Annie Rath

• Assistant Managing Editor at JSDC

Objectives: To explore whether the biological and social contexts have a bearing on the work-performance of the workers in an urban non-manual setting (and which among the two has a predominant impact). Methods/Statistical analysis: The study uses primary data collected from the faculty members of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. Descriptive...

From many counts, the natural disaster in Uttarakhand caused by torrential rains in 2013 that had drawn serious attention of policymakers needs an appropriate framework of analysis to account the economic losses incurred. More so because such losses have several implications for the growth of the regional economy on account of its inter-linkages in...

Given the current scenario worldwide where almost every nation is growing economically at a fast pace and the level of pollution, occurrence of ecological catastrophes and depletion of natural resources too are growing in leaps and bounds, ‘green audit’ is being looked upon as a potential tool to create a complementary relationship between the envi...

In emerging economies like India, there is a clear conflict between development priorities and environmental concerns. With the ever-advancing urbanization and rural transformation processes, the construction sector seems to be playing a major role in the contemporary efforts towards growth and development. However, rising material costs and increa...

All economic activities are associated with a dual range of costs i.e. the private costs and the social costs. While the private costs are always accounted for directly in the bidding process and transaction of materials and labour, the social costs often remain latent in the cost estimation process due to their impacts on third parties rather than...

In the paradigm of Economics, goods and services are divided into four broad categories: public goods, private goods, common property resources, and club goods. Environmental goods belong to the category of common property resources, which are non-excludable but rival in nature. Given this unique nature of environmental goods and the fact that envi...