Economics

University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a collegiate public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.&nbsp;Within India it is recognized as a &quot;Five-Star University&quot; and accredited &quot;A&quot; Grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

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The University of Calcutta has secured the Fifth position among the Universities of India in the prestigious &quot;Indian University Ranking 2019&quot; list, released by the NIRF of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

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It was established on 24 January 1857, and was one of the first institutions in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and Western-style university. Its alumni and faculty include several heads of state, heads of government, social reformers, prominent artists, only academy award winner and Dirac medal winner in India, many Fellows of the Royal Society and five Nobel laureates as of 2019 which is highest in South Asia.

University Of Calcutta

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Economic \& Political Weekly

Sriniketan Encounters Ambedkar

This paper looks at the evolution of business practice of indigenous banking groups in colonial India. Specifically, it studies why in the early twentieth century, the Indian banking caste Nattukottai Chettiar moved from caste-based banking to joint stock banking. The paper argues that caste-based banking had two advantages over joint stock banking—caste-based monitoring of agents and reciprocity-based informal insurance within the caste. In the early twentieth century with the improvement of communication technology and expanding global trade, the caste banking lost both the edges. This prompted some of the caste bankers to move to joint stock banking. I provide a theoretical structure explaining the transition and provide evidence from archival and secondary sources in support of my theory. © Social Science History Association, 2017.

Social Science History

Transition of credit organizations: Caste bankers in colonial India

MERIT Working Papers

Regional analysis of sanitation performance in India

Knowledge, Class and Economics

Primitive accumulation and historical inevitability: A postcolonial critique

Export of quality of health services to the foreign consumers is considered as a popular way of health trade in the South in recent years. Trade in quality of health services may suffer from the problem of quality signalling from the point of view of the patients of the North. Actually, patients of the North are misdirected by the quality of health services if proper signalling is not provided by the health quality producers of the South. Again signalling incurs some cost and hence production and export of high quality health services becomes unprofitable to the health quality producers of South. Hence, there exists a definite demand-supply mismatch regarding health quality. To capture the issue of quality signalling in the context of health services we want to develop a partial equilibrium framework, where the producer of the health quality in South, we refer to it as Multinational Health Service Provider (MNHSP), may enjoy some amount of monopoly power as this MNHSP has some special skills or it may introduce new quality of health services. The model shows that a movement from autarky to no autarky situation leads to, under reasonable conditions, a decline in signalling costs associated with high quality health services and also leads to an overall increase in demand for high quality health services in the South. © Springer India 2016.

International Trade and International Finance: Explorations of Contemporary Issues

A theoretical model of trade, quality of health services and signalling

Though studies have focused on the expansion of coverage of health care utilization after India’s health care reform in 2004–2005 under the National Rural Health Mission, the effect of limited risk protection of the programme, measured by non-availability of services at institutions, has remained under-studied. Using bivariate probit models on birth history data of 6568 children in two districts in West Bengal, an eastern state of India, this paper finds that in post-reform era, health care utilization in the form of institutional delivery has a tendency to enhance the risk of infant mortality, primarily owing to lack of timely services received at the institutions. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Business Management

Journal of Asian Public Policy

Health reform and infant mortality in West Bengal, India: an untold story

Contributions to Indian Social Science: IAASSI Quarterly 35 (3 \& 4)

Small and Medium Towns In West Bengal: Issues in Urban Governance and Planning

This paper explains the existence of intersectoral wage differential in a developing economy in terms of trade union behavior in the formal sector industry and analyzes its role in predicting the outcomes of trade and investment reforms on welfare. It provides theoretical explanations of certain real life phenomena e.g. why the developing countries are yearning for foreign capital despite the standard immiserizing result and why these countries are not reducing the tariff rates beyond certain levels although they have chosen free trade as their development strategy.

Metroeconomica

Trade unionism and welfare consequences of trade and investment reforms in a developing economy

This theoretical paper shows that developing countries possess an inherent shock-absorbing mechanism that stems from their peculiar institutional characteristics and can lessen the gravity of detrimental welfare consequence of international terms-of-trade disturbances in terms of a static two-sector, full-employment general equilibrium model with endogenous labour market distortion. The supply of foreign capital in the economy is a positive function of the return to capital. Subsequently, it has been verbally explained why the main result of the full-employment model would remain valid even in a two-sector specific-factor Harris-Todaro type model with urban unemployment. The analysis leads to a couple of important policies that should be adhered to preserve this in-built system. Finally, it offers three important statistically testable hypotheses which would pave the way for future empirical research in this area. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.

Economic Modelling

Endogenous labour market imperfection, foreign direct investment and external terms-of-trade shocks in a developing economy

The Indian Economy in Transition