An unprecedented crisis in the form of COVID-19 has posed a significant problem to both the lives and livelihood of the people around the world. Economic activities of India are also affected by this pandemic with phase-wise lockdowns, implementation of social distancing measures, global...

This paper demonstrates how the estimation of economic activities and inequality for the Indian economy based on nighttime lights data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite outperforms those obtained using traditional Defense Meteorological Satellite Program...

Life insurance is of paramount importance for protecting human lives against accidents, causalities and other types of risks. Life insurance has been dominated by public sector in India; however, with the liberalization of Indian economy, private sector entry in life insurance has got momentum....

The impact of the recent global financial crisis on the life insurance business felt after the American International Group (AIG) and Fortis required bailouts due to their financial ill health. India cannot be insulated from this impact as these insurers are having joint ventures in India. This...

Since the opening up of the economy and reforms in the banking sector in India, rural finance is in back foot. To keep the momentum of the growth at present level India needs to serve the financial need of the excluded masses to bring them into the main stream of developmental process. This...

The role of financial development and economic growth has been well established. Now the research has shifted to understand factors that affects the overall financial services, thereby the underlying factors that lead to improve the financial development. Insurance is one of the important...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented crisis for the tourism economy. The global supply chain has stopped and the movement of people has been at a halt globally along with all economic activities. Tourism is a labour-intensive sector which contributes in large part in the GDP of the...