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Issues
in International Trade
-- Pasquale
M Sgro
This
paper discuss the issues in international trade looking
at the number of issues of international trade such as trade,
growth and sustainable development, Financing requirements
for emerging economies etc.
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Profitability
of Industry: Market Power or Efficiency - A Case Study of
Indian Cement Industry
-- K
S Sujit
Industry
analysis, taking into consideration aggregate figures is
likely to miss important firm-specific factors, which are
of crucial importance. Performance within industry is sufficiently
different. Hence, industry analysis would be more meaningful
if one concentrates more on firm-specific activities. This
study shows that high profitability in some of the top firms
is a combined effort of efficiency and market power. The
current slowdown in the economy seems to force firms to
behave competitively, as price of cement is not increasing
even though inputs prices have risen. In such a situation,
efficiency coupled with innovation, which would reduce the
costs, is the key to reap higher profitability.
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Indian
Consumers vs World Consumers: A Comparative Analysis
-- EA Selvanathan and
Saroja Selvanathan
In
this paper, we present an analysis of the Indian consumption
patterns and compare it with results from 23 Less Developed
Countries (LDC) and 46 world countries. Results show that
Indian consumers allocate more than half of their income
on food while consumers around the world allocate only one-third
of their income on food. The overall growth in consumption
in India is similar to the LDC and the world, however, growth
in prices is lower in India compared to the LDC and the
world. Further, a number of empirical regularities, such
as the Law of Demand, Engel's Law, additive preferences
etc., are supported by the Indian consumption data as is
the case with the LDC and world consumption data. Indian
consumers as well as the LDC and world consumers consider
food, housing and medical care as necessities and clothing,
durables, transport and recreation as luxuries. However,
education is a necessity for an average world consumer,
while it is a luxury for consumers in India and the LDC.
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A
Measure of Inequality of Human Development for Funding and
Management - Case Study of Karnataka State, India
-- N Balasubramanian
and Ramakrushna Panigrahi
In
the era of globalization and liberalization, the one time
fancied idea of spatially equitable development has been
put to the back burner. The objective of both the international
funding agencies and the Indian Government involved in grass
root development through PRIs are more than sheer development,
it is also equity and empowerment. But, in order to achieve
this goal, they do not seem to have a firm basis (relative
development of small spaces) that would help resource allocation
in a way, which would bring in equitable development. In
the present paper, there is an attempt to provide a choice
of areas for development action based on development indicators
at the district and taluka level for the state of Karnataka.
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Research
Monograph Summary
Consumers'
Attitudes Towards Weekend, Night & Street Markets
-- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang
Chr. Fischer (Ed.)
In
line with the general acceptance by economists and politicians
of globalization and the veneration of free market forces,
the retail sector in Australia and in most other OECD countries
has seen a tremendous concentration of vendors. In spite
of this, the aim of this research monograph is to investigate
the emergence of weekend, night and street markets. Generally,
these are an "unexplored territory" of economics
and often, these markets have been regarded as a quantité
negligeable.
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