1st Edition
Institutions and Public Policy for India’s Sustainable Development Perspectives on Governance, Technology, and Finance
Sustainable development has emerged as an overarching concern globally. Given the challenges of climate change, national economies, especially in the developing world, face unsustainable levels and patterns of growth and development. This volume looks at how India’s sustainable development has progressed through changes in its institutions and public policy discourse. It studies the three pillars of sustainability — technology, governance, and finance. The authors examine whether institutions have been able to work towards becoming inclusive and participatory in nature, and whether public policy is able to remain relevant and agile in a fast-changing world to ensure sustainable development.
Written in honour of Professor Vinod Vyasulu, an erudite economist with wide-ranging interests, this volume will be of interest to academics and practitioners engaged with issues of development, policy, institutions, and technology in the fields of Economics, Sociology, Development Studies, Public Policy, and South Asian studies.
Foreword by Ashwani Saith
1. Challenges of sustainable development in India: Understanding dilemmas, disconnects and mismatches
A.Indira, A. V. Arunkumar, Jyotsna Jha and Sukhpal Singh
2. Meeting India’s Sustainable Development Challenges: A people- centred perspective
Shobha Raghuram
3. Time Use Surveys and Valuation of Household Production: The Canvas Before India
Bhargavi Ramamurthy
4. Methodological and Ethical Concerns in a Study on Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine among Health Care Workers in a Medical College of India
Srijit Mishra
5. Efficiency's handmaiden: The use of ICTs in Development
Bharath M. Palavalli, Sruthi Krishnan
6. Strengthening public sector governance in India
Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu
7. Has farmers' access to credit improved over time? An analysis of NSSO data
Meenakshi Rajeev and Pranav Nagendran
8. What Ails IBC Regime especially in relation to Individual Insolvency?: A Critical Assessment
H.S. Shylendra
9. Institutional Interventions in Dairy Value Chains in India: A Case Study of the Impact of the Milk Cooperative Vis-à-Vis Informal Milk Market Channels on Farmers in Punjab
Naresh Singla and Sukhpal Singh
10. Dullards, Drop-outs and Daughters: Examining Institutional Structures of Schooling in Andhra Pradesh
Jyotsna Jha, Niveditha Menon, Neha Ghatak and Archana Purohit
11. Public Policy and Banking: An Unfinished Journey
M S Sriram
12. The Political economy of Maps as Public Documents
S.Rajagopalan
13. MSMEs in India: A Techno Ecosystem approach
A.V. Arunkumar and S. Gopiprasad
14. Financial Inclusion and Livelihood Security: A case study of Community Based organisation
V. Veerashekharappa
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Biography
Sukhpal Singh is Professor and Former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Former Director General, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) Chandigarh, and Former Professor and Head, Agricultural Economic Research Unit (AERU), Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi, India.
Jyotsna Jha headed Bangalore, India, based Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, an independent public policy and finance think tank for 13 years between 2011 and 2023. Prior to this, she has worked with Commonwealth Secretariat, London, as an adviser for the Social Transformation Programmes Division for five years where she actively researched on issues related with equity in education, gender and HIV-AIDS, and engaged in evidence-based policy advocacy with member countries in all regions: Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
A. Indira has over 30 years of varied experience as a researcher, teacher, trainer, consultant, and academics administrator. She received her M.A.(Economics) from Central University, Hyderabad, M.Tech (Management Studies) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.
A.V. Arunkumar is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Business at RV University, Bengaluru, India, and the Executive Director, Centre for Banking, Development and Financial Studies at the RV University.
