Of late, rural development has assumed global attention especially among the developing nations. A country like India where majority of the population around 65% of the people live in rural areas has great significance. The present strategy of rural development in India mainly focuses on poverty...

Purpose: Deriving a measure of efficiency of public-funded organizations (primarily not-for-profit organizations) and ranking these efficiency measures have been major subjects of debate and discussion. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative performances of public-funded research...

The reduction of rural poverty continues to be a paramount goal of the developing countries like India as the majority of the poor population still resides in the countryside. The World Bank, for example, estimates that more than 70 % of the world poor lives in rural areas. So far, various...