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Critical Perspectives on Emerging Economies

An International Assessment

  • Offers empirical research findings on critical socio-economic issues in emerging economies
  • Examines the economic impact of globalization on happiness in lower-middle income Asian countries
  • Elicits time, risk and social preferences using experimental design in an emerging economy
  • Features major economic issues such as inequality, foreign direct investment (FDI), trade, inflation targeting, and exchange rates, among others

Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Natural Disasters and Income Inequality in South Asia: An FGLS Panel Analysis

    • Pushp Kumar, Naresh Chandra Sahu, Siddharth Kumar
    Pages 27-39
  3. Information, Policy, and Market Disorder Under Democracy: Evidences from the United States

    • Purbash Nayak, Mayank Sharma, Harshit Shandilya
    Pages 57-94
  4. Eliciting Time, Risk, and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from India

    • Aswini Kumar Mishra, Pratyush Pradhan, Divya Satish Revankar
    Pages 95-113
  5. Smart City and Urban Poor : Can They Coexist?

    • Bishnu Prasad Mishra
    Pages 147-161
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 163-164

About this book

This volume offers fresh insights into economic development and growth in emerging economies. It includes contributions covering topics such as natural disasters and income inequalities, the environmental impact of economic growth, social preferences, information and market disorder under democracy, inflation targeting and its covariates, economic empowerment.

This book is intended for scholars in the field of economics, and those interested in furthering economic development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics and Finance, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Sancoale, India

    Aswini Kumar Mishra, Debasis Patnaik

  • Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

    Vairam Arunachalam

About the editors

Aswini Kumar Mishra is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani-K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa (India). His current areas of research include applied development economics, industrial organization, behavioral economics, and financial economics. His publications have appeared in many international journals.

Vairam Arunachalam is Director and PricewaterhouseCoopers/ Joseph A. Silvoso Distinguished Professor of Accountancy at the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. School of Business, University of Missouri (USA). His research and teaching interests are in the areas of fraud examination, forensic accounting and information systems.

Debasis Patnaik is Associate Professor of the Department of Economics at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani-K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa (India). His current research interests include productivity economics, dispersal economics, agricultural economics, traditional finance, behavioral finance, environmental economics, regional studies, philosophy, policy science, artificial intelligence and social science.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Perspectives on Emerging Economies

  • Book Subtitle: An International Assessment

  • Editors: Aswini Kumar Mishra, Vairam Arunachalam, Debasis Patnaik

  • Series Title: Contributions to Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59781-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59780-1Published: 10 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59783-2Published: 10 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59781-8Published: 09 April 2021

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1933

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 164

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Economics, International Business, Economic Growth, Development Economics

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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