COVID-19 has disrupted every possible human activity across the world. What began as a health crisis has soon turned into a devastating disrupter for trade and commerce wiping away millions of jobs due to varying degrees of lockdowns, making the trade -off between saving lives and saving...

It is generally believed that the systematic study of economics and its principles was started in 1776 with the publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, who has been universally held as the founding father of economics. Prior to Adam Smith,...

Dominant discourses on Muslim women have revolved around their marginal locations in community as well as in society. It has mainly been subjected to socio-economic and political structures and conditions as well. However it is worth mentioning that marginality is not only a lived experience but...

This article aims to benchmark the degree of regulation on Indian banks after a decade of liberalization of banking sector carried out in the 1990s. It considers seven dimensions of regulatory powers and develops an index to measure the level of regulation on Indian banks. The level of this...

The central idea of this paper is to explore link between socio-economic positions of women working in unorganized sector with special reference to beedi rolling. In India Beedi making is an age old industry and one of the largest job providers for women in the unorganized sector. Women are...

The present paper deals with the public and private sector partnership in infrastructure in India. The Indian infrastructure sector is one of the largest sectors. This paper has been divided into eight major segments namely introduction, meaning of public private partnership, infrastructure...

The SFCs are playing a key role in the development of small and medium enterprises in the respective states in tandem with the national priorities. During the last decade SFCs assistance to business enterprises has undergone a considerable acceleration. The present paper is based on the analysis...

The present paper is an attempt to find out the relationship between company characteristics and dividend policy in Indian corporate sector. For this purpose a sample of 374 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange for the period from 1992-2007 has been analyzed and found that lagged tax...

This document contains the proceedings of the international conference called Agro-Food and Rural Economy Competitiveness in Terms of Global Crisis, held in Bucharest, Romania, on 23-24th September, 2011 with a international participation and it was published as a special issue of the journal...