Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra
Biographic Data
| ID | 4156611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sushanta Kumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahapatra |
| SIGNATURE | MAHAPATRA S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0831-3621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Welfare Fees, Welfare Boards and Platform Capture
Karnataka’s Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Act, 2025, marks a first-of-its-kind state-level attempt to extend social protection to app-based gig workers. The law imposes a differential welfare levy of 1–5% on platform payouts, establishes a Gig Workers’ Welfare Board and Social Security Fund, and requires platforms to register workers, issue unique IDs, and report earnings through a digital Payment and Welfare Fee Verifi…
Conditionality in Climate Finance
This article analyses why conditionality persists in climate finance and how it can be redesigned to reconcile effectiveness with climate justice. Building on the principal-agent theory, the political economy of aid conditionality, and distributive and procedural justice frameworks, it conceptualises conditionality as layered governance. Using process tracing of the COP27–COP30 sequence and comparative analysis of finance instruments such as Just…
Digital Platforms, Green Services and New Informal Work
India’s low-carbon transition is driving the emergence of new forms of “green” work, including solar installation, energy-efficiency retrofits, recycling, and circular-economy services, many of which are now facilitated by digital platforms. These platforms promise efficiency, transparency, and scalable service delivery; yet, emerging research shows that they rarely transform the structural precarity faced by informal workers. Evidence from waste…
Economic Development in the Indian States
The nature of convergence or divergence in the level of development across Indian states is re-examined using the Coefficient of Variation (CV) and classification of states into "green, (developed states)" "pink (middle-developed states)," and "red (less-developed states)" based on the average value of Multi-dimensional Index that comprises of social-economic and fiscal indicators between 2011–12 and 2017–18, unlike earlier literatures which expl…
Did the Pandemic Disrupt the Future
In 2021, the cancellation of India’s Class 10 and 12 board examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted long-standing meritocratic norms. While public debate focused on grading and admissions, this study centres student voices in Odisha—a state marked by educational and digital inequalities—to understand how they navigated the disruption. Using data from 510 students, interviews, and institutional documents from four public universities, t…
Understanding the determinants of financial and digital inclusion vulnerability among rural women in Odisha
Purpose This study aims to examine the degree of financial and digital inclusion vulnerability among rural women in Odisha and the factors contributing to financial and digital inclusion vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this objective, the study gathers 400 samples from two districts in Odisha: Jagatsinghpur and Jharsuguda. Applying the Standardized Composite Index method, the study constructs two distinct indexes: the Financ…
Shaping financial well-being
Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of financial socialization on the financial well-being (FWB) of BBA and MBA students at Pokhara University, focusing on the mediating role of financial knowledge (FK). Design/methodology/approach This study employed a causal-comparative research design and a cross-sectional survey approach, using purposive sampling to select 320 BBA and MBA students from Pokhara University and analyzed the mediation r…
Identifying determinants of sustainable water management at the household level through rainwater harvesting systems in Nepal
The urban water supply systems around the world are highly stressed at present due to growing water demand caused by rapid population growth and unplanned urbanization. The growing environmental awareness and water supply restrictions have made rainwater harvesting systems (RWHS) a priority as well as a necessity in many countries. To improve urban water security, the practice of an RWHS is increasingly being adopted in the cities and towns of de…
Export diversification and economic growth
The prime purpose of the article is to revisit past studies related to the link between export instability, export diversification, and economic growth. In this regard, an extensive literature survey has been made across academic journals that provided structured, comprehensive, and chronological findings and results. The authors have examined and reviewed the full text of eighty‐eight important and relevant research articles published in various…
Thematic Analysis to Assess Indian Consumers Purchase Intention for Organic Apparel
Consumer behavior is dynamic, and there is a beauty in trying to understand consumer’s intention for a product category like organic apparel, especially when it is a unique phenomenon that is scantly explored in an emerging economy like India. This paper is an attempt at understanding the factors that influence Indian consumer’s intention to purchase organic apparel. A purposive sampling procedure was adopted in selecting participants. A focus gr…
Paris Climate Accord
The vicious effects of climate change are sweeping the planet along with the creation of a level of emissions that would lock in a future of rising sea levels, intense droughts and food shortages, more destructive storms and floods and other catastrophic effects. With a best hope to face the bad effects of climate change on world security and to drive the world on a low‐carbon pathway, a multinational effort of the world leaders is on the process…
Livelihood Pattern of Agricultural Labour Households in Rural India
Using primarily different published secondary data, the article analyses employment generation, income of different categories of labour and the extent of indebtedness and earning prevalent among rural landless labourers and agricultural house-holds in rural Orissa, with a view to understanding their livelihood patterns. In this state—where more than 85 per cent of the population is rural—a third of rural households constitute landless labour hou…
Livelihood Pattern of Agricultural Labour Households in Rural India
