This paper examines the convergence of public expenditure and its major components using sub-national data from India. By employing the panel club convergence test, the paper finds convergence in per capita public expenditure ...
BACKGROUND: Changes in climatic conditions have increased the variability in rainfall patterns worldwide. A negative rainfall shock faced by children in the initial 1000 days of life and the resulting malnutrition can harm ...
Krishnendu P. S.; Amrita Datta(Indian Institute of Technology , Hyderabad, 2022)
Anthropogenic climate change is indisputably one of the most serious threats to mankind as made
evident by the catastrophic climate events occurring more frequently in different parts of the world.
However, despite the ...
Background: Due to the scarcity of organs available for transplantation, several patients lose their lives each year. Increased awareness and positive attitudes alone may be insufficient to increase an individual's willingness ...
Shubham Raut; Aalok Dinkar Khandekar(Indian Institute of Technology , Hyderabad, 2022)
Self-initiated forest management systems by forest dwelling communities, referred to as Community
Forest Management, were formed in many parts of India in response to forest degradation and shortage
of biomass. This ...
Saloka Sengupta; Haripriya Narasimhan(Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, 2021)
This thesis is an ethnographic study of the Nachnis of Purulia, West Bengal.
Nachni nach is a form of dance which has its origins five hundred years ago,
in the courts and kuthis of Jangal mahal. The songs sung by ...
Abhimanyu Chettri; Haripriya Narasimhan(Indian Institute of Technology , Hyderabad, 2022)
Since the past decade, there has been a wider acceptance that the boisterous
anthropogenic activities have resulted in an unprecedented catastrophe and would
severely impact life on Earth. The manifestations of climate ...
This study assesses the involvement in human motor learning, of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (BA 9/46v), a somatic region in the middle frontal gyrus. The potential involvement of this cortical area in motor learning ...
Manjir Das; Haripriya Narasimhan(Indian Institute of Technology , Hyderabad, 2022)
The Queer community and their sexual non-conformation have been systematically
silenced throughout history using different mechanisms such as state-sanctioned legislations,
religious ordinances, and social stigma. Over ...
This study investigates whether Indonesia's Current Account (CA) balance is intertemporally solvent. We provide fresh evidence on Indonesia's CA deficit solvency by considering post-crisis period data and conducting ...
Badri Narayan Rath(Bank Indonesia Institute, 2022)
This paper investigates the impact of innovation on the performance of selected manufacturing firms in India over the period 2008-2017. Specifically, we emphasize on the role of innovation outcomes in terms of number of ...
This paper examines caste bias in Odia language textbooks prescribed by the Government in middle schools in the State of Odisha, India. The analysis focuses on 10 textbooks for Social Science and Odia literature prescribed ...
This essay argues that Mona Simpson’s Anywhere but Here (1986) sustains a path breaking debate on maternity vis-à-vis female autonomy. It examines how in a narrative spatiotemporally located in America’s Midwest during the ...
This study aims to critically analyze the problem of the beauty bias prevalent in contemporary India with the help of popular postmillennial Hindi television serials. It begins with a review of literature on television’s ...
This article will present a critique of the neurocentric view of language and cognition by locating it within the context of unification in cognitive science. While unity consists in the integration of the constraints, ...
This essay focuses on three films from Gurinder Chadha’s South-Asian diasporic oeuvre, Rich Deceiver (1995), It’s A Wonderful Afterlife (2010), and the documentary titled What Do You Call An Indian Woman Who’s Funny? (1994), ...
Child malnutrition is remarkably high in India. The problem of food insecurity is also extremely alarming in the country. From a policy perspective, a question of paramount importance in this context is: are these two ...
Mahati Chittem(Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2022)
Patients who opt for the Kerala Model of Palliative Care (KMPC) report favorable psychological outcomes. Still, not all patients in Kerala prefer this treatment's approach. Hence, this study is aimed to examine the ...