This paper reflects upon a simple micro-economic model of a small peasant household economy has been formulated to derive the conditions for optimum labour time allocation among different gainful acti...
On 10 Aug 2015 The paper examines the present condition of tribals in India with a demographic perspective.
Construction of a long-term demographic perspective on India’s
tribal population rests on the premise...
On 28 Aug 2009 There is an incessant flow of technical innovations for newer and newer consumer goods and gadgets in our contemporary times. Even though technology has benefitted modern civilization through major sc...
On 10 Aug 2009 The present paper aims at driving home a hitherto-neglected and perhaps often muted (but important) point, namely, that the
confusions and identity crisis that had gripped development economics in th...
On 31 Dec 2008 Left coalition ruled West Bengal for uninterrupted three decades. The study reveals that despite ruling for such a long period the state still lags behind in eradication of problems like poverty, as c...
On 04 Jun 2008 The ‘market’ – mostly referred to by the broad term ‘changing times’ – has increasingly been allowed to pervade humanity’s profoundest pillars, namely, objective reasoning, rationality, sensibilities...
On 14 Feb 2007 Once the reach of education remains circumscribed only by its functional role in the formation of human capital, which, by definition, has little significance beyond its instrumentality in production...
On 20 Nov 2006 Amidst massive ethnographical and anthropological literature on India’s tribes, patterns of their demographic behaviour (e.g. fertility and mortality) have received relatively little attention. Howeve...
On 14 Mar 2006 Ignoring historical arguments on issues such as market, political economy, capital, and labour has great potential danger. The currently pervasive connotation of ‘liberalisation’ to mean virtually onl...
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