Regional Development and Womens Empowerment

Contents Preface 1 Dynamics of demographic change in Assam with special reference to the illegal immigration from BangladeshHomeswar Goswami 2 Causal links between economic growth and consumption expenditures in NepalArjun Kumar Baral 3 Regional and global integration of Indian asset market a post liberalization evidence revisitedHirak Ray and Abhijit Lahiri 4 Exchange rate and purchasing power parity in Indo-Sri Lankan trade time domain-spectral analysisShyam Charan Barma and Chandan Kumar Mukhopadhyay 5 The recent crash of 2008 and the efficiency of the Indian capital market an econometric time series analysisSandeep Dey and Chandan Kumar Mukhopadhyay 6 Structural changes in the government expenditure and government tevenue relationship a case study on Indonesia economySubrata Saha and Chandan Kumar Mukhopadhyay 7 Economic empowerment of women through NREGS in Sikkim IndiaDurga P Chhetri 8 Revenue and expenditure relation in Indian economy effects of unanticipated shocks in the respective profileSuman Sikdar and Chandan Kumar Mukhopadhyay 9 Inequity in elementary schooling and literacy rate in West Bengal a disaggregated analysisSanchari Roy Mukherjee and Prasanta Basak 10 Educated unemployment the main problem of the present day studentJyoti Kumari Sharma 11 Child labour in IndiaAvijit Ghosh 12 Does electricity consumption really trigger economic growth in Nepal an econometric enquiryRajendra Adhikari and Chandan Kumar Mukhopadhyay 13 A note on food securityRaktim Deb 14 A simple model on the relationship between corruption and inequalitySamir Seal 15 Consumption and income relationship an alternative approach Mmse arima forecastAmit Kundu and Chandan Kumar Mukhopadhyay 16 Urbanisation and incidence of slums an inclusive living for allArup Pramanik Regional development is the provision of aid and other assistance to regions which are less economically developed Regional development may be domestic or international in nature The implications and scope of regional development may therefore vary in accordance with the definition of a region and how the region and its boundaries are perceived internally and externally On the other hand Economic Development is growth with social justice that is the increase in the standard of living in a nations population with sustained growth from a simple low income economy to a modern high-income economy Also if the local quality of life could be improved economic development would be enhanced Its scope includes the process and policies by which a nation improves the economic political and social well being of its people A countrys economic development is related to its human development which encompasses among other things health and education These factors are however closely related to economic growth so that development and growth often go together The status of women has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia specially in the developing nations From equal status with men in ancient times through the low points of the medieval period to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers the history of women in underdeveloped nations have been eventful The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme MNREGS is the most ambitious and Universal poverty alleviation and wage employment programme launched in India since Independence This programme for the first time ensures the livelihood security of the rural poor including women by providing 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year jacket 234 pp.…