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...

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...

Conflict resolution curve (CRC) separates conflict styles into two separate domains: domain of competing entities and domain of accommodating entities. There is a sort of agreement between targets and aggressors on this curve. Their judgements of badness compared to goodness of each other are...

Of all natural disasters, floods are the most consistently recurring events in India. India has several regions that are particularly vulnerable to floods. During the last decade India was affected by flood more than other events. An analysis of vulnerability of flood in different States in...

In mathematics, singularity signifies a point at which a given mathematical function or its derivatives is not defined. Singularities are mostly mathematical that occur in the mathematical models describing physical systems. In social science compared to physical science, fewer cases of...

Demonetization was a big shock in Indian economy. Indian people responded differently to this demonetization shock. More than eighty percent of the common people favored the government decision to demonetize higher denomination in spite of their sufferings. Some people vehemently opposed the...

History, culture, religion and identity are often used to legitimise conflicts. But these causes not always act as the sole divisive forces to initiate conflict unless there are economic reasons. Conflict leads to human displacement and loss of life, destruction of assets and low investment....