A nation's revenue is the backbone of its economy, and if it is unstable or declining, it affects the development of various sectors. In Nigeria, the main source of revenue is oil exports. Therefore, any downturn in oil prices negatively affects the development process in Nigeria. The study is an attempt to establish the association between revenue shocks and economic growth of Nigeria. Secondary data for the period 1985-2021, sourced from various issues of Central Bank of Nigeria Bulletin (CBN), National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), and World Development Indicators (WDIs) has been used. To satisfy the objectives, stationarity test, Ordinary Least Square Estimator (OLS), and Error Correction Model (ECM) have been employed. After a careful analysis of the results, it is found that there is a long-run relationship between economic growth and other independent variables. Moreover, the results of the ECM show that the system is stable and it has the capacity to converge short-run equilibrium at the rate of -19.80% after disturbances in the system. Therefore, based on the findings, the study recommends that the government should focus on both short and long-run processes and start shifting its dependence on oil-based revenue.

This paper evaluates the relationship between supply-driven components of India's inflation and inflation expectations as derived from the Reserve Bank of India's Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH). To be precise, it determines a threshold level for 'food' and 'combined food and fuel' CPI inflation rate beyond which the inflation expectations start getting de-anchored. The novelty of this study lies in throwing light on the timing of central bank intervention in episodes of supply side inflation with an objective to anchor inflation expectations. The estimation is carried out by using quarterly time series data on inflation and inflation expectations from 2012 to 2022. The results obtained in the study suggest the existence of a inflation threshold level for food at 7-7.5% and for combined food and fuel at 6.5%.

It does not matter whether it is a single reason or multiple reasons that led a farmer to commit suicide; once a life is lost, it is lost forever. Unlike other professions, in the farming family (where agriculture is the main source of income), the loss of the household head (i.e., the breadwinner) will have countless repercussions on the surviving family members, such as loss of income, inability to meet the basic needs, increased debt burden, mental trauma, loss of social respect, school dropouts, the burden of elderly, inability to cultivate the land due to the loss of farming skills of the departed, etc. Between 1995 and 2018, 353,778 farmers committed suicide in India. This number highlights the level of agrarian distress in India during the last two decades. Approximately 75 to 80% of farmer suicides were committed in a few states only, such as erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Punjab.

Analysis of the data on farmer suicide accrued from empirical literature and the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) indicates that increasing indebtedness due to the rising cost of cultivation (higher input costs, lower yields, and declining produce prices) and crop failures, family issues,

The first instance of mutual funds was noted in the Dutch Republic during the 1772-73 financial crisis. The United Kingdom had its first investment trust in 1868 and flourished in the 1880s. However, the United States is considered as the country of 'origin' and 'development' of mutual funds. In US, mutual funds were introduced in the 1890s. They played a vital role in its economy, especially in capital market development. In India, the entry of mutual funds as a financial product happened relatively late dating back to 1963 when the Unit Trust of India (UTI) started the mutual fund business. Since then, the Indian mutual fund industry has grown manifold, be it in size, schemes, or subscriptions. This growth has been over several phases-the phase of the introduction of other public sector mutual funds, followed by the phase of the appearance of private sector mutual funds-thanks to the policy of opening up the economy by the Indian government since 1991. It is projected that Average Assets Under Management (AAUM) will grow at 12.7% annually, with AAUM reaching 57.2 tn by 2026 and 91.5 tn by 2030.1 Hence, mutual funds are assuming increasing importance in the Indian