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Bansal, Rachana, Mohit Kumar, and A. S. Shaikh. "GROWTH AND EXPORT TRENDS OF MAJOR SPICES IN INDIA: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY." Gujarat Journal of Extension Education 33, no. 2 (June 25, 2022): 145–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2022.33.2.0028.
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Indian spices are popularly known for their flavour and aroma in domestic as well as in the international markets. Out of the total spices production, Indian households consume about 70-75 per cent either in whole form or in value added form (powder or masalas), 5-10 per cent is utilized by oleoresins, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics companies, 15-20 per cent is exported and the remaining 5 per cent goes for seed purposes (www.commodityindia.com). Increased production and trade balance in terms of export and import are required to support economic growth through agriculture. The present study focused on analysing the growth and instability in area, production and exports of major spices from India. The results showed that India's overall export and agricultural export both increased at 6.50 and 6.16 per cent annual growth rate from 2010-11 to 2019-20, respectively. India's agricultural export share to overall export has grown from 9.71 per cent in 2010-11 to 11.40 per cent in 2019-20 while Ginger, garlic and turmeric, these three spices contributed 58.99 per cent share to total spice production from 19.16 per cent area. Among different spices cumin, chilli and coriander emerged as the first, second and third most grown spices in the country with 29.56, 14.44 and 12.25 per cent area and 9.01, 18.19 and 6.92 per cent production share to total spices respectively.
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Shahroo Malik. "Analysing India’s Economic Growth Under Modi: Myth or Reality." Strategic Studies 40, no. 4 (January 27, 2021): 60–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.53532/ss.040.04.0063.
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In 2016, India became the world’s major fastest growing economy leaving behind China.[1] India was growing at a steady rate of more than seven per cent till the Bharatiyia Janta Party (BJP) government introduced certain policies such as demonetisation initiative and Goods and Services Tax (GST) that severely impacted its economic growth. Since mid-2016 its economic growth started to decelerate and in 2019, India’s economic growth stood at 4.5 per cent even though Modi made tall promises of making India a US$5 trillion economy by 2024. Hence, by using the Keynesian Model of Growth, this paper tries to analyse the performance of Indian economy under Modi’s government, determine the cyclical, structural and global factors that have contributed to India’s slowed economic growth and the impact of Modi’s extremist policies on the Indian economy. This paper identifies demonetisation, GST reforms, falling private consumption, protectionism and strict labour laws and COVID-19 pandemic as the factors behind India’s slowed economic growth under the current regime of Modi.
[1] HerpreetKaur and Jagdeep Singh, “Indian Economy Developments (Special Emphasis on Narendra Modi Era Developments),” IBMRD’s Journal of Management & Research, no. 8 (2019): 35-40.
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Ali, Mohd Mujahed. "Emerging Prospective of Indian Livestock: A Study on Poultry Industry." Asian Journal of Managerial Science 4, no. 1 (May 5, 2015): 33–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.51983/ajms-2015.4.1.1171.
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India’s poultry industry represents a major success story. Mounting at about 20 per cent annually the domestic poultry market is currently estimated at about Rs 49,000 crore, and production reaching a record 3.2 million tons of broiler meat and about 2.86 million tonnes of eggs. Layer production growth is estimated at 6 per cent annually. Indian processed poultry production is not expanding at the rate of the live-bird market due to cold chain capacity issues and meat retailing constraints. The processed poultry market is thus mainly oriented to serving hotel, restaurant and institutional consumers. Thus an emphasis is made to capture the potentiality of Poultry industry and its opportunities in Indian market.
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N, Venketesa Palanichamy, Sagar Surendra Deshmukh, and Kalpana M. "Insights into Information Perception in Poultry Farming Systems." Advances in Research 25, no. 3 (April 22, 2024): 241–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/air/2024/v25i31068.
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Indian poultry industry has found to be more structured and evolved as a dynamic organization in last two decades. Planning, organizing, directing, monitoring and controlling can profoundly be seen. Indian poultry industry contributes significantly to total livestock sectors contribution to India's GDP. India's poultry meat production is 3.4 million tons and its eggs production is sixty-five million tons and industry ranks second and third in worlds ranking in meat and eggs production respectively (FAO). The data was collected from stakeholders with the help of pretested interview schedule. The separate interview schedule was prepared for broiler farmers (100 samples), breeder farmers (10 samples) and processing cum distribution centers (20 samples). The study revealed that the majority of the poultry farmers, 63 per cent were aged between 35 to 54 years. Young generation farmers, aged between 20 to 34 years, 37 per cent, seemed lesser interested in poultry farming. In addition, women farmers were on only 3 per cent out of total sample farmers surveyed. It is indicative of the need for the promotion of poultry farming as a source of women empowerment. Almost 81 per cent farmers stated that poultry farming is their main occupation and major source of income where they have fulltime business commitment. Among the sample farmers, majority of, 52 per cent, were new entrant. The majority of farmers, 54 per cent, were rearing 5000 to 9999 birds at their farm and they were classified under medium-sized poultry farms. The average area of small farms was 2785.71 sq. ft., medium farm was 5886.89 sq. ft. and large farms was 18403 sq. ft. All the sample farmers had permanent housing (100 per cent) with pucca flooring (90 per cent). Almost 81 per cent farmers had their poultry shades in agriculture farms.
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Gupta, B. M., S. M. Dhawan, and Ritu Gupta. "Mobile Research in India : A Scientometric Assessment of Publications Output during 2007-16." DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology 38, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.38.1.12130.
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The paper examines 13021 Indian publications on mobile research during 2007-16,as covered in Scopus database. The Indian publications were downloaded using a search strategy which uses the search term ‘mobile*’ in the two tags, namely ‘keyword tag’ and ‘Article Title tag’ and restricting it to the India in ‘country tag’ and period 2007-16 in ‘date range tag’. The Indian mobile research output experiencing an annual average growth rate of 22.64 per cent, global share of 5.88 per cent, citation impact of 2.11 and international collaborative publication share of 11.28 per cent during 2007-16. Computer Science, among subjects, contributed the largest publication share (74.61), engineering (38.32%), mathematics and social sciences (6.94% and 6.54), etc. during 2007-16. Amongst14 subfields identified in India’s mobile research, mobile networks contributed the largest publication share (53.19%), followed by mobile telecommunication systems (35.09%), Mobile communication (29.22%), mobile ad hoc networks (26.86%), mobile security (20.62%), etc. The most productive 20 Indian organisations and authors together contributed 25.64 per cent and 5.11 per cent share to the overall publications output of India in mobile research during 2007-16.The top 20 journals contributed 23.0 per cent share to the Indian journal output during 2007-16. Only 14 publications have registered citations from 109 to 548 and these together received3259 citations, with 232.79 citations per paper. Conclude that India is still not a leading country in the world on mobile research both in terms of quantity and quality of research. In view of strategic and global importance and to increase the research output and quality, the Indian Government needs to identify this area as one of the national priority area, involving much larger R&D investments and trained manpower and also increase international collaboration with leading mobile research hubs.
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Walters, Albert Sundararaj. "Anglican National Identity: Theological Education and Ministerial Formation in Multifaith Malaysia." Journal of Anglican Studies 6, no. 1 (June 2008): 69–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1740355308091388.
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ABSTRACTMalaysia became an independent nation in 1957 and has grown dramatically in prosperity since that time. The main groups in this ethnically diverse nation are Malays (65 per cent) Chinese (26 per cent) and Indians (7.7 per cent). Sixty per cent of the population are Muslim which is the official religion of the nation. Christians represent about 9 per cent of the population and there are 80,000 Anglican members. There has been political pressure against Christians in recent years and there is growing concern about the position of minority religious groups. Anglicans came with the British, though indigenous mission was the work of Indian and Chinese Christians. Theological education is mainly focused on the Seminari Theoloji Malaysia where a holistic curriculum has been developed. A sense of Anglican identity is developing in relation to the context in Malaysia but this has hindered clarity on the nature of the Anglican heritage. The challenges facing the Anglican Church in Malaysia are identified.
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Sahoo, Pravakar, and Ashwani. "COVID-19 and Indian Economy: Impact on Growth, Manufacturing, Trade and MSME Sector." Global Business Review 21, no. 5 (September 2, 2020): 1159–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972150920945687.
