Social Sector Development in India
Contents: Introduction/Raj Kumar Sen. I. Social sector development in India - general issues: 1. Social sectors and economic development/K. Seeta Prabhu. 2. Trends in social sectors in developing countries/Asok Basu. 3. Service sector: experiences of SAARC countries/Harshada S. Rathod. 4. Expansion of social sector and economic development/T.C. Pathak. 5. Social sector and economic growth/Pratima Trivedi. 6. Budgetary expenditure on the social sector/S. Sudhakar and A.G. Moss. 7. Developmental planning in the social sectors/P.C. Tiwari. 8. Second generation economic reforms and social sector/G.M. Bhat. II. Social sector development in India--human development and human capital formation: 9. Inter-state comparison of human development/Naseem A. Zaidi and Md. Abdus Salam. 10. Social sector and development in Assam/Runumi Dowerah Baruah. 11. Reproducing human capital/Bipul Malakar and Tapa Roy. 12. Education and health sectors/P. Ambiga Devi. 13. Education and health sectors in Orissa/Eswar Rao Patnaik. III. Social sector development in India--education: 14. Social sector: educational development/Narendra Prasad. 15. Public expenditure on education and economic reforms/Keya Sengupta. 16. Social sector expenditures on education/Nighat Ahmad. 17. Social sectors in Himachal Pradesh education/Jai Singh Parmar. 18. Women literacy in rural India/Tara Kant Jha. 19. Gender disparity in literacy status of Tamil Nadu/G. Ramathilagam. IV. Social sector development in India--health : 20. Economic development and social sector: utilisation of public health opportunities/Bela Seth. 21. Health status and Indian development/P. Arumugam. 22. Family welfare measures in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry/R. Arunachalam. V. Social sector development infrastructure--peace: 23. Peace as a component of social infrastructure/Pradeep Singh and Shivalli Malhotra. Index.
"Social sector development in India is an addition to the series of titles arising out of IEA theme-wise conference/seminar papers. This volume is a collection of 23 papers contributed for the IEA conference at Gwalior. The articles are divided in five parts relating to the theme.
Human development and human capital formation, development of education and health sectors, peace as a component of social infrastructure and others are the main areas highlighted by these articles. An overview of these articles are available from the editorial introduction by Raj Kumar Sen." (jacket)
