Lakhimi Jogendranath Chutia; Mrinmoy K. Sarma(Sage Publications, 2016-07)
This article identifies, through a retrospective study of literature, the transitional dynamics of traditional crafts of South and South East Asia. It aims to explain the various factors that necessitate commercialization ...
The financial inclusion models that have been implemented successfully in various parts of India have not gained momentum in North East India. The inherent characteristics of the states in this region and the prominence ...
Repaul Kanji; Rajat Agrawal(Sage Publications, 2016-07)
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has witnessed various interpretations since its inception. Even though the present era of CSR has been significantly reassuring, there is an urgent need to understand ...
This article attempts to understand how income diversification influences efficiency of scheduled commercial banks in India across ownership and over crises periods. We explore two competing hypotheses prevalent in the ...
This article investigates whether star analysts, identified as the best stock pickers by Thomson Reuters’ StarMine Awards, have superior target price forecasts than non-star analysts in an emerging market. The difference ...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a buzzword worldwide. In today’s globalized world, one of the great challenges faced by firms is integration of CSR in business. Stakeholders require a lot more from companies than ...
In India, Corporate governance norms were prepared with the assumption that firms were controlled by private players. However, in India, there are many firms that are majority-owned by the State or the government. Literature ...
Business Communication is an art; it needs to be handled with creativity, empathy, acumen and conscientiousness. The advent of Twitter and tablets as leading performers on the technology panorama, along with Facebook, cloud ...
Water scarcity is a paramount concern that affects growth and sustainable development. It parallels the climate change effects in terms of space and scale. Both these intertwined concerns are challenging human security and ...
Water is essential not only for the survival of all living beings but also for socio economic development of households, communities and nations all over the world. It contributes to achieve the goal of sustainable development ...
Urbanization processes involve the appropriation of land and water resources from the peripheral regions. Thus some individuals and groups lose access to these resources to support urban expansion. Since water access is ...
With an annual extraction of 230 cubic kilometres, India is the largest user of groundwater in the world. The value derived from the use of groundwater for irrigation is estimated to be four times the annual investments ...
Water stress and scarcity is one of the biggest environmental, geopolitical and resource risks facing businesses today in many parts of the world. But the ‘wicked’, complex nature of the water challenge demands adaptive ...
In India, groundwater over-extraction is often linked with subsidized electricity in the agricultural sector. Proponents of electricity subsidy argue that such a subsidy helped even the resource-poor farmers to have had ...
Dinesh Jain; Vasant P. Gandhi(Sage Publications, 2016-01)
The rainfed areas of rural India often lack the services of able water management institutions. Thus, management of water in such areas is not a stand-alone activity but is significant for the overall development of the ...
Wetlands are distinct ecological systems which provide numerous ecosystem services to human society and the environment. However, many of these important ecologically sensitive systems are threatened or are already lost, ...
This article reviews the dominant arguments which shaped public policies in the agricultural groundwater sector in India. It also examines the initiatives to arrest groundwater depletion. It is a synthesis of the research ...
Durga, A. R; Suresh Kumar, D(Sage Publications, 2016-01)
For efficient use of water, there is a dire need to manage acute water scarcity in agriculture through the adoption of sustainable water management technologies. To produce more crops per drop of water, the System of Rice ...
In the light of the rapid decline in the irrigation water potential and increasing demand for water from different sectors in India, there is a need of the emergence of small-scale irrigation technology to conserve scarce ...
Sustainable water management is vital for sustainable development, especially in lightof threats such as climate change, growing population, rising prosperity and industrialization. India is facing increasing freshwater ...