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Watershed management deals with managing groundwater and drinking water in dryland areas. In this study, a dynamic optimisation model for sustainable agriculture and watershed management is developed, which can help farmers in dryland regions maximise their profit from agricultural production. The steady-state values of water stock, profit and allocation of land between highly water-intensive and less water-intensive crops are determined. This study also carries out sensitivity analysis by perturbing various parameters such as technologies used in crop production, discount rate and annual recharge of groundwater stock. The results show that as the technology used for less water-intensive crops improves, groundwater stock and profit increase. This study captures how upstream and downstream farmers can optimise their net benefit from agriculture when there is water conflict between them. It also demonstrates how their water extraction patterns and benefits can change in the presence and absence of a social planner.

This paper delves into the complex relationship between health
trade through international fragmentation and health trade through
commercial presence. A neo-classical full employment four sector static
general equilibrium model has been developed, where the three sectors
produce final products except the health intermediate goods producing
sector. The paper shows that expansion of health trade through
commercial presence implies, under some reasonable conditions,
enhancement of the volume of health trade through international
fragmentation. It also shows that the composite volume of trade in
health services through international fragmentation and commercial
presence increases the size of the health care in our stylised small
open economy. JEL Classification: I10, F11, F21, D58 Keywords: Health
Sector, Health Intermediate Sector, International Fragmentation and
International Health Capital Mobility

"This book presents a comprehensive analysis of contemporary issues in international trade and economic development. Emphasizing the significance of economic development within policymaking, the book covers important issues like provisioning of public goods, its implication in a liberalized regime, crime and corruption, skilled-unskilled wage inequality, income distribution and unemployment, environmental regulation, role of educational capital and informal sector, etc. The volume deals with the impact that different aspects of international trade and investment are likely to have on the above-mentioned areas. The essays, written to honour the memory of Professor Sarbajit Chaudhuri, also examine topics that focus on public policy related to immigration of skilled workforce, political resistance and political compulsions that a democratic government might face in keeping with its commitment of tariff reforms, gender wage gap and issues related to globalization, income distribution and unemployment. The book will be of invaluable interest to postgraduate students, scholars and researchers of development economics, international economics, labor economics and for those working on theoretical research on applications of general equilibrium trade models in developing countries"--