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However, the new order also raised several questions in its wake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurjit S Bhalla addresses these questions head on in his book. Has globalization made the world grow faster? Has poverty declined at a faster pace during globalization? If yes, why? If not, is it because the growth rate was lower, or because inequality worsened, or both? Who has gained from globalization? Is it the elite in both the developed and developing world? What about the middle class? Who are they? How have they benefited from (or lost to) the forces of globalization?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comprehensive study firmly debunks several popular myths such as the belief that globalization has resulted in lower overall growth rates for poor countries, increasing world inequality, and stagnating poverty levels. Through rigorous, integrated methodologies and an enhanced dataset, the author answers some of the most pressing policy issues confronting us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReceived Wisdom on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverview: New Results on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth In the Era of Globalization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pattern of Economic Growth, 1950-2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInequality as We Know It\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoverty as We Are Told It Is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscussion of Knowledge on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth and Analysis of Data and Methodologies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking Stock of the Facts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecounting Poor People\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurveys and National Accounts: Can a Choice Be Made?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther Methodological Considerations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Results on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth, Based on Simple\u003cbr\u003eAccounting Procedure Methods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoverty as It is- and Forecasts for 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReinventing the Kuznets Curve: Propoor Growth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInequality as it is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlobalization : A Second Look\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Roads Not Taken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix  A The Simple Accounting Procedure Dataset\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B Estimation of the Lorenz Curve,  and Its Accuracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix C Basic Data for the Simple Accounting Procedure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTables \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Surjit S Bhalla \/ Penguin \/ Paperback","offer_id":40776156807337,"sku":"11030","price":28.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/11030_58a07ff9-5434-4bb5-90c6-fed52b7638b7.jpg?v=1625523841"},{"product_id":"11122-the-subsidy-syndrome-in-indian-agriculture","title":"The Subsidy Syndrome in Indian Agriculture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ashok Gulati\u003cbr\u003eSudha Narayanan\/\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 297\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0 19 5662067\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe debate over agricultural subsidies has been thrust to the forefront of discussions on India’s economic reforms with the signing of Uruguay Round Agreement, now devolving on the WTO. This book examines the issue from various angles in order to move the reform process forward. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt provides a detailed discussion of:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe constituents of agricultural subsidies \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia’s stand regarding support to agriculture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe magnitude of product specific and non-product specific support \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTemporal behavior and spatial spread of input subsidies \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe relative importance of fertilizer, power, and canal subsidies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe real beneficiaries and those who would actually bear the burden of adjustment \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsequences of phasing out subsidies, and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrice and institutional reforms and lessons for India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe authors suggest policy measures to ensure efficiency in the use of resources, equity in the distribution of gains, and environmental sustainability in agricultural operations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book will be immensely valuable to policy-makers, planners, researchers, and analysts in organizations such as the WTO and the World Bank.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables and Figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eBackdrop \u003cbr\u003eIssues \u003cbr\u003eScope of the Study\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia in a Global Setting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFertilizer Subsidies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePower Subsidies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrrigation Subsidies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInput Subsidy and Its Implications for Policy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnexes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnexes Tables\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eName Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Ashok Gulati \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776160346281,"sku":"11122","price":48.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/11122_8c7b1702-c91f-487b-ac18-7332dba9407a.jpg?v=1625567461"},{"product_id":"11369-india-vision-2020-and-vision-documents","title":"India Vision 2020 and Vision Documents","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Eminent Contributors\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Academic Foundation\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8171883028\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery country needs a vision statement which stirs the imagination and motivates all segments of society to greater effort. 