This study is possibly the first to investigate the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on life expectancy for 68 low- and middle-income countries for the 1990-2017 period. The analysis was carried out on a disaggregated basis on two dimensions: (1) the sources of CO2 emissions (i.e.,...

This study using the micro level data on households’ tourism expenditure, examines the level of impoverishment in India caused by tourism spending. The result shows that the mid-aged people were dragged into poverty due to tourism spending. Hindus are more prone to poverty due to tourism...

This study examines the factors affecting domestic households' tourism spending in India. The results from using the unconditional quantile regression method show that regular salary earners in India spend less on tourism. The likelihood of tourism spending increases with higher education....

This study empirically examines the impact of real interest rate on income inequality in India within a Kuznets Curve framework considering the role of economic growth, trade openness and technological innovation as the control variables. This study employs the ARDL bounds test for validating...

Using two rounds of the Indian Human Development Survey (2004-05 & 2011-12), this study evaluates levels of household confidence in the governance institutions across Indian states. The observed broad pattern conveys that although there is a marginal improvement (from 0.582 in 2004-05 to 0.602...