Displeasure is a concept in emotion research, and has been studied over a long time. But this concept is not significantly addressed in planning and development except very few. In reality, displeasure leads to conflict, which in turn outbursts into violence, terrorism and so on. In this...

Institutions play an important role in explaining poverty. Along with institution, fundamental forces like geography and climate influence poverty too. Analysis shows that probability of being poor is high for countries at the equator but it declines with latitude. Empirical evidence in India...

Of all natural disasters, floods are the most consistently recurring events in India. India has several regions that are particularly vulnerable to floods. During the last decade India was affected by flood more than other events. An analysis of vulnerability of flood in different States in...

A regret analysis has been carried out in this article to show why more risk-averse people are more religious. By regret here we mean avoidable cost or opportunity cost. Some interesting results have been found. It has been observed that the regret for not worshipping God when bad fortune...

The on-going trade conflict between US and China, called the trade war, is a burning issue of the day. One major factor of trade war is protectionism. Apart from protectionism there are other reasons for trade war which had nothing to do with trade. Sometimes trade is used as a weapon to punish...

In mathematics, singularity signifies a point at which a given mathematical function or its derivatives is not defined. Singularities are mostly mathematical that occur in the mathematical models describing physical systems. In social science compared to physical science, fewer cases of...

Conflict resolution curve (CRC) separates conflict styles into two separate domains: domain of competing entities and domain of accommodating entities. There is a sort of agreement between targets and aggressors on this curve. Their judgements of badness compared to goodness of each other are...

Demonetization was a big shock in Indian economy. Indian people responded differently to this demonetization shock. More than eighty percent of the common people favored the government decision to demonetize higher denomination in spite of their sufferings. Some people vehemently opposed the...

China is using Tibetan waters as an instrument for strengthening supremacy in the disputed territories. The country is often accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. Moreover, China has no water treaties...

To the world, any country certain to cause pain is unacceptable. China’s military and economic aggression is disturbing the world peace. The country is said to be the root cause of trade war and recent Covid-19 pandemic. Most people are afraid of another great war that might be triggered by...