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The study aims to make an assessment of COVID-19 on Indian economy by analysing its impact on growth, manufacturing, trade and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector, and highlights key policy measures to control the possible fallout in the economy. The impact of the pandemic across sectors and in different scenarios of complete, extended and partial lockdown, and at different levels of capacity utilization is massive on the Indian economy. India’s economy may barely manage to have a positive growth of 0.5 per cent in an optimistic scenario but also faces the possibility of a 3–7 per cent negative growth in worst case scenarios for the calendar year 2020. The impact is severe on trade, manufacturing and MSME sectors. The likely impact (deceleration) of COVID-19 from best case scenario to worst scenario are as follows: manufacturing sector may shrink from 5.5 to 20 per cent, exports from 13.7 to 20.8 per cent, imports from 17.3 to 25 per cent and MSME net value added (NVA) from 2.1 to 5.7 per cent in 2020 over previous year. The economy is heading towards a recession and the situation demands systematic, well targeted and aggressive fiscal-monetary stimulus measures.
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Sharma, Rahul, Lavanya M., Patrika Soni, and Amit Dubey. "The Role of Intellectual Property in Innovation and Economic Growth of Indian MSMEs." SEDME (Small Enterprises Development, Management & Extension Journal): A worldwide window on MSME Studies 48, no. 4 (December 2021): 379–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09708464221078067.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are backbone of India’s manufacturing industry and play an important role in India’s stable money supply growth. There are more than billions of SMEs in India, with an investment of more than 1 billion rupees. The sector has recorded strong growth during past fiscal years and contributes approx. 6.11 per cent to country’s manufacturing GDP and 24.63 per cent of the GDP from service activities as well as 33.4 per cent of India’s manufacturing output. Approximately 70 per cent of employment growth comes from Asian MSMEs, which account for 90 per cent of Indian industrial companies and 40 per cent of manufacturing value added. India is estimated to have more than 13 million SMEs with 42 million employees. For these reasons, it is very important for these companies to invest in their intellectual property (IP). By introducing unique brand and product names, each retailer can ensure the high replacement cost and market position of its products and/or services. IP and its worth are usually neglected. IP is a major aspect in daily business practices in an increasingly knowledge-based sector. New technologies, brands and innovative designs are introduced to the market nearly every single day, as a result of human continual innovation and creativity. As a result, the necessity of intellectual property rights to MSMEs in product development as well as some success stories is reviewed in this manuscript. This article also showed how IP has evolved into a business tool to counter the challenge that MSMEs confront in applying the IP system.
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Singh, Sumanjeet, and Minakshi Paliwal. "Unleashing The Growth Potential Of Indian MSME Sector." Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 20, no. 2 (June 30, 2017): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cer-2017-0011.
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The MSME sector occupies a position of strategic significance in the Indian economic structure. This sector contributes nearly eight per cent to country’s GDP, employing over 80 million people in nearly 36 million widely-dispersed enterprises across the country; accounting for 45 per cent of manufactured output, 40 per cent of the country’s total export, and producing more than 8000 valueadded products ranging from traditional to high-tech. Furthermore, these enterprises are the nurseries for innovation and entrepreneurship, which will be key to the future growth of India. It is also an acknowledged fact that this sector can help realise the target of the proposed National Manufacturing Policy to enhance the share of manufacturing in GDP to 25 per cent and to create 100 million jobs by the end of 2022, as well as to foster growth and take India from its present two trillion dollar economy to a 20 trillion dollar economy. Despite the sector’s high enthusiasm and inherent capabilities to grow, its growth story still faces a number of challenges. In this light, the present paper examines the role of Indian MSMEs in India’s economic growth and explores various problems faced by the sector. The paper also attempts to discuss various policy measures undertaken by the Government to strengthen Indian MSMEs. Finally, the paper proposes strategies aimed at strengthening the sector to enable it to unleash its growth potential and help make India a 20 trillion dollar economy.
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Batliboi, Shara M., and Suhas Tambe. "Conceptualizing a Model for Improving Access to Medicines in Rural India." Journal of Health Management 16, no. 4 (November 26, 2014): 547–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972063414548556.
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India’s health care infrastructure has not kept pace with the economy’s growth. Today only 25 per cent of the Indian population has access to allopathic medicine, practiced mainly in urban areas. Rural India’s health is supported, not always adequately, by the government’s National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). This study proposes a model for distributing free medicines to villages. Medicines, a few months before their expiry dates, normally wasted, would be obtained from urban stockists/chemists. Pharmaceutical companies, by giving their consent, could partner with the model. The transfer of drugs to rural India would be via the widespread Indian postal network. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), postal employees and trained NRHM personnel would mobilize the model. Such a public–private partnership brings together members of civil society (e.g., NGOs), public sector (e.g., government agencies) and private sector (e.g., pharmaceutical companies) to fund, coordinate and drive the model, addressing the gaps in rural access to health care.
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V., Priyanka,, K. B. Vedamurthy, Yashavantagouda, S. Patil., and Naresh. "Cereal Commerce: An Indian Trade Scenario at HS 4 Digit Level." Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 30, no. 6 (May 9, 2024): 385–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jsrr/2024/v30i62053.
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India's cereal trade landscape is a complex interplay of production, export, and import dynamics, reflecting both domestic priorities and global market demands. Despite historical export restrictions on staples like wheat and rice, recent policy shifts have positioned India as a pivotal player in global cereal commerce. The present study aims to understand the Indian cereal production and trade significance at HS 4-digit level. Notably the results indicated that, India's cereal production has exhibited steady growth, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 0.044 per cent over the years. This growth trajectory, coupled with fluctuations in India's share of world cereal production (hovering around 10-11 %), underscores the country's consistent contribution to the global market. In terms of export composition, rice stands out as the dominant commodity, comprising a significant 76.42 per cent share of the total exported value, followed by wheat and maize. On the import front, India shows a strategic reliance on specific cereals like barley, oats, and maize, which collectively constitute over 90 per cent of the imported cereal value. This import pattern reflects targeted procurement strategies based on market needs and domestic consumption patterns. Examining trade partnerships, the United States emerges as a key exporter, while China features prominently as a significant importer of cereals. Other notable exporters include Argentina, Brazil, and Australia, contributing to a diverse distribution of cereal trade globally. The results imply that understanding product groups in specific can enhance the trade performance of any country. This diversity in trade partnerships highlights India's adaptability and its ability to navigate complex international markets. Overall, India's cereal trade dynamics demonstrate a blend of strategic production growth, export prioritization, and targeted import strategies, showcasing its pivotal role and significance in the global cereals market.
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Suri, Ashish, and Bhupendra Singh Hada. "Analysis of Trends in Gross Domestic and Household Savings and its Components in India." Studies in Business and Economics 13, no. 1 (April 1, 2018): 181–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2018-0014.
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AbstractIndia is having a long-term oriented culture where people are more focused on their future rather than present. Due to this the savings rate in India has always remain at a significant level. India’s savings performance has been quite impressive in a cross-country context. India’s gross domestic savings rate in the recent period is comparable to Indonesia, Thailand and Korea, much lower than that of China, Malaysia and Singapore but much higher than that of many other emerging and advanced economies. India ranked 2nd in terms of gross domestic savings among top 10 economies of the world in the year 2015, just below that of China. The gross domestic savings which stood at around 23 per cent in 1990 has reached around 35 per cent in 2015, well above the world average of 23.5 per cent. Various factors which resulted in an increase in gross domestic savings rate are rapid economic growth, large scale migration of rural population to urban area, Rise in income of government employees after 6th pay commission, persistence of saving habits among households, awareness programs by government and financial institutions etc. Household savings has always remained a major component of gross domestic savings followed by private corporate savings and public sector savings. It was the result of high savings rate that the Indian economy stand strong during the global recession of 2008. During the tenth five year plan i.e. from 2002-2007 the increasing in gross domestic savings was maximum among all. Bank deposits have always remain the most preferred avenue for savings for households. Total deposits in Indian banks crossed Rs100 billion mark in 2017.
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Leung, Patrick, and Monit Cheung. "A prevalence study on partner abuse in six Asian American ethnic groups in the USA." International Social Work 51, no. 5 (September 2008): 635–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872808093342.
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English In a survey of 1577 Asian Americans, the average partner abuse prevalence was 16.4 percent, that is, 22.4 percent among Vietnamese, 21.8 percent among Filipinos, 19.5 percent among Indians, 19.5 percent among Koreans, 9.7 percent among Japanese and 9.7 percent among Chinese. Asian partner abuse victims are likely to seek help from medical professionals or friends. French Cette étude qui porte sur 1577 Asiatiques Américains révèle que le pourcentage d'abus commis au sein des groupes étudiés était de 16,4 pour cent, et se répartissait comme suit: 22,4 pour cent chez les Vietnamiens, 21,8 pour cent chez les Philippins, 19,5 pour cent chez les Indiens, 19,5 pour cent chez les Coréens, 9,7 pour cent chez les Japonais et 9,7 pour cent chez les Chinois. Les victimes asiatiques d'abus de la part du conjoint sont enclines à chercher de l'aide dans le milieu médical ou auprès d'amis. Spanish En una encuesta de 1,577 asiático americanos, el porcentaje de prevalencia de abuso de pareja fue de 16.4 percent, el cual estima que el 22.4 percent se da entre vietnamitas, el 21.8 percent entre filipinos, 19.5 percent entre indios, 19.5 percent entre coreanos, 9.7 percent entre japoneses y 9.7 percent entre chinos. Es probable que las víctimas asiáticas de abuso de pareja busquen ayuda de profesionales médicos o amigos.
