Development and Sustainability: A Multidimensional Approach

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Total factor productivity growth in industrial sector in India and FDI: a study of technology transfer/Maniklal Adhikary and Anindya Bhattacharya. 2. Measuring excess capacity : a study of the unorganized food processing sector of West Bengal using non-parametric frontier technique/Atanu Sengupta and Anirban Hazra. 3. Forest dependency and environmental degradation: a study of the Purulia District of West Bengal/Chandrani Sengupta and Pravat Kumar Kuri. 4. Employment diversification and rural poverty: a comparative study of plains and hills of West Bengal/Dipankar Debnath and Pravat Kumar Kuri. 5. Iniquitous health care and health expenditures: a study across the India/Atanu Sengupta and Ganesh Naskar. 6. Total factor productivity growth in telecommunication service sector in India/Indrani Sengupta and Pravat Kumar Kuri. 7. Inter-state study of economic growth: an analysis of structural shift/Maniklal Adhikary and Melisha Khatun. 8. India in her deprivation: the story of the margainalized social-sections in the first decade of 21st century/Atanu Sengupta and Parnasudha Karmodak. 9. Underwriters reputation and pricing of I.P.O. s in the Indian stock market: an analysis of their interdependence/Reshma Sinha Ray and Arup Kr. Chattopadhyay. 10. Indian stock market and global financial crisis: an analysis of trend and structural shift/Maniklal Adhikary and Shyamal Saha. 11. Crop diversification and food security: a micro study in West Bengal agriculture/Subhajit Paul and Pravat Kumar Kuri. 12. Pattern of labour absorption in the India’s unorganised manufacturing sector: the comparatives of surplus labour/Atanu Sengupta and Ujjwal Seth. Index. Sustainable development is a catch word of today’s world. Sustainability does not only depend on the climatic or resource factors. It is also an essential element in any modern day discussion of output and human welfare. An economy has to run in such a way so that it can costlessly reproduce itself within a specific period of time. The present work considers the sustainability from this broader framework. It considers productivity change in the manufacturing sector, employment and crop diversification in the rural sector, labor used and variation in economic growth, efficiency of stock market as well as certain aspects of human development. The book also comments on the resource and environment degradation in the rural and semi urban sectors of the country. In a kaleidoscope, the variance of sustainability gets entrenched. This book tries to capture various aspects within a nutshell. The disparate human activity that is encompassed under sustainability is vat and diverse. It captures direct productive activities like manufacturing and agriculture, services, financial markets, natural resources and energy. (jacket).…