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This book provides a broad overview of the current research on various aspects of development, with a focus on India. The content and treatment of the subject of development in this volume is distinctive in many ways. It is a balanced mix of theory and practical elements, dealing with a number of issues at micro as well as macro levels. The analyses of the current socio-economic problems are attempted in an elegant yet simple manner which makes it equally useful for an aspiring researcher in economics or any inter disciplinary field. The methodologies of the articles include analytical verbal argumentative logic, theoretical constructs or different versions of statistical, econometric or programming techniques. It also contains well written survey articles, which are useful in grasping the fundamental research issues and in tracing the progress of research in an area. The general scope of the book is very wide as the readership can include researchers, scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, policy makers and practitioners. Though the contributors are primarily scholars in the field of Economics or Statistics, the book contains useful takeaways for those working in the area of Development. It will also be of interest to policy makers and practitioners interested in development issues, and to post graduate students in Economics or any field, in social science, management or development. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019, corrected publication 2019.

Economics and Public Policy

(SME) School of Management and Entrepreneurship

World University root node

Opportunities and Challenges in Development: Essays for Sarmila Banerjee

Opportunities and challenges in development: Essays for Sarmila Banerjee

The main objective of the paper is to assess the performance of urban local governments in India taking the physical levels of services provided by them as the ‘outputs’ and the expenditures on resources to provide these services as ‘inputs’ in an integrated framework and pinpoint some possible sources of mis-utilization of resources. We use nonparametric two-stage data envelopment analysis technique to derive the efficiency scores, with a subsequent analysis of slacks associated with the optimization exercise which quantifies the extent of mis-utilization of resources. The main findings suggest that the city governments can provide the same levels of services by using resources lesser by 27 \% of what they currently use. We also find that the extent of unproductive spending and under-provision of services are more pronounced in smaller cities. Mis-utilization of resources in factors like establishment and laborcost is more pronounced as the establishment expenditures and contractual payments in the laborcost component involve more leakages. © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Annals of Regional Science

Financial management and service delivery: a nonparametric analysis for Indian cities

One plausible way to assess empirically the impact of reforms in globalization on an industry is by evaluation of its performance under these reforms in the input-output framework. © 2013 Springer India. All rights are reserved.

Development and Sustainability: India in a Global Perspective

Performance evaluation techniques: An application to Indian garments industry

Chemistry

(SoNS) School of Natural Sciences

A Matter of Density: Exploring the Electron Density Concept in the Chemical, Biological, and Materials Sciences

Preface

The paper assesses the difference in the nature of relationship between efficiency and its determinants of Indian cement producing firms in the presence and absence of environmental regulation. It provides an intuitive construct to identify the determinants of efficiency, which is followed by an empirical verification using a two-stage stochastic data envelopment analysis. Important quantitative determinants of efficiency include factor intensities of outputs, levels of pollution abatements, gross value added, whereas size, age, ownership type, development indicators of the place of location of a firm are among the qualitative determinants. An initial phase and a matured phase of regulation are considered in the paper. The main results suggest that capital intensity of output plays a positive role in increasing efficiency under regulation in the initial phase, material intensity in both phases and labour intensity, a negative role, in the subsequent phase. Higher levels of pollution abatements cause higher efficiency under regulation, while in the initial phase private firms report higher efficiencies under regulation; it is just the reverse in the subsequent phase. Size, age and development indicator of the state in which a firm is located can play a positive role to achieve higher efficiencies in the matured phase of regulation. © 2011 Operational Research Society Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal of the Operational Research Society

In search of contextual variables in a stochastic DEA framework: Effect of regulation on efficiency of Indian cement industry

The main objective of the paper is to analyze the impact of environmental regulation on technical efficiencies of Indian cement producing firms. It derives the technical efficiency (TE) scores of firms in the presence and absence of regulation and brings out the differences in their magnitudes in two scenarios: one in which the firms take initiatives to comply with the set standards by investing additional resources for pollution abatement and the other in which the firms do not take the necessary initiatives. The paper uses establishment level data from Annual Survey of Industries on cement for two years, the most recent data published for 2003-2004 and a previous year for 1999-2000 when the environmental regulations in India were in the initial phases of implementation. A non-parametric deterministic method of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to derive the TE scores of firms. The traditional DEA framework is modified by introducing weak disposability of bad outputs to characterize 'effective environmental regulation', which ensures that reducing pollution is not costless. For both years it has been found that the TE scores of firms under 'effective regulation' scenario are either higher than or equal to those derived under 'ineffective regulation' scenario resulting in a higher average TE at the industry level in the 'effective regulation' scenario. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.