Poverty Eradication and Development Through Innovations

Contents: About the book. About the editor. 1. Importance of innovations/Babita Agrawal and Nitu Gupta. 2. Innovations and global competitiveness of India/Ratna Vadra. 3. Urbanization of rural areas and poverty eradication through innovations/Meenu Agrawal and Prabha Singh. 4. Innovations in co-operatives/Ashish Chandra. 5. Healthy life expectancy and disease burden of elderly in Kerala/S.V. Balasubramanian and P. Mohanachandran Nair. 6. Redesigning global economic governance/B.B. Tiwari and S.P. Singh. 7. Agricultural innovations in changing environmental scenario/B.G. Shivakumar. 8. Risks and innovations in e-banking/S.K. Mishra and Binaca Agrawal. 9. Innovation driven economy through industrial policy making/B.B. Tiwari. 10. Innovations in agriculture and natural resources management/I. Sekar and B.G. Shivakumar. 11. Policy responses to global economic challenges/Arunesh Tripathi and Satyendra P. Tripathi. 12. Globalization and socio-economic issues concerning women/Pravin Kumar Singh and Arunesh Tripathi. 13. Innovations and development in Indian retail banking/Krishna Kumar Agarwal and Rajesh Kr. Upadhyay. 14. Changing concept and scope of social innovations/Neeta Mahajan and V.P. Tripathi. 15. NREGA: challenges and opportunities/Dilip Kumar Srivastava and Vikas Singh. Index.

In the global market economy, the ability of nations to create, absorb and commercialize innovations determines their competitiveness. Innovation is closely linked to the creation of wealth in a modern knowledge economy. Value addition to raw materials in India through applications of technology has remained low compared to other nations such as Israel, Finland, Japan and South Korea. Increasing labour productivity through technology change and innovation is the main route for the creation of additional wealth to enterprises and better wages to employees.

Since independence, India has endeavoured to bring economic and social change through science and technology. The visionaries who led the growth of innovation and technology in India were convinced that such an approach could play an important role in transforming India into a modern, industrialized society. Experience and results show that this confidence was well placed.

There is a vast untapped potential in India for wealth creation by increasing the levels of innovation content in the entire economic development activities of the country. It is a tall call but an essential one, if the current levels of growth are to be maintained.

This book contains 15 research papers, contributed by experts on the subject, which provide deep insights into the interface between poverty reduction, development and innovations.