Inclusive Growth in Uttar Pradesh : Opportunities and Challenges

Contents: Preface. Contributors. Introduction. 1. India 2009: Changing the gears of governance for greater inclusive growth/Rina S. Deen and Pervez E. Deen. 2. Governance and inclusive growth: the Indian experience/Vibha Tiwari. 3. Inclusive growth in Uttar Pradesh: agriculture, poverty and human development/S. Mahendra Dev. 4. Climate change and agriculture/R.R. Rashmi. 5. Agriculture and inclusive growth in Uttar Pradesh: Issues, challenges and policy implications/Arobinda K. Sarkar. 6. Poverty trends and co-relates in Uttar Pradesh/A.K. Singh. 7. Inclusive development and deprivation in Uttar Pradesh/Yashvir Tyagi. 8. Inclusive growth: options for U.P./P.K. Chaube. 9. Intra-regional disparities in development of Uttar Pradesh/D.M. Diwakar. 10. Regional disparity in economic growth and strategic options for inclusive development of Uttar Pradesh/S.P. Singh. 11. Social security of the unorganised sector and inclusive growth in Kanpur City: a study of some significant segments/Lorna Dixit and Rina S. Deen. 12. Occupational segregation and wage inequality: an empirical study on production related workers/Sonali Chakraborty. 13. Empowering women in India: redefining roles as skylines change/Rina Mitra. 14. Inclusive education for inclusive growth: Uttar Pradesh initiatives/Meera Lal. 15. Education and empowerment of girls: role of school education/Neerja Rashmi. 16. Deprivation and inclusion in educational perspective/Prasamita Mohanty. 17. Caste detrimental to inclusive growth: a study with special reference to Scheduled Castes of U.P./Shura Darapuri. 18. Creating self-employment opportunities for an Inclusive growth in Uttar Pradesh: a case study of Self-Help Groups/Archana Srivastava and Anupama Kushwaha. 19. Uttar Pradesh should catch up with Tamil Nadu to achieve broad-based inclusive growth/Sukarma Thareja. 20. Human capital formation: a resource for inclusive growth/Sangeeta Gupta. 21. English means empowerment for Uttar Pradesh/Neeta Jain. Index.

"This volume brings out some well researched presentations of contributors who hold positions of eminence in various capacities in the country. The approach of the book is to gird the significant issues relating to the prospects of inclusive development and growth in the state of Uttar Pradesh, following from the present drive of the newly installed Indian Government 2009 in establishing the inclusive growth paradigms for India now and onwards. The volume is a sincere contribution towards the nation's newly avowed efforts at paving the best ways for the planning and implementation of its vast vision of inclusive development and growth, with special focus on Uttar Pradesh, as a state with exhaustive potential for much to deliver sooner than later to both, its people and the country." (jacket)