BACKGROUND Obesity is a multifaceted problem with wide-reaching medical, social and economic consequences. While health consequences are much known, but due to paucity of data, economic consequences are less known in India. The prevalence for excessive weight particularly among women population has been increasing dramatically in India in the last decades. We examined the economic burden on ind...

This paper analyses the relationship between social capital and population health. The analysis is carried out within an econometric model of population health in 19 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries using panel data covering three different time periods. Social capital is measured by the proportion of people who say that that they generally trust...

Recent research has indicated that investment in certain capital types, such as computers, has fostered accelerated productivity growth and enabled a fundamental reorganization of the workplace. However, remarkably little is known about the composition of investment at the micro level. This short paper takes an important …rst step in …lling this knowledge gap by looking at the newly available m...

This paper studies the macroeconomic effect of changes in the capital requirements set by microprudential bank regulators. The central result is that unanticipated increases in capital requirements lower lending to firms and households, reduce aggregate expenditure and raise credit spreads. A financial accelerator effect is found to amplify the macroeconomic responses to shifts in bank credit s...

The asset management problem of a network owner operating in a regulatory climate is discussed in this paper. Typically, the networks of interest are water distribution systems, gas pipeline networks, and electricity supply networks. We look at how network investment projects, relating to refurbishment or replacement of existing assets and network expansion, may be prioritised under capital rat...

In the current economic, resource and carbon constrained climate, it is imperative that power distribution companies invest in only necessary network augmentation. However, with electricity demand growth over recent years doubling the electricity consumption growth, capital expenditure is following in a similar fashion relative to operational expenditure [1]. The need for greater infrastructure...

india is much more integrated with the world economy. both current and capital accounts are complementing to each other. the economic slowdown that appears to have begun in the usa in september, 2008 has some negative impact on indian economy. the most immediate and adverse effect of this global financial crisis on india is an out flow of foreign institutional investment (fii) from the capital ...

In this paper, we study a firm’s optimal lobbying behavior and its effect on investment in pollution abatement capital. We develop a dynamic framework where a representative firm can invest in both abatement and lobby capital in response to a possible future increase in pollution tax. We show that when the firm lobbys against the scale of the tax increase at a determined date, it should act lik...

We have analyzed the determinants of the Gini coefficient for income and expenditure. In both cases, we do not find support for the Kuznets inverted-U hypothesis. From economic globalization viewpoint, the opening of goods markets reduces income inequality both in the short run (the Gini coefficient for income) and in the long run (the Gini coefficient for expenditure). On the other hand, the o...

The role of ICT has evolved from a tool and utility to become a strategic asset for any organisation towards delivering business improvement and value. Furthermore, the importance of ICT-based innovation is recognized in bringing productivity improvements and sustainable competitive advantage to industry. Construction is an extremely information-intensive and knowledge-based industry. Therefore...