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The objective of the paper is to examine the asymmetric relationships between ICT, globalization, and human development in India by analysing the annual data from 1991 to 2019 through the non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model. The result shows that positive (negative) change in globalization leads to a decline (increase) in human development in the long run. Further, a positive change in mobile density increases human development in the long run. A decline in internet density has a negative impact on human development in the long run. In the short run, a positive shock in globalization with one lag has a positive impact on human development. Moreover, a previous year positive shock in internet density has a positive effect on human development while the previous 2 years positive shock in internet density has a negative effect on human development in the short run. A negative shock in internet density with lag one has a negative effect on human development while with lag two it has a positive effect on human development. It is also found that the global financial crisis of 2008 has a negative impact on human development. Thus, it is suggested that India has to promote both globalization and ICT judiciously and consciously in order to improve human development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study examines the climate sensitivity of the agricultural production of Odisha, a state at the east coast of India. The two climatic variables which have been taken for the study are temperature and rainfall. The study has adopted the Ricardian approach to assess the impact of climate change on the net revenue from agricultural production of Odisha. Panel regression model has been used to test the relationship between climate and other control variables on net revenue. Results of the study reveal that climate has significant influence on the agricultural production of Odisha. The possible future climate scenarios are found to have negative impact on the net revenue from agricultural production of Odisha towards the end of twenty-first century, which call for some policy attentions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mineral resource is one of the important natural resources of India which contributes to the national income through mineral export earnings and acts as an important input for the industrial sector of domestic economy. In this paper, an attempt has been made to explore the dynamic relationship among mineral export, economic growth and industrial production in India over the period from 1981 to 2010. The present study is based on secondary data which is extracted from the Reserve Bank of India database on Indian economy. We have adopted a vector auto regression (VAR) model analysis based upon impulse response function (IRF) and variance decomposition (VD) to find out the relationship among variables. The result of IRF suggests that economic growth responses positively to a shock in mining export, whereas industrial production responses in a negative way. It has been found that mining export is not contributing at large towards industrial production of India in the short run, but in the long run, a significant share of industrial production is caused by mining export. It is also found that both industrial production and economic growth explain for variation in mineral export in India in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]