTE), Pure Technical Efficiency (PTE) and Scale Efficiency (SE) of six sample companies – Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), Oil and Natural Gas...

The study tries to test the convergence hypothesis in agricultural output by using district level output data over the period 1971 to 2010. Both exploratory (growth analysis with the help of summary statistics and mapping) and confirmatory approaches have been adopted (formal tests: sigma and...