Editors:
- Addresses recent burning development issues in India ranging from land acquisition, poverty alleviations programs like NREGA, labour issues, the public-private-partnership (PPP) model and problems of fiscal federalism
- Focuses on both empirical and theoretical aspects of development economics
- A ready reference for policy practitioners working around economics of development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: India Studies in Business and Economics (ISBE)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Swapnendu Banerjee, Vivekananda Mukherjee, Sushil Kumar Haldar
About the editors
Swapnendu Banerjee is an associate professor at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His areas of interest are microeconomic theory, game theory and economics of contracts. He completed his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University and subsequently did his postdoctoral research from the National University of Singapore (2004-2005). He has published extensively in reputed international journals and has given presentations and invited lectures at places like Cornell University (NY, USA), National University of Singapore, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi School of Economics, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (India), among others.
Vivekananda Mukherjee is an associate professor at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His areas of teaching and research interest are applied microeconomics, public economics, environment and natural resource economics. He has published in journals such as European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Theory and Decision, Ecological Economics, to name a few.
Sushil Kumar Haldar is also an associate professor at the Department of Economics of Jadavpur University (JU). His areas of teaching and research interest are economics of social sector including economics of education, health, vulnerability and human poverty. His papers have been published in journals of national and international repute. He has completed many research projects on development issues funded by UNDP-Planning Commission-Govt. of India, European Union, UGC New Delhi, UPE JU (University with Potential for Excellence), CAS JU (Centre of Advanced Study), etc. Dr. Haldar has co-authored four books on development related issues from Indian perspectives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Development
Book Subtitle: An Indian Perspective on Legal and Economic Policy
Editors: Swapnendu Banerjee, Vivekananda Mukherjee, Sushil Kumar Haldar
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2455-6
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2454-9Published: 24 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3428-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2455-6Published: 08 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 272
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Economics, Public Law, Trade, Public Economics, Law and Economics