Edited by Masudul Alam Choudhury

This book is a challenging inquiry into 100% reserve requirements monetary system with gold backing as asset. The emerging idea of such a controversial yet rational precept of a stable relationship between money, economic development, growth and social issues is investigated in various ways. These include the nature of money in the 100% reserve requirements monetary system, its formalism in the framework of general equilibrium economic and financial relationships, relevant computer and analytical modeling involving money and real economy, money and market functions in ethical perspectives, money in social accounting. Also covered are monetary relations for the emergence of Islamic common market and socio-economic development. Specific case studies of money and real economy are made on network relations between Islamic financing institutions and the use of money-like financing instruments in Islamic communities. Also social issues such as distributive justice and poverty alleviation are covered . This book also takes a critical review of the existing status of Islamic economies and finance as a discipline, which it argues falls short of essential epistemological foundations of understanding and expounding the Islamic world-system. Thus the epistemological methodology overarches the entire book in relation to specific issues. This book will be a fresh contribution to advanced students of money and macroeconomics and to policy makers in development organizations and corporations that deal in trade and finance with the Muslim World.

Contents

1 Intoduction Islamic Econimics and Finance: Where do they stand? ( Masudul Alam Choudhary & Mohammad Ziaul Hoque); 2 Towards Progressive Pan-Islamic Monetary Regime ( Muhammad Iqbal Anjum); 3 Money and Real Economy: The Epsitemological question a general Ethico-Economic Framework ( Masudul Alam Choudhary); 4 Developing a Computer-based information system to simulate Money and Real Economy linkage ( Mohammad Shahadat Hossian); 5 Binary Economic: Linking money to productive efficiency and justice( Rodney Shakespeare); 6 Gold dinar in multilateral trade: A Mathematical model for determining an Efficent and Justice ( Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera & Moussa Larbani); 7 Money and real Economy: Creating a common Islamic currency Dinar, ( Abul Hassan); 8 Zakat and the value of the money ( mohammed Al- Hejry); 9 An institutional- Network approach in studing differences between conventinal and islamic banking systems( Mohammed N Alam); 10 Poverty alleviation by Islamic banking ( Bard-El-Din A. Ibrahim); 11 Socioeconomic disclousre of islamic and conventional banks ( Sofyan S. Harharap); 12 Capital Structure-based Macroeconomics: Evidence at firm level ( Abd. Ghafar b. Ismail); 13 Conclusion ( Masudul Alam Choudhary).

ISBN: 1-84290-073-0 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 259

The basic object of this book is to provide materials on Economic Growth, Development and Planning, in their varied dimensions, in an easily comprehensible and lucid manner. The book is concerned mainly with the four basic constituents of Development Economics, namely, (i) Theories of Development and Underdevelopment, (ii) Theories and Models of Economic Growth, (iii) Theories of Economic planning, and (iv) Indian Planning and Development. The book is based on the syllabi of Development Economics as followed in different Standard Universities. It also covers the syllabi of competitive exams for the paper on Development, Growth and Planning. The book provides up-to-date information in terms of theories and data on the subject.

Contents: 1. Underdevelopment and growth process, 2. Some theories of development, 3. Physical capital and domestic resources 4.The agricultural sector, 5. Population problems and utilisation of human resources, 6. Organisational and industrial development, 7. Monetary fiscal policies, 8. Foreign sector, 9. Growth models, 10. Fundamentals of development planning, 11. Types of planning, 12. Planning methodology and process (stages), 13. Planning techniques and tools, 14. Economic planning: problems and prospects.

ISBN: 1-84290-009-9 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 580

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The basic desideratum of the present volume is to threadbare the fundamental theories of economics and their evolutionary trajectory in a simplified way devoid of verbosity and rigmarole. The traces of economic theories have been analysed with reference to, inter alia, their methodological foundations and historical genesis. Past and present theories have been categorised under taxonomical schema into major schools to properly appreciate and differentiate their respective contributions. The historicity of some of the important micro and macro theories have depicted in a very precise way so as to keep the subject well within the area of bounded rationality of the average reader. The final part of the study briefly recapitulates the contemporary issues and changes in macro and monetary economics, and also the substantive development in development economics. It is believed that this little volume will enable the readers to have a bird's eye view of the broad panorama of economic theories both past and present.

Contents: 1. The ontology of Economics: 1.1 Economic theorising and basic postulates of Economics, 1.2 Economic theory and Economic policy, 1.3 Valuation vis-a-vis allocation, 1.4 Human behaviour versus product behaviour. Appendix I: Kenneth Boulding's comment on human behaviour versus product behaviour. Appendix II: Rationality: Some unsettled Issues. 2. Methodological foundations of Economics: 2.1 Methods in Economics, 2.2 Is objectivity possible in Economics?, 2.3 Empiricism in Economics, 2.4 The role of assumptions, 2.5 Scientific paradigms of Economics. 3. Schools of Economic Thought and Theories: 3.1 The fall and rise of Political Economy, 3.2 Classicism vis-a-vis Marxism, 3.3 Neoclassicism, 3.4 Keynesianism. 4. Economic Theories: An evolutionary perspective: 4.1 The ontology of theories, 4.2 Development of Microeconomic Theories, 4.3 Development of Theories of Capital and Finance, 4.4 Development of Theories of Foreign Trade. 5. Survey of some recent developments: 5.1 Post-Keynesian Development in Monetary Theory and Policy, 5.2 Monetarism vs Fiscalism, 5.3 Developments in Development Economics

ISBN: 1-84290-004-8 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 304

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This book is aimed at undergraduate economic students. There is a remarkable gap between the graduate level texts and the references prescribed. Students, therefore, find it difficult to establish a link. The main intention of this book is to help students comprehend the essentials of economic science in a simplified manner. Effort has been made to provide comprehensive, simple and clear illustration of the fundamental issues in economic analysis.

Successive chapters treat topics systematically, discussing the fundamentals thoroughly and bringing the issues to their logical conclusions.

ISBN: 1-84290-044-7 (Paperback)

Industrial Economics: Indian Empiricism analyses Indian industry in totality. It defines the basic concepts relevant to Indian industry, presents the distinguishing features of industrializing economies like India as compared to industrialized economies, reviews theoretical issues concerning economic and industrial development of national economies. The book traces the origin and evolution of India's industrial policy analyzes the emergence of controls & regulations, its positive achievements and negative fallouts on the industrial structure and performance of India prior to 1991. The book describes the "economic crisis" confronted by Indian economy in early 1991 and India's industrial reforms, which were initiated through the New Industrial Policy in July 1991. The subsequent industrial policy developments and its implications are analyzed in greater detail.

India's industrial structure has two major sub-sectors: organized and un-organized. The book analyzes how these two sub-sectors have undergone changes in their respective industrial compositions since independence. Thereafter, the structure and growth of organized industry is analyzed in terms of two major data sources: Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and Index of Industrial Production (IIP). Foreign enterprises and small scale enterprises are the two major growing sub-sectors of Indian industry. How these two vital sub-sectors of Indian industry have grown and contributed to India's industrialization is another important issue covered in the book. Industrial sickness and its dimensions, Industrial location policy and regional industrialization, environmental policy and growth of pollution intensive industries, technology policy and R&D orientation of Indian industry are the other prominent features of this book. Thus, the book treats theory, policy and structural aspects in totality and therefore, imperative for all those who are keen to understand the complexities of issues pertaining to Indian industry. It is valuable to researchers, academicians and students of economics, commerce and management.

ISBN: 1-84290-064-1 (paperback)

The Present volume has concentrated on a few critical areas of the Turkish economy including the industrial sector, human dvelopment, liberalization and its impact, trade, macroeconomic fundamentals, and the monetary and fiscal policies. These contemporary issues are indeed very critical indicators of the macroeconomic scenario of the country.

