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    PROSPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY FUTURES IN INDIA – A CASE OF TURMERIC” Prof Gurbandini Kaur‚ All India Management Association (AIMA)‚ Email: gkaur@aima-ind.org Abstract A commodity exchange is defined as a market where buyers and sellers trade commodity linked contracts on the basis of terms and conditions laid down by Commodity Exchange (UNCTAD‚ 2007). At present‚ there are 23 exchanges operating in India and carrying out futures trading activities in as many as 146 commodity items. As per the recommendation

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    Theory of Consumer Behaviour

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    Objectives After going through this chapter you shall be able to understand the following concepts Consumer Behaviour Theory- Ordinal Approach and Cardinal Approach Total Utility‚ Marginal Utility‚ Relationship between Total Utility and Marginal Utility Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility Utility Analysis and Consumer Equilibrium- One Good Case and Two Goods Case Consumer- Who is a Consumer? Anyone who purchases and consumes any goods and services for the satisfaction of his/her wants

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    Suppose that the autarky price of commodity X is $10 in Nation A‚ $8 in Nation B and $6 in Nation C‚ and Nation A is too small to affect prices in Nation B or C by trading. Nation A initially imposes a nondiscriminatory ad valorem tariff of 100 per cent on its imports of commodity X from Nations B and C. (a) If Nation A subsequently forms a customs union with Nation B‚ will Nation A produce commodity X domestically or import it from Nation B or Nation C? Answer: If Nation A forms a customs union

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    Demand

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    economics means a desire to possess a good supported by willingness and ability to pay for it. If your have a desire to buy a certain commodity‚ say a car‚ but you do not have the adequate means to pay for it‚ it will simply be a wish‚ a desire or a want and not demand. Demand is an effective desire‚ i.e.‚ a desire which is backed by willingness and ability to pay for a commodity in order to obtain it. In the words of Prof. Hibdon:   "Demand means the various quantities of goods that would be purchased

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    Fluctuation of Gold Price

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    considered a savings and investment vehicle. India is the world’s largest consumer of gold in jewelry as an investment. Gold is traded in the form of securities on stock exchange Even when the gold prices are high there is steel boom in the commodities market of gold hence the main purpose and the need of the study are to know the investment pattern in gold and to hedge the risk The data which is used in the study is secondary data. The analysis has been done by using the technical tools

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    Chapter 13: Documentation of the Homosexual Agenda The Homosexual Manifesto 1972 “Gay” Rights Platform 1993 “Gay” Rights Platform The Overhauling of Straight America List of Sexual Orientations Redeeming the Rainbow 201 THE HOMOSEXUAL MANIFESTO By Michael Swift‚ "Gay Revolutionary." Reprinted from The Congressional Record of the United States Congress. First printed in Gay Community News‚ February 15-21 1987 “We shall sodomize your sons‚ emblems of your feeble masculinity‚ of your shallow dreams

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    MURABAHAH

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    Murabahah is not a loan given on interest. It is the sale of a commodity for a deferred price which includes an agreed profit added to the cost. 2. Being a sale‚ and not a loan‚ the murabahah should fulfil all the conditions necessary for a valid sale‚ especially those enumerated earlier in this chapter. 3. Murabahah cannot be used as a mode of financing except where the client needs funds to actually purchase some commodities. For example‚ if he wants funds to purchase cotton as a raw material

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    Cited: The Graduate. Dir. Mike Nichols. Perf. Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. Embassy Pictures‚ 1967. DVD. Leitch‚ Vincent B. "Fetishism." The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton &‚ 2010. 841-45. Print. Palmer‚ Donald D. "The Real‚ the Imaginary‚ and the Symbolic." Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners. New York‚ NY: Writers and Readers

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    cultural studies‚ 1972-79. London: Hutchinson ;‚ 1980. Print. Hall‚ Stuart. Representation: cultural representations and signifying practices. London: Sage in association with the Open University‚ 1997. Print. Jhally‚ Sut. The codes of advertising: fetishism and the political economy of meaning in the consumer society. New York: St. Martin ’s Press‚ 1987. Print. Schudson‚ Michael. Advertising‚ the uneasy persuasion: its dubious impact on American society. New York: Basic Books‚ 1984. Print. Sinclair

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    Martin Scorsese’s latest film‚ Gangs of New York is a failed anti-war film. It is 165 minutes of some of the most violent footage ever seen in a film intended for mainstream entertainment. As a fan of Scorsese’s‚ I have to say that even the brutality of Good Fellas could not have prepared me for the assault that is the experience of watching this film. Even leaving aside the violence‚ I admit that I am mystified by all the hoopla surrounding Gangs of New York. Leonardo Di Caprio only slightly adapts

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