Economic Reforms and Development : Essays in Honour of Professor Suresh Chandra Srivastava

Contents: On Professor Suresh Chandra Srivastava and his contributions. Introduction. I. Economic ideas in historical perspective: 1. Production theory in the history of economic ideas/Kalyan Chakrabartty. 2. Academic economics—a critical review and search for new direction/Mrinal Kumar Dasgupta. II. Agricultural growth and environment: 3. Globalisation and its impact on Indian agriculture/G.M. Bhat. 4. Agricultural growth in India in the post-liberalisation period/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 5. Economic reforms, agricultural policies and the poor/Keya Sengupta. 6. Agricultural development and environment—a case study of Kutch/Mohan Patel. 7. Agricultural sector in Himachal Pradesh: performance and new challenges/K.K. Kaushik and Sanju Karol. III. Poverty and social sector: 8. Poverty studies and poverty alleviation in India/Biswajit Chatterjee. 9. Poverty eradication and the role of the World Bank/Biswajit Guha. 10. Economic reforms, employment and poverty in India/Ratan Kumar Ghosal. 11. Public spending on social sectors and economic growth during post-reforms period/Md. Abdus Salam. 12. Economic reforms and social sector in India/Harshada Rathod. IV. Industry, labour and unemployment: 13. Progress and prospects of small scale industries in north-eastern region/Asok Basu. 14. Structural reforms, unemployment and the crafts as safety-net in India/Ratan Lal Basu. 15. Economic reforms and female employment in rural India: an inter-state analysis/Prankrishna Pal. 16. Changing agrarian relations and rural labour in Bihar/Bishwa Nath Singh. 17. Child labour in the tea plantations of Assam/Debotpal Goswami. V. Trade, FDI and competition: 18. Global trading and monetary order: implications for developing areas/M.R. Aggarwal. 29. Cyclical fluctuations in ASEAN and India/Smriti Mukherjee. 20. Competition policy in India: an analysis/Shrawan Kumar Singh. 21. Globalisation, trade and FDI in food items in West Bengal/Raj Kumar Sen and Suvranshu Pan. VI. Human resource management and globalisation: 22. Human resource development and globalisation in developing countries/N. Narayana. 23. Economic development through lifelong learning/Satish Shrivastav. 24. The causes and cures of corruption in India/A. Ranga Reddy. 25. Development experiences of China and India: 1980-2000/Gopal Krishna Pal. Index.

"Economic Reforms and Development : Essays in Honour of Professor Suresh Chandra Srivastava is an edited volume distributed over six sections. It is expected that this book will prove to be useful for academicians, researchers and also to the general readers interested in Indian economy and its development experiences during the period of globalisation and economic reforms." (jacket)