Based on the census report of 2011, we study the socioeconomic factors that might influence various types of crime that take place in various provinces of India. The NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) data reflects that incidence of all categories of crime, considered in this analysis, have...

Even though India is a predominantly agricultural economy, we find dearth of works related to Indian agricultural trade combining both export and imports. This paper attempts to examine the performances of major Indian agricultural crops both in terms of export and imports and tries to attribute...

Any policy induced data fabrication in international trade poses stiff challenges to the process of optimum policy formulation. The tasks become all more difficult when the countries in question are developing or transitional and any misplaced policy prescription would harm the interest of the...

Falsified international trade statistics poses a big challenge to the policymakers in the developing world. Given the doctored dataset, it is very hard to design effective policy prescriptions that suit capital scarce economies. On the other hand, corrupt international traders rationally...

Present study seeks to determine the quantitative measurement of unrecorded transaction through misreporting of trade. We want to find out the determinants of informal transaction and the relationship between hidden capital outflow and inflow. Another attention is to identify the hidden capital...

Usually developing countries are characterised by capital scarcity and hence resort to stringent trade and capital control policies. This might become counterproductive and provide incentives to the international traders and investors for corrupt practices and as a result, scarce capital might...

The United States has been India’s most dominant trade partner for quite some time now. Given trade data are of mirror type and can be easily crosschecked, a rule based routine check finds a huge discrepancy both in export and import values between bilateral trade statistics of these two...