The main purpose of this study is to re-examine the threshold effect of inflation and economic growth relationship in India. Methodology: The study estimated the non-linear regression model to examine the non-linearity between inflation and growth, further logistic smooth transition regression...

Export Processing Zones (EPZs) are an international phenomenon influencing increasing share of trade flows and employing a growing number of workers. From 176 zones across 47 countries in 1986; the number had increased to over 3,000 across 116 countries by 2003. India also favours this so in the...

Structural economists like Colin Clark, Fisher, Kuznets, etc. have empirically demonstrated that growth is brought about by changes in structural composition. Indian economy is also experiencing major changes in its structure in recent decades. The theory of structural transformation has given...

The paper aims at empirically validating the inter relations between changing factor endowment, structure of trade and Indian economy. Heckscher-Ohlin theory of international trade envisages that a country specialises in the production and export of such goods as conform to its factor endowment....

The present paper aims at examining comparative growth performance, structural transformations and causal relationships among Physical Capital Formation and Gross State Domestic Product in Punjab and Haryana states. Various analytical estimations have been made from secondary time series data...

This article hypothesizes that economic reforms become sustainable when the discursive conditions prevailing in society tip against the existing paradigm under exceptional circumstances. Thus, unless the pro-liberalization constituencies dominate the development discourse, economic reforms,...

This paper aims to show how India is not yet ready to implement and fully undertake Capital Account Convertibility (CAC) in the wake of economic globalisation. It deals with certain problems relating to CAC, especially in the context of developing countries. It looks at the three main conditions...

This study fitted the hybrid version of the new Keynesian Phillips curve using India time series data with aim of assessing inflation dynamics under different leaderships of the Reserve Bank Governors and the extent within which prices of imported goods contribute in the domestic inflation in...

India has low pension coverage, and the pension system is unable to fulfill its purpose. A non-contributory, basic pension can guarantee a regular income in old age to all residents of the country, regardless of earning or occupation. The feasibility of introducing such a pension in India is...

India has witnessed a tremendous economic growth, as measured by GDP, over the past 10 years. Many experts have pointed out that FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) has been one of the major factors taking India to this growth level. Foreign investment in India has increased continuously since...