Emerging Issues in the Indian Economy
Contents: Introduction. I. Development issues: 1. Development, disparity and discontent in West Bengal/Biswajit Guha. 2. Nexus between religious culture and Indian economics : a case study on Tarakeswar municipality/Atanu Sengupta and Krishanu Nath. 3. The politics of liberalization in India : role of the state in organised industrial informality in Durgapur/Sreemoyee Ghosh. II. Social sector.: 4. Globalization, generation of employment and regional inequality in India/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 5. Structural change in the unorganised food processing industry in India during 1994/95-2005/06 and its impact on employment/Atasi Choudhury and Aparajita Mukherjee. 6. Employment scenario in million plus cities in India : 1993/94-2004/05/Pritha Kundu, Debjani Mitra and Prankrishna Pal. 7. Pattern and causes of child labour : a study of selected states of India/Atanu Sengupta and Manas Ghose. 8. Child workers in India : an overview of macro dimensions/Dipa Mukherjee. 9. Socio-religious disparity in educational achievements : a district level study in West Bengal/Koushik Kumar Hati. 10. The stars shoot down : a study on school drop-outs in West Bengal/Sanjay Bhattacharya. III. Trade and finance related issues: 11. A simple general equilibrium model of FDI and unemployment of skilled and unskilled labour/Rakhi Banerjee and Ranjanendra Narayan Nag. 12. Revisiting macro-economic aspects of primary commodities in an open economy : stock adjustment and export potentiality/Bhaskar Goswami. 13. Economic liberalisation : its impact on the structural changes of import intensity of India\'s exports/Arun K. Sengupta and Tushar Das. 14. India\'s manufacturing exports during the reform periods : trends, diversification and competitiveness/Sudipta Sarkar and Prankrishna Pal. 15. Liberalisation and net resource saving (dissaving)/Arun K. Sengupta and Tushar Das. 16. A simple effective demand model of dividend policy, stock market valuation and output/Rilina Basu and Ranjanendra Narayan Nag. IV. Environmental issues: 17. Foreign capital, technology transfer and environmental pollution : a theoretical analysis/Anindita Basu and Kausik Gupta. 18. The issue of transboundary ecology : a case study of Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin/Raj Kumar Sen and Somnath Hazra. 19. Factors that determine the choice of passenger transport modes and policy implications for the reduction of urban pollution : a case study of Kolkata/Madhumati Dutta and Guruprasad Samanta. V. Rural economy: 20. Income-expenditure pattern and organisation of production : a study of some rural handicrafts of West Bengal/Pritikana Char. 21. Consumption expenditure in rural India : an inter-state analysis/Tanusree Mishra and Prankrishna Pal. 22. Evaluation of micro-finance in India/Sajal Mukherjee and Mukesh Kumar. Index.
Emerging issues in the Indian economy is an edited book contains an editorial introduction on the emerging issues in the Indian economy relating to various themes like development issues, social sector, trade and finance related issues, environmental issues and rural economy. In fact, the book covers all the aspects of developmental issues. It is expected that the book will be useful to academicians, researchers and general readers interested in Indian economy. (jacket)
Emerging issues in the Indian economy is an edited book contains an editorial introduction on the emerging issues in the Indian economy relating to various themes like development issues, social sector, trade and finance related issues, environmental issues and rural economy. In fact, the book covers all the aspects of developmental issues. It is expected that the book will be useful to academicians, researchers and general readers interested in Indian economy. (jacket)
