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This edited volume brings together current debates and policy concerns through the collection of papers on labour and development ranging from issues of informality, small scale sector; economic reforms; wages and earnings; caste and discrimination; gender and work; sectoral and regional dimensions; to labour institutions, regulation and collective bargaining. The contributors to this volume are well-known scholars who have provided latest information and ...
This study examines three aspects of the power sector in India: The operational inefficiency in the State Electricity Boards, the Consequent reform drives and the political economy involved in these two aspects. It is argued that the present system predicament is due to problems, which are just internal to the system. This then implies that there do remain sufficient quarters for remedial exercises, meant to remove the problems that stand in the way of the ...
Economics of Child Labour is an edited volume arising out of selected papers presented in the 83rd Annual Conference of the Indian Economic Association held at Jammu University, Jammu during December, 30,31,2000 and January 1, 2001. This volume contains altogether 15 articles authored respectively by S. Mahendra Dev, P.K. Chatterjee and Arun K. Nandi, Adwait Mohanty and Mihir K. Mahapatra, T. Prabha, Nisar A. Khan and Mohd. Haroon, Poushali Majumdar, Biswajit ...
India is often cited as a land of paradoxes. This is certainly true when it comes to food security. Despite a decline in poverty, close to 30 per cent of its people are food insecure and one-half of its children malnourished in one way or another. And yet the country has a stock of more than 60 million tones of foodgrains stored through government’s procurement. Increased food prices, shrinkage of area under foodgrains and escalating food subsidy are now the ...