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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.

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This chapter examines the incidence, depth and severity of poverty and the effects of the major non-income dimensions on poverty in India after more than a decade of the initiation of the process of integration by using an independently pooled cross section from the 61st and 66th round household-level unit data provided by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). Poverty estimates are based on relative poverty lines at 75 and 50% of the median value of the distribution of per capita expenditure of the respective population groups. The chapter focuses on education, type of employment, land rights, social and religious factors, and gender-related issues among the non-income dimensions of poverty. The rising poverty incidence on the basis of relative poverty line in urban areas, as evidenced in this study, supports the hypothesis that urban inequality increased significantly during the post-reforms period in India. Per capita consumption expenditure on monthly basis in logarithmic terms is used in this study as a proxy for well-being or poverty. The study observes that land as a productive asset had very little positive effect on poverty. But the effect of education on the level of well-being was positive and increased with the level of education in every state in India. Technical education, a component of workers’ skill, improved consumption per capita in all states except Chhattisgarh and Kerala. Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes among the social groups and Muslims among religious groups are mostly deprived in terms of consumption per capita. © 2015, Asian Development Bank.

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Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being

Non-income dimensions, prevalence, depth and severity of poverty: Spatial estimation with household-level data in India

This article attempts to relate the issues of health care quality with international trade. For this purpose we have mixed both flavours of Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson and Neo-Heckscher-Ohlin frameworks and have developed a hybrid type of trade theoretic general equilibrium model. In such a set-up we have shown that a movement from a regime of international health capital immobility to a regime of international health capital mobility may lead to an expansion of the size of the health quality exporting sector and at the same time such type of regime switch may lead to a contraction of quality of this health care sector. Moreover, from the hybrid model we have illustrated that the sizes of health care and composite export sector expand, whereas import sector of our small open economy contracts. © 2015 Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

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Foreign Trade Review

Health Care Quality and Finite Changes of Trade Policy: A General Equilibrium Analysis

The faltering miracle story of India and neoliberalism The faltering miracle story of India and neoliberalism

Munich Personal RePEc Archive Is it Reasonable to Subsidize Healthcare in Developing Nations ? A question purely from the Growth Perspective

Architectural and Urban History and Historiography

Urbanisation Trends and Urban Planning in West Bengal India

Negative Production Externalities and Efficacy of the Pigouvian Tax Policy in a Developing Economy: A Pure Economic Argument

In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household’s decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the proliferation of business. However, with a sufficiently strong court system, expansion of the credit network has a negative effect on business prospects. This result is explained by the contradictions between formal laws and norms used by informal networks. JEL codes K12; L26; O17 © 2015, Chakraborty et al.; licensee Springer.

IZA Journal of Labor and Development

Court-ship, kinship and business: a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship

This study analyzes the observed behavior of growth cycles and the dynamics of economic fluctuations in terms of entrepreneurial impulse with Indian macroeconomic time series data for more than 60 years. The fluctuations of investment are explained in terms of persistence, volatility, and comovements of the cyclical components. The study observes that the growth cycles of private investment were much more volatile than the growth cycles of public investment and gross domestic product. Investments in India were procyclical, but their growth cycles became acyclical. This study observes that the fluctuations of growth cycle frequencies of private investment appeared even when there were no shocks to gross domestic product. Such investment behavior may be because of the self-fulfilling beliefs of investors. Private investment in India has not been badly affected by the severe balance of payments crises. Rather, a cyclical downturn was seen as an opportunity to invest by the large business houses. © 2015 Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank Institute.

Asian Development Review

Entrepreneurial impulse, investment behavior, and economic fluctuationsâ€“A VAR analysis with Indian data

Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics

Role of Institutional Reforms, Technology and Irrigation in Augmenting Agricultural Productivity in West Bengal: An Econometric Analysis

Sorting of students over school type by their social standing creates the problem of social segregation and educational inequality. This paper, both theoretically and empirically, identifies factors which are responsible for sorting of students by socioeconomic groups across different types of schools. We elaborate on the sorting mechanism by analyzing schools choice decisions where parents decide on the following: whether to send their children to private/public school and conditional on that whether to send them to good or bad school. We find that household characteristics such as the number of siblings, caste identity affect these two choices differently. For example we find that general caste students are more likely to attend private school but within the private category they are more likely to end up in bad schools. We develop our theory using a two period household level optimization framework and validate the prediction using a school survey data (Young Lives Survey).