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This volume seeks to honour the lifelong passion and commitment of Abid Hussain—a distinguished civil servant, a diplomat, and a concerned citizen of India who contributed to the public sphere in a wide range of areas—for a better India. It includes nine essays covering contemporary issues in economic policy, governance, and society that will shape India’s future over the coming decades. Among the key messages of the essays are that India needs ...
It is now more than fifty years since the United Nations system and the Bretton Woods institutions were created. The world has changed since then. And so have its governance needs in terms of institutions and rules. It is time to think about the contours of institutions and governance that would meet the needs of the world economy, as also polity, at least for the first quarter of the twenty-first century. This book is among the first to examine the subject in ...
Public relation is said to be effective when it influences the opinion of the public toward whom the message is directed and as a result the public is moved to consent and to act. It necessitates that for forming an opinion the public must be able to understand the message conveyed through communication media. If message is well received and understood, it results in favourable public opinion that helps in forming good public relations. What influences the public ...
Language, gestures and pictures are the means through which humankind used to communicate with one another for thousands of years. With the advent of modern technology, the reach, speed and methods, by which individuals and organizations communicate, have transformed radically. The present book makes an interesting discussion on media and communication at the outset and then describes concepts, processes and theories of mass communication network.
There is growing dissatisfaction with the economic policies advocated by the IMF and other international financial institutions--policies that have often resulted in stagnating growth, crises and recessions for client countries. This book presents an alternative to 'Washington Consensus' neo-liberal economic policies by showing that both macroeconomic and liberalization policy must be sensitive to the particular circumstances of developing countries. It ...
This book and its companion volume, Trade and Globalization, bring together thirty essays by eminent economist Deepak Nayyar. The selection provides a mix of theory and policy, of applied research and empirical work, and of the world economy and India. The themes explored in this volume range from macroeconomics through industrialization to development in the changed context shaped by liberalization. The essays are grouped in four thematic clusters. The first ...
This book and its companion volume, Liberalization and Development, bring together thirty essays by eminent economist Deepak Nayyar. The selection provides a mix of theory and policy, of applied research and empirical work, and of the world economy and India. The volume begins with the limited domain of trade theory and ends with the wide canvas of globalization. The essays are grouped in four thematic clusters. The first on economic theory provides perspectives ...