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Hardbound. Condition: New. Contents: Preface. 1. Monetary planning in a planned economy/Bhabatosh Datta. 2. The economics of 'liberalisation' in the Indian context/Dhires Bhattacharyya. 3. Some aspects of competition/Amitava Sen. 4. American economy in global perspective/D.B. Dutta. 5. Internal debt trap: the shadow and the substance/Mihir Rakshit. 6. The quantity theory, Indian monetarism and autonomy of the Reserve Bank of India/P.R. Brahmananda. 7. Recurring issues in the Indian economy/Santikumar Ghosh. 8. On restructuring the Indian economy: some perspectives/Ajit Sengupta. 9. Changing scenario of the Indian capital market and the 1991-92 multi-crore securities scam/Alak Ghosh. 10. Keynesian economics and the newly developing countries: some observations on the so-called 'relevance debate'/Hirendra Nath Roy. 11. Recent economic reforms and their impacts on the poor and vulnerable sections of the society/S.P. Gupta. 12. Dr. S.N. Sen's Central Banking in Undeveloped Money Markets': end twentieth century updation/Tara Shankar Roy. 13. Aspects of international monetary scenario/ Subrata Gupta. 14. Development in the banking sector/Rakhal Datta. 15. The Indian money market and its development/Manjula Bose. 16. Neoliberalism, globalisation and the vision of the world economy/Prabuddha Nath Roy. Index. "Professor Satyendra Nath Sen was an authority on monetary economics, trade and finance and possessed specialized knowledge of banking. He was an wonderful teacher and had inspired three generations of students of economics. His writings in banking, trade and finance sparkle 293 pp.

Condition: New. Economics of Amartya Sen is an edited volume arising out of the contributed papers on this topic organised by the Indian Economic Association to honour its former President, Prof. Amartya Sen on the unique occasion of his winning the Nobel Prize in Economics, in 1998. The present volume consists of 25 articles and notes distributed over five sub-themes, viz. (i) Economics of Amartya Sen: An overview, (ii) Economics and Philosophy of Amartya Sen, (iii) Amartya Sen and Welfare Economics, (iv) Amartya Sen and Development, and (v) Poverty, inequality and Amartya Sen. The articles are authored by R.S. Mishra, S.S. Banhati, S.C. Sharma, J.N. Tewary, Amalesh Banerjee, C.B. Padmanabhan, Debansu Roy, Pragati Mohanty, Kalipada Basu, Kumar B. Das, R.P. Sarma, Ratan Lal Basu, Tapati Sanyal, K. M. Naidu, Anindya Bhukta, Biswajit Chatterjee, P. Jegadish Gandhi, Ram Naresh Thakur, Anju Kohli, Sadhna Kothari, Neelima Shrivastava, Asim K. Karmakar, Debesh Bhowmick, S.L. Pedgaonkar, Amarendra, Shyam Sunder Prasad Sharma, Raj Kumar Sen.".

Hardbound. Condition: New. Part Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Women and Economic Theory: 1. Towards an alternative general theory of employment, work and wages/ Yasodha Shanmugasundaram. 2. Gender based labour market segmentation: some theoretical formulations/Seema Singh. 3. Changing role of gender in economic theory/K. Thiruvenkatachari and S. Lakshmi. 4. Patriarchy-- influcence on Adam Smith's writings/T. Jyothi Rani and H. Girija Rani. 5. A comparative analysis of the contribution of genders to economic theory: a case study of India/R.K. Rana. 6. Household labour: concepts and quantification/Saswati Ghosh. II. Women and Economic Development: 7. Women and their interaction in sustainable development/Dhulasi Birundha Varadarajan. 8. Role of women in economic development of India/Deepa Shrivastava. 9. Optimising the role of human beings in economic development/Raj Kumar Sen. 10. The role of women in economic development/ Sukumar Basu. 11. Education and political status of Indian women--key of economic development/Ram Naresh Thakur. 12. Women's movements in India during 20th century/T. Jyothi Rani, K. Katyayani and H. Girija Rani. 13. Women as agents of economic development: their economic activities and reproductive behaviour/Bharati Chowdhury (nee Roy). 14. Growth of population and the role of women in India/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 15. An econometric analysis of determinants of fertility/Yamini Utreja and A.S. Guleria. III. Women and Rural Development: 16. Economics of gender discrimination: a case study of rural India/S.G. Gambhir. 17. Self-.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Contents Introduction. 1. States debt problem a study of selected states/Dipankar Coondoo. 2. Management of state finances issues and options/Debendra Kumar Das. 3. Management of state finances an analysis of state level data in the 1990s/Sanjib Chandra Basu Asim K. Karmakar and Santanu Ghosh. 4. Fiscal scenario and resource mobilisation in West Bengal/Suresh Chandra Srivastava. 5. West Bengal finances a comparison with Andhra Pradesh/Alok K. Chattopadhyay. 6. State finances in India and West Bengal an overview/Kalyan Das and Parthasarathi Chakraborty. 