The steady decline of funds available through ODA implies the necessity of design of innovative funding mechanisms for development. This paper considers several such proposals including an international carbon tax, a Tobin tax, aviation taxes, bit taxes, taxes on international trade, taxes on...

If public expenditure and public revenue are I (0), public debt is sustainable, butif these are I (1) and not cointegrated or have a cointegrating vector differentfrom [1, -1], the public debt is said to be unsustainable. Extant work indicates that India's public debt is unsustainable. The...

This study examines the empirical relationship among inequality, poverty and economic growth in India. Using data on consumption from the 13th to the 53rd Rounds of the National Sample Survey, the author computes, for both rural and urban sectors, the Gini coefficient and three popular measures...