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Abstract Energy is essential and people with no sustainable access to it are deprived of the opportunity to become part of national and global progress. And yet, one billion people around the world live without acce…

Abstract The positive social outcomes of migration are generally invisible. It affects both economic as well as non-economic status of migrant households. In the study of nexus of migration and social capital, most …

Abstract This paper aims to empirically examine the moderating role of the social disclosure aspect in determining the performance-based CEO pay. Further, we have also tested whether women directors on board and aca…

Abstract This paper examines the impact of international migration on inter-generational educational mobility (IGEM) among left-behind children in migrant-sending households in the origin. IGEM, measured as the diff…

Abstract Climate change can be defined as the increase in average temperatures due to rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, predominantly due to human activities. Carbon emissions have increased at an alarming rate…

Abstract This paper synthesises the theories of economic discrimination as developed since they emerged first with the writing of Gary Becker in the mid-1950s and later by Arrow, George Akerlof, William Darity and o…

Abstract The study examines the threshold level of India’s public debt from 1970 to 2019. The ARDL method finds that a country’s public debt is driven mainly by its gross fiscal deficit, real interest rate, and econ…

Abstract This paper is based on my lecture delivered under the aegis of ISEC Golden Jubilee Lecture series. My long association with the forest regions of the Joida taluka of Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka is …