The paper aims at isolating the effect of group-participation on women empowerment using primary data on 1500 individual women collected during 2007-08 from two districts of West Bengal, India, namely Hooghly and South 24-Parganas. Since the impact evaluation exercise typically suffers from the...

India’s intra-industry trade (IIT) is evaluated and analyzed from 1971 to 2000. IIT is found to have an upward trend with a growth rate that is close to the growth rate of GNP. A host of macro economic indicators are cointegrated with IIT suggesting that there is a stable relationship between...

With the opening up of trade in health services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), India is finding herself in an advantageous position in terms of reaping the benefit of this enhanced global connectivity. Here, the presence of a sizeable middle class in urban areas,...

This article has made an attempt to assess the prospect of sustainable forest management for an emerging economy, like India, where the area under forest coverage has gone up marginally over the last three decades in spite of population growth and rapid urbanization. A conscious attempt towards...

This article tries to examine the environmental and social costs imposed on the Indian economy as a result of globalization. It is shown that in the world market, India has strong revealed comparative advantage (RCA) in a number of dirty products. Constant Market Share (CMS) analysis for these...

We examines the challenges faced by the regulator in managing pollution when there is a linkage between a formal and an informal industrial sector across the stages of production. The formal sector is more productive than the informal sector and the latter saves cost by evading pollution...

We examines the challenges faced by the regulator in managing pollution when there is a linkage between a formal and an informal industrial sector across the stages of production. The formal sector is more productive than the informal sector and the latter saves cost by evading pollution...