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Vikram, Balaji, Shubham Gangwar, Ankita Belwel, Rohit Mathur, Pradeep Kumar, Pushpandra, Braj Kishor, Durga Kumari, and Purnima Singh Sikarwar. "A Review on Post-Harvest Management and Value Addition of Horticultural Crops: A Source of Income Generation for the Farmers of Bundelkhand, India." International Journal of Environment and Climate Change 13, no. 11 (December 11, 2023): 4662–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i113645.
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India's horticulture sector has demonstrated impressive growth, yielding 223.089 million tonnes of produce in the 11th five-year plan, predominantly driven by fruits and vegetables. Despite utilizing a relatively small portion of the cropped area, this sector contributed a substantial 30 per cent to India's agricultural GDP. However, challenges persist in fully integrating waste utilization technologies from developed nations into Indian conditions. Thus, a need for tailor-made, cost-effective technologies specifically suited to Indian conditions is paramount, focusing on value-added product production. Efficient post-harvest management not only enhances value addition but also transforms waste into a valuable resource, ultimately reducing production costs and maximizing biomass utilization. Various advanced process technologies, including drying, freezing, fermentation and extraction, stand as promising methods for recycling and upgrading waste within the fruit and vegetable market. The study emphasizes the potential of horticultural crops in sustainable agriculture, and their economic and nutritional significance and aims to propose strategies for optimized post-harvest practices and value addition to benefit farmers in Bundelkhand.
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TRIPATHY, S. N. "REMITTANCE OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS: CATALYTIC FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT." INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS 5, no. 1 (2022): 165–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.47509/ijaeb.2023.v05i01.09.
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Immigrants have become an integral component of socio-economic development, and play a diverse set of roles, preserving a range of influences on the economy of their origin. International migration, usually network-driven is a natural consequence of capitalist market formation in the developing world penetrating peripheral regions. Every year 2.5 million (25 lakh) Indians migrate overseas, which is the highest annual number of migrants in the world. Indians represent the second largest U.S. immigrant group, after Mexicans and ahead of Chinese and Filipinos. The 2.7 million Indianimmigrants residing in the United States as of 2021 made up 6 per cent of the total foreignborn population, and their numbers continue to expand. USA ranks second on the list with so many growth opportunities accessible for Indians in the spheres of technology and biological sciences. Based on secondary sources of data, the present research assesses the trend, major flow of immigrants and their contribution to the development of Indian economy, which concludes that with the help of remittances, immigration can contribute positively to the developmental activity of a country, including employment, economic growth, poverty reduction, social empowerment, and technological progress.
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Loganathan, V. "Trends of India’s Agricultural Import During the Pre-reform and Post-reform Periods." Shanlax International Journal of Economics 11, no. 2 (March 1, 2023): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/economics.v11i2.6067.
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Agriculture has been the largest sector of the Indian economy. It plays a vital role in providing food for the nation, raw materials to the industry providing employment. Past two and a half decades, India has implemented comprehensive trade policy reforms in the agriculture sector due to internal and external factors. This study has investigated patterns of India’s foreign trade in agriculture during pre-reform and reform periods. The effect of liberalization of India’s foreign trade has greatly influenced the structure of trade in goods and services. For this study, the agriculture communities have been classified into Food Crops and food items, Pulses, Oil and oilseeds, Commercial crops, Plantation crops, Animal products, and Oilseed cake meals. Data for this study have been collected from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) official website (www.faostat.fao.org), from 1970 to 2013. In 1970, the highest value of percentage share is observed for the food and food crops import at 55.56 per cent followed by commercial crops at 29.15 per cent, animal products at 6.83 per cent, pulses at 5.73 per cent, and oilseeds and oil at 1.29 per cent. In 2017, the highest value of percentage share is observed for oilseeds and oil import at 40.45 per cent followed by commercial crops at 27.87 per cent, pulses at 14.03 and food crops and food items at 10.59 per cent. Overall, there is a significant increase is noted for the percentage share of oilseeds and oil in total agricultural imports in the study period. In the case of pulses, the percentage share of imports in total agricultural export has been increasing during the study period among the other major group of products. There is downward movement is observed for the import of food crops and food items during the study period.
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Gunadal, Narayan Murigeppa, N. M. Kerur, Balachandra K. Naik, Vilas S. Kulkarni, and T. R. Shashidhar. "Unveiling India’s Export Success: The Remarkable Performance of Gherkins." Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 30, no. 8 (July 18, 2024): 90–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jsrr/2024/v30i82227.
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Aim: As India is a major producer and exporter of gherkins in the world and Karnataka is the largest producer and exporter of gherkins in the country. The study aims to analyze the significant export performance of gherkins (Fresh/chilled, provisionally preserved and provisionally preserved by vinegar) from India, highlighted their remarkable performance in oversea markets. India's horticultural sector has witnessed significant growth, particularly in gherkins production and exports, call attention to its pivotal role in the global market. Place and Duration of the Study: This study analyzed the export performance of Indian gherkins across three categories viz., fresh/chilled, provisionally preserved and preserved by vinegar, study conducted during the period from 2011-12 to 2022-23. Methodology: The growth rate of export performance of gherkins were analysed using Compound Annual Growth Rate. The instability in export quantity of gherkins were measured by using Coefficient of Variation and Cuddy-Della Valle Instability Index. Result and Discussion: The export performance of Indian gherkins across various categories, fresh/chilled, provisionally preserved and preserved by vinegar, reveals distinct growth trajectories and market dynamics from 2011-12 to 2022-23. Fresh/chilled gherkins showed a modest Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 4.06 per cent, indicating gradual but steady expansion, albeit with moderate instability (Cuddy-Della Valle Instability index of 42.35). The United Arab Emirates consistently dominated as the top importer of Indian gherkins. Provisionally preserved gherkins exhibited a stronger growth with a significant CAGR of 4.04 per cent and lower instability (CV of 18.28 %), highlighting stable demand for Indian gherkins in the international market. In contrast, gherkins provisionally preserved by vinegar saw varied trends across countries, with notable growth in markets like the USA and Germany, while others like France experienced declines. These insights underscore strategic imperatives for enhancing competitiveness through quality improvements, competitive pricing strategies and navigating regulatory landscapes to sustain India's global gherkins market presence.
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Maharana, Rabindra K. "Mapping of Tuberculosis (TB) research in India during 2004-2013: a bibliometric analysis." Collection Building 34, no. 3 (July 6, 2015): 102–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cb-10-2014-0048.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze Indian researchers’ publications on tuberculosis (TB) which were indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database during the from 2004 to 2013. It also emphases the performance of publication covering annual outputs, mainstream journals, leading Indian research institutions, h-index, etc. Design/methodology/approach – The present study is a bibliometric analysis of all Indian TB publications over the past 10 years, in the national/international journals of repute. Utilizing the WoS database, 5,073 documents of Indian researcher’s publications data on TB research were used for the study; various statistical techniques and bibliometric measures have been used for further analysis. Findings – The present study found out 5,073 documents published by the Indian researchers and indexed in WoS during the period from 2004 to 2013, with an average of 507-508 documents per year, and majority of them were research articles (79.85 per cent); Science Citation Index Extended alone consists 5,055 documents. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and D. Sriram were the most favoured research journal, major contributing organization/institution and most prolific contributor, respectively. Research limitations/implications – The study exclusively examines 5,073 research outputs of Indian researchers on TB which have been indexed in Thomson Reuters WoS during 2004-2013. Thus, documents published in any other different channels and sources which have not indexed in WoS are excluded from the purview of research. Originality/value – It is the first attempt and unique study of its kind which apply bibliometric techniques to analyse TB research by Indian researchers with compared to affected Asian countries which are very badly affected by the disease. To understand India’s strength and capability, the present bibliometric study was conducted to portray India’s research and development profile in TB research.
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Navandhar, Rohan. "The Impact of GST on Indian Economy." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. 11 (November 30, 2021): 1419–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.38754.
