This document contains the proceedings of the international conference called Agro-Food and Rural Economy Competitiveness in Terms of Global Crisis, held in Bucharest, Romania, on 23-24th September, 2011 with a international participation and it was published as a special issue of the journal...

As demonetization in India brought a sudden stir in the country, a need for online banking and mobile banking has risen drastically. This need directed the Indians to start looking towards digital money. The Government of India introduced the BHIM app, a mobile banking app which allows users to...

The central idea of this paper is to explore link between socio-economic positions of women working in unorganized sector with special reference to beedi rolling. In India Beedi making is an age old industry and one of the largest job providers for women in the unorganized sector. Women are...

The present paper deals with the public and private sector partnership in infrastructure in India. The Indian infrastructure sector is one of the largest sectors. This paper has been divided into eight major segments namely introduction, meaning of public private partnership, infrastructure...

The SFCs are playing a key role in the development of small and medium enterprises in the respective states in tandem with the national priorities. During the last decade SFCs assistance to business enterprises has undergone a considerable acceleration. The present paper is based on the analysis...

The present paper is an attempt to find out the relationship between company characteristics and dividend policy in Indian corporate sector. For this purpose a sample of 374 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange for the period from 1992-2007 has been analyzed and found that lagged tax...

Today women are in the process of enriching themselves through Self-Help Group. Tuticorin District having 19 town panchayats formed 1230 SHGs, and their achievement is 259%. The overall objective of the present study is to analysis the economic empowerment of women though SHGs in five coastal...

The balancing between ‘Men' and ‘Women' is sine qua non for sustainability of human race. The present world scenario is tilted in favour of men endangering sustainability of human race. The angle of this tilt might vary from one society to another but majorly it is unbalanced. This hinders...

Both India and China are large economies. Their domestic markets provide vast scope for diversified industrialization and trade. Both economies are classified by international agencies as emerging markets with potential for rapid economic growth. China's entry into the WTO was an important event...