This book assesses the changes that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) could produce by boosting the competitiveness of firms in India and Korea. It evaluates the CEPA in terms of its effects on the environment and natural resources of the importing and exporting countries...

PART I: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions -- Chapter 1: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions -- Chapter 2: Dear, departed ones -- Chapter 3: ‘Dreaming Bengal’ -- Chapter 4: Reforming Babu’s Worldview -- Chapter 5: The National Library, Calcutta: A Reader’s Rendition -- Chapter 6: An...

Chapter 1: Structural Transformation of Rural Finance in India: A Critical Review -- Chapter 2: Risk Taking Behaviour in Financial Decision Making: A Village Level Study -- Chapter 3: Impacts of Caste, Risk, and Time Preference on Borrowing Behavior: A Case Study in West Bengal, India -- Chapter...

1. Introduction -- 2. Does an employment protection law matter? A panel data analysis of selected OECD countries, 1985-2012 -- 3. Network of legal citations: an analysis of some supreme court decisions on land acquisition in India -- 4. Surrogacy Contracting and Intermediation -- 5....

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the population and underdeveloped states. It provides a comprehensive study of disparity and deepens insight into understanding processes of economic and...

This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and...

This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue. An increase in the proportion of the elderly in the total population will potentially result in a significant growth in the number of beneficiaries in major federal entitlement programs, leading to...

Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources. The book explores the potential and the developmental impact of different categories of resources for financing social...