Development and Sustainability: India in a Global Perspective

✍ Scribed by Sarmila Banerjee, Anjan Chakrabarti (auth.), Sarmila Banerjee, Anjan Chakrabarti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer India
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 622
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Following the reforms undertaken in the last two decades, India’s economic landscape has been radically transformed. This book examines the new economic map, which is shown to be shaped by two intertwined currents: globalization and sustainability. Weaving extensively through these currents and the canvas of development in the Indian economy they open up, this work seeks to introduce new methodologies, a corpus of concepts and modes of analysis to make sense of the emerging order of things. What transpires in the course of the investigation is a critical reflection of the present in which not only the new institutions, policies and practices are analyzed, but their limitations, fragility and at times myopic approaches are brought to light. By highlighting the rough edges created by the new conditions, this book is firmly engaged with the frontier of the Indian economy and ends up challenging many well-known conjectures and assumptions. In doing so, it strives to shift the Indian economy to a new terrain, thereby fundamentally re-locating and re-orienting the discourse of that economy as a unique object of analysis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Rethinking and Theorizing the Indian State in the Context of New Economic Map....Pages 13-52
Global Financial Crisis: What Did We Know, What Have We Learnt?....Pages 53-70
Volatility, Long Memory, and Chaos: A Discussion on some “Stylized Facts” in Financial Markets with a Focus on High Frequency Data....Pages 71-101
Globalization and Labour Markets....Pages 103-124
Production Performance of Indian Agriculture in the Era of Economic Reforms....Pages 125-154
Under the Shadow: Pricing and Marketing in Indian Agriculture in Globalization....Pages 155-188
Promoting Entrepreneurship Among Women in Agriculture....Pages 189-210
Construction and Engineering Industry in India in PPP Regime with a Special Focus on Airport Development....Pages 211-232
Performance Evaluation Techniques: An Application to Indian Garments Industry....Pages 233-276
Telecommunications Industry in the Era of Globalization with Special Reference to India....Pages 277-305
Market Structure of Crude Steel Industry and India’s Position in the Era of Globalization....Pages 307-319
Nabadiganta: A New Horizon? Patriarchy, Globalization, and Women’s Agency in the IT Sector....Pages 321-337
Dualism in the Informal Economy: Exploring the Indian Informal Manufacturing Sector....Pages 339-362
Indian Gems and Jewelry Industry: An Enquiry into the Nature of Competitive Advantage....Pages 363-383
On Assessment of Women Empowerment at Individual Level: An Analytical Exposition....Pages 385-400
Sustainable Poverty Reduction: Credit for the Poor....Pages 401-427
Employment Guarantee and Natural Vulnerability: A Study of MGNREGA in Indian Sundarbans....Pages 429-447
Inequality, Public Service Provision, and Exclusion of the Poor....Pages 449-461
Stakeholder Attitudes and Conservation of Natural Resources: Exploring Alternative Approaches....Pages 463-495
Indoor Air Pollution and Incidence of Morbidity: A Study on Urban West Bengal....Pages 497-520
Efficient Pollution Management Through CETP: The Case of Calcutta Leather Complex....Pages 521-536
Embracing the Global Knowledge Economy: Challenges Facing Indian Higher Education....Pages 537-559
HIV Epidemic: Global Response and India’s Policy....Pages 561-580
The Political Economy of Mental Health in India....Pages 581-606
Back Matter....Pages 607-617

✦ Subjects

Development Economics; Emerging Markets/Globalization; Economic Growth; Economic Policy; Environmental Economics; Social Policy