This article uses some general findings in the medical literature on suicide to suggest how male and female suicide rates in a society can be used to measure the "unfreedom" of women relative to that of men. Our definition of "unfreedom" is similar to that of Amartya Sen and consists of all...

Most developing countries are characterized by large informal sectors, which are plagued by low productivity and other serious problems. This paper suggests a three-ford remedy for formalizing the large informal sector: formalization of property rights, alleviation of corruption and...

The paper presents a theoretical model with bureaucratic corruption where bribe income can leak out of an economy. In such an economy given its perception about the extent of leakage the government sets the price of public services required for entrepreneurship by maximizing the welfare of the...

This paper investigates the impact of socio-economic triggers on mental health outcomes, proxied by male and female suicide rates. For that purpose we estimate a fixed effects panel data model of 15 major Indian states over the years 1992–2009. Our results show that urbanization and crimes...

It is hypothesized that pursuit of human happiness is carried out through adaptive change in utility functions by drawing lessons from, in an ex-post manner, the effect of short run utility maximizing choices on utility possibilities. A reference frame for future research is designed to check...

This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is demonstrated to be an impediment to sustained economic development. It is argued that problems of rural infrastructure provision are different from those of the urban, given the smaller size, density and per...

Aa framework for the analytical treatment of terrorist problems is suggested and then brings out the importance of financial and socio-economic factors. The framework classifies the various causes of terrorism into necessary, precipitating, facilitating and perpetuating factors [WP 10]