Pabitra Kumar Jena

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Associate Professor at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University

This study develops a macroeconomic model to examine the relationships between the energy sector, economic growth and the environment in India over the period 1971 to 2021. Aligning with the United Nations SDG-13 and using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression Equation (SURE) model, we find that the services and agriculture sectors, non-renewable ener...

The present study examines the extent and direction of horizontal, backward and forward spillover effects of FDIs on firms' productivity. It also shows how the mediating factors (firm's age, export and import intensity, R&D and advertisement intensity) contribute to the firms' productivity. Further, the study also uncovers the importance of the own...

This study aims to examine the impact of renewable energy, carbon emissions, and economic growth on healthcare spending in 36 Asian countries during 2000–2019. Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) and Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) models have been applied to the panel data for 36 Asian countries. The study's findings show that CO2 em...

This study scrutinizes the impact of corruption on the economic growth of five emerging countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), over the period 1996–2020. The study has employed panel quantile regression and the two-stage least square regression technique. Empirical results of the study confirm that control of corr...

This article explores the socioeconomic factors of wheat growers’ participation intensity in contract farming (CF) under both public and private firms in Haryana. Using the primary survey data of 754 wheat growers collected from two districts of Haryana, the study finds that CF participation intensity is higher under government corporations than in...

This study explores the relationship between monetary policy instruments and India’s demographic structure, to understand how these instruments interact with the population composition. To trace the relationship, this study has considered annual data from 1993-2018. Using the structural vector autoregression (VAR) with restrictions and considering...

Growing complexity and vulnerability of global supply chains have led to significant challenges in supply chain functionality. Organizations face shortages, out-of-stock situations, and longer lead times for components, which impacts resilience and recovery processes. Numerous organizations have adopted diverse strategies to mitigate the effects of...

In the wake of various catastrophic consequences of climate change, Malaysia, a rapidly developing economy, is also inevitably experiencing environmental degradation that merits prompt and serious attention from policymakers and its government. Hence, this study simultaneously highlights the short and long-run dynamic connections between carbon emi...

This article examines the role of gender heterogeneity in inter-generational transmission of learning efficiency, a proxy for scholastic ability. We use primary survey data of 1000 elementary students collected from 125 public schools in Uttar Pradesh in 2019. Efficiency scores calculated from data envelopment analysis by considering students’ acad...

The study aims to address poverty eradication efforts globally and promote sustainable development goals (viz., SDGs 1 and 8), specifically focusing on improving quality of life, population optimization, job creation, and economic growth. The research investigates the increasing poverty rates in Sub-Saharan Africa and analyses the role of populatio...

This study examines the nexus between institutional quality and FDI inflows in SAARC countries for the sample period of 1996–2017. The analysis is carried out using panel ARDL and panel quantile regression to draw the inferences. Empirical findings reveal that corruption, political stability, government effectiveness, and GDP per capita have a posi...

This study tries to evaluate the returns to contract farming (CF) in the form of farm efficiency for both contract and non-contract wheat growers in Haryana, North India. Applying the data envelopment analysis and endogenous switching regression model on cross-sectional survey data from 754 wheat farmers, it finds that CF adopters are significantly...

Energy poverty plagues the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region and impedes its socioeconomic development. It is impossible to attain sustainable-development without alleviating energy-poverty. In this study, we examine the role of governance and renewable-energy in alleviating energy poverty for 22 SSA countries from 2000 to 2018 using system generalis...

The efficient planning, execution, and management of institutional frameworks for climate change adaptation are essential to sustainable development. India, in particular, is known to be disproportionately vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. This study examines the effects of environmental taxes, corruption, urbanization, economic gro...

The present study uses both carbon dioxide emission and ecological footprints as proxies for environmental degradation to examine the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for the top three emitters from Asia, i.e., China, India, and Japan. To this end, the autoregressive distributed lag model for time series and panel estimation is used for a per...

The present study uses both carbon dioxide emission and ecological footprints as proxies for environmental degradation to examine the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for the top three emitters from Asia, i.e., China, India, and Japan. To this end, the autoregressive distributed lag model for time series and panel estimation is used for a per...

This study investigates the nexus between the energy market and its determinants in eight countries from the Asia-Pacific region over 1994–2018. The results show energy demand, prices, economic growth and industrialization positively affect the energy supply. On the other hand, energy supply and growth and industrialization positively affect energy...

The Paris Agreement has united the global nations to embark on pathways to the decarbonization of their respective economies. However, the objective of achieving low-carbon growth is not as straightforward as it seems since the rapidly emerging and fossil fuel-dependent global economies are focused on expediting economic growth at the expense of po...

This study investigates the impact of governance index and gross fixed capital formation on the economic growth of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) using annual data from 2002 to 2019. This study employs Fixed Effect Model, Dris-coll and Kraay standard error with fixed effect, Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square, Dynamic Ordin...

