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Interplay Between Education And Identity: Inter Caste Marriages, Gendered Stream Choice And Caste Peer Effects., Komal Sahai Dr.
Interplay Between Education And Identity: Inter Caste Marriages, Gendered Stream Choice And Caste Peer Effects., Komal Sahai Dr.
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Gender Difference In Indian Consumption Expenditure., Mannu Dwivedi Dr.
Gender Difference In Indian Consumption Expenditure., Mannu Dwivedi Dr.
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The goal of any development policy is to increase the living standard of the people in the society. In any developing country, the efficiency of such policy depends on how families reallocate the resources among themselves. If the distribution is even within the family then only it can be said that the policy was fruitful. Therefore, a family is an important part of any policy and the allocation within the family should be just. But, the distribution of the resources among the family members are not always equal. Inequality always exists! Discrimination against girls or women persists in approximately all …
Three Essays On The Impact Of Global Warming In India., Eshita Gupta Dr.
Three Essays On The Impact Of Global Warming In India., Eshita Gupta Dr.
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This dissertation consists of three chapters. The Örst chapter studies the impact of climate change on electricity demand in Delhi using daily data on electricity demand and apparent temperature for the period 2000-09. It estimates a semi-parametric variable coe¢ - cient model that allows for a non-linear relationship between temperature and electricity to shift over time, a feature that is necessary to incorporate given the rapid economic growth in India. As evident from previous studies, electricity demand is a U-shaped function of temperature. Three results from our analysis have important implications for electricityclimate policy: Firstly, the rising part of the …
Selected Aspects Of Performance Of Indian Industries: An Empirical Investigation., Anup Kumar Bhandari Dr.
Selected Aspects Of Performance Of Indian Industries: An Empirical Investigation., Anup Kumar Bhandari Dr.
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At the time of India’s independence the need of the hour was to develop the economy at a fast pace so as to achieve a reasonable standard of living for the masses within a short period of time. India’s first Industrial Policy Resolution was adopted in 1948 which put emphasis on the expansion of production of both agricultural and industrial goods to satisfy the basic needs of the masses, a large proportion of whom lived well below a subsistence level of living. Hence, emphasis was given on agricultural expansion in the First Five Year Plan and on building up the …
Empirical Determination And Forecastability Of Foreign Exchange Rate Of India., Rituparna Kar Dr.
Empirical Determination And Forecastability Of Foreign Exchange Rate Of India., Rituparna Kar Dr.
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The first chapter of this thesis begins with a brief review of the existing literature on foreign exchange rate models and their forecasting performance. Thereafter it presents the motivation as well as the main aspects of this study. The format of this chapter is as follows. A brief review of the relevant literature is presented in the first section. This review includes the important theoretical / structural as well as time series models of exchange rate. The motivation of the thesis is discussed in Section 1.2. Section 1.3 presents a brief account of the Indian economic reforms since 1993 with …
Predictability In The Indian Stock Market: A Study From An Econometric Perspective., Debabrata Mukhopadhyay Dr.
Predictability In The Indian Stock Market: A Study From An Econometric Perspective., Debabrata Mukhopadhyay Dr.
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No abstract provided.
Essays In Indian Corporate Finance., K. V. S. Vinay Dr.
Essays In Indian Corporate Finance., K. V. S. Vinay Dr.
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This thesis comprises of three essays in corporate finance focusing on the Indian economy. The first essay contains a theoretical model while the second and the third essays are empirical exercises. In the subsequent paragraphs of this section, we examine the broader issues to which the contents of the thesis contribute.The past few years have seen rising interest in studies of financial insti- tutions and corporate financial policies in countries other than the United States. One of the reasons for such a shift in attention is the diversity in the size and structure of financial arrangements all over the world. …
Studies Of Supply Responses In Indian Agriculture: Some Models For Planning Rational Food Supply., Nilabja Ghosh Dr.
Studies Of Supply Responses In Indian Agriculture: Some Models For Planning Rational Food Supply., Nilabja Ghosh Dr.
