The radical changes in 'business processes' as well as 'corporate strategies' have mandated the acknowledgement of the immense role of intangibles to corporate bottom lines. Besides, there has been an exponential growth in the spectrum of tradeable financial products. As a consequence, the need...

The present paper addresses the issues namely (i) the present food supply and the trend for future, (ii) shift in food consumption pattern over years and (iii) food demand projection for the next three decades in the context of food security. The analysis reveals that increase in cereal...

Rural India has a vast potential of biogas generation and application. During the past two decades, biogas has been promoted mostly as a cooking fuel in the rural areas. According to the prevailing practices in these areas, fuel for cooking is not being purchased but collected by the users from...

Discounted cash flows (DCF) have been a traditional method in business valuation. This method is most useful in judging the risk and uncertainty of a project. Since few years, companies like Infosys have used this approach to value their brands and represent the same in their balance sheet. The...

Water scarcity is a characteristic of north-western states of India, such as Gujarat. Over time, the continuous increase of the population as well as the financial, administrative and technical deficiencies of the new supply system have lead to the deterioration of the water service in the city....

This article deals with the deeply controversial side of cultural tourism in mapping the position of the sex industry. In doing so, it places sex tourism in two epistemic contexts: one context expands the notion of cultural policies, the other notes the implicit and explicit origins and effects...

The farmers of Punjab, have, through various means, expressed the view that prices received by them are not remunerative and that their income from agriculture has been declining. Since the issue is of considerable significance in the wider setting of economic growth and structural change, this...

Book Review of Singh, Gurudev and Vinod Ahuja, Land Resource Managemant, CMA Monograph 157, Oxford and IBH publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 1992, pp. x+81, Rs. 135