Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered to be influenced not only by quantitative factors but also by qualitative factors. However, the present literature related to FDI focus more on quantitative factors rather than qualitative factors. One reason is that FDI is itself based on a quantitative benchmark (10% or more investment in equity). The qualitative factors that are related to FDI are governance, democracy, human development index etc. In the present study an endeavor is made to understand that how corruption influence FDI decision. FDI is taken in terms of percentage of GDP and Corruption is represented by Corruption Perception Index. The sample period of the study is from 1995 to 2014.

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The difference between growth and development is not subtle but substantially huge and the gap is ever increasing. The dividing line is social indicators. Countries witnessing high growth rates for decades are not equal performers in development when social indicators are observed. India is an emerging economy on the one hand and a developing on the other hand but a lower income country as per World Bank statistic. While India holds economic indicators that appears to be promising to the world and investors that is not the case with social indicators. The present study is an attempt to critically review the social indicators for India and to trace the trajectory of fall or growth in such indicators while comparing with selected countries.

Gender inequality is one of the main factors of the digital divide in developing countries. In Bangladesh, the participation of female students in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) and ICTs (Information and Communication Technology) is not satisfactory. Despite of an improvement in recent years, there is a shortage of women pursuing careers in ICT in Bangladesh. In this paper, an initiative namely ″#missingdaughter″ was discussed which is taken to engage more women in ICT education in Bangladesh. The impact of this initiative in STEM was explored.