Regional Disparities in Development
Contents: I. Disparity in development: 1. Regional disparities/Biswajit Guha. 2. An enquiry into the sub-state level disparities/Debendra Narayan Bhattacharyya. 3. Inter-district income disparity/Dhires Bhattacharya, Puspa Tarafdar and Abhijit Dutta. 4. Growth, diversification and instability/Gunendra Prasad Pal. 5. Regional disparity trends/Pavel Chakraborty and Debashis Chakraborty. 6. Economic development : a study of centricity/Jayanta Sen and D.P. Pal. II. Agriculture: 7. Regional disparity in productivity of boro and Aman Paddies in six Districts/Ruma Bhattacharya and Biswajit Chatterjee. 8. An analysis of inter-district disparity in foodgrains production/Arpita Ghose (nee dhar) and Dipyaman Pal. 9. Disparity and convergence of daily wage rate of male agricultural labour since 1990-91/Debesh Bhowmik. III. Human development: 10. Disparity of human poverty index: the role of infrastructure/Sushil K. Halder and Kajari Roy. 11. Regional disparity in income and human development since 1980s/Prankrishna Pal. 12. Development paradigm of health-education nexus--an examination of regional disparities/Dhiraj Kumar Bandyopadhyay. IV. Infrastructure urbanization and small scale industries: 13. Inter district disparity in the growth of urbanization/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 14. Road transport system and regional disparities/Debasish Bera, Dhirendra Nath Konar and Dilip Halder. 15. Disparity in the development of small scale industries/Mohasin Mallick. 16. Regional disparities in development/Kalipada Basu. V. Backwardness in North Bengal: 17. Comparative backwardness of North Bengal" Strategies for its development/Kanak Bagchi and Satyen Sarker. 18. Regional disparity and secessionist Militancy in North Bengal/Sumit Mukherjee. Index.
Development experiences in India are diverse and there exist wide disparities across regions and states of India in terms of wide range of indicators, viz. income, growth, employment, poverty, human deprivations and living conditions, including education, health and other infrastructure. But there are also wide disparities across different regions within a state in terms of selected indicators and attempts to understand the reasons for such disparities within the political boundary of a state in Indian federation are not many. Born out of the papers presented in the 26th Annual Conference of Bangiya Arthaniti Parishad, the present collection provides an important amalgam of issues that needs attention of economists and policy makers. (jacket
