Rural Health, Women Empowerment and Agriculture : Issues and Challenges

Contents: 1. Health insurance for the Poor: the working of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in select Districts of South Bengal/Paramita Roy. 2. Gendered allocation of household labour: the gender ideology perspective/Aditi Bhowmick and Kuntal Chattopadhyay. 3. Declining child sex ration in India: issues and challenges/Sukumar Pal. 4. Empowerment of women in India: issues and challenges/Sreemanta Sarkar. 5. Inward FDI and its dynamic causal relationships with exports and imports in India during the post-reformed period: a quantitative analysis/Sarmita Guha Ray. 6. Empowerment of rural women in India: a study/Nazmul Hussain Laskar. 7. Lost in counting: India’s vulnerable and marginalized children/Ankit Kumar Keshri. 8. Agriculture and women empowerment: the challenges and perspectives/Urmi Pattanayak and Minati Mallick. 9. National rural health mission and rural health status in India: an economic analysis/Kul Bahadur Chettri. 10. Gender disparities in rural work: a time use survey-based evaluation in rural West Bengal/Panchali Sengupta. 11. Land conversion and agricultural distress: a study of West Bengal/Paushali Bhattacharya. 12. Hospital ownership and measurement of efficiency: evidence from the District of Burdwan, West Bengal/Somnath Chatterjee and Arindam Laha. 13. Infrastructure and primary education/Srirupa Sinha. 14. Child labour in India: an overview of issues and challenges/T. Triveni. 15. Health status of rural women: an important determinant of their empowerment/Susmita Chowdhury. …..

The twenty-six research papers included in this volume from young researchers encompass some major aspects of rural economic transformation. They include issues such as health and sanitation, education of the handicapped, SHGs and women empowerment, rural livelihood and agriculture etc. with a valuable cross-section of opinions relating to emerging trends mostly of rural India topics covered range from with respect to gender and rights in India, to agrarian reform to rural social movements. The book will be helpful to students, researchers, teachers and policy makers at all levels.