INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

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Editor: N. Rath

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Vol. XIII July-September 2001 State Road Transport Undertakings in India: Critical Issues, Constraints and S. Sriraman Emerging Options

Economic Reforms, Anatomy of Behavioural Agents and Macroeconomic • D. Tripati Rao Outcomes: A Critical Review of the Performance of the Indian Economy .

Dynamics of Inflations and Fiscal Deficits: Implications for Inflation Targeting M. Ramachandran

Budgelary Subsidies of the State Government -to Higher Education: M. R. Narayana Evidence from Karnataka State

Liberalisation and Employment in the Organised Manufacturing Sector of L. G. 13urange India: An Inter-Regional Analysis [Appendix}

Documentation: . 1. The Report of the Steering Committee on Perspective Planning for Transport Development, Planning Commission, Government of India, 1988, Chapter 14.

2. Report of the National Transport Policy Committee, Planning • Commission, Government of India, New , May 1980, Chapter 11.

Review Articles:

The State of the Informal Sector N. Shanta

Book Reviews

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JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION Editor: Jandhyala B.G. Tilak

Nolume: Number 4 October 2001

CONTENTS

Articles Page GEORGE PSACHAROPOULOS and CONSTANTINOS TSAMADIAS : Testing for 425 Screening Using Vocational Skills: The Case of Technological Institutes of Greece RAM KUMAR DAHAL: Education Politics in Nepal 435 R. NAGARAJAN and S. MADHESWARAN: Determinants of Child Schooling in 463 Rural Maharashtra • Research Notes/Communications SANKU DEY: Utilisation and Career Profile of Doctorates in Science and 487 Technology of the North Eastern Universities PRAKASH CHANDRA SHUKLA: Alienation as Related to Leadership 505 Book Reviews 513 JACOB AIKARA: Reclaiming Education (J. Tooley); SUNIL BATRA: Double-Shift Schooling (M. Bray); R.P. SINGE!: Learning, Space and Identity (P. Carrie et al) [and] Knowledge, Power and Learning (P. Carrie et al); P. G,EETHA RANI: India Development Report: 1999-2000 (S.K. Parikh (ed.)); M.R. KOLHATKAR: Strategic Management for Government Agencies (N. Girishankar and M. Desilva); NEELAM SOOD: The First Five Years — A Critical Perspective on Early Childhood Care and Education in India (Mina Swaminathan (ed.)): ANDERSON B. SHANKANGA: One Decade of Education for All (R.M. Torres); A.K. SACHET!: The Roles of Evaluation for Vocational Education and Training (W.G. Norton and Ryan Paul); J.L. AZAD: Financial Management in Indian Universities (S.P. Mathur); J.B.G. TILAK: Education and Earnings in Europe (C. Harmon et al).

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JOURNAL OF RURAL COOPERATION

Vol. 29 No. 2 2001

Guest Editor: Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel-Aviv University, Israel ,

CONTENTS

1. Rural Cooperatives and the Global Capital Markt: Adaptation Or Resistance?

Editorial: Cooperatives in an Era of Globalization

Challengesfaced by cooperatives

Globalization and the "Cooperative Difference" Levi, Y.

Be More Cooperative to Become More Competitive Presno Amodeo, N.

Cooperative experiences

The Cooperative Movement and Agricultural - Cooperatives in the Context of Globalization Belo Moreira, M.

Solidary Economy: Challenges of Cooperative Agrarian Farid, E. and Pimentel, A.E.B. . Reform in Brazil

Virtual Cooperatives in Brazil and the Globalization Process Bialoskorski Neto, S.

The transformation ofcooperatives

Agricultural Cooperatives and Dilemmas of Survival Gray, T., Heffernan, W. and Hendrickson, M.

Basic Dilemmas of Utopia in Comparative Perspective Ben-Rafael, E.

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