This study examines the symmetric (linear) and asymmetric (nonlinear) impact of economic growth (EG), capital formation (CF), renewable and non-renewable energy (NRE) consumption on CO2 emissions and ecological footprint (EF) of seventeen OECD countries spanning data from 1970 to 2016. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is used to exam...

This study attempts to investigate how economic growth (EG), energy consumption (EC) and population (POP) hurt the environmental quality of five regions: South Asia, East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, as well as the Middle East and North Africa. The Wald and NARDL bounds tests are used to check asymmetry and cointegration am...

The sustenance of a clean, natural, and relatively less tampered environment is one of the most important apprehensions of contemporary households, firms, and governments in the globalized world. Both developing and developed countries rely heavily on foreign direct investments (FDI) and institutional arrangements for economic prosperity and have f...

This study attempts to analyse the root of household’s disparities in educational expenditure up to the elementary level in Uttar Pradesh (UP, is the most populous state of India). To increase the social welfare of about 200million people of the state, and preserve their cultural miscellaneous, this study has analyse social status defining variable...

There are studies available that study the influence of corruption on economic growth, but no existing literature studies the asymmetric relationship in context to BRICS countries. In this study, we try to fill the gap in the literature by studying the symmetric and asymmetric association between corruption, political stability and economic growth...

There are studies available that study the influence of corruption on economic growth, but no existing literature studies the asymmetric relationship in context to BRICS countries. In this study, we try to fill the gap in the literature by studying the symmetric and asymmetric association between corruption, political stability and economic growth...

Oman is a Middle Eastern country that has traditionally been monotonically reliant on its indigenous fossil fuel supplies. Besides, the nation has also been a surplus producer and net exporter of oil which further highlights the prolonged fossil fuel dependency of Oman. Consequently, despite flourishing economically, environmental quality in Oman h...

This paper examines the Marshallian inefficiency hypothesis of share tenancy system in agriculture of Odisha, Eastern India. It examines the hypothesis from a different perspective where it is argued that a secured land tenure system enhances farm efficiency even though it is sharecropping. We develop three hypotheses within the profit maximization...

The present study seeks to examine the impact of corruption, political stability, and trade openness on economic growth in BRICS during the period 2002–2018. It has been shown that political stability and trade openness appear to improve economic growth when the Augmented Solow Model is used as a theoretical framework and the Panel Autoregressive D...

India has developed a positive attitude towards the foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows during the last five years and made several changes in the market conditions, enhanced civil rights and liberties to attract more FDI inflows. This study examines the impact of democracy on FDI inflows in India by employing an auto-regressive distributed lag...

The utilisation of maternal healthcare services is a principal indicator to measure the success of any maternal and child health programme. Suboptimal utilisation of ma- ternal healthcare services is a vexatious problem in Empowered Action Group (EAG) states of India. This study aims to examine the currents status and socioeconomic determinants of...

A clean natural environment is a primary concern of contemporary lives, business investments, and governments. However, there is a lack of knowledge of how countries can achieve high investment across borders and better institutional quality while protecting the environment. Thus the current paper explores the effect of bilateral FDI, institutional...

This study examines the symmetric and asymmetric nexus between capital investment, economic growth, foreign direct investment, and CO2 emissions in Oman during 1980- 2019. For this purpose, we applied ARDL Model for linear cointegration and NARDL model for nonlinear cointegration between capital investment, economic growth, foreign direct investmen...

The industrial revolution has marked a strong impact on financial upgradation of several countries, and increase in the industrial establishment globally has direct impact on environment because of the release of unwanted product in air and inside the water bodies. The use of dyes has increased tremendously in various industries ranging from food,...

The article explores the micro-level factors (social, economic and demographic) that determine the utilisation of antenatal care (ANC) services in India using the Bayesian count data regression model. The primary purpose is to rectify the methodological loopholes in the existing literature using a count data regression model that overcomes the prob...

The recent trends and distributional patterns of communicable diseases (CD) and non-communicable diseases (NCD) in India are analysed in this study. Utilising the unit-level health-specific data from three rounds (1995, 2004 and 2014) of the National Sample Survey Office, it is found that the incidence of CDs is declining while that of NCDs increas...

The study analyzes the impact of economic growth, energy consumption, foreign direct investment inflows, population, population density, labor force, and trade openness on carbon dioxide emissions in seven emerging Asian economies over the period 1991–2017. To this end, it uses cross-section dependence test, second-generation unit root test, panel...

Even though numerous studies explore the impact of macroeconomic variables on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, only a few existing studies estimate the asymmetric impact and causality. By considering the significance of asymmetries, this study investigates the asymmetric impact of economic growth, energy use, and foreign direct investment inflows on...

The utilisation of maternal healthcare services is a principal indicator to measure the success of any maternal and child health programme. Suboptimal utilisation of maternal healthcare services is a vexatious problem in Empowered Action Group (EAG) states of India. This study aims to examine the currents status and socioeconomic determinants of an...

