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The legal structure and framework of luxury goods market in India: competitive or restrictive growth?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
It has been evident from our long human history that luxury has been present in one or other form of consumption practices and that the luxury goods have existed for ages, dating back to Roman times, where luxuries such ...
Financial literacy among working young in urban India
(2013-11-26)
The paper reports investigation of a study on the influence of various socio-demographic factors on
different dimensions of financial literacy among the working young in urban India. While the influence of
several factors ...
The problem of financing private infrastructure in India today
(Singapore: Springer, 2019)
Numeracy and financial literacy of forest-dependent communities
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2019)
The article examines the numeracy and financial literacy of the Indian forest-dependent communities (FDC) involved in the joint forest management (JFM) programme, launched by the Government of India in 1990. An understanding ...
Achieving sustainable development in India along the low carbon pathways: macroeconomic assessment
(World Development, 2019)
Achieving fast and inclusive economic growth concurrently with greenhouse gases (GHG) emission control could have wide-ranging implications for the Indian economy, predominantly fuelled by fossil energies. India faces high ...
Female leaders and their response to the social environment
(Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019)
Using data from two sets of experiments conducted in rural India, this paper finds that relative to men, women assigned to be leaders contribute less than what they propose in a public goods game. We examine whether this ...
Contestations around water allocation during a climate crisis in India: the case of ‘IPL vs. drought’
(Global Environmental Change, 2019)
In this paper, we analyze a major controversy regarding the allocation of water for Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches during a period of extreme drought in the state of Maharashtra in India. We use a discursive ...
Hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination in India: evaluating the need for precautionary action
(Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 2019)
The hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and groundwater contamination debate started as soon as the commercial production of shale gas began in the United States. Since then there have been contrasting studies that have analysed ...
Study of the inefficiencies of child protection system in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
India was ranked a low 149 out of 196 countries in the world in RCRI1 (Realization of Children’s Rights Index) despite the tremendous amount of effort that various stakeholders including the Ministry of Women and Child ...