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This thesis deals with food supply in a less developed country.In a world where social awareness together with technical progress is offering advances in all spheres of life, the persisting presence of hunger and malnutrition in any corner of the earth casts a shadow on all human achievements. It is said that over 800 million human beings in this world are suffering from hunger and a great majority of them live in Asia. Food problem has many dimensions (Timmer et al, 1983), but the solution lies mostly in adequate supply of foodgrains and proper distribution of the same. Any shortfall …
Evaluating In Dual Economy Framework The Indian Industrial Performance During 1951-52 To 1989-90., R. Kavita Rao Dr.
Evaluating In Dual Economy Framework The Indian Industrial Performance During 1951-52 To 1989-90., R. Kavita Rao Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The primary goal of economic development is to achieve high rates of growth of outputs and incomes so to ensure high per as capita income and levels of living in the economy. In India, this was sought to be achleved, to a large extent, through a rapid expansion and growth of the industrial sector, as is evident in the emphasis placed on the industrialisation programmes in her various Five Year Plans. However, the growth of this sector has exhibited considerable ups and downs over the years, belying expectations. Quite expectedly, this has evoked substantial debate on the factors influencing and/or …
Stability Of Cereal Crop Yields' Performance: An Econometric Analysis For India And Andhra Pradesh., A. Ganesh Kumar Dr.
Stability Of Cereal Crop Yields' Performance: An Econometric Analysis For India And Andhra Pradesh., A. Ganesh Kumar Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Agriculture is an importannt sector of the economy in many developing countries. Of late, in many countries, this sector Is believed to be suffering from unstable performance, especially where the modern (Green Revolutlon) technology has been widely adopted. The issue of stability of agricul tura! performance is one of international concern. This thesis is about the performance of cereal crop yiel ds in India.Importance of Agriculture in the Indian Economy.Agriculture is an important sector Aooounting for more than 30% of the countrys national 1988-89, the performance of agriculture, both as nateriais for industrla! producelon ponsumption demand, determines of the Indian …
Planning For Basic Needs In India: A Supplement., Monoj Kumar Panda Dr.
Planning For Basic Needs In India: A Supplement., Monoj Kumar Panda Dr.
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Problems of economic development have received a great deal of attention in the last four decades. This has led to the evolution of several development goals like growth, redistribution, poverty alleviation and basic needs satiafac- tion. Initially, development atrategies e eared to were achieve maximum feasible growth rates. It was generally felt that the benefits of growth would spread widely to different sections of the population and in particular would percolate to the lower income groups. Judged by growth in national income, the development efforts have been successful, though to varying ext ent in different countries. But the percola- tion …
Diagnostic Regional Analysis On The Shortfalls In Development And Utilization Of Human Resource In India: A Statistical Study On The Spatial Variations By Districts Of India., Prasanta Pathak Dr.
Diagnostic Regional Analysis On The Shortfalls In Development And Utilization Of Human Resource In India: A Statistical Study On The Spatial Variations By Districts Of India., Prasanta Pathak Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The main objective of this study has been estimation of model formulations, empirical evaluations and statistical analyses for identifying the existing regional patterns and structures of human resource development in the formative phase of human life-span through education, and the utilisation, or other- wise non-utilisation, during the activity phase of life-span in existing productive and related activities of our labour-abundant developing economy of India. Despite some awareness to the problems of development and balanced-utilisations of human resources into activities and also despite the various follow- up planning efforts undertaken, or stated to be undertaken, as reported in different Five-Year Plan …
Disparities In Development: A Case Study Of Karnataka State (India)., Jayalaxmi Jayaram Dr.
Disparities In Development: A Case Study Of Karnataka State (India)., Jayalaxmi Jayaram Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The Five Year Plans have recognised the need to bridge the developmental disparities across the regions and have formulated strategies for accelerated development of backward are as. However, the widening disparities between a few highly developed centres and vast areas of under development only bring out the inadequacies of the plans which are yet to integrate the resources of a region to its people. This study is an attempt to understand the spatial processes and patterns of development which offer an explanation to the intra/inter-regional contrasts in development. The study while high-lighting the importance of the Spatial approach has, in …
Studies On Level Of Living And Poverty In Rural India., Padmaja Pal Dr.
