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...

Considering the context of India, economic liberalization plays a major role in industrialization and environmental degradation, at the same time. India’s fossil fuel based energy-led economic growth and consequential carbon emissions are largely influenced by economic liberalization. In this...

Whilst the developed nations have used technology-forcing standards or market mechanisms (such as taxes) as their main tool for the control of transport pollution, transportation demand management (TDM) may have greater relevance for cities in poorer countries: and the choice of less polluting...

Whilst the developed nations have used technology-forcing standards or market mechanisms (such as taxes) as their main tool for the control of transport pollution, transportation demand management (TDM) may have greater relevance for cities in poorer countries: and the choice of less polluting...

In India, despite numerous measures adopted by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to ensure adequate supply of financial services in rural areas, the banking participation by households in terms of owning a bank account is considerably low. The present paper employs Discriminant Analysis (DA) and...

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...

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...