Contents: Foreword. Preface. Editor’s introduction: human development: India in world context/Ruddar Datt. I. Human development: conceptual issues : 1. Human capabilities approach to the development of developing countries/N. Nettimi and N.H. Fidzani. 2. Human development and economic growth: the experience of India, 1980-96/Ashir Mehta. 3. Human resources and economic development/R.Y. Mahore. 4. Human development: concepts and international standards/N.M.P. Verma. 5. Human development – conceptual issues and realities/P. Jegadish Gandhi. 6. Concept of human development with special reference to India/R.S. Mishra. 7. Determinants of human development/M.S. Subramanian. 8. A.K. Sen’s contribution to human development/S. Narapa Reddy, A. Rajasekhar and P. Kodandarami Reddy. 9. Development planning and grass-root level democracy in India: need for a development index/Arabinda Ghosh. 10. Returns to investment in human capital: Indian evidence/P. Duriasamy. 11. Human development and poverty: some policy issues/G. Karunakaran Pillai. 12. Human development through poverty alleviation/Kasturi Bai Dhanasekaran. 13. Human capital development: towards a new approach in research and intervention/Arindam K. Sen and Mausumi Manna. 14. "Well-being" of people – a journey from per capita gross national product to human development index/Swagata Das Bhowmick. 15. Concept and estimation of human development index/R. Annapoorani. 16. Economic growth and its impact on human development in the Indian economy/Keya Sengupta. 17. Role of investment in human capital development: an empirical study on developing society/Kaushal K. Srivastava and Tanuja Srivastava. II. Inter-state comparisons and measurement of human development : 18. Inter-state comparison of human development in India – an alternative measure/Debabrata Mandal. 19. Human development in India – a study of interstate disparity/Biswajit Guha. 20. A modified measure of human development/Inderjeet Singh and Reena Singh. 21. Measuring human resource development/S.S. Dhillon and Jasmeet Kaur. 22. Measuring human well-being of the countries: achievement and improvement indices/Krishna Mazumdar. 23. Human development: achievements in the Indian economy/Bishwa Nath Singh and S.M. Humair Ahmad. 24. Human development in India: a study of inter-state variation/Nisar Ahmad Khan. III. Poverty alleviation, education and human development : 25. Human development and poverty: the context of India/Hem Chandra Lal Das. 26. Poverty alleviation programme in India – a critical assessment/Naseem A. Zaidi. 27. Primary education, human development and India’s disadvantaged groups/Asok Basu. 28. Human development profile: a study of primary educational standards in Uttar Pradesh/K.N. Bhatt. IV. Human development: case studies : 29. Human development and deprivation in South Asia/M.A. Razzaque. 30. Human development in SAARC countries/R. Pushpavathi. 31. Measures of human development and related concepts: a case study of Tamil Nadu/C.B. Padamanabhan and Kanakasabai Nagarajan. 32. The concept of human development and its implications – understanding in terms of the system approach: a case study of West Bengal economy/Basabi Bhattacharya. 33. Human resource development and human development index in Western India/Anju Kohli and Sadhna Kothari. 34. Human resource development and management in small scale industry – Coimbatore district: a case study/K.S. Sivaprakash. Index.

"Human Development and Economic Development is aimed at understanding the process of widening people’s choices and the level of well-being they achieve. It underscores the fact that income is only one choice and the economists had been pre-occupied with measuring economic development with the help of per capita income only. It is also a fact that the benefits of growth do not percolate uniformly to all strata of society. But human development is a much wider concept because it encompasses three essential choices for people – to lead a long and healthy life, to acquire knowledge and to have access to resources needed for a decent standard of living.

This book is an edited volume out of selected and referred papers contributed to the technical session on the same topic of the Indian Economic Conference. This part of the IEA scheme of publishing such volumes from papers contributed for IEA Annual Conferences during 1994-2000. The present volume consists altogether 34 articles distributed over the following parts : (A) Human Development : Conceptual Issues, (B) Inter-State Comparisons and Measurement of Human Development, (C) Poverty Alleviation, Education and Human Development and (D) Human Development : Case Studies. These articles are authored respectively by : (A) N. Nettimi and N.H. Fidzani; Ashir Mehta; R.Y. Mahore; N.M.P. Verma; Jegadish P. Gandhi; R.S. Mishra; M.S. Subramanian; S. Narapa Reddy; A. Rajasekhar and P.K. Reddy; Arabinda Ghosh; P. Duraisamy; G. Karunakaran Pillai; Kasturi Bai Dhanasekaran; Arindam K. Sen and Mausumi Manna; Swagata Das Bhowmick; R. Annapoorani; Keya Sengupta; Kaushal K. Srivastava and Tanuja Srivastava; (B) Debabrata Mandal; Biswajit Guha; Inderjeet Singh and Reena Singh, S.S. Dhillon and Jasmeet Kaur; Krishna Majumdar; Bishwa Nath Singh and S.M. Humair Ahmad; Nisar Ahmad Khan; (C) Hem Chandra Lal Das; Naseem A. Zaidi; Asok Basu; K.N. Bhatt; (D) M.A. Razzaque; R. Pushpavati; C.B. Padmanabhan and K. Nagarajan; Basabi Bhattacharya; Anju Kohli and Sadhna Kothari; and K.S. Sivaprakash. It also contains an editorial introduction by Prof. Ruddar Datt, preface by Prof. Raj Kumar Sen, Managing Editor of the series and foreword by Dr. G.S. Monga, President (1998), IEA.

This volume is a rich contribution to the study of human development with special reference to India. It is expected that this volume will be of interest not only to researchers and social thinkers of economics but also to the general readers interested in human development." (jacket)