Biswajit Chatterjee
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Development experiences in India are diverse and there exist wide disparities across region and states in terms of various indicators. The reasons and implications for such disparities have been widely investigated in the literature on economic development of the country. But there are also wide disparities across different regions within a state in terms of selected indicators and attempts to understand such disparities are not many. A compilation 18 analytical ...
The book covers three important areas of current debate in development economics: climate change, international trade and natural disasters. In this monograph comprising three essays, an attempt has been made to review the major economic issues to bring into focus the choices and constraints faced by human race, particularly in the developing world to mitigate and combat the consequences of climate change and natural disasters. The implications of climate change ...
Among the Indian scholars who have made consistent and perspective contribution to the field of economic science, Professor P.R. Brahmananda is one of the front-ranking in the country, contributing and reflecting on a variety of economic problems including those of the Indian economy for about five decades. Indian economy : agenda for the 21st century—essays in honour of professor P.R. Brahmananda is the Festschrift to pay respect to this great scholar of ...
The present book provides a snapshot of some of the emerging issues in the fields of international trade, financial economics and development economics that are being debated by experts in recent years, and the materials are useful to not only post-graduate students, but also to researchers who seek to make new grounds in different dimensions of contemporary research in economics. Distributed in three section, the twelve papers in the volume cover areas like ...
Economics of Asymmetric Information is an edited volume out of selected papers presented in one of the technical sessions of the 85th Conference of the Indian Economic Association held at Thiruvananthapuram. It contains altogether 17 papers presented in 5 groups. These groups and the respective authors are: Institutional Implications of Asymmetric Information Theories (U. Sankar, Nirmal Sengupta, T.V.S. Ramamohan Rao, T. Lakshmanaswamy), General Positive or ...
Development Perspectives : India" is a set of 2 volumes containing the contributions of Prof. P.R. Brahmananda to the Indian economic journal and it was planned to commemorate the completion of the first 50 years by the Journal. Prof. P.R. Brahmananda was the managing editor/editor of the Indian economic journal almost since the inception of it in 1952-53. His works have appeared in it spanning its volumes 1 to 50. The editors have presented them in four ...
Growth, Distribution and Public Policy is a collection of papers written by the author at different points of time since the 1990s on different aspects of agricultural growth, intersectoral terms of trade, poverty and human development, living conditions, poverty alleviation schemes and the functioning the Panchayats in West Bengal under the globalised regime. Distributed in three sections, the fourteen chapters of this book address important issues of ...