West Bengal Today : 25 Years of Economic Development
Contents: Preface. 1. Twenty-five years of the West Bengal economy: an overview/Raj Kumar Sen and Asis Dasgupta. I. General issues: 2. West Bengal economy in the last decades of 20 century/Deb Kumar Bose. 3. Development pattern in West Bengal since 1980s/Prankrishna Pal. 4. 25 years of the West Bengal economy/Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya. 5. 25 years of West Bengal economy-- a review/Manturam Samanta. II. Demographic and sectoral features: 6. Demographic features of the West Bengal economy/Gopal Krishna Pal. 7. Structural transformation of the rural workforce in West Bengal -- an inter-district analysis/Ratan Kumar Ghosal. 8. Rural livelihood diversity and migration: impact on Kolkata/Saswati Chaudhuri and Biswajit Mandal. III. Agriculture and rural finance: 9. A review of the West Bengal economy with reference to agriculture/Asim K. Karmakar and Supriti Mukhopadhyay. 10. Agricultural growth and income distribution in rural West Bengal/Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay. 11. RMCs of West Bengal vis-a-vis the All India APMCs/Alok K. Chattopadhyay. 12. A study of Panchayats and Panchayat finance in Medinipur/Subrata Kumar Ray. 13. Performances of rural financial institutions of West Bengal/Amit Kundu. IV. Industry, investment and financial management: 14. Changing industrial scenario in West Bengal/Saroj Upadhyay and Hrilina Basu Roy. 15. Development of tourism industry in West Bengal/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 16. West Bengal as a destination of foreign direct investment/Suvranshu Pan. 17. Financial management in West Bengal/Ajit Kumar Chatterjee. 18. The West Bengal state tax on profession, trade, calling and employment/Parthasarathi Chatterjee. V. Environment: 19. Population, environment and well-being: West Bengal economy in ecological perspective/Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay. 20. Environmental legislations and West Bengal economy/Somnath Hazra and Raj Kumar Sen. VI. Education: 21. Primary education and economic development in West Bengal/Anathbandhu Mukherjee. Index.
"West Bengal Today : 25 Years of Economic Development is an edited volume consisting of selected articles (presented in the BEA Silver Jubilee Seminar on "25 Years of the West Bengal Economy") dealing with macro and sectoral aspects of the West Bengal economy during the last 25 years. The book presents an indepth study of economic development that has taken place in West Bengal over a period of two and a half decades. Researchers, students and the general readers, who are interested in regional economics will find the book immensely useful." (jacket)
