Regional Disparities in Development

Contents I Disparity in development 1 Regional disparitiesBiswajit Guha 2 An enquiry into the sub-state level disparitiesDebendra Narayan Bhattacharyya 3 Inter-district income disparityDhires Bhattacharya Puspa Tarafdar and Abhijit Dutta 4 Growth diversification and instabilityGunendra Prasad Pal 5 Regional disparity trendsPavel Chakraborty and Debashis Chakraborty 6 Economic development a study of centricityJayanta Sen and DP Pal II Agriculture 7 Regional disparity in productivity of boro and Aman Paddies in six DistrictsRuma Bhattacharya and Biswajit Chatterjee 8 An analysis of inter-district disparity in foodgrains productionArpita Ghose nee dhar and Dipyaman Pal 9 Disparity and convergence of daily wage rate of male agricultural labour since 1990-91Debesh Bhowmik III Human development 10 Disparity of human poverty index the role of infrastructureSushil K Halder and Kajari Roy 11 Regional disparity in income and human development since 1980sPrankrishna Pal 12 Development paradigm of health-education nexus--an examination of regional disparitiesDhiraj Kumar Bandyopadhyay IV Infrastructure urbanization and small scale industries 13 Inter district  disparity in the growth of urbanizationDhirendra Nath Konar 14 Road transport system and regional disparitiesDebasish Bera Dhirendra Nath Konar and Dilip Halder 15 Disparity in the development of small scale industriesMohasin Mallick 16 Regional disparities in developmentKalipada Basu V Backwardness in North Bengal 17 Comparative backwardness of North Bengal" Strategies for its developmentKanak Bagchi and Satyen Sarker 18 Regional disparity and secessionist Militancy in North BengalSumit Mukherjee Index Development experiences in India are diverse and there exist wide disparities across regions and states of India in terms of wide range of indicators viz income growth employment poverty human deprivations and living conditions including education health and other infrastructure But there are also wide disparities across different regions within a state in terms of selected indicators and attempts to understand the reasons for such disparities within the political boundary of a state in Indian federation are not many Born out of the papers presented in the 26th Annual Conference of Bangiya Arthaniti Parishad the present collection provides an important amalgam of issues that needs attention of economists and policy makers jacket 404 pp.…