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Abstract: In India, the idea of GST was contemplated in 2004 by the Task Force on implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, named Kelkar Committee. The Kelkar Committee was convinced that a dual GST system shall be able to tax almost all the goods and services and the Indian economy shall be able to have wider market of tax base, improve revenue collection through levying and collection of indirect tax and more pragmatic approach of efficient resource allocation. Under the Goods and Service Tax , every person is be liable to pay tax on output and shall be entitled to enjoy credit on input tax paid and tax shall be only on the amount of value added. GST is a single national uniform tax levied across India on all goods and services. In GST, all Indirect taxes such as excise duty, central sales tax (CST)and value- added tax (VAT) etc. will be subsumed under a single regime. Introduction of The Goods and Services Tax (GST) expected as a significant step towards a comprehensive indirect tax reform in the country, which would lead India for its economic growth. The Proposed study is designed to know the impact on GST on Indian Economy with the Help of Its individual effect on different sectors. Under GST, goods and services fall under five tax categories: 0 per cent, 5 per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per cent and 28 per cent. For corporates, the elimination of multiple taxes will improve the ease of doing business. And for consumers, the biggest advantage would be in terms of a reduction in the overall tax burden on goods. "Inflation will come down, tax avoidance will be difficult, India's GDP will be benefitted and extra resources will be used for welfare of poor and weaker section. The Lok Sabha has finally Passed the Goods and Services Tax Bill and it is expected to have a significant impact on every industry and every consumer. Apart from filling the loopholes of the current system, it is also aimed at boosting the Indian economy. Keywords: GST, Indian Economy, Positive Impact , Negative Impact, Central Government, State Government
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Krithika, S. "Human Resource Practices In The Organised Retail Sectors." International Review of Business and Economics 4, no. 2 (2020): 238–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.56902/irbe.2020.4.2.34.
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Indian organized retail market is growing at a fast pace due to the boom in the India retail industry. In 2005, the retail industry in India amounted to Rs 10,000 billion accounting for about 10% to the country’s GDP. The organized retail market in India out of this total market accounted for Rs 350 billion which is about 3.5% of the total revenues. Traditionally the retail industry in India was largely unorganized, comprising of drug stores, medium, and small grocery stores. Most of the organized retailing in India have started recently and is concentrating mainly in metropolitan cities. The growth in the Indian organized retail market is mainly due to the change in the consumer’s behavior. This change has come in the consumer due to increased income, changing lifestyles, and patterns of demography which are favorable. Now the consumer wants to shop at a place where he can get food, entertainment, and shopping all under one roof. This has given Indian organized retail market a major boost. Retail market in the organized sector in India is growing can be seen from the fact that 1500 supermarkets, 325 departmental stores, and 300 new malls are being built. Many Indian companies are entering the Indian retail market which is giving Indian organized retail market a boost. One such company is the Reliance Industries Limited. It plans to invest US$6billionintheIndianretailmarket by opening 1000 hypermarkets and 1500 supermarkets. Pantaloons are another Indian company which plans to increase its retail space to 30 million square feet with an investment of US$ 1 billion. Bharti Telecoms an Indian company is in talks with Tesco a global giant for a £ 750 million joint venture. A number of global retail giants such as Walmart, Carrefour, and Metro AG are also planning to set up shop in India. Indian organized retail market will definitely grow as a result of all this investments. Indian organized retail market is increasing and for this growth to continue the Indian retailers as well as government must make a combined effort. The Indian retail industry has emerged as one of the most dynamic and fast-paced industries due to the entry of several new players. Total consumption expenditure is expected to reach nearly US$ 3,600 billion by 2020 from US$ 1,824 billion in 2017. It accounts for over 10 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and around 8 per cent of the employment. India is the world’s fifth-largest global destination in the retail space. India’s retail market is expected to increase by 60 per cent to reach US$ 1.1 trillion by 2020, on the back of factors like rising incomes and lifestyle changes by middle class and increased digital connectivity. Online retail sales are forecasted to grow at the rate of 31 per cent year-on-year to reach US$ 32.70 billion in 2018. Indian market has high complexities in terms of a wide geographic spread and distinct consumer preferences varying by each region necessitating a need for localization even within the geographic zones. India has highest number of outlets per person (7 per thousand) Indian retail space per capita at 2 sq ft (0.19 m2)/ person is lowest in the world Indian retail density of 6 percent is highest in the world. 1.8 million Households in India have an annual income of over 4.5 million (US$62,615.70). While India presents a large market opportunity given the number and increasing purchasing power of consumers, there are significant challenges as well given that over90%oftradeisconductedthrough independent local stores. Challenges include: Geographically dispersed population, small ticket sizes, complex distribution network, and little use of IT systems, limitations of mass media and existence of counterfeit goods. India is expected to become the world’s fastest growing e-commerce market, driven by robust investment in the sector and rapid increase in the number of internet users. Various agencies have high expectations about growth of Indian e-commerce markets. Luxury market of India is expectedtogrowtoUS$30billionby the end of 2018 from US$ 23.8 billion 2017 supported by growing exposure of international brands amongst Indian youth and higher purchasing power of the upper class in tier 2 and 3 cities, according to Assoc ham. The Indian retail trading has received Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) equity inflows totaling US$ 1.42 billion during April 2000–June 2018, according to the Department of Industrial Policies and Promotion (DIPP). With the rising need for consumer goods in different sectors including consumer electronics and home appliances, many companies have invested in the Indian retail space in the past few months. Beckons, a South Korean designer brand is set to enter the Indian market with an investment of about Rs 1.00 billion (US$ 14.25 million) and open 50 stores by June 2019. Wal-Mart Investments Cooperative U.A has invested Rs 2.75 billion (US$ 37.68 million) in Wal-Mart India Pvt Ltd. The Government of India has taken various initiatives to improve the retail industry in India. The Government of India may change the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) rules in food processing, in a bid to permit e-commerce companies and foreign retailers to sell Made in India consumer products. Government of India has allowed 100 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in online retail of goods and services through the automatic route, thereby providing clarity on the existing businesses of e-commerce companies operating in India. E-commerce is expanding steadily in the country. Customers have the ever increasing choice of products at the lowest rates. E-commerce is probably creating the biggest revolution in the retail industry, and this trend would continue in the years to come. India’s e-commerce industry is forecasted to reach US$ 53 billion by 2018. Retailers should leverage the digital retail channels (e-commerce), which would enable them to spend less money on real estate while reaching out to more customers in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. It is projected that by 2021 traditional retail will hold a major share of 75 per cent, organized retail share will reach 18 per cent and e-commerce retail share will reach 7 per cent of the total retail market. Nevertheless, the long- term outlook for the industry is positive, supported by rising incomes, favorable demographics, entry of foreign players, and increasing urbanization.
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Palanichamy N, Venketesa, Sagar Surendra Deshmukh, and Kalpana M. "Study on the Evaluation of the Profitability, Efficiency and Investment Trends of Different Poultry Farming Systems." Journal of Agriculture and Ecology Research International 25, no. 3 (May 2, 2024): 127–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jaeri/2024/v25i3600.
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Over the past 20 years, the Indian poultry sector has transformed into a dynamic entity with more structured operations. Following all these practices almost at every level, poultry industry is now achieving new heights day by day. The entire livestock sector's contribution to India's GDP is greatly aided by the poultry industry in the country. India's poultry sector ranks second and third in the world in terms of meat and egg output, respectively, with 3.4 million tonnes of meat and 65 million tons of eggs produced (FAO). Significant advancements in the industry have resulted from management initiatives. Most of India's organized structure has contributed to the effective use of resources and the right implementation of policies, which have improved firm financial positions and produced the intended results. The data was collected from stakeholders with the help of pretested interview schedule. Separate interview schedule was prepared for broiler farmers (100 samples), breeder farmers (10 samples) and processing cum distribution centers (20 samples). A combination of tools viz. average, percentage, cost and return analysis. To get better understanding of the study, the sample farmers were classified into different supply chains based on their mode of working and business stages performed. Feeding management practices were followed aptly by most of the farmers. Almost all farmers were following suitable health management practice by vaccinating their birds. Based on number of birds reared poultry farms were classified as small, medium and large poultry farms. Small farms were in only in Supply Chain II and III. Fixed investment they did was `583010 and `46733 out of which nearly 85 per cent building charge. In medium sized poultry farms category, poultry farms from Supply Chain II, III and IV were present. Fixed investment they made was `12,22,096, `15,94,147 and `13,27,778 respectively of which more than 90 per cent was spent on farm buildings construction purpose. In large poultry farms, Supply Chain IV farmers had made quite huge fixed investment. For all the farms, of the total investment, 90 per cent was in buildings and 10 per cent was in equipments.
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Kotwal, Ashok, Milind Murugkar, and Bharat Ramaswami. "The Political Economy of Food Subsidy in India." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 30, no. 2 (February 21, 2014): 100–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v30i2.4244.
