Purpose: Information is often available to consumers through their social networks. Focusing on dairy consumers in India, this paper aims to present evidence of peer effects in consumers’ attitudes towards various food safety attributes and food safety practices. Design/methodology/approach:...

Purpose: Generating meaningful employment has become a major concern for countries across the globe to break the vicious circle of poverty. Employment creation becomes more intricate in a developing economy like India where the population is at an incessant rise, without a simultaneous increase...

Purpose: This study aims to analyse the effects of China’s information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure investment on economic growth. Design/methodology/approach: Using a panel data set of China’s 30 regions during 2010–2015, this study uses the generalized method of...

Purpose: The study aims to explore the role of digital economy and technology adoption for financial inclusion in the Indian context. Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual framework was developed and hypotheses were tested through a survey conducted on 433 educated adults (males and...

Purpose: This paper aims to understand the differing impacts of wealth distribution on human capital accumulation and skilled-unskilled labour generation under three educational paradigms as follows: private, public and a system of mixed education. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use...

Purpose: World over, change of base year in the gross domestic product (GDP) is a standard practice of GDP estimation. However, unless a consistent series of GDP is released with respect to the new base for the earlier period, the existence of multiple growth rates creates problems for applied...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate price responses and volatility spillovers between commodity spot and futures markets. The study ultimately seeks the evidence-based claims on the efficiency of the long run and short run horizontal price transmissions from futures markets to spot markets....

Purpose: In the fast-changing technological environment, electricity is the essence of the world economy and a significant means for all the modern world’s possessions. The ongoing economic downturn focuses on energy’s role in the economy. This study aims to explore the nexuses between per...