7. State Finance and market borrowing of West Bengal a note/Sourabh Sinha Roy. 8. State finance in West Bengal some issues/Prankrishna Pal. 9. Future of West Bengal economy/Dilip Ghosh. 10. Management of fiscal deficit of West Bengal/Debesh Bhowmik and Iti Mukherjee. 11. Panchayat Finance in the post economic reforms era a study of three districts in West Bengal/Subrata Kumar Ray and Kuldip Saha. 12. Management of state finances in West Bengal a note/Isha Dasgupta. 13. A short note on management of state finances in West Bengal/Pranab Kumar Bhattacharyya. 14. A note on management of state finances in West Bengal/Kalipada Basu. 15. A note on resource crunch in state finance in West Bengal/Atas Kr. Banerjee. 16. Management of state finance and growth of industry in West Bengal with reference to Murshidabad District/Kishor Kumar Roy Chowdhury. Appendix. Index. 252 pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Preface. 1. Economics in Arthasastra an overview/Raj Kumar Sen and Ratan Lal Basu. I. General issues of current relevance 2. Arthasastra and its modern relevance/L.K. Jha. 3. Arthasastra and its relevance/S.D. Chamola. 4. Arthasastra and a basis for economic science/Clem Tisdell. 5. Economic thought in Kautilya's economics/M.G. Basava Raja. 6. Relevance of Arthasastra in modern times/M.R. Veerabhadraswamy. 7. Arthasastra and Hindu equilibrium/Lawson R. Smith. 8. Kautilya and Thiruvalluvar economic ideas/Felix Raj. II. Business management guilds and price policy 9. Arthasastra and the science of management/S.D. Chamola. 10. Management concepts in the Arthasastra/S. Revathy. 11. Business management according to Kautilya/M.N. Joshi. 12. Guilds as corporate organisation in ancient India/Ratul Mahanta. 13. Crisis from administered price policy in India Kautilya the Saviour/Ratan Lal Basu. III. Foreign trade and globalisation 14. Foreign trade during Kautilya's time/M.K. Sridhar. 15. Socio economic and spiritual basis of Arthasastra/Lallan Prasad. IV. Public finance economic justice and market 16. Public finance in Kautilya's works/P.R. Panchamukhi. 17. Principles of revenue generation in Arthasastra/C. Rajendran. 18. Kautilya's methods to meet budget deficit/Raj Kumar Sen. 19. Economic justice in Arthasastra/Aribam Khogendra Sharma Shastri. 20. The state and market in Arthasastra/G.V. Joshi. Index. Economics in Arthasastra is an edited volume of about 20 articles dealing with the economic content of Arthasastra by Kautilya written more than two thousand years ago in India. This volume has been prepared with a specific objective to bring into limelight the fact that economics as a subject was evolved in India much earlier than the present western ideas on economic thinking. It will also explode the myth that quite a few western addicted persons feel that there is no proper economic content in Arthasastra. It is expected that this book will rekindle the motivation of the researchers to look back to the wonder that was India in order to press forward for an India shining in the near future. Let economic wisdom of the past guide the route to the economy of the years to come. 310 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. Contents: On Professor Suresh Chandra Srivastava and his contributions. Introduction. I. Economic ideas in historical perspective: 1. Production theory in the history of economic ideas/Kalyan Chakrabartty. 2. Academic economics-a critical review and search for new direction/Mrinal Kumar Dasgupta. II. Agricultural growth and environment: 3. Globalisation and its impact on Indian agriculture/G.M. Bhat. 4. Agricultural growth in India in the post-liberalisation period/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 5. Economic reforms, agricultural policies and the poor/Keya Sengupta. 6. Agricultural development and environment-a case study of Kutch/Mohan Patel. 7. Agricultural sector in Himachal Pradesh: performance and new challenges/K. K. Kaushik and Sanju Karol. III. Poverty and social sector: 8. Poverty studies and poverty alleviation in India/Biswajit Chatterjee. 9. Poverty eradication and the role of the World Bank/Biswajit Guha. 10. Economic reforms, employment and poverty in India/Ratan Kumar Ghosal. 11. Public spending on social sectors and economic growth during post-reforms period/ Md. Abdus Salam. 12. Economic reforms and social sector in India/Harshada Rathod. IV. Industry, labour and unemployment: 13. Progress and prospects of small scale industries in north-eastern region/Asok Basu. 14. Structural reforms, unemployment and the crafts as safety-net in India/ Ratan Lal Basu. 15. Economic reforms and female employment in rural India: an inter-state analysis/Prankrishna Pal. 16. Changing agrarian relations and rural labour in Bihar/Bishwa Nath Singh. 17. Child labour in the tea 401 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Introduction. 1. Economics of ignorance/Satyendra Nath Sen. 2. Some methodological questions in economics/Amiya Kumar Dasgupta. 3. Economics retrospect and prospect/Panchanan Chakrabartty. 4. Economics since 1930s and the Bangiya Arthaniti Parishad/Bhabatosh Datta. 