While explicating most of the more critical contemporary issues, the volume has also pinpointed the opportunities and challenges in many areas of macroeconomic activities. The issues selected here for analysis are all critical for an open economy like Turkey which is a participant in the process of economic globalization. The book is purported to be a useful compendium for students and researchers of macroeconomics in general and the Turkish economy in particular

ISBN: 1-84290-083-8 (Paperback)

The present book is a fascinating account of the living ideas of dead economists. As the past is given to interact with the present, the old ideas of great economists remain essentially a living subject in the economic universe of discourse. The book outlines the major contributions and ideas of almost all important economists from all recognised schools, in a precise manner. Many of these ideas are found to be useful for the analysis of various economic problems.

Contents: 1. Ancient economic thought: Hebrew economic thought; Greek economic thought; Roman economic thought; Medieval economic thought. 2. Mercantilism, 3. Physiocracy (1750-1776), 4. Origins of Classicism, 5. Classical Tradition, 6. Critics of Classicism, 7. Historical critics of Classicism (Historical School), 8. Austrian (Subjective) School, 9. Marginalist School, 10. Mathematical School, 11. Lausanne School, 12. Swedish (Stockholm) School, 13. Socialist School, 14. Neo-Classical School, 15. Institutional Economics, 16. Welfare Economics, 17. New Economics, 18. Development of economic theories: Theory of Utility, Theory of Value, Theory of Distribution, Theory of Rent, Theory of Capital, Theory of Taxation, Theory of Money, Credit and Banking, Theory of Foreign Trade. 19. Post Script: A note on the meaning of Political Economy; Salient features of Classical Political Economy; Salient features of Neoclassical Economics; Ricardian Theory of Value and Marxian Theory of Value: A comparative estimate; A note on P.Sraffa's Production of Commodities by means of Commodities; Ricardian Economics and Sraffian Analysis: A note; Marxian Labour Theory of Value and Saffian Analysis: A note; Classical Model of Economic Growth: A mathematical note.

ISBN: 1-84290-000-5 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 523

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This book is a micro-level study of rural poverty alleviation programmes in a rich state of India, Haryana. Paradoxically, the state is rich with high per capita income, but the conditions of poor people in rural areas is miserable. This book endeavours to find out the political economy of short-comings and bottle-necks in the administrative structure of anti-rural poverty alleviation programmes, such as IRDP. It makes suggestions and recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness of these programmes towards achieving their goals.

ISBN: 1-84290-028-5 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 366

The dictionary is the unique in its own way. Perhaps it si the first dictionary of its genre that combines the two inter-related disciplines if Demography and the Human Development into its umbrella. All entries are made very precise,clear and straightforward without any rigmarole. Different demographic theories and concepts have been preciesly dealt with the covers the whole range of terms used in pure and applied demography. The language udes does not intimidate or complexify things but is reader-friendly. An invaluable and essential refernce books for all the students and proffesionals of demography and human beings, and ideal for general readers who are not specialised in demography but need to know about the people and population as social beings

Around 1200 clearly written entries on population dynamics and human devolpment.

* Reflects and covers the recently coined and used terms and concepts. Its coverage is wide and comprehensive.

* Differnt demographic theories and concepts have been preciesly dealt with.

* Also inculdes many terms from the allied fields of sociology, economics, geography, biology and bionomics.

* Whenever necessary, cross- references have been provided and diagrams, charts graphs and simple mathematics are used for the convenience of the reader.

ISBN: 1-84290-080-3 ( Hardback)

Total Pages: 260

This dictionary delineates the meaning and use of various concepts, techniques, tools, approaches, types and processes of social research. It also incorporates various issues and problems related to research. A large number of entries relating to mathematical and statistical aspects of research are used so as to help the researcher in the successful formulation, analysis and execution of the research design and carry the same towards its logical end. This books makes use of approximately 650 entries on the important concepts and precepts of research with cross references where necessary. It covers the whole range of terms used in social science research. The entries are given precise but full treatment. This dictionary defines as well as explains the matters pertaining to social research.

ISBN:1-84290-042-0 ( Paperback)

Total Pages: 396

The basic hypothesis of the present volume is that trade liberalisation and MNC's-led globalisation have been mainly responsible for the deterioration of human values, human dignity and human welfare in poor countries. It brings to focus the mechanism through which globalisation has been able to create and sustain poverty, inequality and gender differentiation in the economic sphere.

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Introdution: 1 Globalisation or Devolpment?(Ted Trainer); 2 Free and Fair Trade:Exploring the Basic Goods Approach (Sheldon Wein); 3 Globalization, Trades Blocs and Developing Countries(Osman Suliman); 4 U.S. Trade Policy Toward Iraq since 1980 (Loretta S. Wilson); 5 Globalisation and Income Inequality: The Malaysian Connection ( B.N.Ghosh & Bahro Berhan); 6 Has Globalisation Decreased Income Inequality in India ( B.N. Ghosh & Hasret Benar; 7 Does Globalisation Affect Civil Liberty? The Case of Turkey ( B.N. Ghosh & Maida Hamzic); 8 Race to the Bottom or Race to the Top? Globalsation and the Malaysian Women ( B.N. Ghosh); 9 Human Contestability, Gender Inequalities and Gendered Poverty: An Analysis of South Asians in Britain ( Parvesh K. Chopra); 10 Global Financial Crisis and National Policy- making: Some Issues ( Madeline Berma & Chamhuri Siwar); 11 The age of Globalisation: Can We Replace the Antigonish Movement?( Mufeedh Choudhary).

ISBN: 1-84290-070-6 (Hardback)

Total Pages: 202

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Poverty as human contestibility failure proposes an alternative framework for poverty analysis and identifies poverty as a situation of human contestibility failure. The nature and causes of poverty are numerous and no doubt vary considerably between communities and over time. This book argues that poverty is not just a matter of low income, but is a 'situation of human contestibility failure that prevents individuals, families and groups to fully participate in society'. Further ' a person's ability to 'compete' in the society is ... a function of that person's capabilities and command over resources'. A major element in the judgement as to whether someone is poor comes from measuring their current income (and hence their immediate command over resources). But the ability to 'compete' in society is also linked (and perhaps increasingly linked) with skills, training and education. The lack of skills is a major handicap in competing in the labour market, thereby generating low income; but low income itself is a barrier to the aquisition of skills and eductaion. The detailed investigation into poverty amongst the South Asian communities of the United Kingdom provides much food for thought, and should be of particular interest to anyone concerned with the levels of poverty and inequality in the UK and anyone interested in the position of ethnic minorities in British society. The approach of the book is textual, analytical and empirical.

Contents:

1 Introduction; 2 The Concept of Poverty; 3 The Measurement of Poverty; 4 Poverty and inequality in the UK; 5 South Asian in the uk; 4 A Concise Profile of Study Area; 6 Research Methodology; 8 Poverty among South Asians; 9 Inequality in Levels of Living Among South Asians; 10 Determinants of Poverty and Social Security Benefits for South Asians

ISBN 1-84290-079-X (Hardback)

Total Pages: 392

One of the serious misconceptions of our times is the belief that economic development leads to an automatic reduction in poverty and inequality. The empirical facts of many developing countries show that such a belief does not square with the facts. Poverty in both absolute and relative terms is one of the most serious inter-temporal issues in the present century.

Poverty and income-inequalities have many deleterious effects on human development that emphasises individual capability expansion, economic freedom, opportunity and choice.

This book brings together articles from leading economists and sociologists, exploring contemporary issues on poverty and inequality and the effects they have on individuals and society as a whole.

