There is a lack of verifiable evidence on the period and magnitude of the demographic dividends in India, a gap policy makers must address when setting priorities for human resource and capital investment to harvest the economic benefits of the demographic transition currently under way. This...

Over coming decades, changes in population age structure will have profound implications for the macroeconomy, influencing economic growth, generational equity, human capital, saving and investment, and the sustainability of public and private transfer systems. How the future unfolds will depend...

This article develops a simple economic model to explain the observed market structure, nature of production and behaviour of coffee consumers before 1993, and analyses these changes, since 1993, as a consequence of liberalization and globalization measures. Market equilibrium conditions under...

This paper aims at economic analysis of economic globalization and urban growth of Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, as they are related to ICT sector. Overall analyses offer new insights and evidences for ICT sector as a major contributor for degree of economic globalization and urban...

This note demonstrates that the problem of aggregation in modeling individual migration behavior as a response to fiscal and nonfiscal factors is not concomitant with moving costs. On the other hand, it depends on the specification of the utility function with moving costs. An additively...

A spatial model with local public good is developed for analysing market equilibrium and social optimum under costly migration. The utility cost differentials are shown to exist between regions in equilibrium, and an appropriate federal policy intervention in the form of inter-regional transfers...