This book provides a look at the current status and future potential of sustainable development in India. Macroeconomic developments, regional disparity and poverty situation, the trend in natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, trajectory of economic development, and...

The present scale of subsidy in the agricultural sector poses a high fiscal burden on the central and state governments. High agricultural input subsidies results in inefficient resource allocation; crowding out of public sector investment; degrades the environment and affects the agricultural...

Sustainability requires that the productive base measured in terms of comprehensive wealth of a society should be increasing on per capita basis. Comprehensive wealth includes manufactured, human and natural capital along with knowledge base and institutions. This study offers methodological...

More than 45% of Fijis population lives in the rural areas and a significantly large proportion lives on meager income. There have been many efforts in the past to improve rural economy in Fiji but only limited successes have been achieved. There are many constraints that hinder sustainable...