Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the facilitators and impediments of business sustainability of the microenterprises. The study also proposes a framework of social sustainability through women microentrepreneurs in India. Design/methodology/approach: In order to fulfill the...

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to address the sustainability issue of Self-help groups by means of developing small business/micro-entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach: The causal relationship between empowerment through SHG and micro-entrepreneurship is being investigated by...

The article first looks at the working of an open economy under a situation of price flexibility in a static framework. This extends the Mundell–Fleming model and shows the effect of exchange rate movement in a richer perspective. The article then introduces the role of depreciation of...

We examine risk preferences in an urban setting in a low-income developing country with nonstudent subjects by adapting the experimental approach of Holt and Laury (HL; 2002). We conducted 22 group experiments with 404 participants and used in-kind payoffs. The average respondent was...

We believe a lack of transparency undermines both the credibility of, and interest in, stated choice studies among policy makers. Unlike articles reporting the results of contingent valuation studies, papers in the stated choice literature rarely present simple tabulations of raw response data...

Summary The "old" familiar diseases of cholera and typhoid remain a serious health threat in many developing countries. Health policy analysts often argue that vaccination against cholera and typhoid should be provided free because poor people cannot afford to pay for such vaccines and because...

This book examines the dynamic relationship and volatility spillovers between crude oil prices, exchange rates and stock markets of emerging economies. Although considerable literature on relationship between exchange rates and stock markets as well as affiliation between oil prices and stock...

Introduction -- Pandemics and Economic Crisis -- Impact of COVID-19 on Global Economy -- Plummeting Oil Prices and Oil Demand -- Major Stock Markets of the World: An Overview -- Literature Review -- Objectives and Methodology of the Study -- Analysis and Findings -- Conclusion.