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Their deliberations, extending over a period of more than two years, has helped to throw up a range of interesting possibilities, critical issues and crucial decision-points for government and private bodies for future action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Report of the Committee examines many important issues, but the ones that stand out most powerfully are employment and education. The document also examines issues related to population growth, food production, health, vulnerable sections of the population, transport, communication, energy self-sufficiency, water conservation and air quality, trade investment, peace, security and governance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIts central conclusion is that India has the opportunity to emerge as one of the world’s leading economies over the next two decades, provided her citizens have the self-confidence, the self-reliance, the will and the determination to realize their individual and collective potentials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a view to arousing public interest and debate, the present volume includes the complete document of India Vision 2020 and also Vision documents of some of the states like Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eECONOMICA INDIA INFO-SERVICES is a newly launched Academic Foundation initiative whereby AF focusses on publishing systematically a series of thematically related important Reports and Documents concerning various aspects of India’s economy. 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In today’s context, the theme chosen  is of great importance and relevance to Member Countries like India that have a rich cultural heritage but to some extent are struggling to achieve economic stability. It is a very crucial period as one seeks to find a balance in sustaining the cultural and aesthetic norms and cultural practices that enrich the society on the one hand, and the need for technological advancement, economic benefits on the other. To discuss how this balance can be brought about and special focus on Strategies and Plans of Action that help the survival and sustenance of beauty and creativity as well as the diversity of Indian cultural traditions and thought,  the Seminar was organised on the theme of culture and Development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt this Seminar,  experts were invited to present papers based on perceptions from their own field of specialization to emphasise the role of Culture in developmental activities. 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Specialists in art and culture, literature, visual and performing arts, cultural philosophy also discussed the need for a greater interaction between the community leaders, cultural activists and policy makers and administrators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe World Decade for Cultural Development (WDCD) declared by UNESCO focused on the following six key areas:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e: Acknowledging the cultural dimensions of development;\u003cbr\u003e: Relationship between culture, science and technology;\u003cbr\u003e: Preservation of the cultural heritage; \u003cbr\u003e: Man and the mediasphere;\u003cbr\u003e: Participation in cultural life and in development; and\u003cbr\u003e: Stimulation of artistic creation and creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe different themes of each year of the Decade motivated Member Countries to evolve measures for the integration of aesthetic and cultural values in the planning of policies in all areas of development and preparation of Plans of Action to implement such polices at the grass-root level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReports\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnexures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnexure 1 - List of Participants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnexure 2 - Inaugural Address \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnexure 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnesco’s Perceptions and Ideologies related to the World Decade for Cultural  Development \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Women’s Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCultural Sensitivity and Development: Some Lessons from India’s Tribal World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Administration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocio-Cultural Perspectives of Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cultural Dimension of Economic Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulture as an Essential Constituent of Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEducation and Culture as Two Faces of the Same Coin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Media and the Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Development: Effects of Modernization on the Creativity and Aesthetics of Indian Crafts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraditional Performing Arts: Their Survival Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDilemma of the Multilingual Society and the Culture of Development in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRole of the Performing Arts in the Development of Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReintegrating Design with our Lives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCultural Needs as the Basis for Sustainable Housing Patterns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArchitecture in India: The Tryst with Modernism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Tourism: Firmly Linked by Tradition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeritage and Tourism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaw and Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEffects of Industrialization on the Natural and Cultural Environment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCultural Traditions of Nature Conservation in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRole of Indigenous Medicine in the Contemporary Health Scenario\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Scientific Heritage of Indian Culture \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInformation Management for Culture- \u003cbr\u003especific Development Plans in Traditional Societies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorld Decade for Cultural Development:\u003cbr\u003ePerceptions of UNESCO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Eminent Contributors \/ Centre for Cultural Resources and Training \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776170045609,"sku":"11502","price":32.