In India there is a high incidence of morbidity and malnutrition coupled with low standards of public health and expensive medical care. Despite several policy initiatives and many attempts to promote a healthy society, health remains an issue of concern. Policy-makers recognise that the country...

Upon the backdrop of impressive progress made by the Indian economy during the last two decades after the large-scale economic reforms in the early 1990s, this book evaluates the performance of the economy on some income and non-income dimensions of development at the national, state and...

The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the Indian government and governments of several other developing countries. Marketing reforms, it is claimed, can be a crucial answer to solving the problem of rural poverty in agrarian economies...

Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Review of Economic Policies and Growth Performance -- Chapter 3: Regional Economic Growth and Inequality -- Chapter 4: Growth and Regional Divergence in Industry and Services -- Chapter 5: Growth and Regional Divergence in Agriculture -- Chapter 6: Structural...

Part One: Background -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part Two: Financial Decisions -- Chapter 2: Capital Budgeting Practices -- Chapter 3: Capital Structure Decisions -- Chapter 4: Dividend Policy -- Chapter 5: Working Capital Management -- Part Three: Corporate Governance, Risk Management and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Population Size and Composition of Sample Households -- Chapter 3: Socio-economic Variations, Consumption Poverty and Health Generated Inequalities in Sample Population -- Chapter 4: Self-reported Ailments and Hospitalization: Differentials in Utilization of...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Street Vendors in the Urban Economy -- Chapter 2: The Field: Profile of the Cities -- Chapter 3: Why do Street Vendors Need Finance? -- Chapter 4: Sources of Finance -- Chapter 5: How Can Financial Institutions Help Out? -- Chapter 6: Recommendations and Conclusion.