Credit is a ‘pure service’ transaction between two points of time rather than a spot market transaction in ‘pure goods’. Because of the time gap involved between sanction and realization of credit, the players in the market confront several kinds of risks, many of which are not...

Of all the natural resources endowed upon mankind, soil cover on the mother earth has been one of the most important basic resources which plays a strategic role in determining the living standards of human beings. Given the multitude of possible uses of land and the fact that often there are...

By defining sustainable resource use as one with long-term economic viability besides having both ecological and social compatibility, this paper applies the property rights framework and the economics of fist production to bring out a comparative perspective on ownership and use pattern of the...

India enjoy a vast and versatile resource base in respect of her fisheries. However, the country presently has reached a crossroad so far as sustainable tapping of this resource base is concerned. By defining sustainability not merely as economic viability but also in terms of ecological and...