Modern Indian Economy : Essays in Memory of Professor Alak Ghosh
Contents: Remembering Professor Alak Ghosh/Raj Kumar Sen. The emerging issues of the modern Indian economy: an overview/Raj Kumar Sen. I. Global economic crisis: 1. The recent global economic crisis/Tamal Datta Chaudhuri. 2. The great depression and the present economic crisis/Hiron Kumar Banerjee. 3. US financial crisis, recovery packages and Dollar hegemony/Debesh Bhowmik. 4. Global economic downturn and decoupling hypothesis/Dhiraj Kumar Bandyopadhyay. 5. Impacts of global crisis on Indian economy/Harshada Rathod. 6. Indias economic downturn and unsustainability of deficit and debt/B.S. Sreekantaradhya. 7. Global financial meltdown and the Indian economy/Asim K. Karmakar. II. SEZ and industrialization: 8. Industrialisation through SEZ: a critique/Ambar Ghosh and Chandana Das. 9. Growth with injustice: Alarm in West Bengal. III. Money, banking and financial relations: 10. Quantity theory of money and India: an economic analysis/Biswajit Chatterjee. 11. Reform of the Reserve Bank of India: towards autonomous federal structure/Vedagiri Shanmugasundaram. 12. Financial relations between the center and the stats in India: some critical issues/Subrata Gupta. 13. Financial inclusion: scopes and challenges/Bani Prasad Bhattacharyya. 14. Financial inclusion in the backward villages of West Bengal: a note/Manab Sen. IV. Globalization and its impacts: 15. Poverty and health care in India in the context of globalization/Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay. 16. Indian industry and trade in the context of globalization/Puspa Tarafdar. 17. Is globalisation reducing poverty and inequality in India? A Theoretical overview/Suvarnshu Pan. 18. Emerging issues of new economic development of new India/R.C. Popat. 19. Indias economic reforms: a critical evaluation/Suresh Chandra Srivastava. 20. Globalization and convergence/Raj Kumar Sen. 21. WTO : a Bimpy journey from Uruguay to Doha and beyond/D.R. Agarwal. 22. Bretton woods to WTO: Quo Vadis?/Anath Bandhu Mukhopadhyay. V. Urbanisation: 23. Economic benefits and drawbacks of cities and their growth implications/Clem Tisdell. 24. Inequalities in the pattern of urban development/S.R. Hashim. 25. Urbanisation and environment/R.Y. Mahore. 26. Pattern of urbanization in West Bengal/Dhirendra Nath Konar. VI. Agriculture and labour: 27. Agrarian crisis and rural labour force: a study of Eastern region of India/Ratan Kumar Ghosal. 28. Switching over to organic cultivation and its impact on living wage and employment in the agricultural labour market/Amit Kundu. 29. Intersectoral labour migration an economic development: a case study of Kerala/B.N. Ghosh. 30. National rural employment guarantee Scheme and rural development in West Bengal/Subrata Kumar Ray. 31. Economic reforms and agricultural development in India/Prankrishna Pal. 32. Agricultural development and food security in India/Subir Mukhopadhyay. 33. Adoption of new technology in agriculture under production uncertainty: the role of infrastructure/Debasis Mondal and Joydeb Sasmal. 34. Exploring export potential of floriculture products in the North Bengal/Subrata Goswami. VII. Environment: 35. Impact of watershed development programme on economic indicators: a study of drought Prone areas of West Bengal/Manas Kumar Adhikari. 36. Forest landscape restoration and local people participation: a socio-economic perspective of the drought prone area in India/Jyotish Prakash Basu. 37. Water scarcity and water management in India/M.G. Basava Raja, Manu Mahesh, T. Ramesh and M.D. Umesh. 38. Interlinking of rivers in India: a threat to sustainable development/Biswajit Guha. 39. Protection and conservation of forest in India: current scenario and Gandhian ideas/Somnath Hazra. VIII. Planning, development and related issues: 40. Indias experience with economic planning/K/M. Bhattacharya. 41. The formidable state for a robust development/Kartik Roy. 42. Impact of policy certainty on economic growth: a study among major Indian states/Debnarayan Sarkar and Debraj Das. 43. The economics of a consumption driven society/Kalyan Chakrabartty. 44. The higher education scenario in India since economic reforms: an overview/Sudakshina Gupta. 45. Women as entrepreneurs in modern India: a note/Yasodha Shanmugasundaram. 46. Structural change in North East India in the post reform period/Subhabrata Chakrabarti. 47. West Bengal at the crossroads/J. Felix Raj. 48. A liberal tax regime and its shortcomings: a note/S.S. Kothari. Appendix. Index.
Modern Indian Economy is an edited volume contributed by friends, colleagues, students, well wishers and admirers of Professor Alak Ghosh to perpetuate his memory on various topics of interest of Prof. Ghosh. All together 48 articles are included in this volume and they are distributed over as many as 8 sections.
In the appendix there is a report on the meeting held in memory of Prof. Ghosh after his sad demise. There is also an editorial overview on the articles included in this volume and a personal note about Prof. Alak Ghosh. For the benefit of readers all articles are preceded by an abstract. This volume though published in the memory of a renowned teacher for more than four decades yet it will serve as a guide to the academicians and researchers on the economies of India and other developing countries to study their different dimensions to understand the implications, magnitude and solutions in the future.