Contents:

1. The origins of poverty and inequality in post-industrial society; 2. Opportunity and inequality; 3. Gendered poverty, gender gap and intrahousehold allocation of resources: The case of Asians in the UK; 4. Income inequalities in East Asia: Is Kuznets' hypothesis relevant?; 5. Poverty, Inequality and Affirmative Action: A study of ethnocentric reforms in Malaysia; 6. Wealth distribution and global inequality in the multiple capital paradigm

7. Alleviating poverty and generating empowerment through microenterprise development using Islamic financing Instruments; 8. Capitalism, global justice and ethical intervention

ISBN: 1-84290-041-2 (Paperback)

Total Pages : 195

This book offers a unique and fresh approach to the topic of terrorism as it looks at all the latest developments and aspects pertaining to terrorism. The book deals with the definitions, history, causes, kinds and aims of terrorism. It discusses the phenomenon of terrorism in the USA and especially in Central and South Asia. Topics include: Indian Muslims' response to the US's war against terrorism, a critique of US offensive against terrorism, terrorism and democracy, terrorism and international law and terrorism and the UN. Suggestions to combat terrorism have also been given by many contributors in their chapters.

The present compendium consists of selected papers presented at the XXXIV Annual Conference of Indian Association for American Studies (IAAS).

Contents:

1. International terrorism: Definitions, causes and aims; 2. Terrorism as a global menace- need for consensus;

3. Terrorism in Central and South Asia; 4. Terrorism: The USA and India; 5. Terrorism: An area of co-operation between India and the USA; 6. An attack on Indian Parliament; 7. Terrorism in the Indian sub-continent - Pakistan's surrogate warfare with India ; 8. Pakistan and terrorism; 9. Indian Muslim's response to America's War Against Terrorism; 10. Perspectives on International Terrorism; 11. Offensive against International terrorism: The US policy lacks vision and clarity; 12. Terrorism and democracy: India and the USA; 13. Terrorism and international law: The role for India and the US; 14. Terrorism and the United Nations

ISBN: 1-84290-068-4 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 230

The present volume contains social sciences papers presented at 36th IAAS Conference held at Patiala (Punjab) in February 2004. The present compendium consists mostly of post-Cold War developments in Indo-US relations covering a period of 11 years (1993-2004).

It commences from the pursuit of accommodation during the Clinton administration through to a search for a partnership during Bush Jr's administration and Vajpayee government in the Post-September 11 period to the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent landscape of Indo-US relations.

ISBN: 1-84290-088-9 (Paperback)

The collapse of Socialism has had a profound effect on the society and politics in the countries that emerged after the break up of the Soviet Union. These countries had to learn everything from scratch. The collapse of socialism started teaching the new breed of politicians not only the fundamentals of real democracy but also the negative factors associated with democracy found in a typical developing country.

The effects of the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union touched all sections of society, especially Russian women. Education and other social services lost their importance in an economy that was now in shambles.

Although a number of Western scholars have written volumes on the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union this book is the first attempt by an Indian scholar (Vasundhara Mohan, Associate Professor, Centre for Central Eurasian Studies, University of Mumbai, India) to look at the effects with specific reference to the Democratisation of Soviet Polity, the status of women and the impact on the other social aspects of Russian Society. Written in a lucid style, this work is based on the author's research and personal knowledge acquired during her visit to Russia.

Contents: Introduction 1. Democratisation of Russian Polity, 2. Status of Women in post-Soviet Russia, 3. Russian education in Transition, 4. The impact of reforms on Russian Society, 5. Conclusion

ISBN: 1-84290-034-X (Paperback )

Total Pages: 217

This study uses the microcosm of a single street to examine changes in community attachment and identity over the past one hundred years. It is based on transcripts of oral testimony. It looks at how global forces have had an impact upon the local community and questions whether changes in working patterns may affect the way in which men and women become involved in their own neighbourhood in the future. As men and women's roles in the labour market converge, will community become less of a women's project?

Though this is a micro-study, it has significance within the wider context of rapid social change. As the forces of globalisation give us less control over our lives and destinies, there is a renewed interest in forging a stronger community at the local level.

Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Fact or fiction; 3. Community and suburbia ; 4. The rural idyll: The years before the war; 5. A time of upheaval: The war years; 6. From ration books to riches ; 7. What makes for a sense of community ; 8. Neighbours; 9. Growing older ; 10. Children as bridge-builders; 11. The new generation; 12. 2000 and beyond

ISBN: 1-84290-049-8 (Paperback )

Total Pages: 150

This book is a comprehensive combination of strong, practical experience and need-based analytical techniques employed in the management of real life opportunities in international development. The book deals extensively with:

The international opportunity assessment

The isolation of development obstacles

The project elements process, as well as those analytical techniques specifically fit for complex international projects

The development plan formulation

The equity joint venture development and financing.

Additionally it covers the attributes of internationally skilful managers, several case studies, and a collection of reference materials.

The book serves partly as an awareness manual, a general focus manual, and a ‘how-to-do’ manual for conducting international development. As such it will be useful to global investors, financiers and investment officers; those looking for financing and joint venture partners; those involved in global business development; executives, management and engineering consultants and those involved in global manufacturing industries.

Contents:

1. International opportunity assessment; 2. Isolation of development obstacles; 3. Project element process; 4. Critical requirements and effective solutions - practically focused approach; 5. Development plan formation; 6. Joint venture development; 7. Financing; 8. Internationally skilful manager; 9. case studies

ISBN: 1-84290-047-1 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 365

This book is intended to analyze and evaluate the Statute of the International Criminal Court which was newly created at the United Nations Diplomatic Conference in Rome, Italy on 17 July 1998 (The Rome Conference or the Conference). The book addresses a host of difficult questions and common questions the new permanent International Criminal Court (The ICC or The Court) can raise and possible answers to those questions. This book also records the legislative histories of each article of the ICC Statute and evaluates legal ramifications of the Statute.

Even though the United States Government has argued the Rome Statute violates the law of treaties and is not consistent with international law, the author tries to prove that the Rome Statute does not violate the law of treaties and is consistent with international law. The Rome Statute is invaluable in that it codifies the present international law and international criminal law and procedure. The Statute, which was supported by 120 states in the world, summarize the present treaty law, customary international law and general principles of law, even though some contents of the Statute were watered down by some states.

The author participated in the process for the adoption of the Rome Statute as a member of the Korean Delegation to the Rome Diplomatic Conference. Korea submitted a very important proposal on the jurisdiction of the Court, which the author was involved in, and tried to bridge the gaps between the U.S position and various other states' positions. On the basis of his own reservations and experiences at the Rome Conference, the author thinks the Rome Statute has delicate balances among various interests of countries and will be a great weapon for the World to fight with against the most heinous international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression.

Therefore, this book is an insider's observation and a legislative history of the Rome Statute. However, the views appearing in this book are not those of the Korean Government, but solely those of the author as an international law scholar and a participant in the Rome Conference.

Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Commentary on articles of the Rome statute: Part 1: Establishment of the Court; Part 2: Jurisdiction, admissibility and applicable law; Part 3: General principles of criminal law; Part 4: Composition and administration of the court; Part 5: Investigation and prosecution; Part 6: The trial; Part 7: Penalties; Part 8: Appeal and revision; Part 9: International cooperation and judicial assistance; Part 10: Enforcement; Part 11: Assembly of states parties; Part 12: Financing; Part 13: Final clauses

ISBN: 1-84290-046-3 (Paperback )

Total pages: 660

This book provides a unique performance measurement system (KBEMS) built upon the critical success factors for organisational excellence by providing sound methodology based on system modelling and system for performance measurement approach currently in use and then developed new models (KBEM, KBS & KBEMS). The new models are then tested and validated by using empirical data and statistical methods. Various case studies and examples in this book provide application in certain sectors. Most importantly the generic model (KBEMS) developed in this book can easily be adopted in any organisation for any sector which in turn will provide a robust, valid, effective and easy to use performance measurement system to achieve Organisational Excellence. Finally with the help of empirical data a comparison method was suggested using the new KBEM model with EFQM and MBNQA frameworks.

