|
Physical
Infrastructure and Land Productivity: A District Level Analysis
of Rural Orissa
-- Chittaranjan
Nayak
The present study
analyzes the effectiveness of rural physical infrastructure
on land productivity. Physical Infrastructure includes irrigation,
electricity, transportation and communication. The final
selection of the items in each category has been made on
the basis of a priori study and regression through backward
elimination. It is a novel attempt by the Principal Component
Analysis, to construct infrastructure index at district
level for Orissa. This study observes asymmetry in the spread
of physical infrastructure across the three major regions
of the state. The analysis also explores that land productivity
is low in the Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) belt and
in certain districts of the Western-Central Orissa, in comparison
to the Coastal Orissa. This may be ascribed to the underdevelopment
of infrastructure.
©
2008 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Rural
Infrastructure: Spread, Investment and Benefit from
Grameen Bhandaran Yojana
-- M
S Jairath
Development of storage
infrastructure especially in rural areas is essential to
harness the agriculture potential and help the farming community.
This study has been conducted to know specifically the extent
of spread of constructed/renovated rural godown, regional
imbalances in construction of rural godowns, investment
made and subsidy distributed, the availability of rural
godowns in terms of geographical area as well as production,
utilization pattern and to examine the benefits extended
to rural economy in terms of employment generated, wastage
reduction and price gain by launching of the scheme in India.
©
2008 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Tourism
Infrastructure: Forecasting of International Tourist Flows
to India
--
Sajal Ghosh
Development of tourism
infrastructure is vital as the tourism industry is contributing
significantly to India's foreign exchange earnings. This
study forecasts month-wise international tourist flows to
India using univariate time-series techniques namely Multiplicative
Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (MSARIMA)
and Holt-Winters Multiplicative Exponential Smoothing for
seasonally unadjusted monthly data, spanning from January
1998 to June 2007. In-sample forecasting reveals that exponential
smoothing model outperforms Autoregressive Integrated Moving
Average (ARIMA) (1, 0, 0) (1, 1, 1)12 model in
terms of lower Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute
Error (MAE) and Mean Absolute Percent Error (MAPE). Finally,
both the models have been used to forecast monthly international
tourist arrivals to India, 15 months ahead from July 2007.
This will help the government and hospitality industry for
better tourism strategic planning.
©
2008 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Data
Mining Applications and Infrastructural Issues: An Indian
Perspective
-- R
P Datta
In recent years,
the Indian Economy has shown tremendous growth. Due to advances
in data storage and networking technologies, large amounts
of data are now available. Data mining techniques can be
applied to these large volumes of data to come up with meaningful
information that can help in making businesses more competitive
and sustain economic development in the long run. The question
arises as to what kind of infrastructural setup would be
appropriate to perform data mining operations across various
industry segments in a developing country like India. This
paper proposes two kinds of infrastructural setups namely
centralized and decentralized setups for performing data
mining operations. It focuses on three specific areas of
potential applications of data mining in the growth of the
Indian economy—analysis of risk in finance and banking
sector, retail business, health insurance and fraud management—and
suggests which kind of infrastructure may be suitable for
each specific application area.
©
2008 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Impact
of Availability-Based Electricity Tariffs (Abt) on the Power
Sector: Case Study of Karnataka
--
Hiremani
Naik and Tanaji G Rathod
The Indian power
sector basically suffers from widespread shortages of electricity
supply. This is due to inadequate expansion of the generation
capacity by the state-owned electric utilities, poor response
from the private sector players and severe resource constraints.
Socioeconomic and political issues, environmental concerns
and mismanagement of the existing power utilities have become
debatable issues now and then. Therefore, the governments
are bringing some kind of reforms in the sector. However,
it has brought only a temporary relief to the sector. Against
this backdrop, this study focuses on a recent mechanism
or an operating tool called Availability-Based Electricity
Tariffs (ABT) and its impact on the power sector with the
case study of Karnataka. The unscheduled interchange, which
is a hedging mechanism, has enforced the Inter-state sale-purchase
of power and succeeded in transforming the fabric of the
Indian power system operation in an unparalleled manner.
©
2008 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
BOOK
REVIEW
Ports
Infrastructure and Economic Development
--
Dr. Pradeepta Kumar Samanta and Dr. Ashok Kumar Mohanty,
Reviewed by Durga Madhab Mahapatra
Infrastructure
is an important input for industrial and economic development.
The importance of infrastructure for sustained economic
growth is well recognized in India. India has made considerable
progress in the last ten years in attracting investment
in the infrastructure sectors like telecommunications, ports
and roads and other individual projects. The sector is estimated
to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15% over
the next few years. It is a sector with enormous potential.
According to the Economic Survey 2005-2006, India has the
potential to absorb $150 bn of foreign direct investment
in the next five years, in the infrastructure sector alone.
©
2005 Pradeepta Kumar Samanta, Dr. Ashok Kumar Mohanty. All
Rights Reserved. IUP holds the copyright
for the review.
| 