5. Economic thought and economic policy in West Bengal/S.R. Sen. 6. Diminishing role of the state in economic development/Nabagopal Das. 7. Transfer of science and technology in agriculture/Karunamoy Mukerji. 8. What is economic justice/Dhires Bhattacharyya. 9. Quantitative information in macro economics/M. Mukherjee. 10. Theories of stages of development/Amlan Datta. 11. Reflections on socialist and capitalist systems/Ambika Ghosh. 12. On reviewing economics of socialism/Santosh Bhattacharyya. 13. On backward castes and women/Amita Dutta. 14. Role of the state in the economy/Ajit Sengupta. 15. Capital theory and the rate of interest/Arun Ghosh. 16. Classical and neo classical monetary theory/Hirendra Nath Roy. 17. Efficiency equity and expenditure on education/Tapas Majumdar. 18. Organic composition of skill/S.R. Dutta Gupta. 19. Changing perception of nature in economic thought/Deb Kumar Bose. 20. On poverty in India/Santikumar Ghosh. 21. In quest of theory for a country in crisis/Ajit Narayan Basu. 22. I.T. revolution and theory of rational expectations/Alak Ghosh. 23. Vision 2020/S.P. Gupta. 24. The human factor in economic development/Manjula Bose. 25. Conceptual issues in sustainable development/Subrata Gupta. Index. From the introduction Economic Theories and Empirical Issues is a collection of 25 addresses delivered by the Conference Presidents of the Bangiya Arthaniti Parishad (Bengal Economic association) during its first 25 Annual Conferences (1981 2005). These addresses cover varied areas consisting of both theoretical thoughts and empirical issues that confronted in this period which are not only regional in character pertaining to West Bengal only but also are national and global in many cases. One can get an idea how leading economists from West Bengal expressed their thoughts over this period covering quarter of a century. An introduction to these 25 addresses is hereby given in their chronological order in the following paragraphs from which the reader may obtain a birds eye view of their contents. 352 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Contents Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. FDI and economic growth a review. 3. FDI flows and foreign trade. 4. FDI in India and trade in food items. 5. Performance of FDI in trading of food items in West Bengal. 6. Concluding remarks and policy prescriptions. Glossary. Acronyms. Bibliography. Index. Foreign Direct Investment and Trade in India is an important addition to the growing literature on the role and importance of FDI since initiation of economic reforms in India in 1991 with a specific focus on trade of food items which constitutes an important area in the context of the level of living and food security of developing economies in general and India in particular. Based on empirical research with a focus on the post economic reforms period this book will provide significant insights to the growing impact of the FDI on the Indian economy and specifically in the area of trade in food items. It is expected that this title will not only throw light on this important area but also will be fruit bearing in the sense of formulation on appropriate policies in this matter. This book will be quit useful for the policy makers researchers and academicians in particular and for the interested public in general. 348 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Contents Preface. 1. Twenty five years of the West Bengal economy an overview/Raj Kumar Sen and Asis Dasgupta. I. General issues 2. West Bengal economy in the last decades of 20 century/Deb Kumar Bose. 3. Development pattern in West Bengal since 1980s/Prankrishna Pal. 4. 25 years of the West Bengal economy/Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya. 5. 25 years of West Bengal economy a review/Manturam Samanta. II. Demographic and sectoral features 6. Demographic features of the West Bengal economy/Gopal Krishna Pal. 7. Structural transformation of the rural workforce in West Bengal an inter district analysis/Ratan Kumar Ghosal. 8. Rural livelihood diversity and migration impact on Kolkata/Saswati Chaudhuri and Biswajit Mandal. III. Agriculture and rural finance 9. A review of the West Bengal economy with reference to agriculture/Asim K. Karmakar and Supriti Mukhopadhyay. 10. Agricultural growth and income distribution in rural West Bengal/Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay. 11. RMCs of West Bengal vis a vis the All India APMCs/Alok K. Chattopadhyay. 12. A study of Panchayats and Panchayat finance in Medinipur/Subrata Kumar Ray. 13. Performances of rural financial institutions of West Bengal/Amit Kundu. IV. Industry investment and financial management 14. Changing industrial scenario in West Bengal/Saroj Upadhyay and Hrilina Basu Roy. 15. Development of tourism industry in West Bengal/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 16. West Bengal as a destination of foreign direct investment/Suvranshu Pan. 17. Financial management in West Bengal/Ajit Kumar Chatterjee. 