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Papers by Alok Sen
International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Apr 16, 2018
Journal of Biosciences, 2007
Arthaniti: Journal Of Economic Theory And Practice, Nov 9, 2021
This study is an attempt to examine the fuel use pattern and its impact on the respiratory health... more This study is an attempt to examine the fuel use pattern and its impact on the respiratory health of the users in the rural area of Barak Valley region of southern Assam. The effectiveness of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in mitigating the practice of unclean fuel has also been analysed in this study along with other related issues. The results based on personal information of 2,541 individuals from 530 households of Barak Valley reveal that incidence of respiratory illness is more profound in the households of solid biomass fuel users. The study further reveals that though PMUY has equipped the rural households with clean fuel connections but failed to change the fuel use practice of the beneficiaries. Among the barriers of clean fuel use practices, insufficient income of the households and availability of free and low-cost alternative fuels are found to be more prominent. The ordered probit model to examine the factors posing risk to respiratory illness reveal that women are at higher risk of developing respiratory syndromes as they spend more time in cooking space. While among others, smoking habit and age of the person are significant in increasing the risk pulmonary syndromes. JEL: I15, I38, Q52, Q58
Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 2021
This study is an attempt to examine the fuel use pattern and its impact on the respiratory health... more This study is an attempt to examine the fuel use pattern and its impact on the respiratory health of the users in the rural area of Barak Valley region of southern Assam. The effectiveness of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in mitigating the practice of unclean fuel has also been analysed in this study along with other related issues. The results based on personal information of 2,541 individuals from 530 households of Barak Valley reveal that incidence of respiratory illness is more profound in the households of solid biomass fuel users. The study further reveals that though PMUY has equipped the rural households with clean fuel connections but failed to change the fuel use practice of the beneficiaries. Among the barriers of clean fuel use practices, insufficient income of the households and availability of free and low-cost alternative fuels are found to be more prominent. The ordered probit model to examine the factors posing risk to respiratory illness reveal that women ar...
Good quality of food is the necessity pre condition of everybody's health, which ultimately d... more Good quality of food is the necessity pre condition of everybody's health, which ultimately determines the productivity as well as capability of every human being. Food security is every body's endeavour. To analyse the food security status of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) households the present study conduct a case study in the Golaghat District of Assam. Primary data has been collected from the 500 sample BPL identified households of the surveyed district. It has been found that all the BPL identified households don't have BPL card. So the present study also set the objective to compare the food security status of the BPL households with and without having BPL card apart from measuring the food security status of the BPL households. While collecting the data multistage purposive and stratified random sample technique has been used. To measure the household food security of sample population, a food security index has been constructed by considering per capita calorie co...
The socio-economic status of women plays a very vital role in both individual and community life.... more The socio-economic status of women plays a very vital role in both individual and community life. It is a multidimensional concept that can be measured by composition of various factors. The present study is about the socioeconomic status of Kuki women. The kuki are the one of the major tribal groups in Manipur. The study is based on primary data taking some prominent factors to highlight the socio-economic condition of the Kuki women. Inorder to find out the socioeconomic status of the Kuki women, the present study used a self-developed composite socio-economic index which is the combination of three indices namely, Health Index, Educational Index and Income Index. And finally a logit regression model is fitted to find out the major factors influencing the socioeconomic status of women.
SEDME (Small Enterprises Development, Management & Extension Journal): A worldwide window on MSME Studies, 2019
This study estimates technical efficiency and examines its determinants in the micro-manufacturin... more This study estimates technical efficiency and examines its determinants in the micro-manufacturing enterprises in Dibrugarh, one of the most developed districts in the state of Assam in India. It is based on cross-sectional firm-level primary data, collected through a field survey from 115 micro-manufacturing enterprises in the district. The results of the data envelopment analysis suggests that the average technical efficiency score of the firms is quite low, which indicates a high degree of technical inefficiency in the production process. Further efficiency in the enterprises is more due to the inefficient conversion of inputs into outputs rather than due to scale inefficiency. An attempt has also been made to identify some firm-specific and entrepreneurial background variables responsible for inefficiency using the maximum likelihood Tobit regression model. The study reveals that skilled labour, firm-age, firm-size, experience of entrepreneur and gender of entrepreneur have a po...
Indian Journal of Finance, 2019
International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, 2018
High growth rate of the economy is the means of generating surplus to support future growth and a... more High growth rate of the economy is the means of generating surplus to support future growth and also to fund the welfare activities. But in a limited world any growth rate more than carrying capacity of the earth brings more danger for us than the welfare. The BRICS countries at present are the most growing economies in the world and at the same time are the most natural resource based economies. The present study is an attempt to examine the trend of natural resource depletion and different greenhouse gas emissions in BRICS countries during 1992 to 2012, and also the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation. The study also estimates the relative resource efficiency of five BRICS countries during the study period by using data envelopment analysis. On conducting various tests this study finds positive trend of different greenhouse gas emissions and natural resource depletion in BRICS during the study period. Natural resource depletion and greenhouse gas emi...
