Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election...

Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election...

Coastal areas of Bangladesh are prone to be fallen in natural disaster severely. SIDR and AILA are the best examples. A large fraction of Sundarbans, particularly, have severely been devastated. The forest loses a numerous number of animals and trees. Therefore, it lingers in a great risk to...

Purpose - Drawing on both classic and modern work, I propose to find out the major humanitarian food crisis that has occurred due to human made causes such as civil wars, ethnic conflicts in different part of the regions in the world. Major sufferers are children and infants. Due to failure in...

Evaluation studies routinely find that lending to women benefits their households, they are however vastly divergent in their conclusions regarding its empowering potential. This paper investigates this paradoxical suggestion by examining a case study. Survey data from two drought prone villages...

Business Process Reengineering is an innovative technique which is used to induce the radical change in the organization set up. The goal of the technique is to achieve an optimum level of effectiveness and efficiency. The paper strives to study the relationship between BPR and Organizational...

Urban poor households have limited resources (the tangible and intangible assets), which helps them make a living and fight against odds, they face. Addiction (substance abuse) is one such problem which is widely prevalent in urban poor households. In this paper an attempt has been made to...

We examine the effect of social schemes in India on women empowerment, fertility & female welfare. The balancing between ‘Men' and ‘Women' is sine qua non for sustainability of human race. The present world scenario is tilted in favour of men endangering sustainability of human race. The...