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/11502_4866c002-d4c7-4211-b46c-47318daa6f73.jpg?v=1625523967"},{"product_id":"11570-indian-economy-problems-of-development-planning","title":"Indian Economy - Problems of Development \u0026 Planning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: A N Agrawal\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Wishwa Prakashan\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 742\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8173281106\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn its present 29th edition, the book has been thoroughly revised with a view to highlight the recent trends and developments in the country’s economy as also the policy-measures adopted by the Government to tackle the changing economic scenario and problems. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree new sections on Task force on Taxes, the Twelfth Finance Commission and Progress under the Ninth plan have been added at appropriate places. 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Written in an accessible style, this collection is priority reading for all those who are interested in the human face of development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoverty and Entitlements\u003cbr\u003eConcepts of Poverty\u003cbr\u003ePoverty: Identification and Aggregation\u003cbr\u003eStarvation and Famines\u003cbr\u003eThe Entitlement Approach\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Bengal Famine\u003cbr\u003eThe Ethiopian Famines\u003cbr\u003eDrought and Famine in the Sahel\u003cbr\u003eFamine in Bangladesh\u003cbr\u003eEntitlements and Deprivation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDICES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExchange Entitlement\u003cbr\u003eIllustrative Models of Exchange Entitlement\u003cbr\u003eMeasurement of Poverty\u003cbr\u003eFamine Mortality: A Case Study\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndexes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF FIGURES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF TABLES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I: HUNGER IN THE MODERN WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eEntitlement and Deprivation\u003cbr\u003eNutrition and Capability\u003cbr\u003eSociety, Class and Gender\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II: FAMINES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamines and Social Response\u003cbr\u003eFamines, Markets and Intervention\u003cbr\u003eStrategies of Entitlement Protection \u003cbr\u003eExperiences and Lessons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III: UNDERNUTRITION AND DEPRIVATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduction, Entitlements and Nutrition\u003cbr\u003eEconomic Growth and Public Support\u003cbr\u003eChina and India\u003cbr\u003eExperiences of Direct Support\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART IV: HUNGER AND PUBLIC ACTION \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Economy, the State and the Public\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eName Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSubject Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eEconomic Development and Social Opportunity\u003cbr\u003eIndia in Comparative Perspective\u003cbr\u003eIndia and China\u003cbr\u003ePublic Action and Social Inequality\u003cbr\u003eBasic Education as a Political Issue\u003cbr\u003eGender Inequality and women's Agency\u003cbr\u003eWell Beyond Liberalization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStatistical Appendix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eName Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Amartya Sen \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776326283433,"sku":"14053","price":53.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/14053_025c9578-e4ac-4c00-ab83-98c20fec4ec0.jpg?v=1625568149"},{"product_id":"14643-india-development-and-participation","title":"India:  Development And Participation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Jean Dreze\u003cbr\u003eAmartya Sen\/\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2002\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 512\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195658752\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first edition of this book was published in 1995, under the title India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity.  But the Indian economy and society have also moved on, and it seems right, seven years after the last manuscript went to print, to look back and take stock. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India.  The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors place human agency at the center of stage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn comparative international perspective, the Indian economy has done reasonably well in the period following the economic reforms initiated in the early nineties. However, relatively high aggregate economic growth coexists with the persistence of endemic deprivation and deep social failures. Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen relate this imbalance to the continued neglect, in the post-reform period, of public involvement in crucial fields such as basic education, health care, social security, environmental protection, gender equity, and civil rights, and also to the imposition of new burdens such as the accelerated expansion of military expenditure. Further, the authors link these distortions of public priorities with deep-seated inequalities of social influence and political power. The book discusses the possibility of addressing these biases through more active democratic practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND APPROACH\u003cbr\u003e1.    The Perspective of Freedom\u003cbr\u003e2.    Inequality and Participation\u003cbr\u003e3.    Comparative Perspective\u003cbr\u003e4.    Women’s Agency and Social Change\u003cbr\u003e5.    Institution and Opportunities\u003cbr\u003e6.    Democracy, Environment and Militarism\u003cbr\u003e7.    Voice, assertion and Solidarity\u003cbr\u003e8.    A Concluding Remark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY\u003cbr\u003e1.    Development, Freedom and Opportunities\u003cbr\u003e2.    On Education and Health\u003cbr\u003e3.    The Social Dimension of Health and Education\u003cbr\u003e4.    The Government, the State and the Market\u003cbr\u003e5.    Interdependence between Market and Governance\u003cbr\u003e6.    Market-excluding and Market-complementary Interventions\u003cbr\u003e7.    Market Mania and Market Phobia\u003cbr\u003e8.    Cooperative Action and Social Context\u003cbr\u003e9.    A Positive Focus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3: INDIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE\u003cbr\u003e1.    India and the World\u003cbr\u003e2.    Lessons from Other Countries\u003cbr\u003e3.    East Asia and Growth-mediated Progress\u003cbr\u003e4.    Human Capital and More Basic Values\u003cbr\u003e5.    India’s Internal Diversities\u003cbr\u003e6.    