Abdul Jamal

The New College (University of Madras) · Economics

Savings and investment are key requirements for growth and development. Savings and investment have been considered as two critical macro-economic variables with microeconomic foundations for achieving price stability and promoting employment opportunities thereby contributing to sustainable economic growth. Since independence Indian economy has be...

Agriculture, with its allied sectors, is unquestionably the largest livelihood provider in India, more so in the vast rural areas. Additionally, it makes a sizeable contribution to the Gross Domestic Product. For all-encompassing rural development, sustainable agriculture is crucial in terms of food security, rural employment, and environmentally f...

Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di Kecamatan Tappalang Kabupaten Mamuju Propinsi Sulawesi Barat, dan dilksanakan pada bulan Juli sampai September 2019. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pemberian dosis pupuk mikro (santamikro) dan interval waktu yang berbeda terhadap pertumbuhan dan produksi tanaman terung ungu (Solanummelongena L). Pe...

ICT "leapfrogging" is when developing economies adopt the use of technology to jump-start their development agenda. This study positions the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 to test the leapfrogging hypothesis on eight SAARC economies (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) from 2000 to 2...

The relationship between real deposit rate and credit supply is interrogated with panel data (1980-2015) from ten Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) using dynamic common correlated effects mean group (DCCE-MG) and pooled mean group (PMG) estimators. The results show that real deposit rate has a linear positive long-run impact on cre...

This study makes significant incursion into the tourism literature by investigating whether per capita (PC) income moderates the impact of carbon dioxide emissions on tourism development in South Asia. With an unbalanced panel data on six South Asian countries from 1995 to 2019, the study engages a battery of analytical techniques which includes th...

The empowerment of women is one of the central issues in the process of development of countries all over the world. Poverty is one of the major reasons of women's disempowerment. Different micro and macro level strategies are being used by government agencies and NGOs for poverty alleviation of women as a way to empower them. Microfinance has beco...

Education is an eye opener for every woman who is deprived of the privilege/self-esteem she deserves within a society. Social and economic empowerment cannot ignore the power of women in any society or a nation or a state. Empowerment is a gentle process of transforming the lives of people irrespective of gender. Empowerment of women is possible th...

The paper empirically examines the internationalization-output nexus in 15 late-industrialized countries from 1976 to 2018 using fixed and random effects techniques. The findings reveal that trade openness negatively impacts the industrial output, while the labor force shows a positive and statistically significant impact. Domestic investment and e...

This study examines female vulnerable employment in India’s informal sector and the impact on economic growth using quarterly data from 1991 to 2017 and a blend of descriptive and econometric analyses (the two-stage least squares instrumental variables technique). From the descriptive analysis, some of the compelling findings are: (1) larger percen...

Social inequality means that certain individuals or groups have more material resources than others. Poverty implies some insufficiency in the material resources of an individual or group. The exploitation of the poor by the rich can be contained by reducing the level of inequality between the rich and the poor, which in turn depends upon reducing...

The empowerment of women is one of the central issues in the process of development of countries all over the world. The Government of India has made Empowerment of Women as one of the principal objectives of the Ninth Five Year Plan (1997-2002) and also declared 2001 as the year of ‘Women’s Empowerment’. Women's empowerment is a process in which w...

This study investigates the relationships between quality management (QM) practices (infrastructure practices and core practices), organizational learning, and organizational performance in Indonesia's and Malaysia's ISO 9000 registered manufacturing companies. The results of this study indicate that in Indonesia's ISO 9000 registered nufacturing m...

The shift of birth and death rates from high to low level in any population is referred as demographic transition. Mechanically, the transition of a society creates more working member of its own population commonly called demographic bonus. This article empirically explores the realistic soundness of demographic bonus in reducing the poverty level...

Polygonal designs, a class of partially balanced incomplete block designs with regular polygons, are useful in survey sampling in terms of balanced sampling plans excluding contiguous units (BSECs) and balanced sampling plans excluding adjacent units (BSAs) when neighboring units in a population provide similar information. In this paper, the metho...