On assuming office in 2014, India's BJP-led government initiated an ambitious plan to facilitate the ease of doing business, aiming to make India an attractive investment destination. Interview data from 20 trade union ...

This study examines the drivers of rice trade. The analysis uses the standard comparative advantage model, the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) framework, supplemented with a gravity-type equation. Using the Poisson pseudo-maximum ...

Ensemble models such as gradient boosting and random forests are proven to offer the best predictive performance on a wide variety of supervised learning problems. The high performance of these black box models, however, ...