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This volume, containing twenty one articles from experts and activists, provides an indepth insight into the recent developments and processes at work in the rural labour markets in India and evaluates how far the attempts towards their empowerment have been successful. In this context, this volume examines in detail, both at micro and macro levels, the role of operations of the market forces, state interventions and mobilisation by trade unions, political ...
Prof. C.H. Hanumantha Rao is one of India’s most distinguished economists. He has contributed immensely to both research and policy making in India. As a token of gratitude, some academicians and policy makers decided to pay a tribute on his 75th birth anniversary by bringing out a volume containing research papers relating to few important themes on India in the context of globalising world. All the contributors to this volume have made important contributions ...
The India Development Report is a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of major issues facing the Indian economy today. It combines academic rigour and objectivity with lucid presentation. This volume, the fourth in the series, examines: The emerging macroeconomic scene and future growth prospects. Poverty reduction. India's health care. Access to clean water and fuels. Public expenditure in social sector. India's IPR Policy. Technologies and development. ...
The poverty situation is markedly different from what prevailed three decades back. Poverty is not only an economic phenomenon but also a social phenomenon. From the 1990s, with the analyses of the causes underlying poverty and the discussions on the efficacy of alternative remedial measures receiving greater attention from policymakers such as raising livelihood opportunities through the endowment of land and non-land assets, by generating employment ...