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Indian parliament is getting ready to debate the National Food Security Bill that would be the single biggest poverty alleviation programme, costing about 1.5 per cent of India's gross domestic product. There has been a fierce debate
leading up to the drafting of the bill and subsequent modifications. This article first points out the salient features of the Indian economy to give context to assess the current debate. In particular, it gives a detailed picture of the grain
market in India and the important role played in it by the central government. It traces the path of the bill from its genesis through the subsequent debate and political process. The article identifies the key players in the debate and the
role they have played in shaping the provisions in the latest draft of the bill. At the end, the authors speculate about likely food security outcomes in India.
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Chilukuri, Harshadeep, and Stephy Thankam Varghese. "Financial Statement Analysis of Ashok Leyland Limited, India." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 5, no. 1 (October 24, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v5.n1.p1.
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<p><em>The Indian auto industry is one of the largest in the world. The industry accounts for 7.1 per cent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As of Financial Year 2014-2015, around 31 per cent of small cars sold globally were manufactured in India. The Two Wheelers segment with 81 per cent market share is the leader of the Indian Automobile market owing to a growing middle class and a young population.</em></p><p><em> </em><em> Moreover, the growing interest of the companies in exploring the rural markets further aided the growth of the sector. India is also a prominent auto exporter and has strong export growth expectations for the near future. In April-January 2016, exports of Commercial Vehicles registered a growth of 18.36 per cent over April-January 2015. In addition, several initiatives by the Government of India and the major automobile players in the Indian market were expected to make India a leader in the Two Wheeler (2W) and Four Wheeler (4W) market in the world by 2020.</em></p><p><em> </em><em>India’s second largest commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland has shown a declining trend in the total sales during August 2016 by 6 per cent due to lower growth in Medium and Heavy Vehicle segment. The company sold ten thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (10,897) vehicles in the month gone by, compared with 11,544 units sold in the same month last year. Medium & Heavy commercial vehicle sales during the month declined 8 percent to 8201 units while light commercial vehicle sales grew by 2 percent to 2696 units on yearly basis. The contribution of Ashok Leyland in the growth of the automobile industry is very high. Hence an attempt is made to analyse the financial statement of <strong>Ashok Leyland.</strong></em></p><em><strong></strong></em>
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Gupta, J. N., and Vijaya Katti. "Export Strategy of Apparel Products." Foreign Trade Review 47, no. 2 (July 2012): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0015732515120202.
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It has been observed that EU countries get higher unit value realization (UVR) in their apparel products export by exporting high value added/differentiated products. The most valuable activities in the apparel value chain are not related to manufacturing per se, but are found in the design, branding, marketing, etc. among other activities within the products. The study has been undertaken to analyze the export of Indian apparel products from the point of view of total export value and unit value realization (UVR). The study focused on top 10 apparel products being exported from India, which constitute more than 50 per cent of the total value of India's export of apparel products. A time series data has been prepared to get the picture of export of top 10 apparel products from India to the World. For these products, competitive positions of top 10 exporting countries for these products were obtained. Comparative calculation of trade value, quantity and unit value realization (UVR) were carried out for all the top exporters including India in each of these top 10 products. Further, in these top 10 exporting products, the analysis was carried out for India's export destination markets for the years from 2004 to 2009. To know the competitiveness in the export of these 10 products, Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) values of these 10 products have been calculated for these products. Analysis shows that Indian exporters are not able to get high UVR for their exports. The study attempted to find destination markets to get high UVR based export for Indian exporters for enhancing export volume of these products to achieve growth. The study is concluded with the suggestions from Indian exporters to improve upon competitiveness by concentrating on export of high value-added products.
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Gupta, Poonam. "CASE STUDY: The determinants of remittances to India." MIGRATION LETTERS 7, no. 2 (January 28, 2014): 214–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v7i2.194.
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This paper analyses the macroeconomic determinants of remittances to India and assesses the impact of the current global slowdown on these flows. The paper shows that remittances exhibit a strong trend, whereby they have increased at a robust rate of 10 per cent a year since 1992. The movement of remittances is limited around the trend and traditionally has not been affected by the domestic or external macroeconomic variables. This pattern has changed since 2000, when the remittances have responded positively to the domestic interest rates and the Indian stock market; and negatively to the external interest rates. Looking ahead, a slowdown in the economic growth rate in advanced economies is unlikely to reduce the flow of remittances to India in the short term; but a prolonged slowdown, if it significantly reverses the migration of Indians, can reduce the trend growth rate.
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Rustagi, T. R. "Indirect Tax Reforms in the Indian Economy." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 23, no. 1 (January 1998): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090919980107.
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Several expert committees have examined India's indirect tax structure in the past and made valuable recommendations. More recently, the Tax Reform Committee (Chelliah Committee) laid down the agenda for gradual reduction in tariffs and rationalization of customs and excise duty structures. On this basis, significant progress has been made since 1992. Tariffs have been brought down from a peak rate of over 300 to 40 per cent with a view to bring down costs and make the Indian industry more competitive. Excise duty rates have been significantly reduced, procedures simplified, and exemptions pruned. Yet, according to Rustagi⁄ the excise system is far away from modernity. While he agrees that whatever has been done so far is no mean achivement, more needs to be done.
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Dr. Jasdeep Kaur Dhami, Manbir Singh,. "Analysis of Real GDP, Imports and Exports of Indian Ocean RIM Association Member Nations." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 2 (February 4, 2021): 68–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i2.1057.
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The Indian Ocean woven together by transmission of trade, commands the control of majority of the world’s cargo ships, one third of the worlds cargo traffic and two thirds of total world’s oil shipments. The main aim of this paper is to analyse Real GDP, Imports and Exports of Indian Ocean RIM Association Member Nations. Time period of the study is from 1980 to 2019. Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) contributes 11.7 per cent share in world exports, in case of member nations highest share is of Singapore 2.1 per cent followed by India and UAE 1.7 per cent, Australia 1.5 per cent, Thailand and Malaysia 1.3 per cent. Indonesia, South Africa, Bangladesh, Oman, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Sri Lanka the share in world exports is less than 1 per cent.
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.T .S, Senthilkumar, and Uma Swarupa .P. "A Quantitative Description of Pepper Cultivation in Kerala." International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology 7, no. 2 (June 6, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.23956/ijermt.v7i2.11.
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In India, Kerala is the largest producer of pepper, accounting over 50 per cent of India’s total output followed by Karnataka and Tamilnadu. But, at a time when black pepper production has seen a drastic fall due to climate change, the unexpected rise in the price of pepper has brought cheer to farmers in Kerala.“The influx of pepper from Vietnam and Sri Lanka was the main reason for the fall in pepper price in the Indian market,” said Binoy Kurian, a spices merchant in Kattappana.“When cheaper pepper from these countries continued to flood the market, the price of pepper produced domestically gradually decreased. There was also a stagnation in the market due to the low price as farmers were not ready to sell their produce.”Hence, the study theoretically analyzes the pepper cultivation, variation in the production and yield rate and cost of cultivation of pepper in Kerala state. Secondary data has been used for the study which includes reports from Department of Economics and Statistics, Indian Agricultural Statistics and other National and International Journals.
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Chendrayudu, N., and G. S. Srinivasa Gopinath. "Agricultural Land Distribution and Irrigation Potentiality: A Case Study of Guntur District, A.P." Geographical Analysis 8, no. 2 (December 5, 2019): 55–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.53989/bu.ga.v8i2.1.
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Agriculture is the most important sector of Indian Economy. Indian agriculture sector accounts for 18 per cent of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) and provides employment to 50% of the countries workforce. India is the world’s largest producer of Pulses, Paddy, Wheat, Spices and spice products. Andhra Pradesh is with agriculture as a major source of income for about 60% of its population. In the last 70 years, the annual growth rate of agriculture has been 2.88%, which is far below the target growth of 4% per annum. Even today maximum percentage of land and water resource potentiality is under the hands of few farmers (Forward caste) followed by Backward caste farmers, where as Schedule caste and Schedule Tribes farmers are the marginalized agricultural social groups. This situation has caused the disparities among farmers agricultural land and irrigation water potentiality. The present paper examined intraregional disparities in agriculture land holdings and irrigation potentiality in Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh. Keywords: Agriculture; Irrigation; Land distribution; Gross Domestic Product (GDP); Schedule Caste; Schedule Tribes
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Massand, Ajay B., and Gopalakrishna B.V. "Determinants of Bank Foreign Direct Investment Inflow in India: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach." IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review 6, no. 1 (December 19, 2016): 13–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277975216674049.
