In mainstream approaches, children’s labour is either to be banned or is not recognised. As a result, their association with the process of wealth creation and its distribution is occulted. In this paper, taking a classfocused Marxian approach, we question and critique the premise of this...

Land degradation due to intensive and extensive cultivation and over use of chemical inputs has become a cause of concern. But land use pattern is observed to have a strong co-relation with land tenurial practices. Present study attempts to assess this relationship in the context of the...

Debates about development include not only statements but also actions and programmes, and constitute a discourse that both derives from the past and shapes the response to the future. The debates in Egypt and India are contrasting, along the three dimensions of conflict, cooperation and...

Regional disparities continue to haunt the policy makers worldwide as well as India. In fact, at certain times, the issue has become explosive warranting immediate attention from the policy makers. A number of attempts have been made by the government as well as individual researchers to...

This study examines the performances of the rural institutional credit agencies in India in the pre- and post-reforms periods. Another question addressed here is: Do the institutional credit agencies perform in a discriminatory manner while lending to the rural/agricultural sector in various...

Indian coastline is vulnerable to sea-level rise and the tidal ingress, and pushing up of saline water on to inland results in submergence of crop lands. As a result, these lands, particularly the low-lying agricultural lands, become unfit for crop production. Such lands are found all along the...

The focus of this paper is on regional inequality in socio-economic standards in Nigeria. The inequality in the country is not only known to have persisted and widened over the years, but is also known to have a spatial dimension. In this study, the magnitude of the inequality has been...

Agriculture growth, driven by Green Revolution, has increased the foodgrains supply, ensuring food security. The next stage, however, faces a serious challenge in terms of sustainability. While developing countries face the problem of sustainability of resource use, the challenge for developed...

In this paper, the authors study how different policy regimes affected factor productivity growth (partial and total) in the manufacturing sector as a whole in West Bengal during the period 1981-97. First, strong liberalisation (1991-92 to 1997-98) experienced a remarkable positive impact on...

Contingent Valuation (CV) surveys ask the respondents about their monetary values for non-market goods contingent upon the creation of a hypothetical market and the means of payment. Though CV as a method to value non-market goods has gained acceptance over time, it has also raised various...