https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6352 2026-04-26T01:47:34Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6898 Title: Traffic Congestion in a Hill City of North East India and Its Consequences Authors: De, Utpal Kumar; Rajbongshi, Gitumoni Abstract: The complexity of traffic congestion in a hill city is more than in a plain city in its nature and dimensions. The congestion adverselyaffects the speed, travel time, fuel expenditure, business and many other activities. This paper examines incidence of traffic congestion at some major traffic intersections in a hill city of North Eastern region of India, Shillong through which majority of the traffic movements occur. Further, major factors behind regular traffic congestion in the city have been analysed. Traffic volume in peak hours has been measured by using Volume-Capacity Ratio and major factors responsible for traffic congestion is explained by Principal Component Analysis. Results show that locational misdistribution of various government offices and institutions, badly located filling stations, driving behaviour are some important factors leading to severe congestion. Results also show that there are significantadverse effects on the individual performances including a decline in productivity and earning opportunity of the taxi drivers due to traffic congestion. Description: PP:1-18 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6897 Title: Capability Approach to the Analysis of Child Deprivation in India: Focus on Inter- State Variation Authors: Bhowmik, Gautam; Datta, Soumyendra Kishore Abstract: As per UNDP’s definition, human development is a process of enlarging human’s choices. The essence of sustainable human development is that everyone should have equal access to development opportunities now and in future. Amartya Sen in his book ‘Development as Freedom’ (2000, oxford university press) established a relationship between human capital and human capabilities as an expression of freedom. The role of human capabilities manifests in three ways: a) their direct relevance to the wellbeing and freedom of people (generation of income); b) their indirect role through influencing social changes (ensuring better health and education) and c) their indirect role through influencing economic productivity ( skilled contribution to economic development). The relevance of the capability perspective incorporates each of these contributions. Child deprivation is a global problem that persists both in developed and less developed countries but in different forms. This paper is an attempt to study the child deprivation in terms of capability approach focusing on mainly health and education. Depriving children of access to basic health may adversely affects the socioeconomic conditions which usually stunts their growth, makes them physically weak, exposes them to high level of mortality. Children living in poverty are unable to fulfill their basic neededucation. Financial deprivation compels them to perform as child labour, involve them in activities, such as to collect fuel, fodder, water away from home that abducts their schooling opportunities. If quality education, skill and expertise through proper training are not imparted to them, then future human capital may not be adequate for the sustainability requirements of an economy.Because today’s children are future performers as productive capital in diverse fields. Therfore, proper care of children should be taken to have their skilled contribution to a country’s development. Description: PP:19-39 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6896 Title: Property Crime and Development Indicators: A Comparative Analysis between North-East and South-West Regions in India Authors: Khasnobis, Poulomi; Dinda, Soumyananda Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between property crime and development focusing on financial and fiscal indicators. This study provides a comparative analysis between North-East and South-West regions in India. As per geographical position of states this study has selected two regionsin India: North East (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura) and South West (Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh). Per capita GSDP is an indicator of development which plays a significant role for reduction of property crime rate in both regions. However, C-D ratio, the indicator of financial development, helps to reduce property crime in South-West region only. Industrial worker is taken as proxy for urbanization which reflects the negative impact on property crime in South West while positive in North East region. This study focuses on fiscal indicators like own tax and own non-tax. The findings suggest that tax imposition may reduce the property crime in some cases. Description: PP:40-56 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6895 Title: Causality between International Financial Integration and Trade Openness in High Income OECD Countries: Panel Data Analysis Authors: Bhattacharya, Abhijit; Ghosh, Archita Abstract: Theoretically trade openness and international financial integration should go hand in hand. However, both these variables depend on a number of economic and non-economic factors; as a result, theoretical findings are not always confirmed in reality. In the present paper we try to judge the theoretical perception on the relationship between trade openness and international financial integration with empirical evidences for a panel of 28 High Income OECD countries over the period 1995-2011. Panel unit root test shows that both the series on financial integration and trade openness are integrated of order one. We have applied Pedroni and Kao cointegration tests to find that these two series are cointegrated. Then we have performed vector error correction. Our result confirms the absence of long run causality either from trade openness to international financial integration or from international financial integration to trade openness. We have also tested for short run causality and have found that unidirectional causality exists from international financial integration to trade openness. Description: PP:57-67 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z