Social Sector Development and Governance: Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

This volume explores the impact of good governance upon social sectors' development in India and other selected economies of the world.

Economic development in the true sense depends on the development of different social sectors like education, healthcare, gender equality, etc., as well as economic factors. Good governance makes the sectors perform well on the one hand, and helps in economic growth and development on the other. Conversely, bad or weak governance in the form of corruption and low effectiveness of the governments, may lead to poor performance of the sectors, and low growth and backwardness of the economies. This book explores the associations between different social sectors' performances with quality of governance, and growth and development of different economies and groups in detail and establishes theoretical and empirical examinations for the individual economies and groups from the different corners of the globe with the help of new theories and latest data.

This book will be useful for students and researchers in the fields of Economics, Sociology, Political Studies, Public Finance, International Relations, Social Sciences as well as policy makers and think tanks.

Ramesh Chandra Das, PhD, is currently a Professor at the Department of Economics of Vidyasagar University in the state of West Bengal, India. He has obtained Masters, M. Phil and Ph. D Degree in Economics from the University of Calcutta. Prof. Das has the teaching and research experience of about twenty five years in his credit. His main areas of research lie in Theoretical and Applied Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Environmental Economics and Political Economics. He has contributed several research papers to national and international journals of reputes along with more than a dozen of edited volumes in different areas of the subject. Besides, he has written textbooks on Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Managerial Economics with the internationally reputed publishers for the different fields of readers and academicians and has been acting as the editor-in-chief in a couple of refereed journals.