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India received highest foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world during the first half of 2015, leaving bigger economies like the US and China behind. In the process of globalization, India has liberalized all its sectors and invited FDI in most of the sectors, albeit with a sectoral cap. Internationalization of banks is perhaps the best example of India’s globalization. There are 44 foreign banks with 300 branches operating in India having a cap of 74 per cent and 20 per cent foreign investment in private and public sector banks, respectively. The present study aims to determine the motives behind bank FDI inflow into India. To accomplish that, a county-wise panel was constructed and bank FDI data from 2001 to 2013 was analyzed through generalized method of moments, a dynamic panel data model. The result of the study shows that bank FDI follows overall FDI, indicating that foreign banks follow their clients from their home country to serve them in the host country. However, locational advantages offer them profit-making opportunities and thus play a limited role in drawing bank FDI, which contribute to the development of the Indian economy. The argument that bank FDI inflow increases during a period of crisis is not relevant in the Indian context. The study suggests increasing the FDI cap in banking sector to attract more FDI and further relax the current restrictive policy on entry of foreign banks in India.
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Kaur, Gurjeet, and Tahira Khanam Quareshi. "Factors obstructing intentions to trust and purchase products online." Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 27, no. 5 (November 9, 2015): 758–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/apjml-10-2014-0146.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore reasons for not buying products through online. The study also tries to explain the relationship between intentions to trust (IT) and online purchase intentions. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected through well-structured instrument, distributed to 226 students of Masters of Business Administration and Masters of Computer Applications departments of a north Indian University. Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling were used to analyse the data and to test the formulated hypotheses. Findings – The results of the study highlight that 90 per cent of the respondents are aware about online shopping sites but only 38 per cent are online buyers of various products. Major reasons for not shopping are lack of security, absence of physical examination and testing of products, lack of product’s complete information, unattractive visual displays and layouts, etc. However, it is observed that nearly 79 per cent respondents have positive intentions to buy products online in near future. Research limitations/implications – There is a need to study actual online buying behaviour. Also, models like Technology Acceptance Model and Diffusion of Innovation have not been studied. As the study was confined to students only, it can be replicated to other age group consumer segments and extended to other emerging economies as well. There is a need to take into consideration some other important dimensions in the future studies, namely, predictability, familiarity, third party certification, attitude, ease of use, perceived risk, etc., for the better analysis of behaviour. Practical implications – E-vendors must properly implement money back guarantee schemes when there is non-delivery of ordered goods, provide dispute resolution system, instil confidence in customers, highlight security, privacy policy, display contacts details, etc., to increase customers’ IT and purchase products online. Originality/value – The paper identifies the factors that obstruct customer to purchase products online. More particularly, in Indian context the present study makes valuable contribution as the Indians have been reported to be techno phobic and uncertainty avoidant.
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Rathi, Neha, Lynn Riddell, and Anthony Worsley. "Urban Indian adolescents practise unhealthy dietary behaviours." British Food Journal 120, no. 7 (July 2, 2018): 1657–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-09-2017-0510.
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Purpose The rising prevalence of obesity among Indian adolescents has underscored the need to develop effective strategies to reduce this epidemic. The purpose of this paper is to assess the patterns of snacking, meal consumption and fast food consumption among adolescents in private schools in Kolkata, India. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional, paper-based, self-administered dietary and lifestyle survey was completed by 1,026 year-nine students aged 14–16 years. Cross-tabulation analyses were performed to compare the frequencies of various dietary behaviours across gender. Findings The two most common episodes for snacking among respondents were while watching television (57.9 per cent) and while interacting with peers (54.1 per cent). In contrast, snacking throughout the day (8.7 per cent) and in the middle of the night (7.8 per cent) were minimally practiced by the adolescents. The most regularly consumed meal was lunch (94.6 per cent), whereas the most frequently missed meal was breakfast (14.0 per cent). Fast food was most frequently consumed as snacks (26.8 per cent) but least frequently consumed for lunch (9.2 per cent). Overall, boys exhibited more unhealthy dietary behaviours than girls. Practical implications These findings highlight the need to develop nutrition education programmes for nutritionally vulnerable adolescents which communicate the importance of regular meal consumption, reduced intake of fast food and less snacking on energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods. Originality/value This is the first cross-sectional survey to investigate patterns of snacking, meal consumption and fast food consumption amongst urban Indian adolescents.
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Naipunya, J., I. Bhavani Devi, and D. Vishnusankar Rao. "An analysis of direction of trade in select Indian agricultural commodities." INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS 11, no. 2 (September 15, 2020): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.15740/has/irjaes/11.2/109-117.
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An attempt is made in this paper to assess the dynamics of changes in exports of agricultural commodities namely, maize, chilli and Bengal gram, from India to different export markets by employing Markov chain model. The study is based on a set of countries importing agricultural commodities namely Nepal, others (pooled countries except selected countries) and Bangladesh were the most stable importers of the Indian maize with a probability of retention of 88.52 per cent, 68.90 percent and 61.09 per cent, respectively. The changing pattern of chilli exports through transitional probability matrices indicated that Thailand, other countries (pooled countries) and Vietnam were stable in importing Indian chilli with a probability of retention of 80.52 per cent, 69.02 per cent and 67.09 per cent, respectively. In case of Bengal gram, Pakistan was one of the stable countries as revealed by a probability of retention of its share i.e., 61.35 per cent. Algeria was also another stable importer as it retained its original share of 45.54 per cent followed by Turkey 41.13 per cent. The overall conclusion that emerges from present study is that Nepal, Thailand and Pakistan turned out to be the most stable countries in respect of importing Indian maize, chilli and Bengal gram.
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Arora, Dhruv. "Demand prognosis of industry 4.0 to agriculture sector in India." International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems 25, no. 1 (April 9, 2021): 129–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/kes-210058.
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The objective of this study is to evaluate areas of applicability of Industry 4.0 or the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) to the Agriculture sector in India and how significant benefits can be delivered to the farmers by focusing on selected use cases. Agriculture has been the backbone of Indian economy for centuries, however, its contribution to the India’s economy, measured as a per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), has declined over the last decade. Farm productivity has only marginally improved during this timeframe. At the same time, a surge in expected demand for food grains is expected, posing a significant challenge to the demand-supply parity. To solve this conundrum, 4IR Technologies as the umbrella framework comprising of cognitive internet of things (IoT), big data analytics, drones/spatial technologies and digital user experience, were evaluated in this research study. A baseline assessment of the digital use cases of 4IR Technologies that have already been leveraged in India was conducted. The list of these digital use cases was then enhanced and prioritized using Delphi technique, considering economic value of the use cases to the Indian farmers as well as ease of their implementation.
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Bansal, Rachna, Mohit Kumar, and A. S. Shaikh. "Export performance of Indian chilli." Gujarat Journal of Extension Education 34, no. 1 (December 25, 2022): 66–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2022.34.1.0014.
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India is called as spice wealthy nation as its total production of spices is around 101.25 lakh tonnes from an area of about 43 lakh hectares. This study was entirely based on secondary data. During the year 2020-21, India exported 15.65 lakh tonnes of spices worth of Rs.27143.2 crores. Chilli alone accounts for 38.43 per cent in volume and 31 per cent in value to total export of spices. Exports of chilli grew from 37191 tonnes worth Rs.12246 lakh in the year 2000-01 to 601500 tonnes worth Rs.842975 lakh in the year 2020-21 with an increasing growth rate of 14.47% and 24.48 per cent respectively. China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, UAE and Bangladesh are the major buyers for Indian chillies. Destination wise export of chilli showed that China was the most loyal importer of Indian chilli with retention of 95.09 per cent while Sri Lanka showed zero retention in importing Indian chillies. India had enjoyed a comparative advantage in chilli and NPC for chilli are less than one which clearly indicated that Indian chillies are competitive in the international market. The rigorous quality measures implemented by the Spices Board and the lower output by other competing countries like China and Pakistan had also helped India to achieve record performance.
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Dr. Ravi S. Dalawai. "Socio-Demographic Factors and Health-Related Behaviors Associated with Gerontology." GIS Business 14, no. 6 (November 29, 2019): 359–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/gis.v14i6.11943.
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Indian population is in growing trend from 942.2 million in 1994 to 1.36 billion in 2019.Among this six per cent of India's population was of the age 65 and above (UNFPA, 2019). Today the work culture is totally changed. Both husband and wife are forced to work in the current scenario and unable to take care of their parents. The changing structure created increased problems for old age people leads to loneliness, psychological, physical health and financial insecurity. The study paper provides insight into the social and demographic factor and health related sickness of the oldest people. This research explained the cross-sectional study included a representative sample (n=116) of adults aged ≥60 years. The sample was chosen using a four-stage stratified random-cluster survey sampling method .The Chi Square test and ANOVA test was analyzed using SPSS20.
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Mathur, Om Prakash. "The State of India’s Urban Poverty." Asian Development Review 12, no. 01 (January 1994): 32–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0116110594000023.