Selected Regional Perspectives\u003cbr\u003e7.    Political Action and Rural Development in West Bengal\u003cbr\u003e8.    Kerala: Scrutiny and Significance\u003cbr\u003e9.    Social Opportunities in Himachal Pradesh\u003cbr\u003e10.  Concluding Remarks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4: INDIA AND CHINA\u003cbr\u003e1.    Perceptions of China\u003cbr\u003e2.    Conditions of Life and Death\u003cbr\u003e3.    Contrasts in Basic Education \u003cbr\u003e4.    pre-reform Achievements\u003cbr\u003e5.    Post-reform Records\u003cbr\u003e6.    Health Care in the Post-reform Period\u003cbr\u003e7.    Pre-reform and Post-reform Connections\u003cbr\u003e8.    Authoritarianism, Famines and Vulnerability\u003cbr\u003e9.    Coercion, Population and Fertility\u003cbr\u003e10.  The Real Lesson for India from China\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5: BASIC EDUCATION AS A POLITICAL ISSUE\u003cbr\u003e1.    Basic Education and Social Change\u003cbr\u003e2.    The State of School Education\u003cbr\u003e3.    Educational Hopes and the Discouragement Effect\u003cbr\u003e4.    On Female Education\u003cbr\u003e5.    The Shifting Goalpost of Universal Elementary Education\u003cbr\u003e6.    Public Expenditure and Education Policy\u003cbr\u003e7.    School Quality and the Need for Accountability\u003cbr\u003e8.    The Schooling Revolution in Himachal Pradesh\u003cbr\u003e9.    Compulsory Schooling and the Right to Education\u003cbr\u003e10.  Education and Political Action\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6: POPULATION, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT\u003cbr\u003e1.    India’s Population: Concerns and Scrutiny\u003cbr\u003e2.    Malthusian Fears and the Real Issues\u003cbr\u003e3.    Gender Equity and the Demographic Transition\u003cbr\u003e4.    Health Care as a Social Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e5.    Reproductive Health and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e6.    Achievements of Tamil Nadu\u003cbr\u003e7.    Environment and Development \u003cbr\u003e8.    Consequences of Environmental Plunder\u003cbr\u003e9.    Environment and the Constructive Perspective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7: GENDER INEQUALITY AND WOMEN’S AGENCY\u003cbr\u003e1.    Female Deprivation and Missing Women\u003cbr\u003e2.    On the Female-Male Ratio\u003cbr\u003e3.    Women’s Agency and child Survival\u003cbr\u003e4.    Fertility and Women’s Emancipation\u003cbr\u003e5.    Gender Bias in Natality\u003cbr\u003e6.    Widowhood and Gender Relations\u003cbr\u003e7.    Criminal Violence: Poverty vs Patriarchy\u003cbr\u003e8.    Gender Equality and Social Progress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8: SECURITY AND DEMOCRACY IN A NUCLEAR INDIA\u003cbr\u003e1.    The Wages of War\u003cbr\u003e2.    The Moral and the Pragmatic\u003cbr\u003e3.    Sources of Strength and Dangers of Underestimation\u003cbr\u003e4.    Deterrence and Security\u003cbr\u003e5.    The Nuclear Debate\u003cbr\u003e6.    The Social Costs of Militarism\u003cbr\u003e7.    Defense Expenditure and Social Needs\u003cbr\u003e8.    Escalation: Costs and Risks\u003cbr\u003e9.    Militarism and Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHATPER 9: WELL BEYOND LIBERALIZATION\u003cbr\u003e1.    What is the Cage?\u003cbr\u003e2.    Radical Needs and Moderate Reforms\u003cbr\u003e3.    Growth and Development in the Nineties\u003cbr\u003e4.    Economic Reform and Social Policy\u003cbr\u003e5.    Hunger Amidst Plenty\u003cbr\u003e6.    Globalization and Inequality\u003cbr\u003e7.    A Concluding Remark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10: PRACTICE ON DEMOCRACY\u003cbr\u003e1.    Ideals, Institutions and Practice\u003cbr\u003e2.    Inequality and Empowerment\u003cbr\u003e3.    Decentralization and Local Democracy\u003cbr\u003e4.    Transparency and Corruption\u003cbr\u003e5.    Accountability and Countervailing Power\u003cbr\u003e6.    Human Rights and Democracy\u003cbr\u003e7.    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In the broad framework of India’s approach to its Asian neighbours, this study explores India’s extended neighbourhood for the prospects of energy cooperation. The study focuses on four countries-Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam and Iran-about which there exists a considerable information gap in the public domain. While Bangladesh’s decision to supply its surplus gas is trapped in its internal politics, other neighbours of India, particularly Iran and Myanmar, offer encouraging prospects for energy cooperation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia’s bilateral relations with these countries are cordial and cooperative and its has adopted innovative strategies to harness their energy potential. The study suggests that there is scope for India to encourage its private sector also, to strengthen its search for energy security. The study also looks into the structures of energy decision-making in these countries and political imperatives of such decisions with regard to energy cooperation with India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be nice if this study generates wider discussion and debate, as that would help us in locating the gaps in the study and also identifying areas where we could and should have done more. 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For those enraptured by the Middle Kingdom, Rising elephant provides good reasons for caution, about both the content and longevity of the china Dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePacked with sometimes surprising findings, the reasoning is backed by rigorous research. Such an effort is crucial, given the uniqueness of white-collar jobs relocation, particularly in the uncharted context of a fast-globalizing new world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmidst the rhetoric about globalization and sweatshops lies a far more complex challenge to American white-collar jobs, a force that is remaking the world. While Americans fret about cheap labor abroad, the real issue has become not one of lower price but quality and scale-India is on the move to outmaneuver its US competitors on a stunning array of fronts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs more and more U S firms turn to India, outsourcing has begun to shake the foundations of the American upper middleclass. 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understand the principles of a free market economy and a free society.