With six essays exploring different aspects of economic growth, poverty, inequality and social security, this book offers a critical perspective on India's development experience since independence. Incisive and empirically rich, the book opens up new vistas in development discourse and informs...

Introduction -- Ethnic Heterogeneity -- The Welfare State -- Poverty and Inequality -- Ethnic Heterogeneity and the Welfare State -- Ethnic Heterogeneity and Poverty and Inequality -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

Overview -- Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare: Social Welfare and Income Distributions -- Inequality and Poverty Indexes -- Welfare and Efficiency: Inequality, Efficiency, and the Production Sphere -- Efficiency and Welfare -- Information Incentives and Performance -- Summary Example and...

Introduction: Measuring Tax Progression -- Theories: Local Measures -- Global Measures -- Uniform Measures -- Applications: Data and Fiscal Institutions of the Surveyed Countries -- Numerical Results -- Statistical Tests -- Progression Intensity

The Quadruple Innovation Helix concept is the synthesis of top-down policies and practices from Government, University and Industry balanced and shaped by bottom-up initiatives and actions by Civil Society. In addition, of significance is the complementary expansion and completion of the...

The importance of entrepreneurship for achieving economic growth in contemporary economies is widely recognized, both by policy makers and economists. However, empirical evidence linking entrepreneurship to economic growth is scarce. Empirical Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth...

Globalization, Specialization and Innovation Dynamics.- Savings, Investment and Growth: New Approaches for Macroeconomic Modeling -- Economic Integration, Technological Progress and Growth -- Impact of the Real Exchange Rate on Trade, Structural Change and Growth -- Macroeconomic Aspects of...

Modern macroeconomics suffers from an unclear link between short-term Keynesian analysis and long-term growth modelling. This book presents a new link between monetary analysis and growth modelling in open economies. Structural change, innovations and growth are considered from a new...