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Sustainability is a term that has been used with increasing frequency in the academic literature and recent multilateral policy discussions. Taking note of the crises in different countries heading for a debt trap it is necessary to look at the right combination of fiscal parameters and growth to achieve sustainability and stable development. Fiscal prudence involves exercise of good judgment, common sense, and even caution in the conduct of fiscal policies especially on the expenditure front. Fiscal consolidation is a process where government’s fiscal health is getting improved and is indicated by reduced fiscal deficit. Through some of policy measures like improved tax revenue realization and better aligned expenditure fiscal consolidation can be attainable. This paper empirically analyses the relationship between growth and debt and measures for fiscal consolidation using an empirical model. The period of study is from 1980 to 2016 and study is on central government of India.

The maturity of sophisticated numerical tools for predicting damage in composite materials has become a priority research area in aero- and underwater structures. This paper proposes a modeling approach to endeavor achieving high fidelity of mechanical behavior of composite materials subjected to high pressure applications. The strategy begins with numerical methods to design an alternative material for high pressure applications and to build a ladder with experimental observations when these composites are deployed for 600 bar pressure which take into account the relevant deformation, effective estimation of mechanical properties and failure mechanisms at different length scales. Coupon-shaped specimens with different hardener-epoxy ratios were manufactured to investigate the uniaxial tensile performance and the morphological studies were carried out in order to have a picture regarding the delamination and debonding behavior of the aforementioned composites. The further scope of this work involves a review of some notable micromechanic models and to establish the state-of-art together with insights for future development. Analytical models based on the mechanics of materials (MOM) approach and Mori-Tanaka (M-T) methods are shown to estimate the elastic response of composite materials. An attempt has been made to validate these finite-element predictions with experimental observations in order to secure the capability of a numerical framework. The outcome of our study also assures that these composites can be used in advanced structural applications under different conditions.

The present study examines stigma removal in the context of strategic industries. Strategic industries are critical from a national interest perspective and may not be able to engage in conventional stigma management strategies, such as concealment, dilution and coopting stakeholders, identified in extant literature. The present in‐depth qualitative study of the Indian civilian nuclear energy industry, a strategic industry within the Government of India, identifies two strategies, namely dependency reduction and category repositioning through responsible behaviour, employed in order to eradicate a global level stigma. The study concludes with implications for strategic industries and stigma management literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Borrowing from paradoxical leadership literature and using the case of a social enterprise formed from a traditional nonprofit, the present study identifies a set of multilevel skills that helped the leader address the two social–business tensions, namely, continuance as a nonprofit and the forming of a social enterprise and the sustenance of a social enterprise and preventing the drift towards a for‐profit orientation during the formation of social enterprise and in its sustenance thereafter. The individual‐level paradoxical leadership skill of balancing idealism and pragmatism, the organizational‐level paradoxical leadership skill of navigating organizing contradictions, and the societal‐level skill of gauging societal developments and their organizational implications helped address the two different manifestations of social–business tensions during the formation and sustenance of a social enterprise. Implications for paradoxical leadership, social–business tensions, and social enterprise literature are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]