Regional Development and Public Policy Challenges in India

This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India’s development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India have no...

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Other Authors: Bhattacharya, Rakhee (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Springer India 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:India Studies in Business and Economics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and Overview
  • Chapter 1. India’s Growth Performance 2000-2012 - Region Based Perspective (by Biswa Swarup Misra)
  • Chapter 2. Poor versus Prosperous India (by Madhusudan Ghosh)
  • Chapter 3. Poverty and Inequality in India: Regional Disparities (by Rakhee Bhattacharya and J. P Bhattacharjee)
  • Chapter 4. Miseries of the Red Corridor Region of India: What Do the Data Tell Us? (by Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay  and Nilanjan Banik)
  • Chapter 5. Intra and Inter State Inequality in the Northeast Region with Special Reference to Assam (by Meenakshi Rajeev and Azharuddin Akhtar)
  • Chapter 6. Growth, Development Outcome and Fiscal Balance: How have Indian States Performed? (by Pinaki Chakraborty)
  • Chapter 7. ‘Inclusive Growth’ and Income Inequality in India under Globalisation: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses (by Amitabh Kundu)
  • Chapter 8. Examining Regional Imbalance in China and Comparing with India (by Amitendu Palit)
  • Chapter 9. The Way Forward: Public Policy to Address Regional Imbalances in India- Process and Outcome (by Rakhee Bhattacharya)
  • Epilogue. Evolution of Literature on Different Aspects of Regional Inequality in India (by K. L. Krishna)