History, culture, religion and identity are often used to legitimise conflicts. But these causes not always act as the sole divisive forces to initiate conflict unless there are economic reasons. Conflict leads to human displacement and loss of life, destruction of assets and low investment....

We integrate supply and demand aspects in analyzing the determinants of financing free elementary education (FEE) across states in India over the period 2005–2016, before and after the reform (implementation of the Right to Education Act, 2009). We find that the income (per capita) elasticity...

An analysis of relevant data for 27 Indian states from 2005-06 to 2016-17 indicates that there were considerable variations in the provision of free elementary education (FEE) across states. While there was a slight decline in the access dimension of FEE, especially after the implementation of...

To the world, any country certain to cause pain is unacceptable. China’s military and economic aggression is disturbing the world peace. The country is said to be the root cause of trade war and recent Covid-19 pandemic. Most people are afraid of another great war that might be triggered by...

Displeasure is a concept in emotion research, and has been studied over a long time. But this concept is not significantly addressed in planning and development except very few. In reality, displeasure leads to conflict, which in turn outbursts into violence, terrorism and so on. In this...