Using river basin case studies in a variety of contexts, this book provides an overview of how societies have gradually developed their water resources and furthers our understanding of how such resources can be managed successfully or unsuccessfully.

Strategies relating to -- 1. Population -- 2. Agriculture -- 3. Industry -- 4. Small-Scale Sector -- 5. Fiscal Management -- 6. Deficit Financing -- 7. Inflation Control and Price Regulation -- 8. Foreign Trade and Balance of Payment -- 9. Labour and Industrial Relations -- 10. Wages and Incomes...

Cities are experiencing growth across the world and constantly striving to meet the challenges imposed by growth pressures. Cities in developing world are growing at a much rapid pace and they would require much needed forward planning and financial strength to sustain it. In a way, growth of...

This article tries to examine the relation between the extent of poverty and various dimensions of human development in different parts of the world with emphasis on the Indian realities. Though significance of public spending on health and education for enhancing human development in India...

This essay is an entry in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Economic Law from Edward Elgar Publishing, edited by Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Thomas Cottier and due to be published in 2016. Development is about aspiration — our longing for a better life as individuals and as a...

Public policy reforms are multifaceted and important for debates and discussion. In India, the first administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) and the second ARC pointed directions for reforms of the public systems at the structural level. Moreover, the new economic policy and the sixth central...

Today, India is as near as the voice answering an 800 number for one dollar an hour, and China is as close as the nearest Wal-Mart. Not since the United States rose to prominence a century ago have we seen such tectonic shifts in global power; but India and China are vastly different nations,...

Introduction: puzzle of divergent development trajectories within a debated (non)-developmental state -- State of art : governance and comparative political economy -- Theoretical framework -- Elite agency and development in Andhra Pradesh (I) : confrontation and populism in the age of tollywood...