Rural Development in the Era of Globalization

Contents Foreword. Editor's note. List of contributors. 1. Land reforms in Andhra Pradesh an alternative policy frame/K. Seetharama Rao and P. Narasimha Rao. 2. The direction of causality between health spending and GDP The case of Pakistan/Syed Adnan Haider Ali Shah Bukhari and Muhammad Sabihuddin Butt. 3. The distributional impact of Out of pocket health payment in Nigeria/H. Eme Ichoku M. Thiede and William M. Fonta. 4. Status of Girls education a case study/A. Padma Lal B. Suresh and E. Suma Devi. 5. Population literacy and enrollment status of Scheduled Castes in school education in India/D. Pulla Rao. 6. Attitude towards Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Rajeev Vidya Mission in Andhra Pradesh/P. Sambaiah and B. Srinivas. 7. Reinforcing rural infrastructure in India the road ahead/Siba Prasad Pothal. 8. Village reconstruction for rural development The Gandhian economic strategy/T. Krishnakumar and P. Srinivasa Rao. 9. Globalisation and gender discrimination in agriculture a study in Thanjavur/Srinivasan Ramachandran. 10. Change in marital status in Pakistan district level comparison of two censuses 1981 1998/Mohammad Pervez Wasim. 11. Women's participation and empowerment analysis of findings from Panchayati Raj Institutions/T. Satyanarayana. 12. Information technology and rural development a study in India/B. Suresh Lal. 13. Technology and rural development a study of drinking water supply in rural areas/T. Yadagiri Rao and K. Seetharama Rao. 14. Knowledge on Homes a study on the traditional housing technology of Bangladesh/Nasir Uddin. 15. Mechanism for promoting transparency and accountability towards good governance in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Gujarat/K. Jayalakshmi. 16. Methods of poverty measurement a case study of agreement/Grace Maria Antony and K. Visweswara Rao. 17. Does urbanization work on rural poverty a study of Indian states/Rudra Prakash Pradhan. 18. Socio economic aspects of Indian immigrants in United States and Canada implications and future directions/Falendra K. Sundan and Reena Rani. 19. India's growth and challenges in global pharmaceutical industry/I. Francis Gnanasekar and R. Krishnaraj. 20. Globalise or perish Indian agriculture under globalization era/N.T.K. Naik S. Mansoor Rahman and H. Akther Banu. 21. Globalizing systems and regional tribal sustenance/K. Chinna Venkata Swamy K. Thulasi Naik and Y. Maddileti. 22. Impact of WTO Agreement on Andhra Pradesh Agriculture/N. Koti Reddy. 23. Impact of international trade and foreign economic performance on output and productivity in India An application of vector autoregressive model/Liaqat Ali and Syed Adnan Haider Ali Shah Bukhari. 24. Changeology of globalization/D.M. Ravi Prasad and L. Venkat Ram Reddy. 25. Consumer behaviour towards shampoos in rural areas/N.V. Sriranga Prasad and S. Srinivas. 26. Human resource development in rural sector need for an integrated policy/Ch. Balaramulu and Narendrababu. Index. Ever since rural development emerged as an independent field of inenquiry in the 1950's it has been subjected to many changes in emphasis and ideology these changing perspectives have resulted in shifts in policies and programmes influencing the global discourse on rural development. The New Economic Policy (1991) initiated in its wake has spurred rethinking on the most appropriate approach to rural development. Conceived against this back ground this volume examines the impact of the changing scenario of rural development on rural poverty health education agriculture rural infrastructure information technology gender discrimination and good governance in local governance etc. The volume's major concern is Are the goals of rural development achievable in a globalized world. In addition this volume besides providing a unique and analytical perspective it will be useful to sociologists economists social scientists social activist and bureaucrats in understanding and handling governance. It also identifies the commonalities and differences in.