Human Development and Economic Development

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Human Development and Economic Development is aimed at understanding the process of widening peopleâ€™s choices and the level of well-being they achieve. It underscores the fact that income is only one choice and the economists had been pre-occupied with measuring economic development with the help of per capita income only. It is also a fact that the benefits of growth do not percolate uniformly to all strata of society. But human development is a much wider concept because it encompasses three essential choices for people â€“ to lead a long and healthy life, to acquire knowledge and to have access to resources needed for a decent standard of living. This book is an edited volume out of selected and referred papers contributed to the technical session on the same topic of the Indian Economic Conference. This part of the IEA scheme of publishing such volumes from papers contributed for IEA Annual Conferences during 1994-2000. The present volume consists altogether 34 articles distributed over the following parts : (A) Human Development : Conceptual Issues, (B) Inter-State Comparisons and Measurement of Human Development, (C) Poverty Alleviation, Education and Human Development and (D) Human Development : Case Studies. These articles are authored respectively by : (A) N. Nettimi and N.H. Fidzani; Ashir Mehta; R.Y. Mahore; N.M.P. Verma; Jegadish P. Gandhi; R.S. Mishra; M.S. Subramanian; S. Narapa Reddy; A. Rajasekhar and P.K. Reddy; Arabinda Ghosh; P. Duraisamy; G. Karunakaran Pillai; Kasturi Bai Dhanasekaran; Arindam K. Sen and Mausumi Manna; Swagata Das Bhowmick; R. Annapoorani; Keya Sengupta; Kaushal K. Srivastava and Tanuja Srivastava; (B) Debabrata Mandal; Biswajit Guha; Inderjeet Singh and Reena Singh, S.S. Dhillon and Jasmeet Kaur; Krishna Majumdar; Bishwa Nath Singh and S.M. Humair Ahmad; Nisar Ahmad Khan; (C) Hem Chandra Lal Das; Naseem A. Zaidi; Asok Basu; K.N. Bhatt; (D) M.A. Razzaque; R. Pushpavati; C.B. Padmanabhan and K. Nagarajan; Basabi Bhattacharya; Anju Kohli and Sadhna Kothari; and K.S. Sivaprakash. It also contains an editorial introduction by Prof. Ruddar Datt, preface by Prof. Raj Kumar Sen, Managing Editor of the series and foreword by Dr. G.S. Monga, President (1998), IEA. This volume is a rich contribution to the study of human development with special reference to India. It is expected that this volume will be of interest not only to researchers and social thinkers of economics but also to the general readers interested in human development.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ruddar Datt

Prof. Ruddar Datt started his career as teacher of Economics in 1952 at Vaish College, Rohtak (Haryana) and later in 1957 joined GMN College, Ambala Cantt. In 1959, he took over as Head of the Department of Economics at ARSE College, New Delhi where he worked for a period of 12 years. He was invited by the University of Delhi to work as Planning Officer in 1971. Thereafter, in 1972 he was appointed as the Principal of the School of Correspondence Courses and Continuing Education, University of Delhi- the post which he held for a period of 22 years and retired in May 1995. Presently, he is Visiting Professor at the institute of Human Development, New Delhi. Prof. Datt was elected as the President of the Indian Economic Association in 1991. He was also elected as the President of Indian Society of Labour Economics in 1991. Professor Datt has specialized in the study of the problems of Indian Economy, more especially I areas of economic reforms, employment policy and labour. He was invited by the Planing Commission in 2001 to be a member of Special Group on Targetting 10 Million Employment Opportunities per Year. Earlier he participated in the Study Group on Development of Small Scale Enterprises set up by the Planning Commission in May 1999 as a member. His major publications are: Indian Economy (1965), 47th Edition published in 2003; Dictionary of Technical Terms in Economics (English-Hindi-1974), Indiaâ€™s New Economic or Pannacea (1993); Workers Participation and Workersâ€™ Ownership (1993); Cost of Distance Education in India (1994); Second Generation Economic Reforms in India (2001); Economic Reforms in India- An Appraisal (2001). In 2001, he completed a research study on the subject of â€˜Lockouts in India- A Case Study of West Bengal. Besides, he has published an number of articles in reputed journals, such as The Indian Economic Journal, The Indian Jounal of Labour Economics and IASSI Quarterly. He has been a frequent contributor to the Business Line, Mainstream, Financial Express and Economic Times.