Based on national-level cross-sectional household data from the India Human Development Survey in 2011–12, this study examines the role of bank branch availability in influencing household investment...
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Factors that contribute to the growth status of informal enterprises in India are explored using data on the unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises from the National Sample Survey Office. A...
Empirical evidence explaining foreign direct investment inflows into big emerging markets from 2000 to 2018 is investigated by unitising the econometric methods like panel unit root tests, panel...
COVID-19 led to increased economic distress, which is usually associated with an increased justification of domestic violence. Through causal methods of survey experiments, the reasons for...
Using a sample of commercial banks in India, we examine the effect of competition on bank risk and then assess whether this effect is influenced by equity capital ratio and deposit share. Two main...
The primary healthcare system in India is funded by both the union and state governments. Initially, the part of central funding was largely programmatic. Recently, there has been a shift of focus to...
An augmented gravity model and panel econometric methodologies are used to investigate what drives India’s outward foreign direct investment. Both economic and non-economic factors influence such...
The policies related to the use of nitrogen fertilisers since independence are reviewed using primary and secondary databases to derive the present status of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium...
This paper evaluates the trends of fiscal devolution and the finances of the urban local bodies in Telangana. The functional devolution process and implementation procedures are incomplete despite...
This paper explores the economics of contract versus non-contract potato farming in West Bengal, India, using primary data collected from a household survey of 263 farmers (2021–22 potato season)...
The variations in COVID-19 infections and deaths reported in Indian states as of 31 March 2021 have been analysed. While the proportion of people living in densely populated areas, per capita net...
Foreign direct investments tend to gravitate to nations with good governance. The quality of governance is largely affected by institutional factors such as control of corruption, government...
The agrarian crisis of Maharashtra predominantly comes out in the form of its nationally largest, yet scanty and inefficient irrigation sector, and development backlog faced by about two-thirds (62...
The effect of information technology in the Indian banking sector is analysed using the stochastic frontier production model to estimate technical efficiency during 2002–18. The evidence suggests...
The transformation of party society in West Bengal under the Trinamool Congress in which only Mamata Banerjee commands universal loyalty is traced. She has built an architecture of power that makes...