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1. Organisational excellence and performance measurement; 2. Kanji's business excellence measurement systems

( KBEMS); 3. Approch for performance measurement; 4. Tools for performance measurement; 5. Performance measurement in logical government; 6 Case Study - Performance measuremnt in health care; 7. Case Study - Business excellence in education; 8. Case Study - Business excellence in banking; 9. Comperison of models; 10. Conculsions.

ISBN: 1-84290-086-2 ( Hardback)

Total pages: 232

The library environment is undergoing rapid and dynamic change so does the Information Management in the libraries and information centres in the Information Technology era. Information Management is centered on information handling activities and information technology and it provides a challenge to find relevant, accurate and up-to-date information.

The theme of the Volume is relevant and timely for the Library & Information Professionals. The present Volume entitled, "Vistas of Information Management" is brought out by the Chandigarh Librarians' Association (CLA) in honour of Professor H.R. Chopra, Chairman, Department of Library & Information Science,Panjab University, Chandigarh. Prof. Chopra is an exceptional teacher of Library & Information Science and has been involved in many activities, which often went beyond the domain of his profession. He immensely contributed to the development of Department of Library & Information Science at Panjab University, Chandigarh and his contribution to the profession of Librarianship in India and abroad is remarkable. Prof. Chopra has made his place in the literature of Library & Information Science, for which he will be remembered for all times to come.

The Volume contains 60 papers contributed by the experienced Library & Information Professionals working all over the world. These papers have been divided into seven parts, covering Library & Information Science Curriculum, Library & Information Professionals, Library & Information Management, Library & Information Services, Library & Information Centres and Information Technology and Networking and Resource Sharing. One part of the volume is dedicated to Prof. H. R. Chopra on his life and achievements.

The Volume, which is a showcase of the existing and emerging aspects of Information Management, will be a valuable addition to the Libraries & Information Centres.

ISBN: 1-84290-100-1(Hardback)

Total Pages; 123

Creating customer value and building stockholder value are the cornerstones for excellence in any business endeavour. In any under-developed economy, financial institutions may accomplish these objectives through a customer focus strategy and implementation of some quality management principles. However, with the increasing accessibility to new technologies and intensified competition, financial institutions must do much more to excel in the competitive retail banking environment.

This book develops a theory-driven as well as a practical model for retail banks and the retail banking sector to achieve business excellence. The Hong Kong retail banking sector has been used to obtain the data. Top performing bank's executives were interviewed to identify the core activities and factors that determine the bank's success. Structural equation modelling was employed to develop the new Business Excellence Model, a reliable model for enabling retail banks to review the current level of practice in relation to their critical success factors.

This book and the new Business Excellence Model should be a valuable means for the retail banking sector to pursue business excellence and gain a competitive edge in the new millennium.

Contents:

1. Business excellence model for retail banking; 2. Literature review on quality management in retail banking ;

3. Relationship between total quality management and business excellence; 4. Design and methodology framework 5. Development of a business excellence model for retail banking; 6. Validation and reliabilty of the business excellence model for retail banking ; 7. Measuring business excellence for retail banking; 8. Measuring customer satisfaction index for retail banking

Professor Kanji is Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at Sheffiled Hallam University and is also a founder editor of two international journals, Journal of Applied Statistics and Total Quality Management.

ISBN: 1-84290-052-8 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 227

The purpose of this book is to understand the state of the art total quality management process for the Hotel Industry and to develop a model of business excellence to help monitor and guide hoteliers in search of excellence.

The objectives are as follows:

To study the barriers and implementation of TQM in the hotel industry

To determine the critical success factors to develop Business Excellence model for the hotel industry

To validate the Business Excellence Model with relevant data

To measure the performance of critical success factors and organisational performance

To measure the strength of casual connections among critical success factors and business excellence

To set up a Business Excellence Index and customer satisfaction index for the hotel Industry

Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Preliminary study in Hong Kong hotel industry; 3. Model building; 4. Research methodology; 5. Business Excellence for Hong Kong hotel industry; 6. Customer satisfaction for Hong Kong hotel industry

7. Case study on customer satisfaction

Paperback 1-84290-054-4

Total Pages: 264

Changes in EC electricity law are happening with amazing speed, and those changes are greater still when compared with the time required to understand them. This book is designed to provide both coverage and depth in relation to Europe's newly liberalised electricity sector and to the network of rules that govern it.

In an exhaustive analysis, this book explains the current law, while taking account of imminent changes and anticipating further developments. Thorough case studies relating to the electricity sectors in France and in England & Wales are also provided for a more concrete understanding. The centrepiece chapter is devoted to reflections concerning the impact which the EC Treaty rules on competition and the free movement of goods will have on the functioning of an internal electricity market.

For legal and economic practitioners as well as researchers, lawmakers, investors, and business leaders whose work requires a true understanding of the changes in the electricity industry in Europe, this book will serve as an essential reference work in the coming years.

Contents: 1. The slow road to the internal energy market: 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Four rationales for the development of an internal energy market in Europe, 1.3 What's so special about electricity?, 1.4 Historical developments prior to 1988, 1.5 The Commission's working paper on the establishment of an internal energy market, 1.6 The Commission's three-stage liberalisation schedule, 1.7 Developments parallel to the Commission's liberalisation program: Trans-European Networks, the Utilities Directive, and the European Energy Charter. 2. England and Wales: 2.1 Introduction, 2.2 Historical background, 2.3 Reforming the electricity sector in England and Wales, 2.4 The Pool, 2.5 The Regulator, 2.6 The present structure of the industry, 2.7 Overall assessment of the 1990 market reforms in England and Wales, 2.8 Abolition of the Pool. 3. The Electricity Directive: 3.1 The slow road to an electricity directive, 3.2 The Electricity Directive. 4. France: 4.1 Introduction, 4.2 French energy policy, 4.3 A brief history of the electricity sector, 4.4 electricite de France, 4.5 Primary fuels and exports, 4.6 The relationship between EDF and the state: the contracts de plan, 4.7 Coming to grips with European pressure for open markets, 4.8 The new French electricity law, 4.9 Conformity of the French electricity law with the Directive. 5. The application of EC primary law to the electricity sector: 5.1 Articles 86 (1) and (2), 5.2 Rules relating to the free movement of goods, 5.3 The freedom to provide services, 5.4 Competition rules as applied to the electric companies. 6. What next?: 6.1 Introduction, 6.2 Improvements in electricity prices, 6.3 Complementary measures and possible amendments to the Directive, 6.4 EU enlargement, 6.5 Looking ahead to Stage Three of the liberalisation agenda, 6.6 Final remarks

ISBN: 1-84290-023-4 (Hardback)

Total Pages: 354

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The Human Race will enter the third millennium on the crest of a far-reaching social change. According to the theory of the promising Russian economist and sociologist Vladislav Inozemtsev, a new type of society is taking shape, one in which the motivations of an increasingly wide spectrum of people are essentially non-economic. The emergence of this post-economic society gives rise to major contradictions, both within the developed post-industrial countries and on the international scene. These contradictions are rooted in the different capacity of individuals and whole nations for absorbing the growing flow of information and generating new knowledge - something that underlines today's technological and social progress. At the turn of the century, the researcher sees humanity as a "divided civilisation". The prospects for its development are what this book analyses.

Contents: 1. The post-economic society as idea and reality, 2. The component elements of the post-economic transformation, 3. Sustainability of the post-economic society, 4. The contradictions of the post-economic transformation, 5. The first systemic crisis of the industrial economy and the decline of the agrarian and mining societies, 6. At the last ditch, 7. Mature post-industrial society and the second systemic crisis of industrialism, 8. The rise and fall of Japanese industrialism, 9. Southeast Asia and China: New problems and new lessons, 10. "The Fourth World" and the post-economic agenda, 11. Emergent foundations of the new social structure, 12. Financial stratification in post-industrial society, 13. Class conflict in a post-economic society, 14. The nature of today's "Globalization" and its consequences.

