Contemporary Issues in Development Economics : Models and Applications

Contents Introduction. I. Theoretical issues 1. Economic modeling of social interaction norms networks and trust/Debendra Narayan Bhattacharyya. 2. Sectoral interlinkage in a monetary framework under flexible exchange rate regime a post WTO perspective/Rajendra Narayan Nag and Bhaskar Goswami. 3. Is the financial market efficient/Diganta Mukherjee and Sankha Ghosh. 4. Incidence of child labour and trade liberalization comments on Chaudhuri and Gupta (2004)/Arnab Ghosh. 5. Strategic certification and performance related pay in education/Rajlakshmi Mallick. 6. Health income and health expenditure in Indian States a search for causal explanation/Sushil Kumar Haldar and Debaprasad Sarkar. 7. Outsourcing in a model of occupational choice/Sahana Roy Chowdhury. 8. Immigration vs. Outsourcing a developing country's view/Simontini Das. II. Development issues 9. Capability based approach and India's poverty/Subrata Majumdar. 10. Gender disparity in India an inter state analysis/Jaya Mukherjee. 11. Wages and employment in India the post reform dynamics/Dipa Mukherjee. 12. Sustainable industrialization a case study of impact on income and employment/Indrajit Bairagya. 13. River and government a case study of Narmada/Raj Kumar Sen and Somnath Hazra. 14. Role of micro finance in empowering rural poor in West Bengal a case study/Abdul Motin and Hiron Kumar Banerjee. 15. Progress problems and impact of Self Help Groups in West Bengal a comparative study/Subrata Kumar Roy. 16. Reforms and growth in India and East Asian Countries a comparative analysis/Prankrishna Pal. 17. Gravity analysis of Indo ASEAN Trade Flows/Avijit Mandal. 18. FDI in BRIC Economies how important/Suvranshu Pan. Index. Contemporary Issues in Development Economics Models and Applications is an edited volume based on papers presented at a UGC sponsored seminar organized by the Department of Economics Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata and invited papers from the distinguished scholars. Thematically these papers are arranged into two sections (i) Theoretical issues and (ii) Development Issues. The book contains an editorial introduction on the contemporary issues in development economics relating to financial sector social sector micro finance and international trade. The book will be useful to academicians researchers and general readers interested in development economics in the context of changing economic scenario. 428 pp. …