In 1993, the government of India introduced a parallel marketing system for petroleum products, particularly for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). LPG, under the parallel marketing system, is distributed at higher price without any subsidy. The government distributors, however, distribute LPG at...

In accordance with the long-term policy objectives of the government of India for rural electrification, an off-grid woodfuel-based power plant for generation of grid quality electricity has been installed in a remote island of West Bengal. The present study focuses on technical performance of...

The availability of conventional medical services (i.e., allopathy) is the basic need for a modern day living. Though this clause is easily met in the developed countries, but in the developing countries it is very difficult to accomplish. Hence in the developing countries a dearth is often...

Wetlands of non-prominence that have been discussed here are some water bodies in the lower-Gangetic floodplains of India. People surrounding these wetlands earn their livelihood and derive many direct and indirect benefits from them. But in the process of acquiring benefits stakeholders place...

A regret analysis has been carried out in this article to show why more risk-averse people are more religious. By regret here we mean avoidable cost or opportunity cost. Some interesting results have been found. It has been observed that the regret for not worshipping God when bad fortune...

In a social system a sustainable coexistence is difficult to attain without generous interactions among its members. Generous interactions or generosity is liberality in spirit or act. Several studies have tried to find out some possible causes of generosity. Interestingly, some studies have...

The on-going trade conflict between US and China, called the trade war, is a burning issue of the day. One major factor of trade war is protectionism. Apart from protectionism there are other reasons for trade war which had nothing to do with trade. Sometimes trade is used as a weapon to punish...

Conflict between India and Pakistan is one of the major conflicts in the world today. The conflict has been continued since the creation of Pakistan out of India in 1947 and turned into several wars during the last century. At the time of partition of India, the native states (also called...

This paper involves an analysis to investigate the limits to GDP growth in the present economic scenario. One objective of this study is to investigate how innovation alters these limits to economic growth. The present analysis is based on cross-section data. Results show the impact of the size...