This chapter aims to understand the link between economic growth and different forms of capital for the period 2001–2011 using comprehensive wealth as an indicator. It discusses some perspective on…

Despite the Solid Waste Management Rules (SWM), 2016 stating that waste generators should segregate their waste before it is collected; most households in Delhi continue to be non-compliant. We…

This special issue on gender comprises articles from four different country settings: Sierra Leone, Senegal, Bangladesh, and Albania. Each uses large secondary data sets to explore how changing market…

This paper finds that previous conclusions that a uniform lump-sum estate tax could provide annuity income were reached by not including the bequest income that households receive. We argue that since…

Adaptations to extreme climatic events like tropical storms are being built into disaster management by empowering vulnerable communities through activities like disaster awareness, trainings on…

Unfounded assumptions in linking crop-damaging temperature and suicide in India

Evaluating a ‘happy’ solution to India’s crop residue burning by Ishita Datta At the end of every rice-growing season in north-west India, usually in mid-November, farmers harvest their crop using…