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Total Pages: 540
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The present book is especially designed for the students of public administration studying the subject of public sector economics. The book can be used profitably without having any background in economics and mathematics. Although the discussion in every chapter is brief and pointed, it does not miss any fact or facet of importance. Every chapter is provided with a list of selected references, which can be consulted in case students are interested in further details.

Contents: 1. Market failure: 1.1 Market and efficiency, 1.2 Market failure, 1.3 Public goods, 1.4 Externalities. 2. Why is Government necessary? 2.1 Economic rationale for the Government, 2.2 Poverty, 2.3 Income Distribution and Inequality, 2.4 Social Security System, 2.5 Distributive justice, 2.6 Economic theory of bureaucracy, 2.7 Theory of public choice. 3. Government income and expenditure: 3.1 Fiscal policy, 3.2 Budget, 3.3 Taxation, 3.4 Public expenditure, 3.5 Tax policy and development, 3.6 Public debt. Appendix one: Notes on individual taxes. 4. Government regulation and control: 4.1 The theory of regulation and control, 4.2 Environmental pollution, 4.3 Federal issue, 4.4 Control of social reproduction and utilities, 4.5 Price policy, 4.6 Industrial policy. 5. Government failure: 5.1 Why does Government fail? 5.2 The problem of Rent-seeking, 5.3 X-Inefficiency: Quasi-market reforms, 5.4 Privatisation, 5.5 Cost-benefit analysis, 5.6 State reforms: Institutional Governance, structural adjustment programmes. Appendix two: Privatisation in the ASEAN Countries, Appendix three: Cost-benefit analysis: A practical guide

ISBN: 1-84290-013-6 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 353

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Market Democracy in Post-communist Russia is a collection of essays dealing with Russia's transition from a centralized economy and communism to a market economy and democracy. To investigate that transition, Russian and US scholars are brought together to debate contemporary issues of mutual concern (i.e. Russian political culture, Russian business culture, Russian economic culture, and Russian identity), exchange ideas, and together characterize the current state of government, the economy, international relations, business environments, and identity politics in Russia.

Edited by M. Lane Bruner, research faculty in Public Communication at Georgia State University and Viatcheslav Morozov, Associate Professor of European Studies in the School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, Market Democracy in Post-communist Russia investigates the health of the governance structures in Russia; the relationship, and possible relationships between Russia and WTO, the EU and NATO; the changing climate for entrepreneurship in Russia, including the roles of the "oligarchs" and organized crime; the relative merits and costs of "shock therapy;" the interrelationships among privatization, the executive branch of government, and the overall poor quality of both markets and democracy in Russia today; and the relationship between Russian identity and political representation. What, in sum, went well and want went poorly during Russia's post-Soviet transformation? How do markets and democratic processes interact in practice? What, after all, is a healthy market democracy, and how can Russia's difficult transformation help us answer this question?

ISBN: 1-84290-078-1 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 347

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At international level the cold war among superpowers ended in the early nineties of the twentieth-century. However, regional cold war between India and Pakistan continued throughout the nineties. In the wake of Pakistan's test firing of the Ghauri-I missile in April 1998, and with both India and Pakistan exploding nuclear devices in May 1998, the arms race in South Asia began. The costly nuclear and missile race unleashed since then has threatened regional peace and stability, and increased the risk of nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan. It is a matter of great concern for the international community and peace researchers everywhere.

This book is an outcome of a peace project that was completed with the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute under the guidance of Dr. Bjoern Moeller a renowned peace researcher.

Contents: 1. Object and conceptual framework, 2. Nuclear race in South Asia, 3. Missile race in South Asia, 4. Military expenditure and the relevance of the military, 5. Military restructuring in other countries, Russia, West Europe and East Europe: Lessons for South Asia, 6. The Role of China, 7. Limited war in Kashmir, 8. Conclusions and suggestions.

ISBN: 1-84290-014-5 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 144

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In this book, the leading expert on Geolinguistics in the United States, Prof. L.R.N. Ashley, offers a series of representative essays on aspects of language and society. It offers important insights into how various languages in contact, and in competition, shape cultures and make history.

Contents: 1. The American Society of Geolinguistics: The first twenty years, 2. Geolinguistics and the Breakup of Nations, 3. Canada's Amerindians: Democracy, demography and the geolinguistics of ethnicity, 4. Language and public education, 5. South Florida: No longer a part of the United States of America, 6. the geolinguistics and geopolitics of nationhood and immigration, 7. The fetishism of France and other language policies, 8. Basic English as an International language, 9. "Put on a happy face" - the effect of computer technology on communication in the World today, 10. " I only know what I read in the papers": Geolinguistic aspects of immigration and foreign language especially in the popular press, 11. The War of the Words, 12. Welsh in Wales: Language, culture and politics, 13. Hasta La Vista, Baby!: Spanish and the future of the United States, 14. Death of the Languages

ISBN: 1-84290-010-09 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 318

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Dr. Vanitha Dayanada

Based on in-depth interviews with urban, university educated men and women, the book lends an extensive exploration of individuals' intimate sex lives and their marital lives; merits and demerits of arranged marriages.

Contents

Intoduction: 1 How does Indian Society Influence individuals view of arranged marriages? 2 Is there any love or sexual attraction before the marriage? Is love spontaneous or cultivated? 3 What really happens on the First night or Does anything happen at all? 4 Is there sexual attration and compatibility in arranged marriages? 5 How does love devolp after the marriage? Is love missing in arranged marriage? What is the defination of love? 6 How and why arranged marriage lasts? What makes a good marriage?

ISBN: 1-84290-093-5 (Hardback)

Total Pages: 193

This book will take readers through the area of modeling customer satisfaction. It goes through the concept of quality and shows how the customer satisfaction index can be used to measure the business excellence of an organisation. It also describes the role of customer satisfaction within an organisation and how this links in with an organisation's total quality process. In addition to rationalising and ramifying the use of a customer satisfaction index it outlines various dimensions of customer satisfaction measurements and covers the necessary methodology along with justification and process of developing questionnaires. Finally, this book provides details of the results generated by three different models for customer satisfaction index and their comparisons with different data sets collected from the public and private sectors which incorperate South Yorkshire Police, the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation and the World Congress for Total Quality Management.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Rationalize and Ramification of a customer satisfication index in the public and private sectors; 3. Methodology - A customer satisfication index; 4. Model development\ Validation\ Data analysis; 5. An empirical study of the public sector data; 6. Public\Private case study; 7. Private sector case study; 8. Customer satisfication seekers apporach; 9. Conculsion and further study.

ISBN: 1-84290-071-4 ( Paperback)

Total Pages: 411

Determinism Is Alive and Well examines the concept of Determinism in the natural and social sciences, in particular quantum and relativistic physics, and history. It purports to show that determinism has not become an obsolete concept, but remains an essential general scientific principle. The author attempts to develop the modern concept of determinism through tentative theories such as quantum logic, a theory of the jump from the quantum to the classic level of matter and the Systemic Information Effect (SIE), and discusses holism and reductionism. It also examines the applicability of determinism and reductionism in the social sciences.

Contents: 1. Determinism & 20th Century physics, 2. Quantum Theory & Determinism, 3. Modern & Obsolete Determinism, 4. Reductionism & The Systemic Information Effect, 5. The Oneness of Determinism, 6. Mathmatics & Determinism, 7. Quantum Logic, 8. Science, Reductionism & Determinism, 9. Determinism & The Social Sciences, 10. Is Man subject to Determinism?, 11. Social Determinism & the failure of Marxism, 12. Conclusion: Modern Determinism & Reductionism.

ISBN: 1-84290-020-X (Paperback)

Total Pages: 410

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Of Magic and Mutiny delves fictionally but accurately and deeply into the incredibly incompetent handling of the independence of African States following the demise of colonialism.

