Contents: Introduction. I. Growth and development: general issues: 1. Human development and economic growth: an analysis/Jagannath Lenka and Minati Mallick. 2. Mid-term appraisal of the Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-07)/Raj Nath Upadhyay. 3. A note on the Indian Union Budget: 2006-07/Raj Kumar Sen. II. Primary sector: 4. Total factor productivity growth and efficiency in agrarian economy/Atanu Sengupta and Subrata Kundu. 5. Role of technological and institutional factors in agriculture/Tapati Sanyal. 6. Marine fishing/Sankar Majumder, Prasanta Pahari, Gourab Surya Dey, Debabrata Pal and Lakshmi Kanta Bhattacharya. 7. Emerging agricultural diversity/Suvranshu Pan and Raj Kumar Sen. III. Financial sector: 8. Globalisation, international trade and financial integration/Debesh Bhowmik. 9. Some issues of Panchayat Finance and finance related functions/Subrata Kumar Ray and Bikash Dash. 10. Steps towards monetary integration of SAARC/Debesh Bhowmik and Debendra Kumar Das. 11. Commercial Bank supervision in India/Ram Pratap Sinha. 12. Information technology in banking: the changing profile of Indian banks/Paramita Raut. IV. Social sector: 13. Pattern and growth of social sector/Prankrishna Pal. 14. The behaviour of infant mortality/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 15. Changing scenario in the field of health/Kishore Kumar Roy Chowdhury. 16. Globalization and poverty in India/Puspa Tarafadar. 17. Rural poverty and its alleviation/Pranab Kumar Bhattacharyya. V. Trade related issues: 18. WTO and its impact on India's foreign trade/Prankrishna Pal. 19. The Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005: the challenges in the new era/Uttam Kumar Bhattacharya. Index.
"Economic Growth and Development : Emerging Issues is an edited volume based on papers presented at a UGC sponsored seminar organized by the Department of economics, Rabindra Bharati University and invited papers from the distinguished scholars.
The book contains an editorial introduction. It is expected that the book will be useful to academicians, researchers and the general readers interested in development economics." (jacket)
