Last Date for submission: June 30, 2025

Warsaw, Poland

Last Date for submission: July 10, 2025

Shanghai, China.

Distinguished Indian Economists: Swaying Minds and Shaping the Modern Indian Economy, ​ this project presents a focused exploration of the contributions made by modern Indian economists whose ideas have significantly influenced the country's economic path and development thinking. It aims to bridge two critical gaps: the limited availability of accessible information on Indian economists and the need for a more pluralistic approach to economic thought. The featured economists, no longer with us, came from diverse regions, ideologies, and schools of thought, yet shared a common ability to influence minds and policy. Their work tackled the pressing challenges faced by a newly independent India...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, April 2025

The main objective of this paper is to measure and analyse the level of vulnerability of female domestic workers inferring from previous works undertaken in the area on vulnerability analysis. The analysis has been undertaken based on a sample collected from 200 female domestic workers employed in Shillong city, Meghalayat...

International Economics and Economic Policy, April 2025

Are we really witnessing the death of globalization caused by geopolitical fragmentation? Using an extensive dataset, I develop an augmented gravity model of bilateral trade flows among 59,049 country-pairs over the period 1948–2021 and find that the much-debated geopolitical distance between countries has contradictory and...

Empirical Economics, April 2025

This paper introduces a novel methodology, Bayesian cross-entropy forecasting (BCEF), for predicting the variance and skewness of density forecasts. BCEF evaluates the first-order effects of risk factors on the variability and asymmetry of predictive distributions, enabling a clear assessment of a forecasted variable’s upside...

Journal of Social and Economic Development, April 2025

The paper examines the status of indebtedness across social categories and investigates why Dalits on average pay higher interest rate on their loans compared to non-Dalits, even when borrowing under the same scheme. About one-third of households were in indebtedness by the end of June 2018, 90% of which became...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, April 2025

Vocational education in India has been gaining recognition and quality to bridge the wage gap between skills and employability. The relationship between vocational education and the wages in the Indian economy is complex and multifaceted. Skills mismatch, sectoral nuances, gender imbalances, and geographical factors contribute to...