The Indian economy looked to be relatively insulated from the global financial crisis that started in August 2007 when the sub-prime mortgage crisis first surfaced in the United States (US). In fact, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was raising interest rates until August 2008 with the explicit...

Agricultural growth is a crucial element in resolving food price crises, enhancing food security, and accelerating pro-poor growth. After decades of policy neglect and underinvestment in public goods such as agricultural science, rural infrastructure, and information and monitoring, high food...

Man and woman both are equal and play a paramount role in the creation and development of their families in a particular and the society in general. Indeed, the struggle for equality has been one of the major concerns of the women's movement all over the world. The difference in sex and physical...

Service sector also recognized as tertiary or residual sector is indispensable for economic development in any economy including India. It has developed as the main and fastest-growing sector in the global economy in the last three decades. The present study makes an analysis of service sector...

A sound and effective banking system is the backbone of an economy. ICICI Bank is India's second-largest bank with total assets of ` 4,062.34 billion (US$ 91 billion) at March 31, 2011 and profit after tax ` 51.51 billion (US$ 1,155 million) for the year ended March 31, 2011. The Bank has a...

This paper presents the socio-economic status and customer's satisfaction towards LPG in house hold in Thoothukudi city of Tamilnadu.The objectives of the present study are:1. To study the socio-economic structure of LPG consumers in Thoothukudi city.2. To identify customer's satisfaction...

Elderly people are suffering from various physical, mental, social and economic problems. Hence the study was conducted to assess the health morbidity among the rural elderly persons in Tuticorin town. The present study is based on both primary and secondary data. 300 elderly persons aged 60...

The impact of climate change has been considerably enough to threaten human health both directly and indirectly through increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, water and food supply impacts, extreme weather events like floods, droughts, earthquakes, etc., susceptible shelter and population...

The economic empowerment of women is a vital element of strong economic growth in any country. Entrepreneurship happens to be one of the best ways towards self-sufficiency and poverty alleviation for women in a country where employment is not guaranteed. Involvement of women in entrepreneurial...

The food insecurity is a gigantic problem in front of the world population. In spite of the reaching horizon of economic development, people are struggling for the survival of their daily life as at least 25,000 die people every day due lack of proper diets. Nearly 852 million people in the...