18. The West Bengal state tax on profession trade calling and employment/Parthasarathi Chatterjee. V. Environment 19. Population environment and well being West Bengal economy in ecological perspective/Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay. 20. Environmental legislations and West Bengal economy/Somnath Hazra and Raj Kumar Sen. VI. Education 21. Primary education and economic development in West Bengal/Anathbandhu Mukherjee. Index. West Bengal Today 25 Years of Economic Development is an edited volume consisting of selected articles (presented in the BEA Silver Jubilee Seminar on 25 Years of the West Bengal Economy ) dealing with macro and sectoral aspects of the West Bengal economy during the last 25 years. The book presents an indepth study of economic development that has taken place in West Bengal over a period of two and a half decades. Researchers students and the general readers who are interested in regional economics will find the book immensely useful. 380 pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Introduction/Raj Kumar Sen. I. Social sector development in India general issues 1. Social sectors and economic development/K. Seeta Prabhu. 2. Trends in social sectors in developing countries/Asok Basu. 3. Service sector experiences of SAARC countries/Harshada S. Rathod. 4. Expansion of social sector and economic development/T.C. Pathak. 5. Social sector and economic growth/Pratima Trivedi. 6. Budgetary expenditure on the social sector/S. Sudhakar and A.G. Moss. 7. Developmental planning in the social sectors/P.C. Tiwari. 8. Second generation economic reforms and social sector/G.M. Bhat. II. Social sector development in India human development and human capital formation 9. Inter state comparison of human development/Naseem A. Zaidi and Md. Abdus Salam. 10. Social sector and development in Assam/Runumi Dowerah Baruah. 11. Reproducing human capital/Bipul Malakar and Tapa Roy. 12. Education and health sectors/P. Ambiga Devi. 13. Education and health sectors in Orissa/Eswar Rao Patnaik. III. Social sector development in India education 14. Social sector educational development/Narendra Prasad. 15. Public expenditure on education and economic reforms/Keya Sengupta. 16. Social sector expenditures on education/Nighat Ahmad. 17. Social sectors in Himachal Pradesh education/Jai Singh Parmar. 18. Women literacy in rural India/Tara Kant Jha. 19. Gender disparity in literacy status of Tamil Nadu/G. Ramathilagam. IV. Social sector development in India health 20. Economic development and social sector utilisation of public health opportunities/Bela Seth. 21. Health status and Indian development/P. Arumugam. 22. Family welfare measures in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry/R. Arunachalam. V. Social sector development infrastructure peace 23. Peace as a component of social infrastructure/Pradeep Singh and Shivalli Malhotra. Index. Social sector development in India is an addition to the series of titles arising out of IEA theme wise conference/seminar papers. This volume is a collection of 23 papers contributed for the IEA conference at Gwalior. The articles are divided in five parts relating to the theme. Human development and human capital formation development of education and health sectors peace as a component of social infrastructure and others are the main areas highlighted by these articles. An overview of these articles are available from the editorial introduction by Raj Kumar Sen. 329 pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. Foreword. 1. Early ancient trade: the evidences. 2. India's trade and commerce and trade routes with abroad in ancient age. 3. India's ancient gateway to Central Asia. 4. India's maritime trade. 5. Trade and trade routes in Asia. 6. Ancient trade and trade routes of Bengal. 7. Ancient trade-silk and silk route. 8. Ancient trade the spice. 9. India led Asian trade. Bibliography. The book "India and Her Ancient International Trade" has been written in keeping with the connection of Ph.D. thesis entitled " Feasibility of an India-led Asian Economic Bloc" where Debes Chandra Bhowmik (Debesh Bhowmik) showed the patterns, direction and control of ancient trade of India at least before European invasion. The emphasis on maritime trade of India, silk route spice trade, ancient trade routes, including the Bengal's trade performance and Bangal's trade routes were given with a special care and analysis. Indian trade relation with other countries in early trade showed an important event of the area of explanation. South Indian trade and commerce, sea-trade of Orissa, and Bengal are an added clarifications of ancient trade. Eurocentric Asia, North East Indian trade are of special area of discussions. India-led Asian trade is included as a separate chapter to quence the thrust of the goal of the book. The book may be useful reference for those who would try to explain Indian ancient trade. (jacket).