This study aims to examine the long-term changing patterns of inequalities in mater- nal healthcare services utilization and to quantify the contribution of selected factors that explain the gap between poor and nonpoor women in the use of maternal healthcare services. This study used three rounds of the National Family Health Sur- vey (NFHS) data...

This paper is to investigate relationship and discrepancy between Income poverty and Multidimensional Poverty among tribal communities. Two approaches (income based approach and deprivation based approach) were used to estimate the incidence of poverty among tribal communities. The study found that there is little relation between the Income and mu...

This study examines the impact of the caste-class association on enrolment in elementary education in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the largest state of India. Using data from the 71st round of NSSO, with the help of a probit model, it is found that class has a stronger impact on the enrolment ratio than caste in UP. There is a strong and direct association...

This study aims to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental quality in China over the period 1984–2014. Specifically, the research focuses on the possibility of the effects of FDI on the quality of the environment in China. We employ the bound test approach and found a significant cointegration among environmental...

This study aims to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental quality in China over the period 1984–2014. Specifically, the research focuses on the possibility of the effects of FDI on the quality of the environment in China. We employ the bound test approach and found a significant cointegration among environmental...

This study aims to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental quality in China over the period 1984–2014. Specifically, the research focuses on the possibility of the effects of FDI on the quality of the environment in China. We employ the bound test approach and found a significant cointegration among environmental...

This study investigates the kinked exponential growth, degree of association, and causation between economic growth, energy consumption, population, trade openness, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 25 upper middle-income group countries spanning data from 1985 to 2014. The study employed first-generation and second-generation unit root tests;...

Pandemics are an exceptional form of disaster which wreak havoc on physical, psychological, social and fiscal well-being of the entire populace. In the past decade alone, outbreaks of infectious diseases like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), swine flu, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola and the Zika virus resulted in significan...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of Education, Employment, Economic Status and Empowerment (introduced as the 4Es) and other explanatory socio‐demographic factors on the utilization of maternal health care services in India. This study used data from the National Family Health Survey‐4 (2015–2016). Separate logistic regression mo...

The present study tries to understand the association among Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Economic growth in India. This paper applies the causality test of Granger (1969) based on the VECM and non-linear causality test of Dike and Panchenko over the period 1993-2016. This study gives proof about the continuation of a long- -run equilibrium a...

Over the years, there has been an increasing debate over the role of the Central Bank in targeting the policy objectives and the extent to which the targets can anchor the expectations. The present study seeks to identify the linkage between monetary policy and financial stability in India. The study, based on quarterly data from January 2001 to Ju...

The aim of this study is to examine the causal relationship between corruption, political stability, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India. The study is based on annual time series data spanning from 1996 to 2017. In order to find out the exact relationship between the variables, the Johansen cointegration test has been applied. For checking...

The aim of this study is to examine the causal relationship between corruption, political stability, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India. The study is based on annual time series data spanning from 1996 to 2017. In order to find out the exact relationship between the variables, the Johansen cointegration test has been applied. For checking...

The aim of this study is to examine the causal relationship between corruption, political stability, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India. The study is based on annual time series data spanning from 1996 to 2017. In order to find out the exact relationship between the variables, the Johansen cointegration test has been applied. For checking...

Background: Millennium development goal 5 aimed at reduction of maternal deaths by three-quarters from 1990 to 2015: a target India commendably achieved, but this milestone remains overshadowed by inequalities in utilization of health services that are driven by determinants both at community and at individual level. Materials and Methods: We studi...

Purpose The present study delves into the health inequalities between the two most socially deprived groups namely Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Scheduled Castes (SCs) in rural India. Design/methodology/approach This study used health-specific three rounds of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) unit-level data for analyses. Probit model has been use...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from some leading developed countries (the USA, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and France) into major four Asian economies (China, Korea, India and Singapore). Design/methodology/approach Using one basic and four augmented versions...

The present study seeks to identify the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows into India, and also to understand the structural paths between FDI inflows and macroeconomic variables. While regression models are estimated for identifying the determinants, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) has been employed to trace the structural pa...

The novelty of this book, ―Research Issues in Applied Economics‖, emerges out of its context and from within its content. In contextual terms, this book is very likely amongst the pioneers in its field, drawing chapters from inter-disciplinary cross-fertilization of various areas of macro applied economics from monetary economics to development eco...

The aim of the study is to explore and assess the various attributes tourists’ associate with Delhi, India thus developing the image of the destination in their mind. For this study a survey has been conducted during June-August of 2011 in Delhi city on a sample of 100 domestic and 100 foreign tourists. Factor analysis and mean score comparison met...

Using first principles calculations based on density functional theory, we show that the stability and magnetic properties of small Mn clusters can be fundamentally altered by the presence of nitrogen. Not only are their binding energies substantially enhanced, but also the coupling between the magnetic moments at Mn sites remains ferromagnetic irr...