Poverty Eradication and Development Through Innovations

Contents About the book About the editor 1 Importance of innovationsBabita Agrawal and Nitu Gupta 2 Innovations and global competitiveness of IndiaRatna Vadra 3 Urbanization of rural areas and poverty eradication through innovationsMeenu Agrawal and Prabha Singh 4 Innovations in co-operativesAshish Chandra 5 Healthy life expectancy and disease burden of elderly in KeralaSV Balasubramanian and P Mohanachandran Nair 6 Redesigning global economic governanceBB Tiwari and SP Singh 7 Agricultural innovations in changing environmental scenarioBG Shivakumar 8 Risks and innovations in e-bankingSK Mishra and Binaca Agrawal 9 Innovation driven economy through industrial policy makingBB Tiwari 10 Innovations in agriculture and natural resources managementI Sekar and BG Shivakumar 11 Policy responses to global economic challengesArunesh Tripathi and Satyendra P Tripathi 12 Globalization and socio-economic issues concerning womenPravin Kumar Singh and Arunesh Tripathi 13 Innovations and development in Indian retail bankingKrishna Kumar Agarwal and Rajesh Kr Upadhyay 14 Changing concept and scope of social innovationsNeeta Mahajan and VP Tripathi 15 NREGA challenges and opportunitiesDilip Kumar Srivastava and Vikas Singh IndexIn the global market economy the ability of nations to create absorb and commercialize innovations determines their competitiveness Innovation is closely linked to the creation of wealth in a modern knowledge economy Value addition to raw materials in India through applications of technology has remained low compared to other nations such as Israel Finland Japan and South Korea Increasing labour productivity through technology change and innovation is the main route for the creation of additional wealth to enterprises and better wages to employeesSince independence India has endeavoured to bring economic and social change through science and technology The visionaries who led the growth of innovation and technology in India were convinced that such an approach could play an important role in transforming India into a modern industrialized society Experience and results show that this confidence was well placedThere is a vast untapped potential in India for wealth creation by increasing the levels of innovation content in the entire economic development activities of the country It is a tall call but an essential one if the current levels of growth are to be maintainedThis book contains 15 research papers contributed by experts on the subject which provide deep insights into the interface between poverty reduction development and innovations 236 pp.…