Understanding the role of household carbon footprints in a country’s emissions has been a crucial yet neglected area in climate change research. In this study, we provide estimates of Indian household carbon footprints (HCFs) for income quintiles belonging to rural and urban regions, while our...

This paper explores the spatial concentration of 120 service industries in India's rural and urban areas, covering 33.60 million establishments using Economic census (2013) data at the district level. Besides, this study uses a cartogram map to examine knowledge-intensive business services...

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam...