1st Edition
Economics of Development Looking through Environmental and Behavioural Lens
New Dimensions and Measurements of Development: An Introductory Remark
SAMAPTI GUHA AND CHIRODIP MAJUMDAR
PART I: Finance and Development
1 Digitalisation of Informal Credit in Mumbai Slums during COVID-19
SAMAPTI GUHA, IPSA MAJUMDAR, AND PURUSHOTTAM BHANDARE
2 Multidimensional Financial Inclusion Index of Indian States: Impact on Sustainable Development
RIMPA CHANDA AND CHANDRALEKHA GHOSH
3 Do the Banks’ Mergers and Acquisitions Reduce Non Performing Asset in India?
SAUMITA PAUL AND MALABIKA ROY
PART II: Society, Human Behaviour and Planning
4 Role of Mass Media in Immunisation Decisions
NAYANA BOSE
5 Measuring Subject Fairness: An Alternative Experimental Approach
PRITAM MITRA AND SANTANU MITRA
6 Status, Gender or Expected Benefit: What Matters in Deception?
PROMITA MUKHERJEE, BISWAJIT RAY, AND BISWAJIT MONDAL
7 Organisational Favouritism: A Critical Survey
OINDRILA DEY AND SWAPNENDU BANERJEE
PART III: Market, Development and Governance
8 Look Who Contests!
UTTEEYO DASGUPTA
9 Globalisation and Unequal Development: Towards an Explanatory Framework
SANJOY CHAKRAVORTY
10 Positive Assortative Matching and Default Rates in Microfinance Institutions of India: The Moderating Role of Institutional Governance
SASWATEE MUKHERJEE, AYUS MITRA, SOUMI CHANDRA, AND SOHAM GHATAK
11 Nurturing Local Food Systems: Elevating Food and Nutrition Security in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
ABHISHEK DAS
PART IV: Development and Disadvantaged Communities
12 Taking Geography Seriously: Exploring Spatial Heterogeneity in Determining Childhood Malnutrition in Rural Maharashtra
NEERAJ HATEKAR, AMALENDU JYOTISHI, AND PUJA GUHA
13 Tribal Rights over Forest Resources: A Critical Appraisal of the Legal Verdicts in India
DEBALINA CHAKRAVARTY AND ARITRA SHAU
14 Women’s Economic Empowerment and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the Indian State of Kerala
KRUPA GRACE MATHEW AND CHANDAN ROY
PART V: Energy, Environment and Development
15 Global Energy Transition: Human and Economic Aspects
RAJIV V. SHAH AND N SRINIVASA REDDY
16 Influencing Human Environmental Behaviour through Behavioural Policy
SIDDHARTHA MITRA
17 Economic Valuation of Clean Water: An Application of Life Satisfaction Approach in India
CHIRODIP MAJUMDAR
Biography
Samapti Guha is Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
Chirodip Majumdar is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Rabindra Mahavidyalaya, Hooghly, West Bengal, India.
