Even though India's achievement in the elementary level of education in terms of enrollment is praiseworthy, this paper tries to examine whether or not India's performance is equally impressive from the qualitative perspective. An overview of elementary education in rural India is presented in...

The United States has been India’s most dominant trade partner for quite some time now. Given trade data are of mirror type and can be easily crosschecked, a rule based routine check finds a huge discrepancy both in export and import values between bilateral trade statistics of these two...

Even though India is a predominantly agricultural economy, we find dearth of works related to Indian agricultural trade combining both export and imports. This paper attempts to examine the performances of major Indian agricultural crops both in terms of export and imports and tries to attribute...

Falsified international trade statistics poses a big challenge to the policymakers in the developing world. Given the doctored dataset, it is very hard to design effective policy prescriptions that suit capital scarce economies. On the other hand, corrupt international traders rationally...

This paper examines India's welfare gain after becoming a WTO member in comparison to pre-WTO scenario. The mechanism closely follows Lai, Riezman & Wang (2016) that took up the Chinese case. In defining the theoretical welfare estimates, we employ a simple and modified version of Arkolakis,...

Based on the census report of 2011, we study the socioeconomic factors that might influence various types of crime that take place in various provinces of India. The NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) data reflects that incidence of all categories of crime, considered in this analysis, have...