Economists, anthropologists, and other professionals engaged with economic development present 15 selected papers from an early 2011 seminar that examine some key issues and challenges related to recent development experience in India. The topics include globalization and the Indian economy, food price inflation and public procurement, a gendered analysis of measuring labor market insecurity in rural India, the emerging aging scenario in India 2001-51, the design of economic instruments and participatory institutions for environmental management in India, and how India is doing with Millennium Development Goals. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Insights on the growth of Indian economy touching upon the emerging issues and challenges!
Although Indias growth experience is well documented, the issues and implications that have emerged both in the general and at the sectoral contexts during and after the transition process remain a major area for policy concern. This volume, published in honour of C.T. Kurien, provides a scholarly assessment of Indias growth performance and its implications over the last decade and a half.
Examining the key features of Indias economic development, the volume addresses critical issues such as food inflation, agricultural performance, labour markets, social infrastructure, climate change, governance, poverty and disparity. It showcases the mutual impacts of economic growth on society and ecosystem. The volume identifies the growing problems of farmers suicide, food and labour insecurity, corruption, governance gap, caste discrimination and environmental degradation, among others, as key challenges of Indian democracy, suggesting policy changes and governance reforms both in the national and sectoral contexts.
Insights on the growth of Indian economy touching upon the emerging issues and challenges!
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A wide canvas of issues and challenges that have emerged in the process of economic transformation and dominating the development scenario in Indiathe chapters raise many questions, which give direction for future research. -- Journal for Rural Development, July-September 2015 A wide canvas of issues and challenges that have emerged in the process of economic transformation and dominating the development scenario in Indiathe chapters raise many questions, which give direction for future research. -- Journal for Rural Development [ This book] is a modest attempt in honour of Professor Christopher Thomas Kurien....An important and valuable contributionThe outcomes of the study are useful to policy makers and relevant stakeholders. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, researchers, industry stakeholders and policy makers with an interest in Indian economy, agrarian economy, social development, and is an essential reading for anyone interested in enhancing their knowledge about the subject. -- South Asia Economic Journal, * Vol 17(Issue 1), March 2016 *
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Chapter 1 Indian Economy in Transition: Context and Overview of Issues |
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Chapter 2 Globalization and Indian Economy: Issues and Concerns |
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Chapter 3 Food Price Inflation and Public Procurement: The Indian Experience |
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Chapter 4 Agrarian Change under Reforms: A Case Study of Tamil Nadu, 1980--2005 |
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Chapter 5 Is Farming Profitable to Farmers in India? Evidence from Cost of Cultivation Survey Data |
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Chapter 6 Measuring Labour Market Insecurity in Rural India: A Gendered Analysis |
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Chapter 7 `Education for All' in India: Issues, Policies and Imperatives |
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Chapter 8 The Emerging Ageing Scenario in India, 2001--51 |
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Chapter 9 Impacts of Increased Urban Demand for Water on Livelihood Resilience in Peri-urban Areas of Chennai |
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Chapter 10 Design of Economic Instruments and Participatory Institutions for Environmental Management in India |
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Chapter 11 Household-level Pollution in India: Patterns and Projections |
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Chapter 12 Market-based Institutional Reforms for Water Allocation in India: Issues and the Way Forward |
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Chapter 13 Millennium Development Goals: How Is India Doing? |
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Chapter 14 Social Discrimination in India: A Case for Economic Citizenship |
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Chapter 15 `Rural Poverty: Policy and Play Acting' Revisited. Why Doesn't the Indian State Do Better in Regard to Poverty Reduction? |
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| About the Editors and Contributors |
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S. Janakarajan is Professorial Consultant at Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) and Professorial Research Associate, Centre for Water and Development, SOAS, University of London. He was a Visiting Professor at the Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. He specializes in the areas of water, environment and climate change. He has authored/co-authored/edited several books and published many articles in national and international journals. Currently, he is the President of South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs), Hyderabad and is an active member of the Global Water Partnership.
L. Venkatachalam is Associate Professor, MIDS, Chennai. He has been a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras School of Economics (MSE) and Indian Maritime University, Chennai. He works on environmental economics with a focus on non-market valuation, environmental policy and climate change. He has held Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship, Indo-French Scholars Exchange Fellowship and Indo-Canadian Faculty Research Fellowship and won the Japanese Award for his outstanding Research on Development.
R. Maria Saleth is Director, Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), and former Director, MIDS, Chennai. He has earlier worked at the International Water Management Institute, Colombo; Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi; and the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. He works in the areas of water resource management, institutional reform and agricultural development. He has been the editor of Review of Development and Change and an Associate Editor of Water Policy and Water Resources Research.
