Part-I: Fiscal and Price Stability, Monetary Policy and Economic Growth -- Chapter 1. The Recent Inflation Crisis and Long run Economic Growth in India: An Empirical Survey of Threshold Level of Inflation.- Chapter 2. Impact of short run and long run debt on economic growth: Empirical evidence of India.- Chapter 3. Fiscal Deficit Composition and Economic Growth in India: A Time Series Econometric Analysis.- Chapter 4. Relationship between monetary policy and industrial production in India.- Part-II: Financial Integration, Capital Market Volatility and Macroeconomic Stability -- Chapter 5. Financial integration and macroeconomic instability in India.- Chapter 6. Co-movement among Asian Forex markets: Evidence from Wavelet Methods.- Chapter 7. Volume, Spread & Volatility: Intraday Evidence from India.- Part-III: International Trade and Economic Growth.- Chapter 8. Nexus between International Trade and Economic Growth.- Chapter 9. Causality between Exports and GDP: An Empirical Evidence from BIMSTEC Region.- Part-IV: Productivity and Firm Performance -- Chapter 10. Intellectual Capital and Financial Performance: Evidences from Indian Business Process Outsourcing Industry.- Chapter 11. CSR as investment: An Analysis with Ownership Structure and Firm Performance.- Chapter 12. Productivity performance of Indian banks with FDI contents.- Chapter 13. Is the acquirer more efficient than target: An empirical study from selected bank consolidation in India?.- Chapter 14. Simultaneous equations modeling of bank deposits, credits and economic growth in Tanzania.- Part-V: Agriculture and Food Security -- Chapter 15. Foreign Exchange Rate and Agricultural Performances: A Time Series Exercise for India.- Chapter 16. Assessing Nutritional Intake from a Field Study in Odisha.- Chapter 17. Dynamics of Food Grain Production in Telangana.

This book discusses wide topics related to current issues in economic growth and development, international trade, macroeconomic and financial stability, inflation, monetary policy, banking, productivity, agriculture and food security. It is a collection of seventeen research papers selected based on their quality in terms of contemporary topic, newness in the methodology, and themes. All selected papers have followed an empirical approach to address research issues, and are segregated in five parts. Part one covers papers related to fiscal and price stability, monetary policy and economic growth. The second part contains works related to financial integration, capital market volatility and macroeconomic stability. Third part deals with issues related to international trade and economic growth. Part four covers topics related to productivity and firm performance. The final part discusses issues related to agriculture and food security. The book would be of interest to researchers, academicians as a ready reference on current issues in economics and finance.