Post Graduate Research (PGR) has been an important source of generating technological breakthrough in social as well as natural sciences. The skills for solving problem of 21st century have to be created now. We have reviewed all the abstracts of PGR reported to Haryana Agricultural University...

How do we conceptualize the process of learning in public development organizations which are designed to deal with only articulated, aggregated and persistent demand from the clients. I have listed in this paper some lessons which have been culled from the experience of ‘developmental...

To prevent accentuation of regional imbalances, the role of public enterprises in backward region is well recognized in most developing countries. However the exact processes through which such a development could match the expectation of rural poor in these regions remains ambiguous. The growth...

Research to pursue answers to the problems of poor in dry regions, tribal backward scarcity prone areas and drought prone districts has been pursued at CMA for over a decade. Effort has been made in this note to review some of the select studies. The reviewers biases have been made explicit...

The finance Act 1985 provides considerable reduction in individual tax liability, first, by across the board reduction in tax rates and second, by enlarging and reducing the number of tax brackets. The question investigated in this paper is “Are reliefs given to various income slabs...

Inflation affects real income tax liabilities in two ways. First, it erodes the real values of fixed deductions. Second, it moves a tax payer in a high tax bracket. Due to high rate of progressivity in taxes at lower end of the tax schedule, low income groups suffers more than high income groups...

With the advent of SEBI, the regulatory philosophy has changed from merit (administered) to disclosure (market based). Since retail investors do not have expertise and resources to fully understand the disclosed information, they generally participate in the capital markets through mutual funds....

The Five Year Plans have continued giving greater emphasis to the need of power development in the country. The Boards have to find larger amount of resources to finance its future activities. For State Electricity Boards (SEBs) the possible source of finance are budgetary sources of the State...

The article examines the nature of futures market and its development abroad. It provides a theoretical framework reviewing behaviour of future prices and a need for an effective arbitrage between spot and futures market to ensure competitive and fair pricing for hedge seekers. In the Indian...

This paper explores the effect of inflation on the real value of shareholders’ equity given the current depreciation policy with respect to the corporate income taxes. Would partly debt financing of the firm’s activities make any difference? The analysis brings out the relevant economic...