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Over the last two decades, the incidence of poverty has declined in India. Indeed, using the official data on poverty incidence without any form of adjustment, the decline would appear to be dramatic, with the headcount index dropping from 51.5 per cent in 1972/73 to 29.9 per cent in 1987/88, and the absolute numbers of the poor from 291.6 million to 237.67 million during the same period…
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Rathi, Neha, Lynn Riddell, and Anthony Worsley. "The role of Indian school canteens in nutrition promotion." British Food Journal 120, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 196–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-05-2017-0275.
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Purpose A school canteen can serve as an important setting for nutrition and health promotion. The purpose of this paper is to describe secondary school students’ perceptions of Indian school canteens. Design/methodology/approach Convenience sampling informed the recruitment of 1,026 year 9 students from nine private schools in Kolkata, India, and data were collected through self-completion of paper-based questionnaires. Frequencies and χ2 analyses were computed. Findings The school children reported that energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods like French fries (90.4 per cent), pizza (79.5 per cent) and cakes (69.2 per cent) were frequently available in the school canteens. However, only a few students (10.2 per cent) acknowledged the availability of nutritious foods like fruits. Only a small proportion of students were content with the nutritional quality of food supplied in the canteens (3.6 per cent), the cost of food (8.7 per cent) and availability of fresh foods like fruits (5.5 per cent). The provision of healthy foods in the school canteen was supported by two-thirds of the respondents (65.9 per cent); however, only a small proportion (18.3 per cent) supported the restriction of fried foods in school canteens. Practical implications These findings underscore the need for the design and implementation of healthy school canteen policies to foster healthy eating habits among Indian adolescents. Originality/value This is the first cross-sectional survey to investigate the views of adolescents regarding school food services in the Indian context.
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Tsering, Rinchin, and N. V. Shende. "Export dimension of maize in India." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES 18, no. 1 (January 15, 2022): 473–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.15740/has/ijas/18.1/473-479.
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This paper presents the study on growth rate and instability in area, production, productivity and export of maize from India. The study also explores the competiveness of Indian maize in international trade along with the factors affecting its export. The study is based on secondary data regarding area, production, export and prices for the last 20 years (from 1999 to 2019) which was collected and the whole period was divided into three periods viz., period I, II and III. The analysis of growth rate for production of maize in India for the period I, period II and the overall period showed that there is positive and highly significant increase in production with 5.92, 4.35 and 4.99 per cent growth in all three aforementioned periods, respectively. Maize export values exhibited significant growth rate values at one per cent level in period I (87.79%) and overall period (28.04%), respectively. The co-efficient of variation and Cuddy-Della instability index for production was found highest in overall period (28.66 %) and period I (8.57 %), respectively. In terms of area co-efficient of variation was highest in overall period (13.31 %) while Cuddy-Della instability index was highest in period II (3.54%). For both export quantity and value, co-efficient of variation was highest in period I with 134.01% and 147.39 %, respectively. While the same for Cuddy Della Instability Index was true in overall period with 73.51% and 71.21%. Index numbers for world production, India’s production, world export, India’s export, export value, domestic price and international price of maize in India displayed gradual increase in almost all the periods. At an overall level, the NPC values of maize export was worked out to 0.82 which indicates moderately export competitiveness of Indian maize in international level and proves commodity is protected in international market. The study concluded with Cobb-Douglas function for factor influencing export of maize exhibited very high value of R2 for maize i.e. (0.97), which indicated the best fit of equation. Maize export was observed to be influenced by factors namely export prices, Total world import, ratio of domestic consumption to production and ratio of domestic price to world price.
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Mukherjee, Atri, D. Suganthi, Rishabh Kumar, and Priyanka Bajaj. "Aggregate Public Support to Indian Agriculture." Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology 41, no. 10 (October 30, 2023): 913–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/ajaees/2023/v41i102244.
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Agricultural subsidies, public investment and income transfer are the three main instruments of India’s farm support policy. This paper examines the aggregate level of public policy support to Indian agriculture for the period from 1995-96 to 2020-21, by putting together different support measures extended by central and state governments and classifying those under three different categories, namely, subsidies, public investment and green box support. The findings reveal that despite some moderation from the peak level achieved during 2008-09, the aggregate support to Indian agriculture continues to remain sizeable at 22.4 per cent of agriculture GVA in 2020-21. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008-09, which is also coincident with the global food crisis, input subsidy declined sharply, whereas the decline in investment was more gradual. Furthermore, there is a distinct shift in the composition, away from input subsidies and in favour of green box support, which includes direct transfer to supplement farmers' income. Using multi dimension index method, the effective aggregate support index, constructed after assigning different weights to the three components as per their impact on agricultural growth, highlights that effective public support to agriculture, which was low in the late 1990s improved substantially till 2008-09 and moderated thereafter. The index values suggest that there is scope for further improvement in policy support for Indian agriculture with higher emphasis on public investment.
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Yeligar, Sharath, Shiv Kumar, P. Venkatesh, I. Kingsly, Manjeet Singh Nain, R. K. Paul, and U. Madhurima. "Prevailing Status of Agricultural Trade between India and European Union." INDIAN JOURNAL OF EXTENSION EDUCATION 59, no. 1 (2023): 13–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59103.
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This study analysed the current scenario of India-EU trade, composition of trade, growth and instability of agricultural commodities during the period 1997-98 to 2021-22. India’s agricultural export to the EU was US $ 4.7 billion and imported US $ 1.3 billion from the EU in 2021-22. Netherlands, Italy and Germany were three most important EU members for Indian agricultural trade. India mainly exported fishes and marine products, coffee, tea, meat, spices and cotton to the EU. Vegetable oil, raw hides, skin and leather and animal fodder were imported by India from the EU. Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) and Cuddy-Della Valle Index (CDVI) for instability indicated that the total trade between India and the EU have increased consistently with annual growth rate of 6.59 per cent and instability value of 13.97. This provides impetus to policymakers to establish close trade links with counterparts of EU.
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Chakraborty, Prabal. "Indian Pharmaceuticals Industry in Global Scenario: An Appraisal." Journal of Health Management 22, no. 3 (August 6, 2020): 424–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972063420937939.
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Today, the Indian pharmaceuticals industry is recognised the world over due to the quality and cost-effectiveness of its products. At present, globally it is one of the fastest-growing industries and contributes 2.4 per cent value wise and 10 per cent volume wise globally. India alone accounts for 20 per cent of global exports in generics. In 2016, the Indian pharma industry exported USD16.89 billion and is expected to touch USD40 billion by 2020. The present generics market has immense potentiality for foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, and worth USD14.53 billion of FDI inflows came in between April 2000 and December 2016. We have witnessed that Indian pharma companies go for joint ventures with multinational companies, make strategic alliances and co-promotions, contract research and manufacturing services, export, acquisitions and mergers, focus on new markets other than the USA and Europe, buy offshore plants and increase stakes in other companies. India is also becoming an attractive investment for the clinical trials market. The objective of this paper is to analyse the Indian pharmaceuticals industry—opportunity and threats, strategies of the Indian companies particularly after trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS).
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Rupa, V., and T. S. Bhanu. "Laryngeal tuberculosis in the eighties—an Indian experience." Journal of Laryngology & Otology 103, no. 9 (September 1989): 864–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022215100110321.
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AbstractLaryngeal tuberculosis is one of the rarer forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. A retrospective analysis of 26 patients seen in the last nine years in our hospital was conducted to illustrate the various modes of clinical presentation. Of the 26 patients, twenty were male and six female. The average age of presentation was 47 years with an age range of 15 months to 71 years. Hoarseness (92.3 per cent) was the commonest symptom. The laryngoscopic appearances often simulated malignancy. Most patients (69.2 per cent) outnumbered ulcerative ones (38.5 per cent). Laryngeal oedema was infrequent (7.7 per cent). Diagnosis was based on a laryngeal biopsy in 18 patients and on evidence of associated pulmonary tuberculosis and response to anti-tuberculous therapy in eight. Chest X-rays showed apical cavitation and infiltration as the commonest findings. Three patients had miliary tuberculosis and one had no pulmonary lesion. Diabetes mellitus was present in seven (26.9 per cent) patients. Four illustrative cases are described. The problems in diagnosis and management of laryngeal tuberculosis are discussed.
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Sen, Bulbul. "Public Procurement Reform for Ease in Doing Business." Indian Journal of Public Administration 65, no. 1 (February 27, 2019): 45–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556119829578.