The setting of this thought-provoking and highly dramatic novel is Kanyinya, an imaginary yet typical African state where a bloody revolution led by an ex-stevedore replaces an autocratic, post independence regime. The revolutionaries misappropriate the nation's wealth and natural resources from the people through murder and even genocide, whilst begging aid from the West, which ultimately lines the individual pockets of the leaders of the revolution.

Contents

1. Trial at midday; 2. Transition to independence; 3. Complete independence; 4. The power of the patronage; 5 Regime of the personal power; 6 The making of the kyata; 7 Tthe bloody revolution of the september the 16th; 8. State of the terror; 9.The revolution devours its chidrens; 10.Kleptomania rules kanayina; 11.Kyanda;s arrest; 12. Kyanda's escape from prison; 13. The born agian Democrats; 14. The grand wedding; 15.Kyata Hoist buy his own petrad; 16 Zeulia becomes premier; 17. The bungled mutiny.

In addition to giving a detailed account of what is currently happening in Africa, this novel offers some possible solutions to these appalling problems. The social, economic and political issues raised have wide implications for both African and international communities.

1-84290-019-6 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 248

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The book discusses and reviews issues and challenges, as well as prospects, on the growth and development potential of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the 21st Century. Part one is an introduction that presents the overall scenario of SMEs in the era of globalisation. Part two examines regional perspectives, including: small and medium enterprises in regional development; globalisation and the changing role of East Asia SMEs in the electronic industry; the Asian economic crisis and lesson for SMEs; and government intervention and small industries. Part three refers to the challenges in selected countries including, print advertisements of service firms, the globalised economy and the strategic importance of SMEs in Malaysia; survival in global crisis for small businesses in Indonesia; total productivity in Malaysian SMEs; and quality approaches and human resource practices.

Contents: 1. SMEs in the 21st Century, 2. SME's in Regional Development, 3. Globalisation, Regionalisation and the changing roles of East Asian SME's in the global electronics industry, 4. Government intervention and small industries, 5. The Asian Economic Crisis: Lessons for SMEs, 6. Print advertisements of service firms: The Malaysian experience, 7. Globalised Economy and the strategic importance of SMEs in Malaysian industrial structures, 8. Global competitiveness and the implementation of IS0 9000 among SMEs in Thailand, 2. Survival in Global Crisis for small business in Indonesia, 10. Total productivity in Malaysian SMEs, 11. Quality approaches and human resource practices in Malaysian SMEs, 12. Performance of SMEs in the Malaysian manufacturing sector.

ISBN: 1-84290-016-1 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 324

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Burra Srinivas

All developing countries look alike in many respects. However, some of these countries are so closely alike that they conjure up in the mind the image of Siamese twins. There are many similarities between India and China such as the existence of surplus labour and interventionist government that deserve a comparative analysis.

In this study, Dr. Srinivas has analysed the development of these two countries with reference to their growth performance, general development and economic transformation as the backdrop for understanding their comparative achievements in the realms of industrial growth and productivity, and liberalisation and industrial relations.

The author has taken care to study the political economy of liberalisation for these booming economies, pointing out that liberalisation has created many negative impacts on labour and labour-capital relations. It has created new areas of contradictions and conflicts and has exacerbated the problems of proletarianisation and casualisation of labour.

This book is relevant for both India and China in the present phase of their industrialisation. It is a welcome addition to the literature on the subject and should remain immensely helpful for students of comparative economic development and political economy, economic planners and those who determine public policy.

Contents:

1. Policies pursued by China; 2. Socialist transformation; 3. General task of the first five year plan; 4. Phases of GPCR; 5. Policies pursued by India; 6. Growth performance; 7. Developments relating to policy in India prior to 1980s; 8. Liberalisation since 1980s; 9. India and China: A competitive view of 1950-80; 10. Industrial growth and development ; 11. Sectoral output and labour force-industry; 12. India and China: comparative view of industry; 13. Policy changes and course of reform in China; 14. Changes in theory and practice; 15. Phases of Liberalisation; 16. The 'open-door' to foreign capital; 17. Policy reforms; 18. Normative and policy implications of reforms; 19. Policy changes and course of reform in India; 20. Policy changes and practice since 1985; 21. Implications of SAP for Indian economy; 22. New industrial policy (NIP); 23. Industrial growth and productivity in India and China; 24. Sectoral growth and performance in India and China; 25. Sectoral growth overview; 26. Variations in GDP; 27. Relative position of industry's value addition to GDP; 28. Relations between FDI and GDP growth; 29. FDI inflows and industry; 30. Growth of industrial production; 31. Influence of industrial growth on GDP growth; 32. Regression output for India; 33. Regression output for China; 34. Trend of other macro-economic indicators; 35. Changes in industrial relations in China; 36. Stages of debate on labour reforms; 37. Issues of debate; 38. Is labour force a commodity; 39. 'Labour force market in socialist society'; 40. Introduction of labour contract system; 41.Unemployment; 42. Modernisation of technology and its impact on labour; 43. Impact of enterprise reform on management and workers; 44. Liberalisation and condition of work for labour; 45. Changes in Industrial relation in India; 46. Modernisation of technology and its impact on labour; 47. Impact of liberalisation on industrial relations; 48. Liberalisation, state, trade unions and workers; 49. Comparative analysis of growth and industrial relations; 50. labour force structure; 51. labour productivity; 52. Prices and wage proctection; 53. Social safety net; 54. Features of New Pension system in China; 55. Features of national renewal fund in India; 56. Impact of MNCs and capital mobility on employment and industrial relations

ISBN: 1-84290-024-2 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 201

This book examines the development of industrial capitalism and structural change in the marketing of fish in the fishery sector of Kerala. The state of Kerala is one of the leading maritime states of Indian Union and is blessed with excellent maritime, inland and estuarine fisheries potential. With the implementation of the Indio-Norwegian Project in 1953, by which the mechanization processes were initiated, the fishery sector in Kerala underwent great change. It introduced a sharp dualism into the fish economy of Kerala and changed the structure of fish marketing reducing the marketing power of the fish producers/sellers. Mechanization helped to increase production and productivity, however, the fishermen are only the peripheral beneficiaries of the mechanization effort. Exploitation of fishermen increased along with the progress of the fishery sector.

This study focuses mainly on the internal marketing of marine fish in Kerala. It examines the price spread in three channels of fish marketing. It deals with the price setting at the landing centres and at the wholesale markets. This work critically examines the supply response to price changes for sixteen varieties of fish in Kerala and seeks to evaluate the role of institutional agencies in marine fish marketing.

ISBN: 1-84290-036-6 (Paperback)

Faced with the problems of food shortages, most developing countries were compelled to follow the agricultural policy in favour of food crops, with the basic objective of achieving self-sufficiency in food production and to reduce the import of food grains; India was no exception to this.

After independence, India had given priority to growing more and more food crops to over come the food shortages. However, at the same time the land used for commercial crops increased at a higher rate. Farmers in India shifted towards commercial crops as they fetched greater profits.

This study presents evidence that commercial crops have had a positive impact on farmer's socio-economic transformation. The farmers who are growing these crops spend more on health, education, and other socio-economic needs compared to those farmers growing food crops in the study area.

The findings, and personal discussions with a cross section of the people in the study area, suggest that commercial crops have tremendous potential to transform, not only the economy, but also the social fabric in the study region. These issues make compelling reading for policy makers, researchers and others concerned with commercial agriculture.

Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Review of literature; 3. Study area ; 4. Existing cropping pattern in the study area

5. Existing economic conditions of farmers and impact of commercial crop on socio-economic conditions of famers

ISBN: 1-84290-026-9 (Paperback)

Total Pages:132

This book is a collection of selected papers, most of which were presented at the social sciences sessions of the 33rd annual conference of the Indian Association for American Studies (IAAS), held at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai in June 2000. The contributors are from a variety of different Indian universities and are keen scholars of American history, politics and foreign relations.

