Economic Liberalisation and Its Implications for Employment

Economic Liberalisation and its Implications for Employment is an edited book containing 32 selected papers out of over 85 papers submitted for the theme during 84 Annual Conference of the Indian Economic Association held at Vellore from December 28-30, 2001. The sub-themes of the selected papers include : overall employment situation, poverty and wages in the country during the liberalisation period; sectoral analysis of employment; disinvestment and downsizing of public sector; gender employment of SC/ST and other miscellaneous issues; and state level experiences regarding employment during liberalisation period. The foreword of the book has been written by Prof. R.S. Bawa, President IEA, preface by Prof. A.D.N. Bajpai, Secretary & Treasurer of the IEA and detailed editorial note by Prof. Ashok Mathur and Prof. P.S. Raikhy. The articles included in the book have been contributed by renowned economists of the country and cover wide spectrum of the issues of utmost current relevance. The articles are authored by : Ruddar Datt; P.K. Chatterjee, Debasish Nandy and Suddhasil Siddhanta; Sudama Singh; S.S.P. Sharma; Debashis Chakraborty and Prabal Kumar De; Shridhar Pandey and Jay Shanker Tiwary; Y.L. Inamdar and S.G. Purohit; R.K. Rana and Rajinder Kumar; Amarjit Singh Sethi and Ramanjeet Kaur; S.A.R. Bilgrami; S.L. Pedgaonkar; Simriti Mukerjee; S.K. Pant and Alok Pandey; R.D. Dixit, Kamlesh Kumar Srivastava and Ajay Kumar Rawat; Ratan Kumar Ghosal; Anju Kohli; Kasthuri Bai Dhanasekaran; P. Jegadish Gandhi and P. Ganesan; Kuldeep Kaur and Paramjeet Dhindsa; Vinayak S. Deshpande; M.P. Goswami; D.S. Leelavathi; Sunanda Roy; Bhaskar Majumdar; S. Chinnammai; Prasoon Kumar Roy; Chitra Sinha; J. Bala Komaraiah; Dibyendu S. Maiti and Sachinandan Sau; Maitri Ghosh and Sanjib Kumar Basu; A.B. Deogirikar; Subrata Kumar Ray and Siddhartha Sankar Manna; Saundarjya Borbora and Ratul Mahanta. The book is immense use to the students, teachers and researchers in the area of Indian Economy, liberalisation and globalisation policies etc. It is also useful to the planners, policy-makers and those interested in Indian Economy.