Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between social capital and fiscal performance using provincial sub-national state-level data in India during 1991-2012. Fiscal performance in India is based on social trust on fiscal institutions that emphasizes mainly social...

"This book is offers a comprehensive and timely analysis of various aspects of global warming and its consequences, featuring such topics as assessment of and adaption to climate change, water and its socio-economic impact, the environmental effects of climate change on human health, and the...

It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may not be the case in an industry with asymmetric cost firms. A rise in the number of more cost-inefficient firms makes the consumers worse off in the presence of a...

This study examines carefully the distribution aspects in details, particularly the pattern of distribution of global CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emission. This paper investigates the share of CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emission for bottom 10 and top 10 percentiles, quartiles and their movements during 1960-1990.