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Contents Introduction I Environment and sustainable economic development concepts and Ideas 1 Tagore and environment in a cross cultural perspectivePranab Kumar Chattopadhyay 2 Environment and sustainable development in Indian perspectiveVD Sharma and Brijesh Sharma 3 Economics vs ethics re-examining our values on nature development and existenceAmlan Majumdar 4 Environmentalism developmentalism and decentralismKumar Das and Indira Sahoo 5 Issues and dimensions of sustainable developmentBG Lobo and VA Mane 6 Environment and sustainable development in IndiaJonardan Konar and Pushpam Dubey 7 Environmental issues for attaining sustainable developmentHarshada S Rathod 8 Role of environment on sustainable developmentJonardan Konar and Saniya Chawla II Population poverty climate change and environmental governance 9 Climate change and carbon credits an analysisJyoti Garg and Gurbachan K Bhatia 10 Renewable energy for sustainable rural developmentG Kavita G Sathis Kumar S Ramaswamy and K Manikandan 11 A note on policies relating to climate changeDebesh Bhowmik 12 Population poverty and environmental sustainability in IndiaMd Abdus Salam Md Fakhre Alam and Md Ejaz Anwer 13 Change in population cohort and sustainability of food supply in IndiaBipul Malakar and Sudip Jana 14 Climate change its control afforestationSomnath Hazra and Raj Kumar Sen III Environmental problems and sustainable development Case studies from Assam 15 Environmental pollution control measuresBK Barooah and Ranjit Kumar Bezbaruah 16 Mu icipal solid waste management in Tinsukia AssamSubhrabaran Das and Korobi Gogoi Economics of forests tribals and institutions 17 An alternative of community forest institution in NepalRaghu Bir Bista 18 Fuelwood in a subsistence tribal economy of lower HimalayasRajiv Pandey and Sreya Majumdar V FDI Financial management and environment 19 FDI and environment in India consequences from recent performanceSuvranshu Pan 20 Productive environment and financial management case study of four Municipal corporationsShipra Maitra IndexEnvironmental Economics and Sustainable Development Some Emerging Issues is an edited volume containing 20 selected articles from the papers contributed to the National Seminar on Environment and Sustainable Development in India held at Rabindra Bharati University and organized by Centre for Studies on Environment and Sustainable Development CSESD in collaboration with CHEM RBU These articles are distributed over altogether 5 sections 358 pp.

