Addressing inequality remains important from a policy perspective. The study empirically examines the following two objectives for five SAARC nations: first, the impact of economic development on income inequality; second, the impact of inequality on redistribution. Using datasets from SWIID and...

Global warming is a primary cause of climate change which affects agricultural production and food availability. Densely populated South Asia with high proportions of poor especially in rural areas is extremely vulnerable to climate change. In this context, the study discusses the climate change...

Focusing on the recent increase in gold prices, the basic objective of the paper is to predict changes in the price of gold and to examine the relationship that exists between commodity prices and macroeconomic variables in the Indian context. The variables considered are: commodity prices as...

The paper analyzes various correlates of food security, viz. availability, access, utilization and stability in countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Econometric estimates, based on pooled data (1990–2012 for over 40 countries), indicate that while regional variations...

Recent global economic crisis has once again brought to the forefront the role of fiscal policy in promoting growth and reducing poverty. In the past, studies have shown that different types of government spendings have differential impacts on economic growth. This implies that there is a...

This paper focuses on the various modalities of reform options available to Indian policy makers in order to improve the performance of its public sector enterprises. Specifically, it discusses three such reform options viz. Divestiture (whereby private ownership is inducted in publicly owned...

In many developing and developed countries, privatization through transfer of ownership from public to the private hands is considered as a cure for most of the problems faced by the public sector enterprises (PSEs.) However, policy makers tend to forget that both the systems – private and...

Recent experience of growth in developing countries is associated with accentuation in income inequalities in nations such as India, China and Bangladesh (Wade, 2004). However, an analysis of the factors that underlie accentuation of inequalities has not received sufficient attention. Therefore,...

The basic objective of the paper is to focus on the role of economic freedom and inequality in education and land assets as determinants of income inequality and growth. The econometric results confirm that for the countries studied, while the aggregate measure of economic freedom does not have...

Purpose: In view of the significance of public–private partnerships (PPPs) as a tool for bridging infrastructure deficits, it becomes imperative to study its determinants. The objective of this paper is to empirically study the determinants of PPPs in India at a subnational level, in terms of...