Bank-IT

Our study estimates the operational efficiency of Indian banks during 2009–2010 to 2017–2018, considering advances, and recovery of stressed assets as desirable outputs, while NPAs and slippages are undesirable by-products. Our first stage DEA …

I argue that much current thinking on externalities—at least among “lay political economists” (but even, on occasion, among professional economists)—is saddled with two analytical errors. The first is what I call coextensivism: the conflation of …

This article is designed to explicate the somewhat misunderstood analysis in the 2023 Merger Guidelines (MGs) and situate the MGs in the context of the legal as well as economic environment in which they operate. The MGs refine economic analyses …

The paper empirically investigates whether oil abundance affects fertility in a panel of developing and developed countries for 1970–2020. The exploration sheds light into why poor developing economies rich in natural resources such as Sub-Saharan …

This chapter looks at the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI) at the world and regional levels, with a focus on East, South and Southeast Asia. The academic literature is inconclusive because the nature of corruption can be …

The concept of national power has long been central to International Relations, but its quantification remains a challenge. This chapter presents the World Power Index (WPI), designed to address this gap. Beginning with an overview of previous …

In this chapter, the national power of semiperipheral states is analyzed, along with their characteristics and distribution, culminating in the identification of two distinct categories: regional powers and secondary semiperipheral states.

The main objective of this chapter is to highlight the importance of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) project and its opportunities and challenges, especially in the debt issue of Myanmar. As a gateway of the Belt and Road Initiative …