This is an explorative study. In this study, an attempt is made to investigate the overall impact of JFM on the livelihood of participants and local environment in Orissa. The impact on livelihood is examined in terms of additional income and employment opportunities. In addition, the issue of socio-economic equity has been looked into in detail by adopting both the qunatitiave and qualitative regression techniques. Further, this study has unraveled the social and ecological impact of JFM on the local environment, on the environmental stress migration (ESM) of stakeholders from rural to urban...

Electricity plays a crucial role in the economy of a country, especially when the economy of a country is in its developing phase like India .In this book, an attempt has been made to investigate the causality between electricity supply and economic growth in India taking data from 1960-61 to 2006-07. In order to find out the causal relationship, Granger causality model has been adopted to find whether there is bi-directional or unidirectional causality running from electricity consumption to economic growth or vise versa. The direction of causation between electricity consumption and...