scholarly journals How Do Floods and Drought Impact Economic Growth and Human Development at the Sub-National Level in India?

Climate ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Upali Amarasinghe ◽  
Giriraj Amarnath ◽  
Niranga Alahacoon ◽  
Surajit Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
National Level ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Large Geographical Area ◽  
Substantial Investment ◽  
The Impact

This paper tries to shift the focus of research on the impact of natural disasters on economic growth from global and national levels to sub-national levels. Inadequate sub-national level information is a significant lacuna for planning spatially targeted climate change adaptation investments. A fixed-effect panel regression analyses of 19 states from 2001 to 2015 assess the impacts of exposure to floods and droughts on the growth of gross state domestic product (GSDP) and human development index (HDI) in India. The flood and drought exposure are estimated using satellite data. The 19 states comprise 95% of the population and contribute 93% to the national GDP. The results show that floods indeed expose a large area, but droughts have the most significant impacts at the sub-national level. The most affected GSDPs are in the non-agriculture sectors, positively by the floods and negatively by droughts. No significant influence on human development may be due to substantial investment on mitigation of flood and drought impacts and their influence on better income, health, and education conditions. Because some Indian states still have a large geographical area, profiling disasters impacts at even smaller sub-national units such as districts can lead to effective targeted mitigation and adaptation activities, reduce shocks, and accelerate income growth and human development.

scholarly journals Good governance and human development: Evidence form Indian States

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudra P. Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
The Impact

The paper explores the impact of good governance on human development in India during the last two decades. Using panel data analysis, it finds the evidence that good governance and past human development determines present human development in India. That means good governance can be considered as the policy variables through which we can obtain high economic growth and human development in the country. The paper accordingly suggests that with better institutional mechanism and good governance the country can put its development process in the higher ladder of growth and human development. The lack of same may affect the development process, particularly to achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. Hence governments should have aim to increase the status of good governance and can maintain the same with greater caution. This is not a daunting task, if there is adequate political will in the economy.

scholarly journals Does development reduce damage risk from climate extremes? Empirical evidence for floods in India

Water Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 748-767
Author(s):  
Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati ◽  
Unmesh Patnaik
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
National Level ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Loss And Damage ◽  
Damage Indicators

Abstract Using a dataset on reported loss and damage (L&D) from flood-affected Indian states between 1953 and 2011, this paper inquires whether development makes states become flood resilient. Although the disaster-specific and the generic adaptation measures have been largely researched, there are limited empirical studies, particularly those that conducted an analysis at the sub-national level and used a dataset of more than 50 years. Considering human development and different loss and damage indicators is another advantage. Employing zero-inflated negative binomial and fixed effects models, this study produces three major findings. First, an increasing trend is observed for the reported loss and damage indicators across the states. Second, both human development and income are mostly found as statistically insignificant, indicating that the states are not becoming flood-resilient with respect to the present development. Third, there is a lack of evidence of learning effect, however, disaster risk management programme mitigates risk. Therefore, the paper suggests that the ongoing development strategies must take into account climate risk and address the persistent adaptation deficit. These findings could have larger policy implications since Indian states are likely to encounter such events frequently, and they also provide inputs to several states' action plans on climate change.

Competitiveness and Economic Growth in the European Union

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 2408
Author(s):  
Natália ZAGORŠEKOVÁ ◽  
Michaela ČIEFOVÁ ◽  
Andrea ČAMBALÍKOVÁ
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Union Member ◽  
National Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Global Competitiveness Index ◽  
The Impact ◽  
European Union Member States

The paper focuses on competitiveness at the national level and on the impact of competitiveness on economic growth. We look at the relationship between competitiveness and economic growth based on the data from the European Union member states. The competitiveness of the economies is measured by the Global Competitiveness Index, which is published by the World Economic Forum. The European Union member states show significant differences in competitiveness. In the sample examined, the positive relationship between the level of competitiveness and economic growth was not confirmed.

Is there any Interdependence between Economic Growth and Human Development? Evidence from Indian States

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacchidananda Mukherjee ◽  
Debashis Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Indian States

scholarly journals Zakat and SDGs: Impact Zakat on Human Development in the Five States of Malaysia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko Suprayitno ◽  
Mohamed Aslam ◽  
Azhar Harun
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Granger Causality Test ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Autoregressive Distributed Lag ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Impact

Zakat is intended to stimulate economic development, education, social, human resources empowerment, religion health, and insurance programs. The seven programs above are implemented by the Malaysian government to improve economic growth. The aim of the study is to examine the impact zakat on human development program in Malaysia using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound testing approach. The analysis was carried out for the period from 1980–2009. The finding of the research reveals that zakat has a positive and significant influence on human development in five state in the short and long run. Zakat in Malaysia can be used as tool of fiscal policy that is decided in the states of Malaysia to stimulate human development and economic growth in the long run. Keyword: Zakat, Human Development, Granger causality test

scholarly journals Does FDI promote Economic Growth and Development? Evidence from Latin America and Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-52
Author(s):  
Mohammed Seid Hussen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Absorption Capacity ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Panel Regression ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Latin American Countries

This paper is an attempt to analyse and empirically estimate the impact of FDI on economic growth and human development of Africa and Latin American countries for the period 1985–2011. To this end we develop two equations: growth and human development. Our findings, based on fixed effect panel regression, thus, suggest that FDI does not have a positive impact on economic growth but it has significant positive impact on human development. We conclude that for FDI to be a noteworthy provider to economic growth, it is important to increase absorption capacity by improving the level of democracy, increasing and improving transport infrastructure and following appropriate economic policies. Our results are found to be robust across approach, model specifications and statistical test.

Assessing the Impact of Income Inequality on Economic Growth

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohan Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Simon Kuznets ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Perspective

The nature of the relationship between income inequality and economic growth, first formalised by Simon Kuznets in 1950, has come under much debate of late. At present, one understanding of this relationship is that given by what Oded Galor called the ‘modern perspective’, which, pointing the direction of causation from income inequality to economic growth asserts that the former imposes a significantly negative influence on the latter. To investigate the same in the context of India, subsequently, this study adopts the typical cross-country approach taken by other studies in this area and estimates the nature of the aforementioned relationship across a cross-section of Indian states. The results, however, disappointingly contrary to the ‘modern perspective’, show a strong significant positive impact of the existence of inequality on growth rates of Indian states, which, if anything, statistically asserts the existence of a trade-off between the two. JEL Classification: D63, O10, O40, O47

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