• ISBN13: 9788126910076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 26, 2008
• Pages: 232
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 270 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

The Volumes Development Studies cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the readers to arrive at their own understanding of the problem under focus of study. Contributors to the Volumes have tried to argue the different choices of development that are necessarily context-bound and issue-driven in approach. Choices entail alternatives from among a range of viable options that tend to determine and influence various development paradigms—from microfinance in Bangladesh—to communication development in Indian context. Other key development issues taken up include vocation, profession and community development; social capital and institutional setting in the context of low trust situation; potential and application of nanotechnology in diverse fields; regional dimension of human development; women’s empowerment through Self Help Groups; competitive advantage of family owned enterprises; and civil society and democratization in India. The Volumes will be of interest to social and natural scientists, civil servants, policymakers, environmentalists, economists, ecologists, civil society organizations, think tanks, non-government organizations and development consultants.

Robin Ghosh is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Before migrating to Australia, he taught at the University of Delhi and Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan in India. A prolific writer, he has published a number of books and written many articles for journals of repute. In comparatively recent years, he has written introduction to Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and J.M. Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money both of which were published by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd., New Delhi. K.R. Gupta is a well known Economist. He has published over a dozen of books and more than hundred papers in reputed journals, being published in India and abroad. He had been teaching postgraduate classes and guiding research for about two decades in the University of Jammu and Kurukshetra University. He has also worked as an Economist in private as well as in public sector. His last assignment was as Economic Advisor to the Modi Enterprises. Prasenjit Maiti is a political sociologist. He earlier taught and researched at the University of Burdwan during 1995-2002 and was on secondment at the Institute of Federalism of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, as a Doctoral Fellow. He later joined Consulting Engineering Services as a Sociologist. His first book Problems of Governance in India was published in 2002 while his next work Development Discourses was brought out in 2005. Both of his works have received overwhelming response.

• Foreword
• Preface
• 1. Accomplishment Touching Poverty: A Significant Synopsis of Microfinance in Bangladesh–Sirajul Islam
• 2. Development Communication in Indian Context–Mukul Srivastava
• 3. Vocation, Profession and Community Development–Dave Andrews
• 4. On Collective Action, Social Capital and Institutional Setting in the Context of Low Trust Situation–Tatsuro Sakano and Mohammad Atiq ur Rahman
• 5. The Jekyll and Hyde Story of Nanotechnology–A.W. Apblett, S.I. Kuriyavar and B.P. Kiran
• 6. Community Currency
• An Alternative Microfinance in Social Capital Building and Poverty Alleviation–Sam Wong
• 7. Regional Dimension of Human Development–S.K. pant
• 8. Women’s Empowerment through SHG Revolution in Orissa: An Analysis through Case Studies–Debadutta Kumar Panda
• 9. Tribal Development in Kerala: Constraints and Strategies–B. Bindu Ramachandran
• 10. Family Owned Enterprises and Competitive Advantage–Tapomoy Deb
• 11. Social Sector Programmes, How Much Secure? An Analysis–S.K. Pant
• 12. Civil Society and Democratization in India–Sarbeswar Sahoo
• 13. Does Size Matter? Population Growth and Economic Development in Uttar Pradesh, India–Rashmi Umesh Arora
• Contributors