section 1. Elementary education: initiatives -- section 2. Health related MDGs : assessment -- section 3. Food security : perspectives -- section 4. Poverty and employment : approach -- section 5. Women empowerment : challenges -- section 6. Sustainable development : outlook. - Papers presented...

Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health and nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare programme (MGNREGA) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India...

This book extensively examines various contemporary macroeconomic themes of India, namely growth and macro policies, tax reforms, government finances and intergovernmental fiscal transfers, banking and monetary policy, and environment and social sector policies. It has three to six chapters...