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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 ...
Factors affecting pass through of repo rates to lending rates in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
The pass through of reduction in repo rates to lending rates has been a much discussed topic in recent past in India. This paper tries to estimate the pass through coefficient over the last 8 years. We hypothesize that the ...
Evolution of e-commerce in India: a study on the effect on retail industry and the implications of public policy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
There has been a massive change in the retail landscape in India in the past few decades. Just observing it from a consumer journey perspective, initially there were small stores which could cater to multiple consumer ...