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Working Papers | 1988

An Overview of Pesticides Industry in India

Srivastava Uma Kant and Patel N T

The pesticides industry in India has undergone a rapid growth and structural change in the product mix. This paper attempts to analyse the growth of the production of pesticides over a time and changes in the structure of the product mix, product dominance and flow of materials. The profile of this industry including the technical grade material manufacturers, formulators and dealers is briefly examined. The usage of the pesticides for agricultural and non-agricultural purposes is analysed. The spatial distribution of pesticides consumption is also presented. The issues facing the industry are studied for technical grade material producers, formulators and dealers. This paper also analyses the problems faced by the farmers in buying and using pesticides.

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Working Papers | 1988

Input-Output Tables for Rajasthan: Methodology and Estimates

Ravindra H. Dholakia and Dholakia Bakul H

In the present paper, an attempt is made to construct Input-Output Tables for Rajasthan compatible and consistent with the national I-O tables for the year 1984-85 which formed the basis for the national 7th Five Year Plan. Input-output coefficient matrix and input transaction matrix for Rajasthan are presented for 50 x 50 commodity sectors at the current (1984-85) prices. Both the survey based and non-survey based methods of estimating the I-O tables are used. A detailed comparison of the estimates reveals that non-survey based method used in the paper performs satisfactorily to capture the overall regional differences from the national technology. If, however, the purpose is to capture sector-activity-specific differences in the regional technology, the survey-based method should be preferred over the non-survey based method although it involves much greater time and effort.

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Working Papers | 1988

Social and Professional Context of Growth - Women as Home Makers and Managers

Parikh Indira J and Garg Pulin K

This paper explores the processes of growth of women in both the family and work settings and their role as home-makers and managers. From the family, women acquire male and female role models. They also acquire concept of systems and organisations. Family and the national thrust for education provide opportunities for education and as a consequence career aspirations. From experiences of growing up, women evolve emotive and cognitive maps of both people and systems. They then, crystalize their own role. Some of the roles they form are that of the adjuster, the assertive, the drifter, the unappreciated, the misunderstood and the unaffirmed. Organisations often reinforce these roles. This paper examines the struggle of women to go beyond the above stereotypes of both the social and work roles. They discover that social and work role models of past only take them so far. Beyond that, they have to arrive by trial and error and by resillience and commitment with new action choices and new roles. They have to define new concepts of roles and systems and crystalize a meaningful identity relevant for themselves and both the systems of family and work.

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Working Papers | 1988

Survival under Stress: Socio Ecological Perspective on Farmers Innovation and Risk Adjustments

Gupta Ramesh

Need for closer interactions between natural scientists and farmers to generate relevant technologies is being increasingly recognised. The uniformity of ecological endowment and its correspondence with conditions at research station did not call for reorientation of research strategy for irrigated regions. However, in rainfed regions, we argue in this paper, there is a need to understand farmers' adjustment with risks as well as their experimental ethic. Drawing upon Chinese knowledge dating back to First century B.C., recent evidence from Bangladesh and India, it is suggested that natural scientists should initiate systematic documentation and experimentation on farmers' own knowledge system. It might on one hand expand the frontier of natural sciences and on the other make value addition in local knowledge possible. Knowledge generating systems in high risk rural areas should not be converted into just knowledge receiving system. Further, transfer of science rather than only technology to people should be emphasized in future so that formal and informal R&D can reinforce each other.

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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

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

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

Project-Linakage Programme -Understanding the Process of Evolution and Review of Pilot Project Experience

Sethi Dipti and Agrawal N M

'Project-Linkage', is a new program initiated by Government of Gujarat with an objective of linking rural development with industrial development. Specifically, the programme attempts to build linkages which will facilitate absorption of local people as unskilled and semi-skilled workers in the industries located in backward areas. Program is introduced at Vapi and Ankleshwar industrial estate as pilot projects. We have described the process by which the program has evolved. Using the case study, we have generated few hypotheses about role of bureaucracy and autonomous agencies in initiating and establishing development programs. In the second part of the report, we have described the objectives structure, activities and achievements of the program. Though it is too early to evaluate the program, we have attempted to review the program based on pilot studies. Certain recommendations are made based on our analysis of the pilot experience.

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Working Papers | 1988

Provincial Income Disparity in Canada, 1951 to 1981

Ravindra H. Dholakia

In the present paper, we have examined the pattern of the provincial income disparity in Canada in the benchmark years 1951, 1961, 1971 and 1981. The data reveal that the rankings of provinces have remained more or less the same though the extent of regional disparity in per capita GDP has considerably declined over the 30 year period. Contributions of four factors, viz., labour force participation rate, industrial structure, capital per worker and output-capital ratio in the observed disparity of provincial incomes in the four benchmark years are estimated. Capital per worker played a major role in accounting for the disparity in 1951, but its relative importance is declining over time. Of late, output-capital ratio seems to be more important in accounting for the regional disparity in income levels in Canada. Industrial structure did account for a substantial proportion of regional income inequality in some provinces in 1951. In 1981, however, its relative contribution has only been marginal in all the provinces in Canada.

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Working Papers | 1988

Problems and Prospects of Village Pasture Development Project in a Mixed Economy

Ravindra H. Dholakia

The present case discusses the pasture development (PD) project in Sayla Block of Surendranagar District of Gujarat state in India. The PD project was identified as the key project for the block level plan (BLP) scheme in June 1980. The case brings out merits of the PD project as a rural development project and describes the attitude of the bureaucracy and local polity towards the project. It is shown that a viable rural development project of considerable merit without having any constraints of finance or technical knowhow may also fail to get implemented if the initiative to motivate villagers and mobilize support from necessary corners is missing. Voluntary agencies with commitment are likely to produce spectacular outcome in such cases where the government machinery may not even perceive the potential.

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