Human rights, along with right to life as a most basic human right of all, were expressly protected in the Constitutions of India and Pakistan, when international human rights law was in its embryonic form. No doubt, the new jurisprudence of human rights placed their protection on a higher pedestal than other provisions of the Constitution, and was welcomed warmly. However, judicial activism was a sheer deviation from the spirit and norms of a constitutional democracy, theory of separation of powers, and the limited jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India, under the Indian Constitution....

Over the last three decades much research in empirical and theoretical economics has been carried on under various assumptions. For example a parametric functional form of the regression model, the heteroskedasticity, and the autocorrelation is always as sumed, usually linear. Also, the errors are assumed to follow certain parametric distri butions, often normal. A disadvantage of parametric econometrics based on these assumptions is that it may not be robust to the slight data inconsistency with the particular parametric specification. Indeed any misspecification in the functional form may...

Originally published in 1981, this book considers one particular area of econometrics- the linear model- where significant recent advances have been made. It considers both single and multiequation models with varying co-efficients, explains the various theories and techniques connected with these and goes on to describe the various applications of the models. Whilst the detailed explanation of the models will interest primarily econometrics specialists, the implications of the advances outlined and the applications of the models will intrest a wide range of economists.