The first six chapters of the book concentrate on Indo-US relations, the following three are on America's relations with Europe and the remaining two deal with the internal politics of the USA and political thought. The book covers the different aspects of Indo-US relations, the US's foreign relations with Europe, American politics and Indian-Americans. The book covers developments primarily from the early nineties to the dawn of the new millennium.

This book will be invaluable to the students and teachers of American history, the American political system and American foreign relations especially Indo-US relations.

Contents

1. Indo- US relations in the post-pokhran-II ( Vinay Kumar Malhotra); 2. Emerging pattern of the indo-american relations in the post- kargil period (A. Thanikodi); 3. Indo-US relations: Common vision, common achivements- Where do we go from here? ( Thomas Edmunds); 4. Indo-US Convergence on information techonology ( Vinay Kumar Malhotra); 5. A new Era in the Indo- US relations (N.K.jha); 6. Indo- US relations: The CTBT syndrome ( T.Jothi Ramalingam; 7. Terrorism : An acpect of the indo US Cooperation ( Amulya K. Triphaty); 8. India - in the minds of the indian- americans ( Tanmay Kanjilal); 9. United States and United europe-completing regions or rivals ( Naushad A. Sulaiman); 10. NATO Expansion and americans interests ( Rama Sampath Kumar); 11. American and Russsia : Procpectus in the new millennium ( Rama Sampath Kumar); 12. Ally but not allinged : french quest for the multipolarism in an unipolar world ( B. Krishnamurhty); 13. Placing the americans civil war studies in the right perpective: The case of BRig.Gen.Stand Watie ( B. Narasingaraja Naidu); 14. Amercan contributions to the international relations ( K. Murugiah); 15. Pressure groups in the americans politicals process (S.A. Palekar); 16. Comparison of the Gandhi's socail thought with that of Dr.Sun.Yat.Sen ( C.V Venkatachalan); 17. The settlement movement in USA ( Y. Sriramamurty).

ISBN: 1-84290-040-4 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 203

This book discusses issues, challenges and prospects for the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the wake of the information age and digital era. At the dawn of the new millennium SMEs face a number of issues and challenges in their vital role in economies over the Asian-Pacific countries. Many have expressed confidence that SMEs will be dramatically transformed and their growth pace will be soundly adjusted to meet new changes. Subsequently, SMEs and their activities will be more global, highly dependent on information, knowledge-based activities, the internet, and the overall so-called 'digital era'. However, some do express a more pessimistic view.

The overall content of the book is divided into three parts. Part one is an introduction that presents the overall scenario of SMEs in the information age in the Asian region, including some policy recommendations. Part two examines Asian perspectives with five outstanding chapters. These include internet development in the new economy and its implications for Asian SMEs; the Japanese model of SMEs development in an age of IT; technology exchange of Asian SMEs; IT challenges for SMEs and high technology, SMEs and global competitiveness. Part Three refers to perspectives in selected countries in the region such as IT consultants for SMEs; the application of IT in SMEs and E-commerce strategies and government support for SMEs.

Contents:

1. Asian small and medium enterprises in the information age: Global thinking and local action; 2. Patterns of internet development in the new economy: Implications for Asian SMEs; 3. The 'Japanese model' of Asian SME development in an age of information technologies; 4. Technology exchange from the perspective of small and medium sized enterprises in Asia; 5. IT challenges for the SMEs: the case of advanced manufacturing technologies; 6. Technology and global competitiveness: International SMEs participating in high technology industries ; 7. 'Cut-price' IT consultants for SMEs; 8. Information technology and small and medium enterprises

9. E-commerce strategies of SMEs and the role of the government; 10. Promoting design of experiments to manufacturing SMEs

ISBN: 1-84290-038-2 (Paperback )

Total Pages: 294

Sanjeev Chopra

This book is an attempt to understand changes in the macro policy environment of organisations dealing with agriculture and agribusiness activities in South Asia. The main proposition of this study is that on account of limited opportunities for global agricultural trade in the pre-WTO period, and the 'autarkic' agricultural policy followed by most countries in South Asia. The main emphasis of 'development plans' was on self-sufficiency in agriculture, national food security and adequate availability of food through the Public Distribution System. Strengthening the export competitiveness of agriculture in the regional or global market was not a conscious strategy. However, this paradigm of national protection and self-sufficiency has been completely reversed by the provisions of the WTO, which has opened new opportunities for trade liberalisation. South Asia has to respond to the challenges of the WTO, and in this process, latent business opportunities within the region will come to the fore.

This study suggests that agribusiness organisations in the region must anticipate these changes and prepare themselves for the coming years. It points out that while state supported agribusiness organisations will be adversely affected on account of the liberalisation manifesto which most South Asian nations have adopted, other forms of agribusiness organisations, especially co-operatives and private enterprises will get the opportunity to flourish.

Contents:

1. Gathering the strands: Review of literature; 2. Beyond a Billion: The South Asian region; 3. Of ploughs and plowshares, bullocks and tractors; 4. All the world's a stage: WTO and oportunities for agriculture in South Asia

5. Call of merchants: South Asian Countries response to WTO; 6. The lead sector: The determinant role of food and agriculture in South Asia; 7. Rebuilding bridges: Trends in Intra SAARC trade; 8. Slow, steady and sure: The process of trade liberalization in South Asia; 9. New wine in new bottles: Restructuring agribusiness organizations in South Asia; 10. The last word: Conclusions and recommendations

ISBN: 1-84290-030-7 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 131

Stress Management Through Mind Engineering is a unique work that tries to understand and explore the fundamental reasons for different types of stress. The solutions that the author offers are supported by ancient tests from various cultures and have the potential to resolve the problems of stress.

This book examines the different kinds of stress and offers solutions using the mind as the basis. Mind engineering is the process and art of using different faculties of mind in different contexts. Meditation is the root of its practices which helps individuals working in any situation to prevent and overcome stress.

Contents:

1. The world of stress; 2. Stress management through Indian insight; 3. Mind engineering: concepts and practices; 4. Case study in stress management; 5. Occupational stress injury; 6. Worklife stress: The human environment;

7. Mind engineering

Paperback 1-84290-032-3

Published for the Centre for the Study of Human Development. This works brings together a selection of articles from the world's top scholars on gender and development.

Contents:

Part one: Theory, History and Policy; 1. Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment Naila Kabeer; 2. Abort, Ignore, Retry: On the Domestic Mode of Production David Bedggood; 3. Exploring the Theoretical Foundations of Alturism: An Analysis of the Effects of Marital Disruption on Intergenerational Living and Care Arrangements Liliana E. Pezzin and Barbara Steinberg Schone

4. Women, Culture, Development: A New Paradigm for Development Studies? Peter Chua, Kum-kum Bhavnani and John Foran; 5. Gendering Culture: Towards a Pural Perspective on Bakwena Women's Rights Anne Griffiths

6. Russian Women Through Transition R. Vasundhara Mohan; 7. Fitting Gender into Development Institutions Shahra Razavi; 8. Women and the Second Serfdom: Evidence from Early Modern Bohemia Sheilagh C. Ogilvie and Jeremy Edwards; 9. Gendered History and Development Policies: The Agenda for the 1990s Revisited in the New Century Janet Blackman; 10. Gender and Political Empowerment in the Third Milennium: A Conceptual Framework for Gender and Political Empowerment M.K. Ngaiza; 11. Gender and Development: Reflections on Predilections, Priorities and Possibilities Tapan R. Mohanty

ISBN: 1-84290-045-5 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 396

Published for the Centre for the Study of Human Development, this work brings together a selection of articles from the world's top scholars on gender and development

Contents:

