S. Subramanian
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This collection of writings by S. Subramanian, a former professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai who has worked extensively on aspects of poverty, inequality and demography, examines economy, polity and society of India, addressing conceptual and empirical issues in development at national and global levels. Writing in an accessible language and in non-technical terms, it has essays on deprivation and disparity in the world and in India, ...
The subjects of poverty, inequality, and population are integral to the study of human development. Poverty and taxation, distribution of wealth and deprivation, the nexus between poverty and child labor, age- and sex-composition of the population are all significant questions that demand both rigorous measurement and careful analysis in the assessment of a society's process of development. The ability to obtain meaningful answers to these questions is ...
This is a posthumous selection of the wide-ranging work of a committed and versatile commentator on India’s development experience. S. Guhan, whose career spanned the worlds of administration and academics, was uniquely placed to analyse the diverse problems of India's economy, polity and society from the perspectives of both policy formulation and scholarly evaluation. This volume takes the reader through various aspects of India's ...
An appraisal of India's social sector assumes significance fifty years after the country achieved independence, forty years after it initiated planned development and seven years after it embarked on a course of economic liberalisation. Eschewing the extreme positions of both the left and the right, the contributors to this volume provide sober assessments of the quality of life experienced by large numbers of Indians, particularly the poor and the deprived among ...
Human Rights stand for dignified existence of human beings. They are fundamental and inalienable. Under the pioneering efforts of the United Nations, global concern has been focused on the observance of Human Rights by the member States. A massive global campaign is under way to create an awareness for the observance of Human Rights. This book explains in simple terms the historical evolution of the concept of Human Rights and gives the national and international ...
Welfare economics, social choice theory, distributional analysis, and poverty assessments are all-important ingredients of problems in concepts and measurement. These problems, in turn, have a bearing on the normative evaluation and critical description of development issues and policy intervention. As such, they constitute an important part of the normal discourse and activity of all involved citizens of a country. The issues under consideration in this book are ...
Enormity of crop damage resulting from nematode invasion and the development and the necessity of their effective control under field conditions have come about slowly since past several decades, only after the discovery of some very effective nematicidal chemicals during the 1940s and 1950s, that growers were paying yearly taxes to these tiny but mighty pests. Our crops have been plagued with nematodes since remote past, though unnoticed by early farmers. For ...
In most of the species coming under 35 families enumerated by Rev. Fr. G. Foreau 1961), taxonomical studies with illustrations have been made for the first time from Southern India. In some of the species, which are new to science, morphological descriptions have been made for the first time. They are: 1. Hedwigium neelgiriensis sp. nov., 2. Aerobryidium indicum sp. nov., 3. Meteorium neelgiriensis sp. nov., 4. Homaliopsis kollimalaiensis sp. nov. and 5. Grimmia ...