Pricing of water in the hill cities in India is different from that of plain lands, because water is a scarce resource in most of the hill cities. The supply of water by the municipalities is inadequate. The private vendors come into picture and they put the prices according to the difficulties...

A new measure of diversification index is proposed taking the correlation structures of the shares into consideration. This index is a generalization of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) proposed in the context of concentration in industries. When this index is applied in the crop production...

An attempt is made in this paper to examine the short and long run relationship between government expenditure on agriculture and its allied sector and agricultural output of Meghalaya. The study is based on a time series data of 30 years from 1984-85 to 2013-14. During this period, the state...

This paper attempts to examine how progress of rural road infrastructure connecting various desired destinations viz markets, urban centres, healthcare and educational institutions, administrative headquarters, affect economic activity, particularly agricultural performance in rural areas of...

This paper tried to examine the level of cointegration among various nations across the continents in regard to the globalisation. Also here attempt is made to analyse the nature of inter and intra continental variation in globalisation over time. The proximity and convergence over time in terms...

This paper examined the spatio-temporal variation in ericulture activities in Assam and also tried to analyze the reasons for such variation. The observation revealed that the growth of ericulture in Assam has been associated with significant inter-district variation. There is dominance of the...

The globalisation is supposed to reduce regional inequality, poverty and promote sustainability and improve overall human quality. Several studies have provided contradictory results in regard to the effect of globalisation, either in case of growth of GDP, or reduction in inequality and poverty...

The linkages between population growth, pattern of livelihood and dependence as well as degradation of forests have long been the subject of debate and concern. It is thus important to investigate to what extent does the growth of population, poverty and livelihood affect the neighbouring forest...

Sericulture provides immense scope for self-employment as majority of the rearers of Assam are poor and the question of hired labor hardly arises. Generally, all the working members of the rearing families work together to complete the rearing processes. Within the sericulture sector, ericulture...

Inclusive development and welfare of people across communities and gender has become an important issue in recent time. Because of failure of several top down approaches to percolate the development activities undertaken at the upper level towards the bottom lair the 73rd Amendment of the...