Biomass combustion in residential cookstoves is a major source of air pollution and a large contributor to the global burden of disease. Carbon financing offers a potential funding source for health-relevant energy technologies in low-income countries. We conducted a randomized intervention...

"As in many countries (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Sweden), concentrated ownership is a ubiquitous feature of the Indian private sector over the past seven decades. Yet, unlike in most countries, the identity of the primary families responsible for the concentrated ownership changes...

Concentration of economic power is usually frowned upon because its social and political effects are substantial and undesirable. On the flip side one can argue that concentration provides the necessary scale to compete in international markets. Researchers use concentration measures like the...

This paper explores the spatial concentration of 120 service industries in India's rural and urban areas, covering 33.60 million establishments using Economic census (2013) data at the district level. Besides, this study uses a cartogram map to examine knowledge-intensive business services...