In the wake of the public sector reform programme, performance of public sector units in terms of profitability has become a highly debated issue in India, where major arguments given for inefficiency of public enterprises are over employment and lack of managerial autonomy. However, there is...

This paper is an attempt to link the problem of non-repayment in the formal credit market with the accessibility to credit from informal sources. In many developing countries a well established network of informal lenders continues to prevail in spite of various formal lending programmes...

Developing counties all around the globe have been trying to adopt market-driven institutional systems. As the pace of economic reforms gains momentum, it becomes increasingly evident that these reforms have resulted in new challenges and issues. For example, the economic growth which picked up...