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It has now been widely recognised that inclusive growth is imperative for sustainability. There is also a renewed call for revival of ethical values. This book explores this development philosophy. Divided into six broad sections, it addresses growth and development, monetary policy, banking policy, fiscal policy, food security and the global environment, with reference to the Indian economy.

Revised year after year, now into its 24th Edition, this unique book is widely accepted as the core text for graduate / post-graduate courses in Indian economy, in various universities across India. The book is essentially, a collection of select articles by some of India's topmost economists and experts.

Revised year after year, now into its 24th Edition, this unique book is widely accepted as the core text for graduate / post-graduate courses in Indian economy, in various universities across India. The book is essentially, a collection of select articles by some of India's topmost economists and experts.

The ORF China Studies Series is an effort to analyse China's economic, political and military trajectory in a sustained and dispassionate manner and create a body of insightful work which will be useful to scholars, policymakers, journalists and all those interested in knowing China better.

Health is an important indicator of a nation's development, and nations with healthy people are quite likely to be the most prosperous. The importance given to the health sector, however, varies across nations. This book explains four basic health concerns relating to regulation, climate change, air quality, and community participation.

Economic freedom matters. It improves outcomes by empowering citizens with the freedom to choose. This report, one of a series starting in 2005, measures economic freedom in different Indian states, and shows how this improves economic outcomes.

The last decade and half has been marked by deceleration in India's agricultural growth, agrarian crisis and food and livelihood security issues. This provides an insightful analysis of the various dimensions of these problems. The authors provide a rich analysis of technology, markets, natural resources, climate change, institutions and policy framework.

Stressing the importance of sustainable water use, this volume touches on the broader discourses of water challenges, incorporating different disciplinary perceptions ranging from social to environmental sciences. This collection of narratives calls for a global perspective on sustainable water use with an emphasis on better management of shared river basins and individual water sheds.

Provides a commentary on recent financial policies covering macroeconomic perspectives, monetary-fiscal policies, external sector policies, particularly exchange rate management and gold. The collection will be of interest to the general reader with broad interest in financial policies, and also to policy-makers, opinion makers, banks and financial institutions, academics, and students of finance.

Documents and analyses cross-country evidence to establish a relationship between capital and growth, and growth and poverty. It analyses macro evidence on investment behaviour in Indian agriculture, the shifting composition of public and private sector investment in agriculture, and the relationship among capital formation, agriculture growth and poverty alleviation.

The population-health-environment approach to development recognizes the interconnectedness between people and their environment. This book examines these issues while identifying areas of further research.

Explores the mind-boggling flurry of literature on the subject of microfinance. But it goes far beyond a review of literature on the concept, country models and history of microfinance movement in India; it provided a thematic work on the factual profiles of different microcredit programmes prevalent in the country and their progress.

Comparing and contrasting the Indian states of Punjab and Bihar, this study argues that whereas Punjab farming has bright prospects for a new phase of corporatization, Bihar's agriculture is still caught in the web of subsistence farming.