Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in the recent … comes from irrigated agriculture, in which groundwater plays a major role. Since the development of groundwater irrigation …

shaping the growth, efficiency and stability of agriculture. The domains are: Natural resources covering land, water, climate …This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The … prospects for agriculture are seen to depend in the final analysis not so much on nature or factors beyond control as on …

An Act to regulate public procurement with the objective of maximising economy and efficiency, promoting competition …

achieving risk-return efficiency. We first estimate the expected returns, risks, and financial distress risk proxy (the inverse … z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …

. Problems of resource use efficiency, role of markets, inter-linkages between markets and the emergence of institutions have all …