Department of Economics

Presently, of the 246.7 million households in the country, only 144.8 million have access to banking. This means, 75 million households or 40 per cent still do not have access to basic banking services. The newly-launched Jan Dhan scheme seeks to plug the gap by providing two accounts each for these 75 million households by August 2018. This ambitious plan may achieve the targeted numbers but it needs to overcome a major problem that has been persistent with all financial inclusion initiatives till now, wherein a majority of the accounts opened has remained inactive with zero balance. Will the new Financial Inclusion scheme cover the distance that the other financial inclusion efforts have missed? Moreover, can a bank account help the poor beat the vicious cycle of poverty? What are the issues plaguing the Financial Inclusion efforts and how can these areas of concern be addressed? How do we make the transition from dormant Financial Inclusion to Meaningful Financial Inclusion? This...

The purpose of this paper to analyze public spending of 19 Indian states on the basis of their performance. We have computed Public Sector Performance (PSP) scores with their representative sub-indicators for the period of 2006-2015. Total 10 years of data have taken of these sub-indicators to capture the structural changes in the economy. This PSP score is divided into two parts namely, PSP Opportunity and PSP Musgravian. Both the PSPs have their own representative variables and the total PSP scores are the composite average of these indicators. Based on these PSPs scores we have computed states efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and ranked the states according to their efficiency. We applied three DEA models with consideration of State Total Revenue Expenditure (TRE) as an input variable, further we have considered PSP Opportunity, PSP Musgravian and Total PSP scores as output variables in these models. The input-oriented DEA analysis reveals that states should have decreased public spending by 57.88%. The output-oriented DEA models conclude that state governments would have potential to increase the efficiency by 14.16% without compromising public spending. Various policy suggestions also discussed by incorporating empirical findings at last section of this paper.

The nexus of remittances and CO2 emission is very important and gathers a significant place in empirical research. This paper tries to find out the asymmetric relationship between carbon emissions, remittances, and financial development in India for the period 1980-2014. Based on the theoretical linkages, we develop a nonlinear ARDL model with the use of time series data in this study. The results of the NARDL bound test suggest that there is long-run cointegration among the variables. The findings show that positive shock in remittances causes an increase in CO2 emissions, where negative shock reduces it. The coefficient for financial development is positive but becomes statistically insignificant. Empirical results also support the existence of asymmetric long-run relationship among the variables. Based on the findings, the paper recommends the proper channelization of remittances and financial development towards environment-friendly energy sources and projects without compromising economic growth.

You all knows about the book "poor economics". I also heard in 2019 since I aimed to complete this book. Started last month and completed then I wrote some points which were highligheted  by this book so If you like please endrose me. latter I put my views on various papers also.

During the past decade, major research have identified hydrogen as the most secure gas and its demand has been on the rise ever since. This paper looks into the unique organic strategies of hydrogen production from different raw material and the economics concerned in-order to identify the most competitively priced and surroundings pleasant technique of bio-hydrogen production as well as most preferable raw material. A specific learn about has been carried out related to the comparative economic analysis of different method related to different bio-waste, the kinds of reactors and raw-materials required. The fee requirement of each of the elements worried in the procedures have been seemed into. The learn about proves the corn - stover to be the least favourable
in-terms of hydrogen production and sugarcane and food-waste to be amongst the better choices.

An outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia occurred worldwide since December 2019, which had been named COVID-19 subsequently. It is extremely transmissive that infection in pregnant women were unavoidable. The delivery process will produce large amount of contaminated media, leaving a challenge for medical personnel to ensure both the safety of the mother and infant and good self-protection. Here, we report a 27 year woman had reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction-confirmed COVID-19 at 37 weeks 2 days of gestation. An emergency caesarean section at 38 weeks 2 days of gestation under spinal anaesthesia was performed for oligohydramnios with scar tenderness with strict protection for all personnel.

