India's Economy and Society Lateral Explorations

Başlık:

ISBN:

9789811608698

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Yayın Bilgileri:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021.

Fiziksel Tanımlama:

XXXVI, 416 p. 73 illus., 69 illus. in color. online resource.

Series:

India Studies in Business and Economics,

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Agriculture -- Chapter 2. The Crisis in Indian Agriculture: Genesis, Response and Future Prospects -- Chapter 3. Supply Chain Management of Food Grains in India -- Part 2: Industry, Innovation and Technology -- Chapter 4. Regional Concentration of Industries in India: What does the recent data say and how to understand the implications? A Perspective -- Chapter 5. Indian Electronics Industry's FDI-led GVC Engagement: Insights from a firm-level analysis -- Chapter 6. India's performance in Science, Technology and Innovation: the post 2000 scenario -- Part 3: Infrastructure -- Chapter 7. Financing of Infrastructure in India - Issues and the Way Forward -- Chapter 8. Land For Development: Market versus Non-market Mechanisms -- Part 4: International trade -- Chapter 9. Looking at India's Engineering Exports: Stuck in the middle of the Value Chain -- Part 5: Health and Education -- Chapter 10. Towards Universal Health Coverage? Taking Stock of Two Decades of Health Reforms in India -- Chapter 11. Changing Landscape of Professional Higher Education in India: What Do We Know and What Do Recent Data Tell Us? -- Part 6: Labour and Employment -- Chapter 12. Has Labour Rigidity Slowed down Employment Growth in Indian Manufacturing? -- Part 7: Gender -- Chapter 13. The Girl-Only Family in the Era of Sex Selection: Challenges for a Cultural Economy of Gender -- Chapter 14. Interrogating Agency and Marital Mobility in Cross-Regional Marriage-Scapes in India: A Case Study of Haryana Kalyanams -- Chapter 15. Gender and Development: Back to Basics Continued Relevance of Marcal's Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner -- Chapter 16. Women, the Planned Economy and the Anticipation of Utopia.

Abstract:

This book is a collection of fifteen contributions that undertake a detailed analysis of seven broad dimensions of India's economy and society. All the contributions approach the problems in their respective areas empirically, while being theoretically informed. The book begins with a section containing detailed and empirically supported chapters on the recent crisis in India's agricultural sector and the reforms in the agricultural markets. Another section is dedicated to the issue of infrastructure financing, and new ways of financing large infrastructural projects are critically examined. Other sections are related to innovations and technology impacts on industry; international trade; health and education; labor and employment; and the very important issue of gender. The selected discussion topics are both of contemporary importance and expected to remain so for some time. Most of the chapters introduce readers to data in addition to methods of analyzing this data, to arrive at policy-oriented conclusions. The rich collection carries learnings for researchers working on a wide range of topics related to development studies, as well as for policymakers and corporate watchers. .

Subject Term:

Economic development.

Development economics.

Agriculture -- Economic aspects.

Labor economics.

Population -- Economic aspects.

Sex.

Finance.

Economic Growth.

Agricultural Economics.

Labor and Population Economics.

Gender Studies.