Using primarily different published secondary data, the article analyses employment generation, income of different categories of labour and the extent of indebtedness and earning prevalent among rural landless labourers and agricultural house-holds in rural Orissa, with a view to understanding their livelihood patterns. In this state—where more than 85 per cent of the population is rural—a third of rural households constitute landless labour hou…
Livelihood Pattern of Agricultural Labour Households in Rural India
Using primarily different published secondary data, the article analyses employment generation, income of different categories of labour and the extent of indebtedness and earning prevalent among rural landless labourers and agricultural house-holds in rural Orissa, with a view to understanding their livelihood patterns. In this state—where more than 85 per cent of the population is rural—a third of rural households constitute landless labour hou…
Paris Climate Accord
The vicious effects of climate change are sweeping the planet along with the creation of a level of emissions that would lock in a future of rising sea levels, intense droughts and food shortages, more destructive storms and floods and other catastrophic effects. With a best hope to face the bad effects of climate change on world security and to drive the world on a low‐carbon pathway, a multinational effort of the world leaders is on the process…
Thematic Analysis to Assess Indian Consumers Purchase Intention for Organic Apparel
Consumer behavior is dynamic, and there is a beauty in trying to understand consumer’s intention for a product category like organic apparel, especially when it is a unique phenomenon that is scantly explored in an emerging economy like India. This paper is an attempt at understanding the factors that influence Indian consumer’s intention to purchase organic apparel. A purposive sampling procedure was adopted in selecting participants. A focus gr…
Identifying determinants of sustainable water management at the household level through rainwater harvesting systems in Nepal
The urban water supply systems around the world are highly stressed at present due to growing water demand caused by rapid population growth and unplanned urbanization. The growing environmental awareness and water supply restrictions have made rainwater harvesting systems (RWHS) a priority as well as a necessity in many countries. To improve urban water security, the practice of an RWHS is increasingly being adopted in the cities and towns of de…
Export diversification and economic growth
The prime purpose of the article is to revisit past studies related to the link between export instability, export diversification, and economic growth. In this regard, an extensive literature survey has been made across academic journals that provided structured, comprehensive, and chronological findings and results. The authors have examined and reviewed the full text of eighty‐eight important and relevant research articles published in various…
Economic Development in the Indian States
The nature of convergence or divergence in the level of development across Indian states is re-examined using the Coefficient of Variation (CV) and classification of states into "green, (developed states)" "pink (middle-developed states)," and "red (less-developed states)" based on the average value of Multi-dimensional Index that comprises of social-economic and fiscal indicators between 2011–12 and 2017–18, unlike earlier literatures which expl…
Did the Pandemic Disrupt the Future
In 2021, the cancellation of India’s Class 10 and 12 board examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted long-standing meritocratic norms. While public debate focused on grading and admissions, this study centres student voices in Odisha—a state marked by educational and digital inequalities—to understand how they navigated the disruption. Using data from 510 students, interviews, and institutional documents from four public universities, t…
Understanding the determinants of financial and digital inclusion vulnerability among rural women in Odisha
Purpose This study aims to examine the degree of financial and digital inclusion vulnerability among rural women in Odisha and the factors contributing to financial and digital inclusion vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this objective, the study gathers 400 samples from two districts in Odisha: Jagatsinghpur and Jharsuguda. Applying the Standardized Composite Index method, the study constructs two distinct indexes: the Financ…
Shaping financial well-being
Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of financial socialization on the financial well-being (FWB) of BBA and MBA students at Pokhara University, focusing on the mediating role of financial knowledge (FK). Design/methodology/approach This study employed a causal-comparative research design and a cross-sectional survey approach, using purposive sampling to select 320 BBA and MBA students from Pokhara University and analyzed the mediation r…
Welfare Fees, Welfare Boards and Platform Capture
Karnataka’s Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Act, 2025, marks a first-of-its-kind state-level attempt to extend social protection to app-based gig workers. The law imposes a differential welfare levy of 1–5% on platform payouts, establishes a Gig Workers’ Welfare Board and Social Security Fund, and requires platforms to register workers, issue unique IDs, and report earnings through a digital Payment and Welfare Fee Verifi…
Conditionality in Climate Finance
This article analyses why conditionality persists in climate finance and how it can be redesigned to reconcile effectiveness with climate justice. Building on the principal-agent theory, the political economy of aid conditionality, and distributive and procedural justice frameworks, it conceptualises conditionality as layered governance. Using process tracing of the COP27–COP30 sequence and comparative analysis of finance instruments such as Just…
Digital Platforms, Green Services and New Informal Work
India’s low-carbon transition is driving the emergence of new forms of “green” work, including solar installation, energy-efficiency retrofits, recycling, and circular-economy services, many of which are now facilitated by digital platforms. These platforms promise efficiency, transparency, and scalable service delivery; yet, emerging research shows that they rarely transform the structural precarity faced by informal workers. Evidence from waste…
Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Population (3 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Focus group (2 works) · Index (typography (2 works) · Marketing (2 works)