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1 online resource (480 pages) |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Jun 2016). |
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This book discusses policies to achieve inclusive growth in India and realise the demographic dividend, which will end by 2040 when India will become an aging society. India is the world's fastest growing large economy, but jobs are not growing equally rapidly. The size of India's youth workforce is worrying, and the largely informal workforce is not covered by social insurance. Universal elementary education, despite the Right to Education Act 2009, is yet to be achieved. Health outcomes have improved only slowly over the years. Furthermore, sanitation still remains a very serious problem. As an economist and former policy-maker, the author discusses specific policies to address these problems, well beyond what is currently being practised. The book also deals with the governance issues that need to be addressed before inclusive growth can be attained. |
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Cover; Realising the Demographic Dividend; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Growth, Employment and Inclusion; Chapter 1: Capability-centred Approach to Inclusive Growth: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Reality; 1.1 The Conceptual Framework of Dual Synergies in the Development Process; 1.1.1 The synergy among social services; 1.1.2. The second synergy: Economic growth -- human capital formation -- income-poverty reduction; 1.1.2.1 Theoretical framework |
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1.1.2.2. Empirical evidence on synergies between economic growth and human development1.2. Dual Synergies in India?; 1.2.1 What contributed to the dual synergies not being realised in India?; 1.2.1.1 The neglect of basic social services; 1.2.1.2 Money-metric measures of poverty; 1.2.2 Evidence on the synergy post-1980s; 1.2.3 Human capabilities and income poverty: Challenges to realising the macro-level synergies; 1.3. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 2: Sustaining Economic Growth; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Growth and 'New' Structural Economics; 2.3. Raising the Savings Rate |
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2.4 Increasing the Investment Rate2.5 The Pitfalls of Weak Macroeconomic Management; 2.5.1 Monetary policy; 2.5.2 Fiscal policy; 2.6 Sustaining Non-agriculture Output Growth; 2.6.1 Agriculture; 2.6.2 Manufacturing; 2.6.3 Services; 2.7 Institutional Modernisation and Governance for Industrial Policy; 2.7.1 The professionalisation and accountability of civil servants; 2.7.2 The political executive and constraints on cronyism; 2.8 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3: Ensuring Higher Agricultural Growth and the Revival of Rural India; 3.1 The Crisis of Growth in Agriculture |
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3.1.1 Fertiliser subsidies reducing soil fertility3.1.2 The demise of extension services; 3.1.3 Agriculture credit; 3.1.4 Water: Revival of rain fed agriculture through watershed management and management of freshwater; 3.1.5 The failure to modernise agricultural marketing and storage; 3.1.6 Diversification: Fruits, vegetables and flowers; 3.1.7 Role of animal husbandry, dairy farming and fishery; 3.1.8 Better land record management can contribute to rural revival; 3.2 Can Wage and Self-employment Programmes Be a Source of Rural Revival? |
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3.2.1 Government's programmes to improve forest rights and land rights3.2.2 Improving the effectiveness of wage employment and self-employment generation programmes; 3.3 Rural Non-farm Economic Activity: A Means of Rural Revival?; 3.4 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4: Addressing the Employment-related Paradoxes of Economic Growth; 4.1 The First Paradox: Why Output Growth Has Reduced Poverty -- But Slowly; 4.2 The Second Paradox: Output Growth Sustains, but Manufacturing/Services Employment Does Not; 4.2.1 Why non-agricultural employment rose rapidly between 2009-10 and 2011-12? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Social aspects -- India.
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Economic development -- Social aspects. |
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India. |
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India -- Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
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India -- Social policy.
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Social policy. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781107091726 |
| ISBN |
9781316134603 (ebook) |
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1316134601 (ebook) |
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9781316843550 (electronic book) |
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1316843556 (electronic book) |
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9781107091726 (hardback) |
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1107091721 (hardback) |
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