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Theories of unbalanced growth focus on the implications from unequal sectoral growth and indicate what type of planning is needed for promoting different sectors of the economy for maximizing total economic gain. There is some literature about the inter-regional inter dependencies, exploitation of which would improve the over all regional economic welfare. It is possible to view this problem using the approaches of equi-marginal sub-regional productivities with a ...
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru was the first Indian Prime Minister of Independent India and who remained Prime Minister for 17 years. He is considered the ‘architect of modern India’. The book contain research papers on his philosophy on rural development, economic ideas, economic thoughts, Jawahar Lal Nehru the Chief Economic Architect, Pandit Nehru and Indian Planned economy, Pandit Nehru as an Economic Philosopher, and several other articles. The ...
The ultimate objective of planned development is to ensure well-being through sustained development in the quality of life of the people particularly the poor and the vulnerable segments of the population. The development of human resources contributes to sustained and inclusive growth which leads to productive employment. A healthy, educated and skilled workforce can contribute more significantly and effectively to economic development. The strong linkage ...
Social Development is an approach to promoting people’s welfare that is well suited not only to enhancing the quality of life for all citizens but to responding towards the problems of distorted development that integrates economic and social objectives. Social development offers a comprehensive macro-perspective that focuses on communities and societies, emphasizes planned intervention, promotes a dynamic change-oriented approach, which is inclusive and ...
Globalization is a buzz word and has been defined as a process of growing inter dependence of all countries on this global. It is a process of creating international competitiveness in terms of technology production and foreign direct investments among the global players. The globalization is gaining fundamental importance as and when the issue is seriously discussed. The subprime crisis in US and European financial crises are creating uncertainty in financial ...
Forests are nature’s most bountiful and versatile renewable resource, providing simultaneously a wide range of economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits and services. The worldwide demand for their numerous functions and outputs is increasing with the expanding population, while the global forest resource is shrinking either as a result of overharvesting, deforestation and permanent conversion to other forms of land use in many tropical regions, ...
The book titled as Environmental Degradation: Issues and Challenges is based on findings of the research work of various research scholars in the field of Commerce and Management. Environmental degradation is widely debated topic and resultant to that is a global warming which is a subject of great concern all over the world. Climatic change caused by global warming is one of the worst crises facing humanity and affecting people all over the world especially in ...
Technology and knowledge-based ideas like information technology, bio-technology, bio-informatics, electronics, medical, health-care, media and entertainment and the like will be the growth drivers in the global economy in 21st Century. They require equity capital as well as managerial assistance to turn these ideas into viable enterprises. However, these ventures lack access to existing equity markets due to great uncertainty and long gestation periods. The only ...
Service sector has been accorded as one of the important sector in the Indian economy. The contribution of the services sector to the Indian economy has been manifold: a 55.2 per cent share in gross domestic product (GDP), growing by 10 per cent annually, contributing to about a quarter of total employment, accounting for a high share in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and over one-third of total exports, and recording very fast (27.4 per cent) export ...
This book is on a group of ostracized people that still live on the fringes of society and it is a product of long time commitment and intellectual spadework. While there are important issues of assessment and evaluation of this nomadic group, the primary focus of this book is to give greater conscientization and proactive approach to their problems. Effectiveness of governmental action can take a back seat as long as there is vote bank politics which is typical ...
The main theme of the papers in this volume is to highlight the Economic Meltdown and Its Impact on Indian Economy. The volume, therefore, starts with a discussion of recession at global level and covers its impact on the Indian Economy. The deepest recession after the Great Depression of 1930s surfaced around August 2007 had affected financial institutions in the United States and Europe, including the shadow banking system comprising, interalia investment ...