| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 469 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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India Studies in Business and Economics |
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India studies in business and economics.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Introduction -- 1 Background -- 2 The Challenge of Development -- 3 Poverty and Inequality -- 4 Labour, Work, and Employment -- 5 The Agrarian Question -- 6 Labour Mobility -- 7 Summing Up -- References -- The Challenge of Development in India -- Some Reflections on Development Challenges of India -- Development Challenges of India After 25 Years of Economic Reform -- 1 Crisis of 1991 -- 2 Post-reform Performance -- 3 Development Challenges and Way Forward -- 3.1 Fiscal Rectitude -- 3.2 Principle -- 3.3 Agricultural Reforms |
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3.4 Cheap Farm Loans and Farm Loan Waivers -- 3.5 Minimum Support Price -- 3.6 Lessons from Milk -- 3.7 Physical Infrastructure -- 3.8 Social Infrastructure -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Secrets of the Heart: Adding Subjectivity to Policy Prescriptions for a Pleasant Economic Development -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transcendental to the Silver Lining -- 3 Spectrum of Personal Construct: The Rational -- 4 Spectrum of Personal Construct: The Extra Rational -- 5 Spectrum of Personal Construct: The Holistic -- 6 Spectrum of Personal Construct: The Decision-Making |
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7 Spectrum of Personal Construct: The Labyrinth -- 8 Finding Sweeter and More Gentle Dreams -- 9 A Postscript -- References -- Poverty and Inequality -- Toward Understanding the Nature of Inequality in India in Terms of Changing Perceptions on Its Sources and Solutions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Inequality: A Concept in Transition -- 3 Changing Perception on Sources of Inequality -- 3.1 Adverse Impact of Inequality -- 4 The Indian Context -- 5 Policy Perspectives -- 6 Inequality and Reforms in International Tax System -- 7 Beyond Fiscal Policy -- References |
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Growth, Inequality and Labour Force Participation -- 1 Economic Growth -- 2 Inequality Issues -- 3 Labour Market Participation -- References -- Inclusiveness of Economic Growth in Uttar Pradesh -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Technical Framework -- 2.1 Decomposition of Change in Poverty -- 2.2 Pro-Poor Growth Index (PPGI) -- 2.3 Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate (PEGR) -- 2.4 Data -- 3 Poverty and Inequality in Uttar Pradesh -- 4 Growth-Poverty Relationship -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Labor, Work, and Employment -- Structural Change and Increasing Precarity of Employment in India |
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1 Introduction -- 2 Interpreting Informality -- 3 Structural Transformation of India's Employment Structure -- 3.1 The Shift from Agriculture to Industry and Services -- 3.2 Increase in Regular/Salaried Employment -- 3.3 Increasing Formal Sector Share in Total Employment and Shift from Informal to Formal Sector -- 4 Implications of the Stunted Growth in Employment and Declining Labour Force Participation -- 4.1 Rising Unemployment Rate -- 5 Precarity and Informality of the Workforce -- 6 Formal and Informal Employment in the Formal Sector -- 7 Conclusion -- References |
| Summary |
This book revisits some of the persisting challenges of development of India, which remain unresolved even after twenty-five years of economic reforms and almost fifteen years of high growth rate. These include defining purpose of development, inequality, labour, work, unemployment, agrarian distress and migration. The book questions the overemphasis on growth to the extent of neglecting basic issues of development. With a number of contributions re-imagining development and its political economy, the book discusses above mentioned issues in light of new data and more recent conceptions of the issues. The contributors of this volume are eminent researchers in their respective field. Presenting primary as well as secondary data, the book considers the latest advances and research and also addresses new challenges like the global reorganization of production and the consequences for labour and the world of work, along with skills question. World of work has received detailed investigation in this book. This is a timely addition in existing literature especially in context of pandemic and lockdown. Informality and un/employment question is addressed in this context. Relationship among poverty, inequality and growth is examined in light of newer understanding. Agrarian distress is looked in a broader context. A number of papers are examining migration question by expanding coverage of migration and including labour mobility as apart of migration debate. The present crisis of migrant labour and absence of social security for these workers is also discussed. This book is primarily intended for those interested in recent advances on some of the basic aspects of development, like poverty, inequality, informality, word of work, migration and labour mobility. It is also useful for researchers, policy makers, journalists and civil society organizations working on these issues |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2020) |
| Subject |
Economic development -- India
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Labor mobility -- India
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Economic development
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Economic policy
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Labor mobility
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064896
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India -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951
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| Subject |
India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mishra, Nripendra Kishore, editor
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| ISBN |
9789811582653 |
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9811582653 |
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