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.…