Introduction: Anemia in pregnancy is a public health problem of developing countries and has a significant impact on the health of mother and fetus. It is one of the leading cause responsible for maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Aims: To find out the severity of anemia in pregnancy and its maternal and perinatal outcome. Methods: A prospective randomized case control study undertaken in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nepalgunj Medical College, Kolhapur from September 2019 to August 2020. Total of 200 study subjects were enrolled, cases and control were 100 each, with cut off for anemia as 11gm/dl. Results: Out of 100 cases of anemia, 58 were mildly anemic (Hemoglobin: 10-10.9), 23 moderately (7-10) and 21 severely anemic (<7gm/dl). Anemic cases were found to have higher incidence of preterm birth (8%), postpartum hemorrhage (5%), and maternal morbidity (19%) than in non-anemic controls. Adverse fetal outcome in the form of preterm birth (8%), Intraute...

In post-reforms years, employment in organized manufacturing sector was much faster than pre-reform years. Growth momentum of employment has been larger than growth momentum of output. Further, since year 2000, real wages of the workers increased much faster, while per cent share of income wages in value added of industry output showed a decline. Declining wage share is a global phenomenon, not confined to a specific economy. The present paper points out that in all

Immense expansion and unparallel qualitative transformation in the institutions, instruments and regulatory mechanisms have transformed the global financial markets in the developed nations as well as the emerging economies of Asia and Africa. Present paper attempts to examine the changing dynamics of Asian financial markets during 2010-2019. Paper finds that average GDP growth rate has been quite sluggish in both EU and MAE while it has been quite optimistic in EDA, ASEAN-5 and India. Net direct investment shows consistency while net portfolio investment, net other investment and net financial derivatives show inconsistency and fluctuations in EDA. Average financial account balance of EDA is calculated as positive. Average values of net portfolio investment and net financial derivatives are calculated as negative, indicating outflow of such investment from EDA. Current account balance of MAE, EU, EDA and ASEAN-5 indicate consistency and stability. Yearly and monthly External commercial borrowings in India show high level of consistency. In most of the larger Asian emerging economies, large amount of foreign exchange reserves accumulated by governments and central banks can be used to assist private firms. Financial incentives should be generated so as to discourage foreign exchange borrowing by exporters or domestic corporate.

Women considerably contribute to a large part of an economy through their productive work but their works are not recognized due to the inadequate definition of ‘economic activity, used in the national income accounting. A major section of the invisible work performed by rural women remains unidentified, undefined, and unpaid. Since the definition of economics is bounded by the market framework, much of the non-market work performed by women remain invisible and has consequently caused the market devaluation of women’s work. Present primary data-based study on Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh studies the valuation of paid and unpaid household activities of rural women by Market replacement cost method. The study finds that the total average time spent on unpaid SNA and Extended SNA activities by non-working women is almost double the time spent by working women.The daily and monthly wages for unpaid household activities work for the non-working woman is about 28.34 per cent higher than a working woman under the market replacement generalist approach. In the study specialist approach is found to be better and more realistic than the general approach.

Keywords: Valuation, Unpaid household work, Rural women, Time use survey, Workload

Rising deficit in India's trade balance has always beena matter of concern for policy makers. Present study examines the relationship between exchange rate and bilateral trade balance of India for a period of 2008 QI to 2018 Q4.Auto regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to conintegration has been used to test the long run and short run relationship between the variables in sample trading partners in quarterly data over a period 2008-2018.The result shows that in the short run devaluation of exchange rate becomes effective measure in reducing India's trade deficit with some of her trading partners. In the long run, devaluation of exchange rate will not prove to be an effective tool in the direction of improvement of bilateral trade balance of developing nation like India with any of her trading parthers.

development (SD) as that every future eneration must ave equal opportunity of being well off as its predecessor Equity. S e n e ticiency is the goal of sustainable development in environment rather than efficiency and generational levels. .Ecological approach of developmer nomics. Acquirement of SD includes achieving equity both intra generational issues such as creation of wastes, investment of its management, by certain ivestment on regeneranon J natural capital, regard to exhaustibilih nction, valuing weljare o future generation including the aspect of direct utility of natural resources such as aesthetic beauty, social security and inters lopment is characterized of natural oenerational equity. AJter certain levels of development, efficiency in the use of Hatural resources develop, due to developing market for environmental resources and then the true value of natural resources is likely to be reflected through price mechanism. Today, there is aneed of an inclusive, transparent and open approach to the involvement of a wide variety of individuals and institutions regardless of the level of their formal education. "Control and Command' approach must be substituted by 'Share and inform; Promote andfacilitate' approach, only thenjustice will be honoured to the rich heritage of biodiversity resources and associated knowledge.