\u003cbr\u003e-VALENTINA BUXAR\u003cbr\u003eFoundation Liberala, Romania\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJONATHAN'S GUIDING PRINCIPLES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROLOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Great Storm\u003cbr\u003eJonathan is shipwrecked on a strange island\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTroublemakers\u003cbr\u003eJonathan answers a woman's cry for help\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Commons Tragedy\u003cbr\u003eA fisherman shares a story and his meagre catch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Food Police\u003cbr\u003eA woman and her child are driven from their farm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCandles and Coats\u003cbr\u003eJonathan learns how to protect industry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Tall Tax\u003cbr\u003eThe tall are brought low by a new code\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest Laid Plans\u003cbr\u003eJonathan watches the destruction of a good home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo 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The neo-liberal virus has struck almost everybody including within the ranks of the left. The proponents of neo-liberal globalisation claim that it produces accelerated, efficient development along with a deepening of democracy and human rights. However, reality shows the opposite and any rigorous examination of such arguments reveals their shallowness and inconsistency. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book underscores the point that current economic disasters are not the price we have to pay for a transition towards the promised paradise, but on the contrary are bound to get worse as long as neo-liberal economic policies are pursued. With the help of case studies, statistical data and cogent analysis, the book debunks several myths associated with globalization processes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuestioning Globalization is needed. Kavaljit Singh has produced a most convincing book on globalization issues. 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Setting up the centre was a nightmare, from dealing with babudom to establishing the all-important connectivity, but somewhere along the line things began to come together, and the centre began to efficiently execute processes that were seen as time-consuming and difficult. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Amex centre, in hindsight, might count as the precursor of the BPO revolution that has spawned close to 400 ITES (IT-enabled services)-BPO units in the country. The sector now employs around 300,000 people ranging from call centre staff selling credit cards to Americans—in an American accent—to analysts preparing research reports for Wall Street investment bankers, and generates an astounding $5 billion (Rs 22,500 crore) in revenue. 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Now it is proclaimed by the World Bank to be the missing link in international development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis powerful and lucid critique will be of immense use to all those interested in development studies, including sociologists, economists, planners, and NGO and other activists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe idea of social capital – meaning, most simply put, social connections – was unheard of outside a small circle of sociologists until very recently. Now it is proclaimed by the World Bank to be the missing link in international development, and it has become the subject of a flurry of books and research papers, including some, recently, on India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the origins of the idea of social capital, and its diverse meanings, in the work of James Coleman, Pierre Bourdieu, and of Robert Putnam-who is responsible, more than any other, through his work on Italy and the United States, for its extraordinary rise. John Harriss then asks why this notion should have taken off in the dramatic way that it has done, and finds in its uses by the World Bank the attempt, systematically, to obscure class relations and power. Social capital has thus come to play a significant part in the anti-politics machine that is constituted by the discourses of international development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author has raised a valid debate on terms in development literature now in vogue. 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Economic reforms represent more than a change of policy and mark a paradigm shift in our development thinking.  The reforms are a logical response to the serious doubts that were being voiced about the ability of the earlier model of development marked by a central command economy with all pervasive control over every branch of economic activity of deliver on our central objectives of growth, equity and external viability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume, which is a collection of lectures delivered over the last 10-15 years, reflects the evolution of thinking with regards to economic and development policy issues, starting with a strong plea for moving towards a less rigorous planning system and advocating greater scope for initiative to economic agents in investment and production, and greater use of the market and the price mechanism.  The lectures also track various aspects of the reform process itself as it has evolved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat appeared earlier as the unfinished agenda of reform is now conterminous with what should constitute the second generation of reforms.  There is also need for developing a wider consensus across the political spectrum involving the states in the reform effort.  These specific aspects are also covered in some of the lectures.  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As part of the Islamic leadership of the student movement of North America, they organized the East coast MSA (Muslim Student Association) Conference of 1968 for this purpose and published its early pioneering proceedings under the title contemporary Aspects of Economic Thinking in Islam. This report, published by the American Trust Publications, was well received and remains in demand after several printings. In fact one of the founders of the IIIT, Dr Abdul Hamid A. AbuSulayman, published an earlier work in Cairo, Egypt in 1960 on the subject in a pioneering book in Arabic entitled The Economic Theory of Islam-Is Philosophy and Contemporary Means.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book, by Dr Muhammad Anwar, is one of the first fruits of this ongoing pursuit of the Institute. An associate researcher at the IIIT, he is a young Muslim economist who has shown a devout interest in the cause of Islamization of economics. He is also the first Muslim economist to develop an Islamic model in this field. With his scholarship, intellectual approach and devotion, he offers Muslim economists a new ground-breaking paradigm in the file of Islamic economics which will, in-sha-Allah, invariably lead to more serious studies and research in the field. 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