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Original Article
Open Access
How Does Economic Growth React to Fiscal Deficit and Inflation? An ARDL Analysis of China and India
Amba Agarwal, Amritkant Mishra, Mohini Gupta
· pp. 7–20
DOI: 10.17010/aijer/2019/v8i4/148068
The current analysis strived to unearth the impact of inflation and fiscal deficit on economic growth and conduct a comparative review between the world's two fastest-growing economies, China and India. The present empirical investigation exerted multivariate time series modeling, such …
Keywords:
Fiscal Deficit, Inflation, Economic Growth, Auto-Regressive Distributional Lag
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Original Article
Open Access
A Curious Neglect of Cicero as the First Predecessor of Asymmetric Information by the Five Nobel Laureate Economists
Arup Kanti Konar
· pp. 21–34
DOI: 10.17010/aijer/2019/v8i4/148069
In 1996, two economists, and in 2001, three economists, were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden for their revolutionary contributions to asymmetric information. The contribution of the first predecessor of asymmetric …
Keywords:
Data, Information, Knowledge, Normative, Understanding, Wisdom
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Original Article
Open Access
Is Fat Tax the Panacea for Fast Food Consumption and Related Health Issues in Urban India?
Arunima Singh, Parvati Pyarelal, Vineeth Mohandas
· pp. 35–46
DOI: 10.17010/aijer/2019/v8i4/148070
In an attempt to reduce the growing fast food consumption, widely believed to be the prime reason for the rising obesity in the state, the Kerala Finance Minister in his 2016 budget speech made a proposal for introducing a 14.5% …
Keywords:
Fat Tax, Pigouvian Tax, Public Health, Regulation, Branded Fast Food Chains, Obesity, Nutrition
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Original Article
Open Access
A Preliminary Survey of the Theoretical and Practical Aspects of UBI and Assessing its Feasibility in the Context of the Indian Economy
Ketan K. Shah, Dhruti G. Jani
· pp. 47–55
DOI: 10.17010/aijer/2019/v8i4/148071
We attempted a survey of UBI to understand the ideology and the theory underlying the UBI scheme and assessing the feasibility of implementing it in India. The paper started with a discussion of the origin of the concept and examined …
Keywords:
Distribution, Income Transfer, Inequality, Poverty, Unemployment