Orissa is the first State in the Country to have undertaken restructuring and reform in power sector. This was made to make power supply more efficient and to be able to meet the investment needs of the sector. Disinvestment in power sector is a major step in the power sector reform initiative...

Macroeconomic stability is an indispensable precondition for growth. Like most of the states of India, the fiscal situation of Orissa deteriorated in the late 1980s and the 1990s. The enactment of the FRBM Act in 2005 helped the Government of Orissa to reduce deficits and generate surplus. The...

Policies to encourage increased access for the previously unbanked must be taken into consideration in the objectives of financial stability. The progress towards inclusiveness is more difficult to assess, because inclusiveness is a multidimensional concept. To achieve inclusiveness in all these...

The pursuit of economic growth has been the single most important policy goal across the world for the last five decades. The default assumption is that – financial crisis aside – growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is...

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About the book series -- How do organizations learn from the failure of an acquisition attempt? : toward a behavioral learning theory / Katsuhiko Shimizu -- Entrepreneurs under ambiguity : a prospect theory perspective / Corina Paraschiv and Anisa Shyti -- Metacognition in strategic decision...

"Behavioral strategy continues to attract increasing research interest within the broader field of strategic management. Research in behavioral strategy has clear scope for development in tandem with such traditional streams of strategy research that involve economics, markets, resources, and...

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The goal of development is to improve human well-being in a sustainable way, with a particular emphasis on less well-off. India's economic growth has received potential attention in the recent years. While the economy of India has been growing rapidly with broadly based gains in absolute incomes...