Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between social capital and fiscal performance using provincial sub-national state-level data in India during 1991-2012. Fiscal performance in India is based on social trust on fiscal institutions that emphasizes mainly social...

This article investigates emerging opportunities in climate change mitigation in South Asia through trade. Trade can mitigate the climate change issues of a country, region or the world as a whole. Through international agreement (or pressure), trade also creates the opportunity for green jobs...

This paper proposes a theoretical model of green growth. The paper analyses the development mechanisms through which natural resource capital regenerates (or at least does not degrade), is preserved and contributes to economic growth. Climate change is a threat to human civilisation and...

This article highlights the export potential trade gap in climate smart goods (CSG) in Asia in 2008. Using the trade gravity equation, this article estimates trade value and measures potential trade gap. This potential trade gap suggests that there is a scope to increase the export of CSG. This...

It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may not be the case in an industry with asymmetric cost firms. A rise in the number of more cost-inefficient firms makes the consumers worse off in the presence of a...

This study examines carefully the distribution aspects in details, particularly the pattern of distribution of global CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emission. This paper investigates the share of CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emission for bottom 10 and top 10 percentiles, quartiles and their movements during 1960-1990.

Purpose – The aim of this paper was to focus on China’s economic integration with Asia region and the world. It also attempts to find the long-run relation with short-run dynamics of China’s trade in Asia and the world. Design/methodology/approach – The augmented Dickey–Fuller and...