Increase in health and educational expenditure has an immense impact on the socio-economic conditions in any country at large and state at regional level. There is no definite agreement as to whether the rising health and educational expenditure are causally affecting to economic growth. This...

The United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) outline a set of eight development goals, 18 targets and 48 measurable indicators to combat poverty, hunger, illiteracy, gender inequality,diseases and environmental degradation. With the deadline set at 2015, the MDGs seek to ensure a...

The increasing share of high-value commodities in the consumption basket of the households, higher incomes and urbanization, changing lifestyles, market integration and trade liberalization at global level have led to an increase in the demand for horticultural products in India. In this...

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between public expenditure and economic growth in India using yearly time-series data from 1980-81 to 2015-16. Researchers often debated the relationship between public sector expenditure and its impact on economic growth. Even literature...

Increase in health expenditure has a huge impact on the socioeconomic conditions in any country. Though, there is no consensus as to whether the rising health expenditure is beneficial or detrimental to economic growth. The present study chose India as a case study to empirically examine a...

According to Monetarist Milton Friedman (1970), Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. There is a lack of consensus among researchers regarding the stimulus of changes in money supply over price level. Even though a very large number of researches conducted to understand the...

Women entrepreneurs have proved equally to their men counterparts in business activities and are emerging as vibrant and smart entrepreneurs. The study reveals the status and disparities prevailing among the women entrepreneurs of India and Gujarat in SSIs. It further provides the dismal picture...

Human Development is closely related to health. Malnourished children are more vulnerable to infection and if not treated on time and may fall into the vicious cycle of Malnutritional-infection-Malnutrition. The primary objective of this research is to determine whether economic growth affects...

Military spending has impact on social and economic conditions of any economy. Though, there has been mixed response found for the increasing military expenditure and economic growth in many countries. In this study attempt has been made to examine relationship between military expenditure and...

In this paper attempt has been made to understand the processes of growth in rural non-farm employment based on the 2011-12 employment and unemployment round of the National Sample Survey Office. The rural non-farm sector has undergone major restructuring which has led to an increase in the...