Developmental Issues in Contemporary India
Author: M. R. Biju
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9788180697142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. R. Biju
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9788180697142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sita Venkateswar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-03-14
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9811004544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Aseema Sinha
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780253344045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This look at economic development in India focuses on interactions between the central state and regional elites. India is widely regarded as a "failed" developmental state, seemingly the exception that belies the prediction of a triumphant Asian century.
Author: Debdas Banerjee
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-16
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 1135236194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Shashi Ratnaker Singh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1108486924
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Looks at the nuances of land and resource politics and summarizes the long-standing land acquisition and mining debate.
Author: Dr. Nanjunda Dc
Publisher: Abd Publishers
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9788183762083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book aims to present an overview of the challenges and opportunities faced by India in its attempts at achieving poverty reduction and education for all. The issues are largely surrounding three key objectives--growth, equity and sustainability. It is evident that in order to effectively achieve poverty reduction (income and non-income), India must pay attention to the demands posed and challenges faced by these broad objectives.
Author: Nripendra Kishore Mishra
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-10-14
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9811582653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Sebak Kumar Jana
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9789351252962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rakhee Bhattacharya
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-07-09
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 8132223462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Georg Pfeffer
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9788170226420
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