In this article, the contributions of energy use to the climate variation debates are explored. Analyses based on secondary data depict that global fossil fuel use has increased and dominated world energy consumption and ...

The present study seeks to access and compare the sustainability reporting practices in two major economies, that is, India and China. Index developed under global reporting initiative (GRI) guidelines is used. Content ...

The growing importance of environmental concerns and focus on recycling has encouraged our research efforts to study the bullwhip effect on Closed Loop Supply Chain (CLSC). This article attempts to measure bullwhip effect ...

Although certain strides have been made towards increased female participation in paid work, Sri Lanka’s labour market remains heavily segmented and offers limited sustainable economic opportunity for a majority of women. ...

Sexegesis: the exegesis of the sex trade, or the lack of it. Logical: reasonable; explainable in terms of lived-in realities and comprehensible to the average human rationality (if there is such a phenomenon).2 Indeterminations: ...

The vast expansion of the electronic media—and especially the rapid growth of digital media—in the last decades have brought about vast changes in the ways people interact and the spaces they inhabit. However, this article ...

This article has a focus on the semiotic value of contemporary Indian art practice. It takes a fundamental position that in India, the conceptual response to contemporary art (painting and visual art) needs to be understood ...

The early animated image under industrial production was intrinsically antirealist in nature and was informed by the dialectics of class conflict. It was the result of the exploited labouring body working alongside the ...

To alleviate poverty and unemployment in villages and to include rural India under a structured financial system, the government, through institutions like National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, has been ...

Repayment schedules characterizing a typical micro loan are rigid and offer little to no flexibility in terms of rescheduling repayments when faced with emerging contingencies. Such rigid structures affect the economic as ...