The SPS Agreement in the WTO gives legal validity to the CODEX standards. Since the developed countries have been at the forefront of setting the food standards in the CODEX, the developing countries have been increasingly engaged in the CODEX, and also in the WTO, with an objective to increase...

A sharp debate in the context of life cycle literature is whether older homeowners look at their housing wealth as a means to satisfy post-retirement income needs. Little empirical evidence exists in the Indian context which investigates whether Indian older homeowners save or dissave home...

The Government of India introduced Reverse Mortgage (RM) scheme in 2007 as a social security scheme which renders an opportunity for aging India to convert vast illiquid housing assets into regular cash streams. This paper makes an attempt to examine whether Indian elderly homeowners from metro...

The paper investigates what economic factors contribute most to the uptake of reverse mortgage by the Indian elderly homeowners. Binary logistic regression is used on a cross-sectional primary dataset of 410 elderly homeowners residing in different metro and non-metro cities of India. The result...

The volatile behavior of price of capital assets is always interesting for different stakeholders of capital markets. It is fluctuation in the price of the asset which is responsible for the capital gain or loss of the investor. What a sensible investor wants, is a model that will predict the...