• ISBN13: 9788171568475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: August 21, 2000
• Pages: 404
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 400 grams

The book has a wide coverage and studies all the famous writers of English literature in the field of poetry, fiction, essay etc. The writers covered, among others, include Geoffrey Chaucer, Philip Sidney, Herbert Spenser, Francis Bacon, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Robert Browning, George Eliot, Charles John Huffham Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Bernard Shaw. The book is written in a simple and lucid style. Abstractions have been avoided and concreteness has been aimed at. It will be found of great interest by the students of English Literature, researchers and the general readers.

Dilip Dutta is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and an executive member of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He obtained his early degrees (B.A. Honours and M.A. in Economics) from the Calcutta University, India. He is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He was a Post Doctoral Fellow for two years at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. While he was at the IIM, Calcutta, he taught Economics and Operation Research in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. Dr. Dutta’s publications are in the areas of Development Economics, Economics of Planning and Applied Econometrics. His current research interests focus on topics such as socio-economic dualism, trade liberalisation and endogenous growth in the context of South and Southeast Asian countries.

• 1. Introduction
• Dilip Dutta

• PART I

• Towards Building A South Asian Community and Regional Trade Block
• 2. The Future of SAARC : Towards Building a South Asian Community
• Rehman Sobhan
• 3. International Institutions for Global Trade : The Case for South Asian Free Trade Association
• Biplab Dasgupta

• PART II

• Economic Liberalisation and Institutional Reforms : Country Studies
• 4. Institutional Development for Political and Economic Stability in Bangladesh
• Akhtar Hossain
• 5. Liberalisation and Regional Patterns of Industrialisation : The Indian Experience
• B.S. Ghuman
• 6. Labour Market in the Maldives : The Case for Institutional Reforms
• R.N. Ghosh and M.A.B. Siddique
• 7. Economic Development and Institutional Reforms in Nepal : Current Situation and Probable Future Direction
• Meena Acharya
• 8. Economic Reforms and Prospects for Growth in Pakistan
• Amir Mahmood
• 9. Market-oriented Policy Reforms and Industrial Restructuring in Sri Lanka Prema-Chandra Athukorala

• PART III

• Liberalisation Experiences and Issues : Sectoral Studies
• 10. Liberalising Bangladesh’s External Sector
• Nasiruddin Ahmed
• 11. Economic Reforms and Emerging Financial Scenarios in India
• B.B. Bhattacharya
• 12. “We are the Slowest Reformers” : Disinvestment of India’s State-Owned Enterprises
• Peter Mayer
• 13. Liberalisation and Structural Change : Nepalese Manufacturing since the mid 1980s
• Kishor Sharma

• PART IV

• Government Performance and Prospects for Administrative Reform
• 14. Good Governance and Administrative Reform : Priorities for India
• Binayak Ray