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Working Papers | 1988

Educational Tasks in Development Programmes

Sethi Dipti

In the developing countries and those undergoing rapid change, the part played in the social field by education is of vital importance. This paper has looked at the educational tasks that confronts the grassroot level functionaries of three development programmes: namely, Adult Education Programme, Community Health Volunteer and Family Planning Workers. A conceptual model has been set forth on the understanding of the above.

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Working Papers | 1988

Financial Management Research in India

Pandey I M

This review article has attempted to highlight the trends in financial management research in India. It has shown how methodologies such as regression analysis, factor analysis, multiple discriminant analysis, control theory, survey methods etc have been applied to financial data by the Indian researchers for useful financial analysis. The article also provides a list of potential topics for research in future.

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Working Papers | 1988

A General Saddle Point Property for Two Person Variable Threat Games

Lahiri Somdeb

In this paper we prove that all two person variable threat games which satisfy some very general conditions, fulfil a certain saddle point property at an equilibrium point.

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Working Papers | 1988

Economic Order Quantity when a Discount is Offered on Cash Purchases

Gupta Omprakash K

Classical Wilson's EOQ model assumes that the payments for goods are made at the time of delivery and therefore a sufficient portion of carrying cost is incurred due to money blocked in inventories. In many situations, however, it is observed that the supplier allows delay in making payments of goods and offers a unit discount on cash purchases. The delay offered may be of various types such as delay of a fixed duration or a delay of an inventory cycle. In this paper, mathematical models have been developed to analyze when, if at all, purchasing on cash is preferable over delayed payment options. A total of four delay options are considered. Finally a numerical example is given to illustrate the methodology.

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Working Papers | 1988

Biogas Technology - A Case of Mahijda Village

Gurdev Singh and Asokan S R

The study reveals that wider acceptance of biogas technology in Mahijda village was primarily due to shortage of traditional fuels in the village. A subsidy of 50 to 75 percent was a strong incentive in its adoption. It was adequately supported by organized supply of necessary equipment and extension by the Gujarat Agro-Industries Corporation. However, number of animal heads acted as a constraint in its adoption by many. Non-adoption by many technically eligible households even with 50 percent subsidy indicated the rigidity of the barriers in its acceptance. Disposal of slurry was unacceptable to many. Lack of education was another constraint. The study pointed out that there is a vast potential for the spread of bio-gas technology. What is needed is the aggressive campaign to educate the people about its talent benefits to individuals and to the society. Further subsidy may be rationalized such that it goes to the needy. Organizational innovations for the community biogas plants could be very helpful for the involvement of weaker sections.

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Working Papers | 1988

Monotonicity with Respect to the Disagreement Point and A New Solution to Nash Bargaining Problem: A Note

Lahiri Somdeb

We propose a solution to the bargaining problem which response appropriately to certain changes in the disagreement point, for a fixed feasible set. If di increases, while for j=I dj remains constant, our solution recommends an increase in ageni's payoff, in agreement with intuition. This solution also satisfies the more conventional requirements, which are usually imposed, e.g. individual rationality, Pareto optimality, Symmetry and Invariance. With Respect to Affine Transformation. It is shown that our solution is the only monotone solution, which satisfies these properties.

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Working Papers | 1987

Functions and Role of Institutional Finance for Agricultural and Rural Development

Desai B M

This paper demonstrates that institutional finance must play a multi-functional role to fulfil its three-fold objectives of promoting (a) growth, (b) better equity, and (c) its own viability/profitability for agricultural and rural sector. It is further argued that sound and relevant institutional finance of this nature does not necessarily create major conflict in achieving these objectives. Both of these are elucidated in what follows by organizing the paper into three sections, namely, rationale for (section II), functions of (section III), and role of institutional finance (section IV). Final section briefly outlines policy support required for promoting multi-functional role.

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Working Papers | 1987

Management Training in Third World Countries

Parikh Indira J

The third world countries have had simultaneous focus of growth and development in industrial and social sector. In the third world countries both men and women are confronted with juxtaposition of the old and the new, the modern and the traditional and simultaneous new roles and systems. As such both get pulled and pushed between culturally determined responses of relationship and social structures and the new structures of tasks of formal organizations and functional relationships. This paper explores the issue of training with specific focus on women of Africa. Training programmes have focussed on traditional modes of training, viz. knowledge, attitudes and skills. However, there is need in training programmes to generate dynamicity, new action responses and new interfaces with people structure and the environment. It is also important that women look beyond the horizon for new role definitions of their social roles and systems and their formal managerial roles in organizations. New methodologies, management tools and techniques need to be evolved so that women learn to empower themselves to take active role in policies, influence strategies and be part of structure. This is possible by arriving at relevant definitions of organizations, structures, systems and the legitimacy of their roles in it.

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Working Papers | 1987

Does Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off Exist in India?

Ravindra H. Dholakia

The hypothesis of Extended Phillips Curve is examined in the present paper using the Indian data over the period 1950-51 to 1984-85. The empirical evidence does not suggest any substantial trade-off between inflation and unemployment even in the short run in the LDCs like India. The labor markets in the LDCs have such characteristics, which bring them very close to the Keynesian aggregate supply curve in the short run. The formation of inflationary expectation in the study is based on adaptive expectations. The findings of the study have important implication for the choice of the strategy to deal with adverse supply shocks in LDCs.

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Working Papers | 1987

Commercial Banks Finance for Rural Development

Gurdev Singh and Asokan S R

In 1969 fourteen commercial banks (six more in 1980) were nationalized to increasingly involve them in financing the developmental programmes in rural India. Subsequently Branch expansion policy was revised and reoriented in favor of rural areas. Regulatory controls for preferential allocations to identify priority sectors were enforced. Special activities and weaker sections were provided concessional finances under IRDP, 20 PEP, DRI scheme, etc. Backward areas were given special attention in this respect. The idea was to make the commercial banks an effective instrument of rural development. The performance of commercial banks between 1969-70 and 1984-85 showed big leaps forward in the number of rural branches and disbursement of loans. However, the performance was less than proportionate in rural deposit mobilization and recovery of loan dues. Further the performance was not identical across the states. Disparities were found in the coverage of population and cultivated area per branch, disbursements in different areas, for different purposes and to different groups of people on absolute and per hectare basis. Important observations on the performance of this segment of formal rural credit system are made.

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