Abstract Drawing from the experience of global financial crisis that sprang forth US stock market, an empirical assessment dynamic correlation analysis contagion with evidence (5) African countries (South African, Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Tunisia) is presented. Monthly prices indices 2004 to 2018 was analyzed using conditional multivariate GARCH model ascertain contagious effect selected markets....

BACKGROUND In the Indian context, a household's caste characteristics are most relevant for identifying its poverty and vulnerability status. Inadequate provision of public health care, the near-absence of health insurance and increasing dependence on the private health sector have impoverished the poor and the marginalised, especially the scheduled tribe population. This study examines caste-b...