Studies On Level Of Living And Poverty In Rural India., Padmaja Pal Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The present dissertation consists of several studies on disparities in level of living and poverty in rural India. These studies are based on a special tabulation of disaggregated household budget data, from the Central Sample of the Indian National Sample Survey (NSS) 28th round (october 1973- June 1974). This was based on a copy of the updated Honey- well tape provided by the authorities of the NSS Organisation, Government of India. Two of the main aims of this dissertation are to study disparities in level of living and incidence of poverty across (1) Social groups, such as Scheduled Castes, Scheduled …
An Analysis Of Spatial Patterns And Growth Of Indian Agricultural Activities., Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay Dr.
An Analysis Of Spatial Patterns And Growth Of Indian Agricultural Activities., Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay Dr.
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The main objective of this dissertation has been an empirical identification and evaluation of the regional variations in the pattern and growth of agricultural activities in India during the period 1960-61 to 1980-81, with appropriate use of some of the advanced quantitative methods and statistical tools developed recently in the field of Regional Insolent and Planning. During the period under consideration, the over all national agricultural presumptions have greatly been improved, eliminating India;s dependence on food grain imports, through certain intense-fiction measures initiated at the beginning of the period. But the pursuance of overall growth efforts has not been interwoven …
General Equilbrium Analysis Of Price And Distribution Controls For Foodgrains And Textiles In India., P. V. Srinivasan Dr.
General Equilbrium Analysis Of Price And Distribution Controls For Foodgrains And Textiles In India., P. V. Srinivasan Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Unlike in many developed countries, in India, institutions for distribution of goods and services are not well developed. Hence policy makers are concerned with the development of economic institutions to promote growth, remove unemployment and eradicate poverty. In addition to the general fiscal and monetary policy instruments such as taxes, su bsidies, bank rate, open market operations etc, the government also uses several price and non-price controls. For example, it administers the prices of essential inputs such as steel, coal, power ete, and distributes certain essential commodities through ration s hops at a price lower than the market prices.One way …
Estimation Of Demographic Parameters For India., S. Guha Roy Dr.
Estimation Of Demographic Parameters For India., S. Guha Roy Dr.
Doctoral Theses
There has been a peralstent empliasis both at the na tional and international levela on the developmont and application of techniques of estimation of demographio variablos from incomplete or inagcurute data in Coneietont wi th the theme of reuoaroh, the the lesu developed rogiona. present study tries to provide estimates of vital rates and prospective population trends in India and to form a basis for measuri.ng suoh hunan neede as vducation, employment, f'anily weltare,and few others in terms of population size,growth, ago s truature and nuptiality. The other major objectivu is to undertake furthor utilization of data generated by tihe …
Multisectoral Model Of Income Distribution Poverty And Growth:Some Policy Exercies For Indian Economy., Debdas Bandyopadhyay Dr.
Multisectoral Model Of Income Distribution Poverty And Growth:Some Policy Exercies For Indian Economy., Debdas Bandyopadhyay Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The extent of poverty in any country depends upon two factors vlz, the average level of income anxd the degree of inequality in its distribution. The central theme in the continuing debate on the relationship between growth and poverty is whether past growth process in the developing countries has caused any signi.licant benefit to the poor. Kuznets (1955) was first to observe from cross country data that procosa of development is likely to be accompanied by increase in inequality, whhich would reverse itself only at a relatively advanced stage. This hypothesis has been subsequently confirned to some extent by several …
Class Contradictions In The Indian Society., Ashok Kumar Nag Dr.
