The drought of 2002 has brought home the critical need for a short-term forecasting model for the agriculture sector at sub-national level, since good and bad agricultural years are not synchronous across states. This paper attempts forecasting through the fitting of univariate ARIMA models to...

We develop advertising strategies for a firm which has a new product for which demand exists in an emerging market. However, the primary channels for distribution of the firm's product do not exist, because either the market has not been opened up, or the firm has not entered the market....

Large increases in international food prices in 2007 and early 2008 have become a key concern for policy makers in East Asia. The increases are likely to have a significant impact on the living standards of many, particularly the poor. By March 2008, dollar nominated world food prices were more...