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Contains an up-to-date collection of essays on the Indian economy by some of the country's leading economists.

The new 19th edition of the widely accepted textbook on Indian Economy for undergraduate students, incorporating the latest recommended readings and studying five areas of Indian economics, including the industry and service sectors and growth and distributional issues.

Explores how greater trade in the sub-region can be a vehicle for economic integration, analyses the challenges of non-trade issues such as connectivity, investments, infrastructure, deficiencies in logistics, lack of technical capacity, which act as hindrances to economic cooperation as well as integration.

Explores the GST tax reform, arguably one of the most important reforms in post-independent India, examining its multi-layed impact upon Indian finances and featuring a foreword by India's finance minister, Arun Jaitley.

A breathtaking new project featuring over 300 photographs by one of India's foremost conservation ecologist and photographer, Latika Nath, and writing by journalist and environmentalist, Shloka Nath. The book showcases extraordinary images of landscapes and wildlife from across India, many of which are now critically endangered.

Explains the way the SECC project was executed, examining lessons learned throughout. Written by a handful of SECC project key executioners, it compiles key features and challenges of the project and captures the contributions made by thousands of individuals and institutions.

Available land per capita in India is expected to decline fourfold by 2050 relative to 1960. This volume is comprised of 10 papers is organised under three major heads that discuss issues related to this - Institutional and Regulatory Factors Influencing Supply of Land, Patterns of Urban Housing and Land Prices, and New Initiatives in Urban Development.

Provides rich insights into the contemporary labour law reform debates in a comprehensive manner. This book contains articles primarily from stakeholders in the industrial relations system, representatives of trade unions and employers, business consultants, and [retired] government official in addition to a few academics.

Designed to stimulate sound and informed thinking about some of the critical issues in education and development, this book includes one dozen articles prepared by the author over the last 2-3 decades to provide a critical discussion on current contemporary discourses on development.

Examines the role of biotechnology in reviving Indian agriculture and accelerating farmers' incomes, through an analysis of empirical evidence in various agro-ecologies on already commercialised technologies along with those in development.

Introduces the working of contemporary economies with special reference to India, and aims to logically trace the evolutionary process of the economy through to its present manifestation as global capitalism.

Encapsulates policy and programme reforms and concurrent initiatives, recognising early childhood development as the cornerstone of the nation's overall well-being for holistic human development, and offering insight the world of strategic planning in social developmental arena.

Attempts the development of an analytical framework for the formulation of development policy, bearing on crucial segments of the economy and society including the agriculture sector, industrial development, employment and entrepreneurship, urbanisation, and governance issues.

An informed memoir by one of the most respected and eminent economist of modern India that explores the changes in the author's outlook from a Marxist in his student days to a Nehruvian, which have been marked by serious introspections in the light of contending ideological positions.

Includes nine essays covering contemporary issues in economic policy, governance, and society that will shape India's future over the coming decades. Among the key messages of the essays are that India needs a developmental state that thoughtfully intervenes in the market and economic policies guided by the imperative of generating good jobs.

There has been a considerable amount of debate on how to measure poverty. To review and take a fresh look at the methodology for measurements of poverty, the Government of India appointed an Expert Group in June 2012. This book contains the Report of the Expert Group and four other articles that explain some of the issues that were raised after the publication of the report.

The new eighteenth edition of the widely adopted textbook on the Indian economy for undergraduate students. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the Indian economy. The author has made an effort to keep the language simple without compromising the effectiveness of the argument or diluting the analyses.

This edited volume in honour of Raj Kapila, with contributions from a large number of eminent economists and policymakers, addresses a wide array of issues confronting India's economy. A common thread in all the papers is that we need to ensure that India's development process is just, humane, inclusive, sustainable, poverty reducing and environment-friendly.

The objective of this report is to understand recent trends and developments in organic farming globally and the scope for the development of organic farming in and export of organic food products from India; identify global best practices in regulations on organic products; and examine the measures taken by the Indian government to support organic farming and organic food.

With the evolution of India's disease burden as well as its pharmaceutical industry, the need for clinical trials has increased. This report analyses the prospects and challenges of clinical trials in India, focusing on new chemical entities and new drugs, and proposes actionable policy recommendations for the Indian drug regulatory landscape.

This book is enriched by four case studies from Punjab, Rajsthan, Kerala and Odisha, focussing on the specific problems of the youth in these states and the approaches to resolve them. Universities and institutions teaching development economics, social relationship and political empowerment of youth will find the book very useful.

Presents a collection of research papers. Part 1 discusses issues, challenges and opportunities. Part 2 focuses on the role and growing importance of banks, financial institutions, regulatory agencies and governments(s) in making financial inclusion a growth paradigm. Part 3 highlights the role of microfinance in financial inclusion.

This report, the first-of-its-kind, based on extensive desk and field research in four Indian states - Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Telangana - and seven countries - USA, UK, Switzerland, Germany, South Africa, Singapore and Indonesia - incorporates the views of more than 150 stakeholders to identify lessons as well as opportunities address challenges of drug regulation in India.

Examines opportunities for collaboration and investment by foreign businesses, particularly UK companies, in the food supply chain in India. Based on a primary survey in India and in-depth meetings with stakeholders in the UK, this report identifies the barriers faced businesses in India and presents go-to-market strategy.

A collection compiled, edited and translated by Roopa Vajpeyi to celebrate the memory of her husband Kailash Vajpeyi - a poet and thinker with a vast and variegated spectrum of interests, ranging from poetry and literature to music, religion, philosophy, psychology and esoteric disciplines like astrology, Tantra and quantum physics.

This report, based on secondary information analysis and a survey of 1,001 consumers across different states in India, attempts to understand the production and availability of fruits and vegetables, consumption patterns, extent of shortfall in consumption, reasons for shortfall, implications of such shortfall for consumer health and well-being, among others.

Celebrates the long, varied and distinguished career of Mina Swaminathan, a leading practitioner, trainer and writer in the field of education, focusing specifically on early childhood education, gender and communication. This book brings together different perspectives and social concerns in relation to education, viewed as a broad field of learning, questioning and deepening understandings.

It has been several decades since the MoU system has been introduced in India in the hope of incentivising performance, yet there are considerable numbers of PEs which are languishing in the fair and good category in terms of performance. Performance challenges still exist in public sector enterprises which are mainly due to inadequate systems, processes, and latest technology.