Class Contradictions In The Indian Society., Ashok Kumar Nag Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Recognising the vastness of our subject it was felt necessary to limit the scope of the thesis in the following four ways(1) Agrarian classes have been left out.(2) Intra class contradictions have been analysed to a larger extent than inter class contradictions.(3) The historical process of Glass formation and the concomitant question of class consciousness have not been dealt with.(4) No direct reference has been made to the concept of mode of production.In other words, within the broad subject area suggested by the title, scope of the thesis has been narrowed down to the following identification and analysis of contradictions …
Statistical Models For Consumer Behaviour In India., Amita Majumder Dr.
Statistical Models For Consumer Behaviour In India., Amita Majumder Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The present dissertation is about analysis of consumer behaviour ba sed on time-serios consumption data in the framework of a static complete demand system with special reference to India.On the methodological side, the the proposes two station demand systems. One of them is based on a modification of the Simple Non-additivo Model (SNAM) of Deaton (1976) - a generalisation of Stone's Linear Expenditure System (LES) - that overcomes the limitations of the LES ariaing from the additivity of its underfying direct preference structure. The other system is based on the Frice Independent Generalized Linearity (FIGL) of Maellbaucr (1975). Both the …
Life Table Construction From Population Age Distributions Suffering From Response Biases In Age-Reporting:A New Technique(Not Requiring Age Smoothing)With Application To Indian Census Age-Returns., Subrata Lahiri Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Preliminary concepts of life tables, its role in demographic analysis, a brief chronological review of various literature on the construction of life table starting from John Grants investigation on mortality, along with an introduction to the basic problem and objectives of the present study.Chapter II describes the concept and utility of cumulative census survival ratios, first introduced by Professors Ansley J. Coale and Paul Demeny (1967) as the ratio of the number of persons aged x+10 end above enumerated at time t+10 to the number of persons aged x and above enumerated at time t. These are compared to the …
Statistical Analysis Of Economic Activities For Developement In Nepal., Bishnu Pant Dr.
Statistical Analysis Of Economic Activities For Developement In Nepal., Bishnu Pant Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The main objective of this study has been the statistical analysis by the use of those statistical and quantitative tools that could be considered appropriate for applications in an underdeveloped economy, where in usually lies sufficient data and information gaps, towards a proper diagnosis of the problems and prospects of economic activities in its diversified regional environments. This study is conducted with reference to an underdeveloped country, Nepal, where detailed regional analyses have hardly been attempted earlier, to evaluate the regional structures of economic activities for the purpose of clarifying oar visions for a proper kind of regional planning. Though …
Structure And Inter-Relations Of The Land, Labour, Credit And Product Markets Of South Kanara: A Study Of A Backward Agricultural Economy., K. Nagaraj Dr.
Structure And Inter-Relations Of The Land, Labour, Credit And Product Markets Of South Kanara: A Study Of A Backward Agricultural Economy., K. Nagaraj Dr.
Doctoral Theses
South Kanara is a predominantly rural and agricultural district in the state of Karnataka in South India, given largely to the cultivation of a single subsistence crop (paddy) which accounts for nearly 70 per cent of its gross cropped area. The agricultural technology is Primitive, with little use of 'modern' inputs like chemical fertilisers, HYV seeds etc. There are no large scale or modern industries in the district. The little manufacturing activities that exist are mostly of the primary processing type, carried out in small establishments and households. There is however, rather high incidence of the so-called 'tertiary' activities like …
Economic Regionalization Of India 1960-61 And 1970-71., Rabindranath De Dr.
Economic Regionalization Of India 1960-61 And 1970-71., Rabindranath De Dr.
Doctoral Theses
A massive investment programme has been undertaken in India through the process of planning. But the effects of such investment on economic growth are worked out only at the aggregate level for the country as a whole; its contribution to the growth of the different regions in the country is yet to be adequately understood. Now, for a large country like India with significant regional disparities in the level of living, an essential objective of development policy should be to reduce the existing economic inequality between the regions | in particular, the inequality in the level of living. The priority …
Morphological And Genetic Composition Of The Gonds Of Central India: A Statistical Study., Urmila Pingle Dr.
