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This book highlights the importance of good governance to attain sustainable development, with particular emphasis on predictable and transparent framework of rules and institutions for the conduct of private and public business. Many development economists from the Indian ocean region have contributed in this volume. The main theme is that an efficient management of resources by government, business and the community at large determines a society's ability ...
There are complex linkages between human resources development and gender issues, on the one hand, and the problem of poverty eradication, on the other. This volume contains 17 chapters, which aim at disentangling these complex issues of development. A main theme underlying the volume is that economic growth in itself is not to be confused with the broader question of economic development that should lead to improvement in the standard of living simultaneously ...
The volumes Development Studies cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the readers to arrive at their own understanding of the problem under focus of study. Contributors to the volumes have tried to argue the different choices of development that are necessarily context-bound and ...
The volumes Development Studies cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the readers to arrive at their own understanding of the problem under focus of study. Contributors to the volumes have tried to argue the different choices of development that are necessarily context-bound and ...