In Canada, politicians, and the public, are beginning to worry about how we will be able to pay for public health care in an aging population, especially when the baby boom retires. At the same time, Canadian politicians are also worried about how much money is lost from tax revenues because of...

Like most of the Indian states, specially those in the eastern region, foodgrains production in West Bengal is still predominantly rainfed. The eastern region in general and West Bengal in particular, ushered in a spectacular improvement in foodgrains production during the 1980s, which was again...

The over-reaction hypothesis suggests that if investors over-react then a contrarian strategy of buying losers and selling winners should earn significant abnormal returns. The results of the study show that there is an inverse relationship between size and observed returns in the Australian...

Globally Networked businesses are prominent features of Globalization; the new era is redefining trade routes based on "digital integration" of trading partners. A map that is not based on traditional factor like physical proximity of the trading countries but one that is dependent on business...

The major finding of this study is that the long run purchasing power parity (PPP) deviations of the major ASEAN exchange rates exhibit nonlinear adjustment which may be characterised by the Smooth Transition Autoregressive (STAR) model. This finding warrants us that policy decision based on...

Small section of the Indian labor force belongs to the organized sector, while majority is engaged in the unorganized sector. The laborers in the unorganized sector of the economy can be divided into three broad categories, (i)Unorganized Urban laborers (ii) Agricultural laborers and (iii)...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has contributed in a big way in improving export competitiveness and volume of exports particularly technology intensive manufacturing exports in China and Singapore. India has also made earnest efforts in recent years to sell itself as an attractive destination...

Monetary policy is considered to be an important tool in the hands of an apex financial institution of any country in directing economic resources to achieve its goal. However there has been increasing literature focusing on its efficacy. This paper is an attempt in addressing the continuing...

Like most of the Indian states, specially those in the eastern region, foodgrains Foreign debt burden of Pakistan⬠"!s economy is a burning issue. Debt burden has reached to alarming proportion and has posed a great danger to the economic future of the country. A net outflow of resources is...

Globalization is a process and not a single event. It is a means to improved well-being. It increases the percapita income, improve quality of life, lower the illiteracy rate, augment life expectancy, and reduce infant mortality. Cheap transportation, policy oriented tariff cuts, progress in...