India Issues In Development

Author : Nripendra Kishore Mishra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811582653

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Development Challenges of India After Twenty Five Years of Economic Reforms by Nripendra Kishore Mishra Pdf

This book revisits some of the persisting challenges of development of India, which remain unresolved even after twenty-five years of economic reforms and almost fifteen years of high growth rate. These include defining purpose of development, inequality, labour, work, unemployment, agrarian distress and migration. The book questions the overemphasis on growth to the extent of neglecting basic issues of development. With a number of contributions re-imagining development and its political economy, the book discusses above mentioned issues in light of new data and more recent conceptions of the issues. The contributors of this volume are eminent researchers in their respective field. Presenting primary as well as secondary data, the book considers the latest advances and research and also addresses new challenges like the global reorganization of production and the consequences for labour and the world of work, along with skills question. World of work has received detailed investigation in this book. This is a timely addition in existing literature especially in context of pandemic and lockdown. Informality and un/employment question is addressed in this context. Relationship among poverty, inequality and growth is examined in light of newer understanding. Agrarian distress is looked in a broader context. A number of papers are examining migration question by expanding coverage of migration and including labour mobility as apart of migration debate. The present crisis of migrant labour and absence of social security for these workers is also discussed. This book is primarily intended for those interested in recent advances on some of the basic aspects of development, like poverty, inequality, informality, word of work, migration and labour mobility. It is also useful for researchers, policy makers, journalists and civil society organizations working on these issues.

Author : Mohan Guruswamy
Publisher : Hope India Publications
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : India
ISBN : 9788178710945

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India, Issues in Development by Mohan Guruswamy Pdf

This is a collection of all the reports by the Centre for Policy Alternatives team led by Mohan Guruswamy till April 2006. The reports cover a wide range of subjects and have made a major contribution to the national discussion on critical issues. Several of them such as Redefining Poverty , Economic Growth and Development in West Bengal , The Economic Strangulation of Bihar and FDI in Retail have revealed new dimensions to issues that have contributed greatly to a change of perceptions about them. The reports are primarily meant for the nation s opinion and decision-making elite, such as MP s, government officials and media-persons. They are hence written in a simple, comprehensible and illustrative style. Each report will vastly enrich your understanding of India and some of the problems that beset it.

Author : M. R. Biju
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Economic development projects
ISBN : 8180697142

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Developmental Issues in Contemporary India by M. R. Biju Pdf

Author : Sita Venkateswar,Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811004544

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Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Contemporary India by Sita Venkateswar,Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Pdf

This volume brings together multidisciplinary, situated and nuanced analyses of contingent issues framing a rapidly changing India in the 21st century. It moves beyond the ready dichotomies that are often extended to understand India as a series of contrasts and offers new insights into the complex realities of India today, thereby enabling us to anticipate the decades to come. The editors focus on three major themes, each discussed in a section: The first section, Framing the Macro-Economic Environment, defines the framework for interrogating globalisation and socio-economic changes in India over the last few decades of the 20th century spiraling into India in the 21st century. The next section, Food Security and Natural Resources, highlights critical considerations involved in feeding a burgeoning population. The discussions pose important questions in relation to the resilience of both people and planet confronting increasingly unpredictable climate-induced scenarios. The final section, Development, Activism and Changing Technologies, discusses some of the social challenges of contemporary India through the lens of inequalities and emergent activisms. The section concludes with an elaboration of the potential and promise of changing technologies and new social media to build an informed and active citizenry across existing social divides.

Author : Moshe Hirsch,Ashok Kotwal,Bharat Ramaswami
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774860338

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A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India by Moshe Hirsch,Ashok Kotwal,Bharat Ramaswami Pdf

Over the last twenty years, India has enacted legislation to turn development goals such as food security, primary education, and employment into legal rights for its citizens. But enacting laws is different from implementing them. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India examines a diverse range of human development issues over a period of rapid economic growth in India. Demonstrating why institutional and economic development are synonymous, this volume details the many obstacles hindering development. The contributors ultimately ask whether India’s approach to development is working and whether its right to develop is at odds with its international commitments.

Author : Gurmukh Ram Madan
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : India
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Social Change and Problems of Development in India by Gurmukh Ram Madan Pdf

Author : Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199257493

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India by Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen Pdf

This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors placehuman agency at the centre of stage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms.In comparative international perspective, the Indian economy has done reasonably well in the period following the economic reforms initiated in the early nineties. However, relatively high aggregate economic growth coexists with the persistence of endemic deprivation and deep social failures. JeanDreze and Amartya Sen relate this imbalance to the continued neglect, in the post-reform period, of public involvement in crucial fields such as basic education, health care, social security, environmental protection, gender equity, and civil rights, and also to the imposition of new burdens such asthe accelerated expansion of military expenditure. Further, the authors link these distortions of public priorities with deep-seated inequalities of social influence and political power. The book discusses the possibility of addressing these biases through more active democratic practice.