Part Two: Case Studies

12. Women's Education and Progress in Malaysia B.N. Ghosh; 13. Earnings Inequality and the Gender Gap: An Accounting Exercise for Sweden 1975-1991 Bjorn Gustafsson and Mats Johansson

14. Gender, Poverty and the Intra-household Distribution of Resources Jeanette Findlay and Robert E. Wright

15. Do Husbands and Wives Pool their Resources? Shelly J. Lundberg, Robert A. Pollak and Terence J. Wales

16. Gender Bias, Credit Constraints and Time Allocation in Rural India Elaina Rose

17. Women's Access to Marketing: A Case Study of Uzhavar Santhai Tamilnadu S. Gokilvani

18. On the Job in Paradise: Women Tourist Workers in Negril, Jamaica A. Lynn Bolles; 19. Women's Time Allocation to Child Care: Determinants and Consequences Paul Miller and Charles Mulvey; 20. Gendered Poverty and Gender Bias in Household Management Amongst Asians in the United Kingdom Parvesh K. Chopra

This book looks at Sikh women in Leeds, including their cultural, religious and social values. This will be of use to the indigenous community and also the younger generation of British-born Sikhs along with those who are interested in gaining a better understanding of Sikh cultural traditions in a changing society. This book discusses the position of Sikh women in the Sikh religion and community. It covers some of the important aspects of their cultural life such as arranged marriage, the joint family system and the dowry. It also explores their popular beliefs, folk traditions and religious values and housing, education and occupations. It finally touches upon some of the problems faced by Sikh women in Britain and the measures taken to overcome them.

The unique characterisitc of this book is that it conveys the collective experience, both struggles and successes, of Sikh women in Leeds. The author, herself born and brought up in the Sikh culture, has presented a systematic and accurate account of these women's views without any bias and in a style that makes it accessable to all.

Contents:

1. A background to Sikh women in Leeds; 2. Religious values; 3. Women in Sikhism and Sikh society ; 4. The social life of Sikh women; 5. Cultural values; 6. Listen to me

ISBN: 1-84290-067-6 ( Paperback)

The American Literary Mosaic comprises eighteen selected papers presented at the Indian Association for American Studies (IAAS) conference, June 2000. The multifaceted collection is broadly divided into five sections, ranging from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century canon, to the Afro-American predicament, multicultural evaluations and cross continental studies. The essays provide an insightful analysis of the various concerns that have informed American Literature. These scholarly attempts have proved once again that comparative studies between Indian and American literature are always open to interpretation. This anthology will benefit all catagories of American literature fans, students, researchers and teachers alike.

Contents:

1. A Critical analysis of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland or The Transformation; 2. Similarities in Thought and Perception in the Poetry of Emerson, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Sri Aurobindo; 3. The emergence of women's poetry in America; 4. The technique of Transformation as survival strategy: A study of Sam Shepard's early plays

5. Between faith and scepticism: A study of Arthur Miller's later plays; 6. Indian response to American literature with special reference to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman; 7. Selfishness as a virtue: Ayn Rand's fiction and the philosophy of individualism; 8. The hipster hero in Norman Mailer's An American Dream; 9. Beyond Gender: A fresh perspective on Anne Tyler's ladder of years; 10. The novelist as the moralist: A review of John Gardener's On Moral Fiction ; 11. Introducing new voices from Afro American Literature; 12. Quest for Selfhood in Toni Morrisson's Sula P. Kalaichelvi; 13. "The silenced women": A comparative study of Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy and Rajam Krishnan's Mannagathu Poonthuligal; 14. Asian-American literature: Problems and Possibilities

15. Of defining and Re-defining the Asian-American Diaspora: A case study of Jhumpa Lahiri; 16. Relevance of Emerson: An Indian angle; 17. Rabindranath Tagore: A brother under the skin of Whitman

18. 'The New Critics': Concept of the creative process and its reception in the modern critical thought in Marathi

ISBN: 1-84290-007-2 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 192

Paperback 1-84290-039-0

This book analyses some of the major contemporary issues in macroeconomic management. These issues are critical in many developing economies in the context of globalisation. The topics selected here mainly pertain to development macroeconomics and are especially relevant to Third World countries. The issues are policy orientated and focus on the link between theory and practice. Every issue has been incisively analysed by an expert in the area. The book should prove to be immensely helpful for students and researchers on the subject

Contents:

1. Issues in macroeconomic management; 2. Contemporary macroeconomic issues in developing countries ; 3. The management of unemployment and inflation; 4. The managment of macroeconomic instability; 5. Does money matter?; 6. Issues in the managment of fiscal policy; 7. Does fiscal policy affect real exchange rates?

8. Capital inflow, macroeconomic vulnerability and financial crisis; 9. Misalignment of real exchange rate: The case of a developing economy; 10. Exchange rate policy and macroeconomic stability; 11. Domestic stability and balance of payments; 12. Issues in International borrowing and management of external debt; 13. Issues in financial sector reforms in developing countries; 14. A critical examination of macroeconomic management in the context of globalisation

ISBN 1-84290-043-9 (Paperback)

Total Pages : 336

This book intensely explores the interaction of film and fiction, both thematic and stylistic, by focusing on the work of three very major American fiction writers whose involvement with the film world, Hollywood, script-writing and movie-making is too well documented to be dismissed as either incidental or accidental. The three writers, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, are placed in the broader perspective of their time and place so that they also become exemplars of the general trend in the writing of the period. Thus the exploration goes beyond a discovery of stray visual resemblances between the scenic effects they create and the modus operandi of the cinema. These three contemporaries, were writing in a period when the new art form of filmmaking, in all its gloss, was rapidly expanding its horizons, especially in America, and reaching out towards new techniques and innovations. Thus a subjective writer like William Faulkner, who, through his impact on New Wave cinema has influenced film as profoundly as he has influenced modern literature; an objective one like Ernest Hemingway, and the prolific F. Scott Fitzgerald, each in his own particular way, turn indubitably to the various stylistic methods found in film. Thus, in an age when the interdisciplinary study of the arts is encouraged, the film is used as an avenue of approach to elucidate, appreciate and evaluate the fiction-writers’ oeuvre.

ISBN: 1-84290-048-X ( Paperback)

Total Pages: 422

Most quality control and quality improvement procedures involve making assumptions about the distributional form of data it uses; usually the data is distributed. It is common place to find processes that generate data which is not normally distributed, e.g.Weibull, logistic or mixture data is increasingly encountered.

This book is concerned with statisitcal process control (SPC), where SPC is to control a process in an ideal situation with respect to a particular product specification. One of the several measurement tools of SPC is control chart which monitors process and quality improvement.

The literature review indicates that there are real problems in dealing with statistical process control for non-normal distributions and mixture distributions. This book provides a quantile approach to deal with non-normal distributions, in order to construct median rankit control chart. The quantile approach will also be used to calculate a process capability index, average run length, multivariate control chart and control chart for mixture distribution for non-normal situations. This methodology can be easily adopted by the practitioner of statistical process control.

Professor Kanji is Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at Sheffield Hallam University and is also a founder editor of two international journals, Journal of Applied Statistics and Total Quality Management.

Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Literature review; 3. Control chart methodology for non-normal situation; 4. Theoretical development of quantile approach; 5. An evaluation of quantile control chart for non-normal situation; 6. Process capability indices using quantile approach; 7. Determination of average run length (ARL) for non-normal data

8. Evaluating multivariate control chart using quantile approach; 9. Quantile control chart for mixture distribution: An innovative approach

ISBN: 1-84290-053-6 (Paperback)

Total Pages: 186

This book identifies some reasons for the Southeast Asian countries progress and these countries setbacks in Human Development in the issues of health and education based on life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rate and adult literacy rate during the 1980s and the 1990s. The author provides a fresh look at analysing some reasons behind the progress and setbacks in human developement over the years.

The author argues that Southeast Asian countries progress and setbacks in human development have influenced th