Ramesh Chandra Das, PhD, is currently a Professor at the Department of Economics of Vidyasagar University in the state of West Bengal, India, with more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. His main areas of research lie in theoretical and applied macroeconomics, financial economics, environmental economics, and political economics. He has contributed several research papers to national and international journals of repute along with more than a dozen edited volumes in the related areas of the subject. Besides, he has written textbooks on microeconomics, macroeconomics, and managerial economics with internationally reputed publishers for different fields of readers and academicians and has been acting as the editor-in-chief in a couple of refereed journals.

• List of Figures xList of Tables xiContributors xivForeword xxiPreface xxvAbbreviations xxviiIntroduction 1Ramesh Chandra DasPart I Policy Implications to Education, Health, and Overall Development 111 An Empirical Analysis of Fiscal Policy, Governance, and Educational Outcomes in Low- and Middle-income Countries 13Haimanti Banerjee and Sucharita Ghosh2 Nexus between Governance, Corruption, and Human Development: Evidence from Low-income Countries 32Abhijit Bhattacharya and Mousumi Ghatak3 The Role of Government Expenditure, Economic Growth, and Investment in Explaining Human Development Index: A Panel Data Analysis 48Biswajit Nayak and Sudipta Jha4 Nexus between Economic Development and Quality of Governance: A Cross-country Study with Reference to Post-globalization Time 61Debashis Mazumdar and Mainak Bhattacharjee5 Examining the Idea of Good Governance and Human Rights in South Asian Context 74Eyasin Khan6 Corruption and Development in Bangladesh: An Analysis 90Tulshi Kumar Das, Krittebas Paul, and Priyanka Bhattacharjee7 Role of Digitalization in the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Developing Economies 109Madhabendra Sinha, Samrat Roy, and Bablu Kumar Dhar8 Fiscal Priorities in SAARC and ASEAN Countries: Exploring the Trade-offs between Defense and Development 125Soumyajit Bhunia9 Monetary Policy Tools and Their Effectiveness in Renewable Energy Project Development 141Serhat Yüksel, Hasan Dincer and Ayşe Nur Çırak10 The Relations between Monetary Policy and Economic Growth: A Study on the Political Economy of Japan 153Debasish Nandy11 Does Public Spending upon Science and Technology and State Income Affect Environmental Quality?: A State-Level Analysis in India 170Imran Hussain, Sunanda Das, and Ramesh Chandra DasPart II Policy Implications to Socio-economic Sustainability 18712 The Nexus between Social Expenditures and Human Development in OECD Countries: Fiscal Strategies for Sustainable Social Policies 189Gamze Yıldız Şeren and Aycan Can13 Do Public Sector Corruption and Other Macroeconomic Indicators Increase Regional Imbalances in Economic Growth in Asian Countries? An Inquiry 202Saddam Hossain Mondal and Puja Biswas14 Gender-Responsive Budgeting and Social Sector Development: Insights from Türkiye’s Budget Justifications 216Şeyda Güdek-Gölçek and Ali Gökhan Gölçek15 Factors Influencing Good Governance and Intention to Adopt Digital Governance Services: An Empirical Study on the e-Government Participation among Users in West Bengal, India 235Arindam Metia16 Good Governance and Industry 5.0 as Keys for the Social Sustainability 253Begum Sertyesilisik17 Good Governance and Social Sector Developments in India (2014–2024): Challenges and Future Directions 265Raj Kumar Kothari and Budh Bahadur Lama18 Terrorism, Regulatory Quality, and Economic Complexity in Selected African Countries 282Richardson Kojo Edeme and Ekene Thank God Emeka19 Good Governance and Digital Financial Inclusion: Evidences from West Bengal, India 298Nilendu Chatterjee and Tonmoy Chatterjee20 Nexus between Gender Inclusion and Climate Finance: Bridging Gaps for Sustainable Development 312Megha Jain and Aishwarya Nagpal21 Governance of Organizational Sustainability Management 336José G. Vargas-Hernández, Absalón J. Salmerón-Zapata, and M. C. Omar C. Vargas-GonzálezIndex 357