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This paper examines the sustainability of the current account deficit (CAD) and validity of the intertemporal budget constraint of India for the period of 1980 to 2019. The cointegration results show that exports and imports are not cointegrated and the current account (CA) series is not mean reverting during the study period. Therefore, the results refute the sustainability of CAD and the validity of the intertemporal budget constraint in the Indian context. Furthermore, the study also emphasised the testing of the disaggregated CA and found that while the goods account is not sustainable, the services account found to be sustainable in the long run. Our findings thus indicate the potential for aggregation bias to have an impact on the overall CA sustainability results. Therefore, policies that help in achieving self‐sufficiency on the one hand and export promotion in goods on the other may eventually contribute to CA sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The productivity and growth of an organization depend on the attrition rate of its workforce. The low workforce attrition rate increases the competency of an organization. Although there are numerous studies on employee retention, human resource managers are still struggling to hold their employees for a longer time. This paper studies the mediating role of growth needs and job satisfaction on independent construct deficiency needs and dependent construct talent retention for talent sustainability. The judgemental sampling technique was adopted to interview 414 employees of different BPOs and Call Centres situated in Delhi NCR through a self‐administered questionnaire. Mediation analysis was performed with the help of Smart PLS‐SEM 3.0. The deficiency needs have an insignificant impact on talent retention, whereas the path deficiency needs, mediated by growth needs and job satisfaction, have a greater and significant impact on talent retention. Finding suggests that growth needs and job satisfaction help to retain talented employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research has been undertaken to examine the role of critical success factors (CSFs) for sustainability in quality of Higher Education Institutes in India. Sustainable development requires a holistic view being taken of all interests. The aspects considered here are: Branding, employability, employee experience, and student experience. The study tries to analyze their impact on overall performance. The results highlight that academic culture mediates between student experience and overall performance. The current research also indicates that academic culture mediates between employee experience and overall performance. Employee experience through academic culture emerges as a strongest predictor of overall performance. Student experience through academic culture emerges as an another important predictor of overall performance. Employability was next to follow. The beta values were low for branding. The results highlight that for improving performance, Indian higher educational Institutes need to focus on branding. Implementing this model will enable educational Institutions to focus on these predictors to boost overall performance and equip engineers with requisite skills through academic culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using annual data for the period 1980–1981 to 2014–2015, the study explores the impact of crude oil imports and real exchange rate on India's current account performance. Utilizing the recent co‐integration econometric tools on a current account balance model, the findings contrary to the theoretical prediction revealed that crude oil import significantly improves the current account balance in the long run. Furthermore, the fiscal balance and financial development significantly contribute to the current account performance, whereas real exchange rate, trade openness and age dependency cause deterioration in India's current account balance in the long run. These results have significant policy implications on the sustainability of the current account balance in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]