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Contents Section I Issues in Sustainable Development Some Reflections 1 Issues in Sustainable Development for Indian EconomyMM Goel and Sanchita 2 Sustainable Development The Gandhian PerspectiveBN Ghosh 3 Sustainable Development Some ReflectionsSudarshan Iyengar 4 A Few New Words on Sustainable Development Santosh Kumar Ghorai II Ecological Limits Environmentally Sound Technologies and Ecosystem Accounts 5 Ecological Limits and Economic DevelopmentRamprasad Sengupta 6 Environmentally Sound Technologies for Sustainable Development of IndiaU Sankar 7 Ecosystem Accounts for Resource Allocation A Framework for Sustainable Development III Natural Resources and Sustainable Development 8 Agricultural Sustainability and the Introduction of Genetically Modified OrganismsGMOSClem Tisdell 9 Managing Forests for Biodiversity Conservation The Case of West BengalDebal Ray 10 Biodiversity and Sustainable Development in an Indian Tribal Village EcosystemNC Sahu CD Panda and LP Panda 11 Degrading the Development or Developing the Degradation A Case of Soil Salinity in Sugarcane Belt of MaharashtraVB Jugale 12 Tradable Water Rights for Sustainable Water Management in India Problems and ProspectsL Venkatachalam 13 Sustainability of Indian Fisheries An AssessmentPradeep K Katiha and Sanchita Sarkar IV Mitigating Impacts for Climate Change 14 Sectoral Approach for Negotiating climate Change What is in it for the Indian EconomyJoyashree Roy Moumita Roy and Shreya Roychwdhury 15 Indo-Bangladesh Co-operation to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts on SunderbansRaj Kumar Sen and Somnath Hazra V Institutions Management Practices and Social Responsibilities for Sustainable Development 16 Institutions for Sustainable Development The role of Prices Norms and Law in Global and National Policy PerspectivesKanchan Chopra 17 Design of Economic Instruments and Participatory Institutions for Environmental Management in IndiaMN Murty 18 Impact of Environmental Management Practices on Profitability and Market Value of Indian Industrial FirmsBishwanath Goldar 19 Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable BusinessShrawan Kumar Singh IndexFor Sustainable economic development one cannot deny the role of environmental ecology which is either not considered or not adequately emphasized in the mainstream approach of economic growth for the developing economies It was felt that poverty is the greatest polluter and environmental considerations are nothing but luxury for the poor countries and poor people but gradually it has been agreed that by following the approach of sustainable economic development the interests of both the poor and rich people belonging to both types of countries not only of the present generation but also of the future generation are protected An attempt is made in this book to understand the problems related with environment ecology and sustainable economic development Jacket 388 pp.

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.

Contents Foreword List of contributors I Environment and Sustainable development concepts and ideas 1 Globalization and sustainabilities issues and challenges VR Panchamukhi 2 Sustainable development and environment lessons from ancient Indian wisdom SD Chamola 3 Environment and ecology in Kautilya Arthasastra Ratan Lal Basu 4 Environment and sustainable development M Anisur Rahman II Sustainable management of natural resources and environmental governance 1 Sustainable management of renewable resources with reference to India Kausik Gupta and Sanchita Som 6 EPI and its relationship with some macroecnomic indicators Amrita Pal and Jayanta Sinha 7 Project appraisal environmental accounting and sustainable development Pranab Nag and Anup Kumar Saha 8 Participatory global environmental governance mechanism for sustainable society G Sathis Kumar and S Ramaswamy 9 Relationship between environment health and education importance of community participation Sheela Datta Ghatak III Environment and sustainable development specific issues 10 The relevance of indigenous peoples a case study of the Rajbansi Community of North Bengal Asok Dasgupta 11 Poverty property rights and common property land resources management in the tribal belt of Orissa Aniruddha Ohha 12 Ecotourism as an environmentally sustainable development process a case study of Sonamukhi Forests Bankura Mala Bhattacharjee and Rajrupa Mitra 13 Ecological approach to remove chronic poverty and sustainable development for India Somnath Hazra and Raj Kumar Sen IV Sustainable development Sectoral issues 14 Mining sector in India under globalization and a sustainable development approach in terms of EIA and CSR Binayak Rath 15 Environment sustainable development and slums Har Govind Prakash 16 SEZ pollution and sustainable development Anath Bandhu Mukherjee 17 Sustainable development and environment protection Role of the banking sector PS Tripathi and Shweta Dikshit 18 Environmental pollution agricultural production and livelihood of the cultivators around Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant Subrata Kumar Ray and Sk Nazrul Hussan 19 Pollution impacts of the Indian sponge iron industry Rifat Mumtaz Appendix Index Environmental studies have taken an important place among the thinkers as well as policy makers of both developed and developing countries Gradually the related concepts like ecology biodiversity conservation of natural resources sustainable development and others started to emerge and in economics also a new branch called environmental economics has now come to stay Though there is an acceptable definition of sustainable development as per the Bruntland Commission yet under the current development paradigm of neo liberal thinking it is not very easy to implement in actual practice the operative part of it An attempt is made in this volume to understand the problems related with environment and sustainable development and especially those which are particularly relevant for India jacket 394 pp.

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