International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Apr 16, 2018
Journal of Biosciences, 2007
Arthaniti: Journal Of Economic Theory And Practice, Nov 9, 2021
This study is an attempt to examine the fuel use pattern and its impact on the respiratory health... more This study is an attempt to examine the fuel use pattern and its impact on the respiratory health of the users in the rural area of Barak Valley region of southern Assam. The effectiveness of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in mitigating the practice of unclean fuel has also been analysed in this study along with other related issues. The results based on personal information of 2,541 individuals from 530 households of Barak Valley reveal that incidence of respiratory illness is more profound in the households of solid biomass fuel users. The study further reveals that though PMUY has equipped the rural households with clean fuel connections but failed to change the fuel use practice of the beneficiaries. Among the barriers of clean fuel use practices, insufficient income of the households and availability of free and low-cost alternative fuels are found to be more prominent. The ordered probit model to examine the factors posing risk to respiratory illness reveal that women are at higher risk of developing respiratory syndromes as they spend more time in cooking space. While among others, smoking habit and age of the person are significant in increasing the risk pulmonary syndromes. JEL: I15, I38, Q52, Q58
Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 2021
This study is an attempt to examine the fuel use pattern and its impact on the respiratory health... more This study is an attempt to examine the fuel use pattern and its impact on the respiratory health of the users in the rural area of Barak Valley region of southern Assam. The effectiveness of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in mitigating the practice of unclean fuel has also been analysed in this study along with other related issues. The results based on personal information of 2,541 individuals from 530 households of Barak Valley reveal that incidence of respiratory illness is more profound in the households of solid biomass fuel users. The study further reveals that though PMUY has equipped the rural households with clean fuel connections but failed to change the fuel use practice of the beneficiaries. Among the barriers of clean fuel use practices, insufficient income of the households and availability of free and low-cost alternative fuels are found to be more prominent. The ordered probit model to examine the factors posing risk to respiratory illness reveal that women ar...
Good quality of food is the necessity pre condition of everybody's health, which ultimately d... more Good quality of food is the necessity pre condition of everybody's health, which ultimately determines the productivity as well as capability of every human being. Food security is every body's endeavour. To analyse the food security status of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) households the present study conduct a case study in the Golaghat District of Assam. Primary data has been collected from the 500 sample BPL identified households of the surveyed district. It has been found that all the BPL identified households don't have BPL card. So the present study also set the objective to compare the food security status of the BPL households with and without having BPL card apart from measuring the food security status of the BPL households. While collecting the data multistage purposive and stratified random sample technique has been used. To measure the household food security of sample population, a food security index has been constructed by considering per capita calorie co...
The socio-economic status of women plays a very vital role in both individual and community life.... more The socio-economic status of women plays a very vital role in both individual and community life. It is a multidimensional concept that can be measured by composition of various factors. The present study is about the socioeconomic status of Kuki women. The kuki are the one of the major tribal groups in Manipur. The study is based on primary data taking some prominent factors to highlight the socio-economic condition of the Kuki women. Inorder to find out the socioeconomic status of the Kuki women, the present study used a self-developed composite socio-economic index which is the combination of three indices namely, Health Index, Educational Index and Income Index. And finally a logit regression model is fitted to find out the major factors influencing the socioeconomic status of women.
SEDME (Small Enterprises Development, Management & Extension Journal): A worldwide window on MSME Studies, 2019
This study estimates technical efficiency and examines its determinants in the micro-manufacturin... more This study estimates technical efficiency and examines its determinants in the micro-manufacturing enterprises in Dibrugarh, one of the most developed districts in the state of Assam in India. It is based on cross-sectional firm-level primary data, collected through a field survey from 115 micro-manufacturing enterprises in the district. The results of the data envelopment analysis suggests that the average technical efficiency score of the firms is quite low, which indicates a high degree of technical inefficiency in the production process. Further efficiency in the enterprises is more due to the inefficient conversion of inputs into outputs rather than due to scale inefficiency. An attempt has also been made to identify some firm-specific and entrepreneurial background variables responsible for inefficiency using the maximum likelihood Tobit regression model. The study reveals that skilled labour, firm-age, firm-size, experience of entrepreneur and gender of entrepreneur have a po...
Indian Journal of Finance, 2019
International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, 2018
High growth rate of the economy is the means of generating surplus to support future growth and a... more High growth rate of the economy is the means of generating surplus to support future growth and also to fund the welfare activities. But in a limited world any growth rate more than carrying capacity of the earth brings more danger for us than the welfare. The BRICS countries at present are the most growing economies in the world and at the same time are the most natural resource based economies. The present study is an attempt to examine the trend of natural resource depletion and different greenhouse gas emissions in BRICS countries during 1992 to 2012, and also the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation. The study also estimates the relative resource efficiency of five BRICS countries during the study period by using data envelopment analysis. On conducting various tests this study finds positive trend of different greenhouse gas emissions and natural resource depletion in BRICS during the study period. Natural resource depletion and greenhouse gas emi...