In quest of humane development : human development, community networking and public service delivery in India / Byasdeb Dasgupta, Prasenjit Sarkhel, Archita Ghosh, Bishakha Ghosh, editors.

This book presents a multidimensional perspective on the interlinkage between human development, community characteristics and public service delivery with special reference to India. The chapters in the book analyze the influence of public service delivery on human development from neo-classical as...

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Other Authors: Dasgupta, Byasdeb (Editor), Sarkhel, Prasenjit (Editor), Ghosh, Archita (Editor), Ghosh, Bishakha (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Series:India studies in business and economics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part A: Perspectives on Human Development
  • Chapter 1: Is the Notion of Human Development Capitalo-centric?
  • Chapter 2: Human(e) Development: Philosophy, Politics, Praxis in World of the Third Contexts
  • Chapter 3: Hunger, Climate Change and Human Development a Global Perspective
  • Chapter 4: Measuring Human Development at Sub-National Level: Methods & Application
  • Part B: Delivery of Public Services in India
  • Chapter 5: Delivering to Destroy? Communities and Access to Public Goods in India
  • Chapter 6: Delivery of Safe Drinking Water in Rural India: A critical evaluation of the public policies and rural water supply programs
  • Part C: Education, Health and Social Security for Human Development
  • Chapter 7: The changing relationships between education and development: Glimpses from policymaking in India
  • Chapter 8: The Effect of Employment Guarantee Scheme on School Attendance in Rural India
  • Chapter 9: Health and Well-being of the Elderly People: A Survival Challenge in West Bengal
  • Chapter 10: Experience of Social Protection for Unorganized Labourers in West Bengal
  • Chapter 11: Backward Region Grant Fund and its Utilisation: A Case Study in the District of Adilabad, Telengaga
  • Part D: Gender and Human Development
  • Chapter 12: Understanding the cost of violence against women and child marriage and the need for Context-specific response
  • Chapter 13: Female Work Participation and Persistent Gender Inequality in India
  • Part E: Financing for Human Development
  • Chapter 14: Emerging Challenges in Public Financing of Human Development in India
  • Chapter 15: Backward Region Grant Fund: Is the allocation justified?
  • Chapter 16: Private Provision of Public Goods through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)