India has a long history of economic linkages with the EU member states. In recent period, the volumes of Indo-EU trade both in case of merchandise products and services have considerably increased and a number of investment collaboration opportunities are emerging. Since 2007 the two sides are...

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) has emerged as a role model for the developing countries at large by building a sustainable dialogue on major policy issues. The ongoing stalemate at the Doha Round of Discussions under WTO is creating a major hurdle for the developing...

Classification techniques have been widely applied in the field of medical databases and have gained a lot of success. At present various classification algorithms are available in the literature and the problem of choosing the best method for a particular data set is faced by many researchers....

In 1991 as par the recommendations of the IMF, India followed a structural adjustment programme. The new economic philosophy shifted towards export-oriented growth model, where augmenting competition in the domestic market through reforms in licensing provisions and adoption of better...

The increased trade in agricultural value added products has internationalized production and marketing systems. As such, a variety of forms of value chain relationships have emerged (outgrower schemes, contract farming, marketing contracts etc.) that have replaced the arms length market...

Social Networking has become a new buzzword in day to day life of youngsters and gained immense popularity during the past few years. Many network sites such as Facebook and MySpace are claiming to have millions of members and the membership is increasing day by day. The paper aims to understand...

One of the emerging areas on which researchers are trying to build some theoretical framework relates to realization of IT value in public sector in general and in the field of E-government in particular. As to what factors can generally be associated with success of E-government is not an easy...

E-Governance in its present form and coverage has seen several levels of evolution both in concepts as well as applications. Notwithstanding a serious impetus provided by advent of internet, E-Governance has its origin to a systematic thinking on developing certain performance yardsticks for the...

In this paper an attempt has been made to develop a system dynamics model that account for flow of containers, their dwell times, type of equipments and constraints that determine the container yard capacity. The structure of the system is captured with the delays in capacity building and...

As trade quotas have been eliminated under GATT and tariffs have been rationalized under WTO; the focal point of disputes and negotiations in international trade has shifted to non-tariff barriers (NTBs), particularly Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) standards. However, in the absence of any...