Over the past few decades, while trade has contributed significantly to economic growth in various economies including India, openness has also exposed them to vagaries of external shocks. While recent global financial crisis (GFC) essentially originated in advanced economies, it got transmitted...

In the last few years India has become one of the leading offshore outsourcing (OO) centers in the area of ITES. This paper deals with the main problem of data protection in offshore outsourcing centers with special emphasis on the steps by the government of India to enable India’s great business.

To find out whether our government is spending an astronomical amount of taxpayer’s money publicising itself rather than disseminating information, facts and figures were assimilated. By tracking five leading national dailies for government advertisements, over the month of June 2003.,...

To evaluate the economic importance of distribution uncertainty in a manufacturing company, the extent of changes in ex-ante optimal asset allocations of investors, who factor in distribution uncertainty into their portfolio model, is examined. The theory of uncertainty is a sub-division of...

Image forgery detection is an approach for detection and localization of forged component from a manipulated image. To find manipulation or tampering in the original image, an adequate number of features are required to classify the given image is either a forged or non-forged. To achieve this...

In the traditional portfolio theory, we select optimum portfolios by using the first two moments of return distributions, i.e., mean and variance. Traditional portfolio theory assumes that the investors try to maximize the expected return and minimize the variance in portfolio returns. When the...