Isbn: 9788184500189 - growth, distribution and public policy (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 852 Illus.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents Preface. Introduction. I. Growth 1. Growth and instability of agricultural production in West Bengal. 2. Productivity growth and use of modern farm inputs in West Bengal/Biswajit Chatterjee and Ruma Bhattacharyya. 3. Rural credit and agricultural growth in West Bengal/Biswajit Chatterjee and Sarmistha Deb. 4. Intersectoral terms of trade of West Bengal an economic analysis/Biswajit Chatterjee and Purba Roy Choudhury. II. Distribution 5. Poverty role of the state and participatory development in West Bengal a critical review. 6. Malnutrition and hunger in West Bengal during 1970s and 1980s. 7. Poverty and nutritional deprivations in West Bengal during 1990s. 8. Pattern of consumption expenditure in West Bengal. 9. Human development and social progress in West Bengal. 10. Living conditions in West Bengal. 11. Living conditions in Kashipur Block of Purulia District revelations through the ACRP Benchmark Survey. III. Public Policy 12. Poverty alleviation programmes in West Bengal and India. 13. Poverty alleviation through special public works programme in irrigation a case study of Purulia District. 14. Decentralised planning globalisation and empowerment. Index. Growth Distribution and Public Policy is a collection of papers written by the author at different points of time since the 1990s on different aspects of agricultural growth intersectoral terms of trade poverty and human development living conditions poverty alleviation schemes and the functioning the Panchayats in West Bengal under the globalised regime. Distributed in three sections the fourteen chapters of this book address important issues of agricultural growth in the state of West Bengal the importance of modern inputs as well as credit flows to help the surge in agricultural productivity in the state since the early 1980s and examine the behaviour or intersectoral terms of trade in influencing growth in agricultural and industrial sectors in the state the nature of poverty over time as well other related deprivations and their variations across districts and over time and public policies to address them. These papers indicate the importance of growth distributive justice and public policies in the context of the regional economy of West Bengal and its development which are important to students researchers and policy makers on the subject. 826 pp.…