Welfare, Choice and Development : Essays of Honour of Professor Amartya Sen

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Epidemiologic transition in India/S. Guha Roy. 2. Issues of health care services: some reflections/Debabrata Datta and Debasish Sarkar. 3. On Professor A.K. Sen\'s contributions to the theory of collective choice and welfare/Satya R. Chakravarty. 4. Measuring human well-being of the countries: achievement and improvement indices/Krishna Mazumdar. 5. Welfare economics: a post-modern response/Debaprasad Bandopadhyay. 6. Sen\'s sense of development: a humanitarian outlook/Anindya Bhukta. 7. Gender inequality in the education system of India/Abhijit Kumar Pal and Surendranath Banerjee. 8. Words and actions: leadership and development in the dusty rear/Bhola Nath Ghosh. 9. Need for transfer of technology through Panchayati Raj System: an observation/Kunal Bandopadhyay and Bhola Nath Ghosh. 10. Inequality re-examined/Sumita Bajpai. 11. Problems of primary education and economic development in India/Surendranath Banerjee. 12. Demographic indicators of economic development/Pranati Datta. 13. A biography of Professor Amartya Sen: a pioneer in welfare economics/Biswanath Ray. Index.

""Welfare, choice and Development: Essays in Honour of Prof. Amartya Sen," reviews the prevalent social, economic and demographic features in India. Such diverse issues as overview of epidemiologic transition, health care services, theory of collective choice and welfare, measuring human well-being of the countries: achievements and development indices, post modern response of welfare economics, Sen\'s sense of development gender inequality in the education system, leadership and development, transfer of technology through Panchayati Raj, inequality, problems of primary education and economic development demographic indicators of economic development, the concluding paper contains comprehensive account of Professor Amartya Sen\'s career and his manifold academic and other activities." (jacket)