The India Economy: Problems and Prospects

Selected Writings of D.R Gadgil
Herausgeber: Brahme, Sulabha

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together seminal contributions of D.R. Gadgil that provide a critical assessment of Indian economic problems and the Indian development experience in a historical perspective, and are firmly anchored in the specific characteristics of Indian social reality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 503
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780198069454
• ISBN-10: 0198069456
• Artikelnr.: 32460974

Autorenporträt

Sulabha Brahme, a noted economist and writer-activist, is Secretary, National Committee for Celebration of Birth Centenary of Professor D.R. Gadgil.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction; Biographical Note; Political Economy of D.R. Gadgil (by
P.R.Brahmananda);
* Section I: Planning in India: The Issues
* 1.: Indian Economic Organization;
* 2.: Notes on the Government of India's First Five Year Plan;
* 3.: Prospects for the Second Five Year Plan Period;
* 4.: The Approach to the Third Five Year Plan;
* 5.: An Approach to Indian Planning;
* 6,: Planning without a Policy Frame;
* 7.: Towards Self-Reliance;
* Section II: Institutions and Planning
* 8.: The Role of the Planning Commission in Indian Planning;
* 9.: The Finance Commission and Development Planning;
* 10.: Planning and Administration;
* Section III: Regional Planning;
* 11.: District Development Planning;
* 12.: Some Aspects of Development Planning in Kashmir;
* 13.: Development of Backward Areas;
* Section IV: Problems of Industrial and Agricultural Development
* 14.: Public Interest and Big Business in India;
* 15.: Socio-economic Implications of the Existing Institutional
Structure in Modern Business in India;
* 16.: Notes on Rural Industrialization;
* 17.: Planning for Agricultural Development in India;
* 18.: The Problem of Agricultural Labour;
* 19.: Price Policy for Food Grains: Its Implications;
* 20.: . Economic Aspects of Irrigation Water Management;
* 21,: Problems Relating to Land Reform;
* Section V: Income Policy;
* 22.: Existing Differentials in Salaries and Wages and Their Relation
to a Socialistic Pattern;
* 23.: Ex-Colonial and New income Differentials in India;
* 24.: Stabilization of Agricultural Incomes;
* Section VI: Issues in Cooperation and Economic Development;
* 25.: A Note on Cooperative Farming;
* 26.: Cooperation and the Transformation of Economic Society;
* 27.: The Pravara Sahakari Sakhar Karakhana;
* 28.: Prospective Development in Cooperative Finance;
* 29.: Reflections on a Cooperative Social Order;
* 30.: Role of Cooperation in Planned Development;
* Section VII: Socio-economic Development in New States;
* 31.: Social Change and Liberal Democracy in New States;
* 32.: Economic Challenges on World Scale;
* Section VIII: Social and Economic Thinking on Gadgil: An Appraisal;
* 33.: Introductory Article to Planning and Economic Policy in India
(by A.I. Levkovsky);
* 34.: Gadgil and the Economics of Indian Democracy (by S.A. Dange);
Gadgil's Basic Approach to Indian Development (by H.K. Paranjpe);
* 35.: Relevance of Economic Thought of Professor D.R. Gadgil even
after a Quarter Century (by Tapati Sanyal);
* 37.: Gadgil's Impact on Planning , Economic Policy, and Cooperation:
Some Highlights (by Tarlok Singh);
* 38.: Gadgil's Vision (by K.S. Srikantan);
* 39: Towards Radical Social Sciences: Lessons from Gadgil (by Suhas
Palashikar).