Morphological And Genetic Composition Of The Gonds Of Central India: A Statistical Study., Urmila Pingle Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The racial compositi on of the people of India 1s atill a riddle and one which isg etting increasingly difficult to eolve as over a period of time it han been fast chnnging due to absorption of mrious pepulntions into the Hindu onste- fold ant the finsion and funion within the casto syaten na n product of occupntionnl or cultural chnnge in the wny of life. Admixture over a long peri od of time bas produc ed a wide diversity in norphology (ns well as skin colour) ef Indinn people. The wavas of migrations of people from the Eu rasian …
Role Of Labour In Indian Agriculture., Manabendu Chattopadhyay Dr.
Role Of Labour In Indian Agriculture., Manabendu Chattopadhyay Dr.
Doctoral Theses
In this stuly, we have analysed some aspects of labour condi- tions and relations in Indian agriculture on the ba si s of available secondary source data.We have started our analysis by taking a look at the origin and growth of the class of agricul tural labourers in the Indian society. Possible explanations for the ori gin and growth of the agricul tural labour class have been reviewed in this context. We then prmceed to examine the trends in employment and unemployment in both the rural and urban sectors of India. The trends are studied in terms of absolute nurbers …
Abo Blood-Group Gene Frequencies In The Indian Sub-Continent: A Statistical Study Of Patterns Of Variation., Partha Pratim Majumder Dr.
Abo Blood-Group Gene Frequencies In The Indian Sub-Continent: A Statistical Study Of Patterns Of Variation., Partha Pratim Majumder Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The main objective of this thesia is to diascover patterns of variation botwoen geographácal regions and socio- religious groups in the Indian sub-continant in respect of the distribution of ABO ganea controlling the O-A-B-AB blood group syston through a comprehensive, unified statistical analysia of all the relevant data avallable táll 1977.The posaibility of uning the 0-A-B-AB blood groupe as a marker for population genctic studias was first discovereda by Dr. and Mra, Hirachteld in 1919. The data collected by tham from amy personnel bolonging to various populatian groupa ahowed clear-cut di frerences and ganerated a lot of interost emong anthropologista, …
Study Of Indian Nuptiality., Chitta R. Malaker Dr.
Study Of Indian Nuptiality., Chitta R. Malaker Dr.
Doctoral Theses
DEFINITION OF NUPTIALITYAccordi ng to the latest International Demographic Terminelogy (Grebeni k and ill, 1974), t he term 'nuptiality' is used to denote the whole subject of the formation and dissolutien of sexual uni ons, includi ng the study of marriage, consensual uni ons, separation, di vorce, widowhood etc. It is also used, in a narrower sense, as a synonym for marriage in such terms as nuptiality rates;and nuptiality probabilities, The study of nuptiality deals with the frequency of marriage, 1.e., unions between persons of opposite sexes which involve rights and obligations fixed by law and custom; with the characteriatics …
Contributions To Methodology Of Construction Of Consistent Index Number., Dodla Sai Prasada Rao Dr.
Contributions To Methodology Of Construction Of Consistent Index Number., Dodla Sai Prasada Rao Dr.
Doctoral Theses
International variation in national product is a subject of considerable interest, and any meaningful comparison of national product or per capita national income has to be in termo of a common currency. An intertemporal comparison for the same country at two points of time is mote meaningful in real terms, or in other words when the currency unit is adjusted for change in the general price level between the two points of time. In the same manner, the level of output or of consumption of a group of persons belonging to a region or to a particular socio-economio group can …
Variation Of Human Stature In India., N. T. Mathew Dr.
Variation Of Human Stature In India., N. T. Mathew Dr.
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This is the first investigation on a large-sc le (1,47,066 measurements) of human stature in India based on deta from all pers of the country. Work done hitherto has been on much smaller serics which can in no way be considered representative of the country as a whole. In the present study certain inte- resting ond inportant results have been obtained which we shall now summarise. lany of the comparisons between meaningful groups involve smell differences which would require falrly large samples to establish with statistical signific- ance. This consideration will apply not only to stature but to other hody …