Author : Rakhee Bhattacharya
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132223467

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Regional Development and Public Policy Challenges in India by Rakhee Bhattacharya Pdf

This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India’s development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India have not been very successful so far. With rising discrepancies in development, demand for autonomy continues along with a new dimension of regionalism arising from submerged identity along with political and economic aspirations, which demanded new channels for solution. So far, attempts to create space for autonomy have possibly not optimally accommodated the conceptual mechanisms like equity and democratic process. Thus democratizing policy process using six pillars of voice: knowledge, objective, fundamental values, implementation framework and public awareness can ensure a better policy outcome for dealing with the persistent challenges of regional disparity in India. This book further focuses on the need for democratizing the policy process for regional development through discussion and inclusion. Such a transition needs innovation in policy regime, which can be attained through following six pillars (i) Democratic voice of stakeholders in policy development and implementation; (ii) Clear policy objectives that advance the common good, based on voice; (iii) Unbiased, sound and comprehensive knowledge and data bases. (iv) Consistency with constitutional values; (v) A sound implementation framework ensuring user-friendliness, transparency and rationality of decision-making processes, effective grievance redress, clear accountability and independent evaluation; (vi) Public awareness and support of policies with relevant and public participation in implementation.

Author : Dibyendu Maiti,Fulvio Castellacci,Arne Melchior
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811399961

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Digitalisation and Development by Dibyendu Maiti,Fulvio Castellacci,Arne Melchior Pdf

This book investigates the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on development and well-being (beyond economic benefits) and highlights some emerging issues relating to the realities, constraints and digital divides with particular reference to India. It collects a series of novel contributions, studying the Indian experience in an international cross-country perspective. The book also discusses economic, social, and behavioural aspects of well-being as well as access to ICTs across regions, states and individuals to account for the digital divide. The book establishes an aggregate relationship between ICT exposure and well-being at the country level and addresses a number of fundamental issues, such as whether ICT raises the level of transparency and governance. Based on case studies and anecdotal evidence, it then further assesses the effective implementation of service delivery through ICT innovations. The book is divided into four parts: The introductory part surveys the literature and presents background information on the Indian case; introduces the main themes on the relationships between ICT, socio-economic development and digital divides; and provides a summary and roadmap to the chapters of the book. Part II focuses on the impact of ICT on economic performance, including economic growth, productivity and trade. Part III examines the extent of the digital divides in India, including international, regional as well as inter-personal inequality. Finally, Part IV investigates the impact of ICT on governance, users’ well-being and social outcomes. Combining insights from analyses of a variety of socio-economic dimensions related to digitalisation, this book is relevant for a wide range of scholars and researchers across disciplines, as well as practitioners and policy-makers. While the book has a main focus on India, various contributions take an international cross-country comparative perspective, and the results have general relevance for digitalisation and development. On the whole, the main message of this book is that the impact of ICTs is contingent upon other assets, capabilities and institutional conditions. National policies should, therefore, not only promote digitalization as such but also ensure its co-evolution and complementarity with a variety of other country-specific factors. Chapter 'Digitalisation and Development: Issues for India and Beyond' of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Author : Debdas Banerjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135236199

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Economic and Human Development in Contemporary India by Debdas Banerjee Pdf

This book deals with issues in economic development in India. It highlights those factors that are indicative of India’s emergence in the global economy yet indicates negative "trickle down" effects, such as malnutrition, poverty, bonded labourers, high adult unemployment and the widespread use of child labour. Focusing on structural deficiencies for a steady growth rate, and how to make growth inclusive, the book examines duality in development and the factors standing between national economic prosperity and human development. The author analyses issues concerning international trade, technology, access to food, inequality and poverty, and the "catching up" of developing countries. A novel approach to the analysis of the Indian economy and other developing countries in the 21st century, this book advocates development as a form of governance. With India as a case study, this book provides a solid framework for looking at developing economies which will be useful to policy-makers and to graduate and post-doctoral students and researchers in the areas of development studies and economics, industrialisation and structural change.

Author : Sanjivi Guhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110167280

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India's Development Experience by Sanjivi Guhan Pdf

This volume covers a broad selection of Guhan's academic writings on various development issues such as measurement of poverty, rural poverty alleviation, social security for the unorganized sector, health issues and center-state relations.

Author : Anita Kumari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8177081241

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Balanced Regional Development in India by Anita Kumari Pdf

"Balanced regional development has always been an essential component of the Indian development strategy in order to ensure the unity and integrity of the nation. Balanced regional development has been an integral part of economic planning in India since the launching of the First Five Year Plan in 1951. Part I of this work provides an introduction to policies, programmes, and current issues pertaining to balanced development of various parts of the Indian economy. Part II of the book reproduces edited extracts on the subject from Indiaís Five Year Plans. Part III contains latest data on regional imbalances in India. "

Author : Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199257485

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India by Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen Pdf

This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors place human agency at the centerstage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms.

Author : Amar Nath Agrawal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040098001

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Indian Economy by Amar Nath Agrawal Pdf

Author : Vandana Asthana,A. C. Shukla
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441118226

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Water Security in India by Vandana Asthana,A. C. Shukla Pdf

Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources. Water resources in India have been subjected to tremendous pressures from increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and modern agricultural methods. The inadequate access to clean drinking water, increase in water related disasters such as floods and droughts, vulnerability to climate change and competition for the resource amongst different sectors and the region poses immense pressures for sustainability of water systems and humanity. Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India's life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner.