Most estimates of Indian manufacturing productivity find a slowdown in the 1990s. This has puzzled analysts, given that 1990s reforms were deeper and wider than the 1980s reforms that raised the growth rate of the Indian economy by 2 per cent points. This paper tests the hypothesis of the J...

We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to understand how output rose sharply in response to competitive pressures. Output increases came predominantly from reductions in production delays of various kinds. We model...

"An enterprise owned and controlled by a women having a minimum financial interest of 51 percent of the capital and giving at least 51 percent of the employment generated in the enterprise to women."Women are regarded as better half of the society. In traditional Indian societies, they were...

The Fractal Market Hypothesis questions the Efficient Market Hypothesis which asserts that all the available information may not be reflected in the market prices, since investors may not directly react to information, according to the information being received. Instead, investors may react...

Using data from more than 6,000 manufacturing firms in India for 1996-2008, we investigate the impact of financial constraints on the exporting behavior of Indian manufacturing firms while also focusing on the link between exchange rate movement and exports. We find that there is a strong degree...

The objective of the present paper is to deal with the concept and working of MFIs with special focus on micro credit and the after effects on the poor occurring specially due to its mode of functioning in Indian economy. As there is no clear demarcation of the regulatory framework of the...

The prosperity of all countries depends on its economic activities on a sustained basis. The starting point of all economic activities rests with the availability of capital which is limited for an organization. One of the major sources of capital is the investing public by making them share the...

Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. The air pollution regulations were effective at reducing...

Prior to this work there is no term HRD diplomacy. In HRD literature between, HRD diplomacy not yet getting due place, till today nobody coined and attempted to make a literature on this. But, HRD diplomacy is nothing but HRD collaboration which is the backbone to all areas which are deployed...