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Public procurement is one area needing governmental reforms. It is largely governed by dated rules that businesses feel are not able to encompass the complex needs of a modernising Indian economy. They also feel that there is a plethora of public contract rules often not in harmony with each other creating confusion and giving opportunity for corruption. However, the Modi regime’s anti-corruption mandate should not stifle business initiative that is the main critique against the Public Procurement Bill (2012). An amended public procurement law should inter alia be comprehensive in its coverage. It should incorporate new forms of tendering to cover complex procurement situations, maintain balance between the cost and the quality in tender awards, check abuse of monopoly in single-source procurement, prevent ‘digital divide’ in transparency provisions, maintain balance between external openness and promotion of domestic economy in market access provisions, encourage sustainable public procurement, incorporate effective mechanisms for redressing grievances of bidders and avoid penal provisions punishing offences covered by existing laws. Regulatory reform in public procurement will have substantial economic impact, as government contracts annually average approximately 30 per cent of India’s GDP and cover almost every sphere of government activity. Hence, such a reform will improve India’s anti-corruption/ease of doing business global rankings.
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Dharmavaram, Vijaya Geeta. "Clickjacking: a study on popular websites in India." Journal of Money Laundering Control 18, no. 4 (October 5, 2015): 447–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmlc-11-2014-0046.
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to assess the precautionary measures adopted by the popular websites in India, and, thus, find out how vulnerable the Indian Web users are to this form of attack. Today almost all work is done through the Internet, including monetary transactions. This holds true even for developing countries like India, thus making secure browsing a necessity. However, an attack called “clickjacking” can help Internet scammers to carry out fraudulent tasks. Even though researchers had proposed different techniques to face this threat, it remains a question on how effectively they are deployed in practice. Design/methodology/approach – To carry out the study, top 100 Indian and global websites in India were identified and were divided into static and dynamic websites based on the level of interaction they offer to the users. These websites were checked to see whether they offer any basic protection against clickjacking and, if so, which defence technique is used. A comparison between Indian websites and global websites is done to see where India stands in terms of providing security. Findings – The results show that 86 per cent of Indian websites offer no protection against clickjacking, in contrast to 51 per cent of global websites. It is also observed that in the case of dynamic websites, only 18 per cent of Indian websites offer some form of protection, when compared to 63 per cent of global websites. This is quite alarming, as dynamic websites such as social networking and banking websites are the likely candidates for clickjacking, resulting in serious consequences such as identity and monetary theft. Originality/value – In this paper, vulnerability of Indian websites to clickjacking is presented, which was not addressed before. This will help in creating awareness among the Indian Web developers as well as the general public, so that precautionary measures can be adopted.
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Borooah, Vani Kant, Anirudh Tagat, and Vinod Mishra. "Conflict, caste and resolution: a quantitative analysis for Indian villages." Indian Growth and Development Review 13, no. 2 (October 9, 2019): 319–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/igdr-08-2019-0087.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative assessment of caste-based conflict in India. The data for this paper are from the Rural Economic and Demographic Survey (REDS) of 2006 encompassing 8,659 households in 242 villages in 18 Indian states. Design/methodology/approach Using these data, the authors examine two broad issues: the sources of conflict in rural India and the degree to which these sources contribute to caste-basted, as opposed to non-caste-based conflict; the sources of conflict resolution in rural India: are some conflict-resolving agencies more effective at dealing with caste-based conflicts and others more effective with non-caste-based conflicts? Findings There was a rise in caste-based conflict over the (approximate) period 1996-2006. There are several reasons for the rise in caste-based conflict but, in the main, is the rise in assertiveness of persons belonging to India’s lower castes. In terms of conflict resolution, panchayats and prominent individuals were important in resolving village conflicts: 69 per cent of caste-based, and 65 per cent of non-caste based, conflicts were resolved by one or the other of these two agents. Originality/value This is the first attempt, using econometric methodology, to study caste conflict at a village level in India.
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Dhamija, Sanjay, and Ravinder Kumar Arora. "Determinants of Long-run Performance of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from India." Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective 21, no. 1 (February 10, 2017): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972262916681243.
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The article examines the long-run performance of 377 initial public offerings (IPOs) made by Indian companies during the period 2005–2015. The objectives of the article are to analyze whether Indian IPOs underperform or outperform the broad market in the long run and to identify the key determinants of their long-run performance. The results show that the Indian IPOs outperform the broad market initially followed by significant underperformance in the long run. The IPOs listed on the main board during 2005–2015 yielded average initial excess returns (IERs) of about 22 per cent. However, 37 per cent of the IPOs provided negative IERs. The IPOs underperformed the broad market generating –57.33 per cent buy-and-hold abnormal return (BHAR) over 36 months after listing. Only 38 out of 377 IPOs (10 per cent) outperformed the benchmark index over a 36-month holding period. The important issue characteristics that influence the long-run performance of IPOs in India are the type of issuer (government-owned or private), lead manager prestige (LMP), promoter holding and the issue size.
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Singh, Niti, and Venkat R. Krishnan. "Towards Understanding Transformational Leadership in India: A Grounded Theory Approach." Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective 9, no. 2 (April 2005): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097226290500900203.
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An important factor that contributes to successful organizational transformation is leadership. Transformational leaders take strategic decisions and give shape to such changes, thereby ensuring that their organizations stay competitive. While the core of transformational leadership is universal, timeless and immanent, its behavioural manifestations, however, differ across cultures. This paper attempts to take a preliminary look at those behavioural manifestations of transformational leadership that are unique to Indian culture, most of which have been drawn from Singh and Bhandarker's (1988) model. After using the grounded theory method for data generation, 1617 response sets obtained from 250 working managers were content analyzed. Results show that the universal dimension of transformational leadership constitutes 44 per cent of the responses, while culture-specific dimensions constitute the rest. The 56 per cent Indian cultural dimensions have been operationalized through seven sub-dimensions, ‘Nurturant’ (20 per cent), ‘Personal Touch’ (13 per cent), ‘Expertise’ (7 per cent), ‘Simple-Living-High-Thinking’ (7 per cent), ‘Loyalty’ (4 per cent), ‘Self-Sacrifice’ (3 per cent), and ‘Giving Model of Motivation’ (2 per cent). The paper concludes by discussing the importance of recognizing culture-specific manifestations for leading change.
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Urade, B. P. "Haemoglobin S and βThal: Their Distribution in Maharashtra, India." International Journal of Biomedical Science 9, no. 2 (June 15, 2013): 75–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.59566/ijbs.2013.9075.
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It has been more than six decades since the first report of sickle cell anaemia in Indian subcontinent. Since then the researchers have been reported various haemoglobin varients prevalent in India, they are HbS, HbβT, HbE and HbD. Earlier studies were confined to tribal and scheduled castes populations as if sickle haemoglobin was restricted to these two groups only. Since a decade or so, few studies on haemoglobinopathies from other Indian populations are available. Examination of premarital age group of 5172 Indian subjects (2762 males and 2410 females) from eastern Maharashtra of India showed high incidences of HbS (0-33 per cent) and HbβT (0-10 per cent) in different ethnic groups. In present study cumulative gene frequency for HbS and HbβT was found to be of 6.1 per cent and 2.3 per cent respectively. In present study sickle cell gene has been found in general categories of Indian populations besides scheduled castes and tribal populations. In Scheduled tribes HbS ranges from 0-24 per cent, in Scheduled castes and Nomadic tribal groups, HbS ranges from 0-13 per cent, in Other Backward caste categories it varies from 0-20 per cent while in higher caste populations it ranges from 0-5 per cent. The incidences of HbS are much higher among tribal groups than that found in other caste populations. The incidences of homozygous individuals are very few in HbS and HbβT. The hitherto regional and populations specific HbβT haemoglobin variant in Sindhi and Bengali communities is gradually spreading in other populations of Maharashtra as evident from the present study. Lesser value of MCV, MCH and MCHC in homozygous HbβT is due to impairments of synthesis β-globin chain. The subject with the presence of β-thalassaemia is accompanied by raised level of HbA2. Unusual higher values of RBC and WBC suggest the high concentration of hypochromic microcytosis in anemia. The means of MCV MCH and MCHC in HbβT are much lower than the normal ranges compared to HbS.
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Maniam, T. "Suicide and Parasuicide in a Hill Resort in Malaysia." British Journal of Psychiatry 153, no. 2 (August 1988): 222–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.153.2.222.
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Ninety-five cases of suicide and 134 cases of parasuicide that occurred between October 1973 and September 1984 in the hill resort district of Cameron Highlands in Malaysia were analysed. Eighty-one per cent of suicides and 78% of parasuicides were of Indians, although they only form 25% of the population. The average annual suicide rate for Indians (over 10 years of age) was 157 per 100000. About 94% of suicides and 66% of parasuicides were by ingesting agricultural poisons. The age- and sex-specific suicide rates for women were highest in the 20–24-year-old age group. Some possible reasons for high suicide rates among Indians are discussed.