...Sayan Chakraborty; Sarada Prasad Sarmah Purpose India has the largest public distribution system (PDS) in the world, working through over five million fair price shops (FPS) to distribute food grains among its beneficiaries at a subsidized rate. In this paper, the authors study the inventory...

...Amitava Ghosal Explores how a cybernetic approach can help in comprehending problems in macro‐economics of the future for a megasystem like a large developing country, such as India. Some of the principles evolved can also be applied more generally to other countries. Cybernetic thinking...

...P.N. RASTOGI Poverty situation and problems of development in a remote village of U.P., India are briefly outlined. The dynamics of the situation are represented in the form of a multi‐loop system. Problems of development are seen as outcomes of malfunctioning feedback cycles. Disaggregation...