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Climate change is perhaps the most serious issue that affects food security of a very large number of human beings and animals. Impacts of climate change will be particularly significant in South Asia where most of food production comes from smallholder farms. Vulnerability in this region is twofold: production of important food crop varieties may be affected by developments such as rise in temperature;...
Designing of a sustainable forest policy is of extreme importance in our present world where the process of rapid economic growth is causing imbalance in the climatic cycles by denying ecosystems sufficient time for adaptation and the socioeconomic systems adequate opportunity for mitigation. In this paper, the forests are considered highly resilient natural resource that plays a major role in reducing...
With self-sufficiency levels of crude oil being a distant dream and given India’s growing energy demand, biofuels has emerged as an important option for policy makers. This paper reviews the experiences of biofuels’ cultivation and its impact on land use, environment, and livelihoods of rural communities in the light of emergence of jowar and bajra as alternative feedstocks. Empirical data collected...
The transboundary water regime between India and Bangladesh has not been free from challenges. This paper presents the various challenges to environmental security in the context of hydro-political relations between the two nations of South Asia. The paper defines environmental security in its perfect form as the state of “absence of conflicts, explicit or latent” in the socio-ecological-economic...
It is recognized that retail banking in India offers opportunities for growth in the backdrop of growing middle class, increasing market, and an enhanced demand for various retail products. Indian banks are keen to have a strong presence in retail banking. In order to better serve retail banking, banks need to transform their retail banking model with an objective to improve sales, migrate to alternate...
India passed the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration & Protection) Act, 1999 in compliance with the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreements which concluded in 1995. Article 22 of the TRIPs Agreement defines Geographical Indication as “the indications which identify a good as originating in the territory...
Employer branding has drawn the maximum attention of researchers and industry practitioners in recent days. Retaining and attracting current and potential employees essentially require the employers to understand the work value preferences of employees which vary across time and culture. This paper has twin objectives (a) to identify the value proposition frameworks for internal and external employer...
In today’s organizational environment, the need to accomplish more with less people constitutes a source of employee stress. Increasing worker utilization may improve productivity in the system in the short run but at the cost of welfare of workers. This will negatively affect the capability of an organization to innovate, which is harmful for it in the long run. Hence, it becomes essential to take...
Liberalization of financial markets in emerging economies usually leads to an increase in the foreign ownership of the host country’s stocks. Heavy investment of these foreign investors may have deep impact on host country’s stock market. The motivation for this study is to understand the investment pattern of foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and their trading behavior, and its impact on the...
Computational simulation modeling is an important approach to formal theory development. It has all the advantages of mathematical models, and is additionally able to overcome problems related to discontinuities and disequilibrium conditions that mathematical models do not handle well. In social science research, a good deal of emphasis is placed on leveraging pioneering models, to further knowledge...
The Indian pharmaceutical industry is one of the leading industries in the world which captures a significant global market share and that attracts many investors to invest in this industry. MNCs have entered into the Indian pharmaceutical market and invest a lot of money in research and development to capture the lucrative profits. This paper attempts to examine the degree of competitiveness among...
Many people now use websites as their sole source of news and information, and more and more people use the Web to search for and buy products and services. Loyal users are equally important for all types of websites, but at times the studies have acknowledged that depending on the website characteristics users’ loyalty perception differs i.e. relationships between e-loyalty and its antecedents vary...
The direct selling industry is one of the fastest growing industries in India. Despite the prevalence of this business model since 1990s, India has neither provided for an exclusive regulatory framework nor attempted to define and differentiate the multilevel marketing schemes from comparable but illegal pyramid/Ponzi schemes. The ambiguity in the Indian regulatory environment has been a subject of...
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