Deprivation and inclusive development

This edited book analyzes various dimensions of deprivation with collective wisdom and reflection and underlines deteriorating employment situation, growing revenue and fiscal deficits and debts amidst slow pace of growth along with declining public investment resulting necessarily into non-development syndrome. This volume could bring clearly that there is no sign of any let up against exclusion unless a comprehensive package of deprived centric development strategies are worked out. Continuity of structural deprivation, which made Idalit and women worse and further accentuated with ill effects of policies in changing situation, particularly in the wake of liberalization, privatization and globalization. This has an imperative towards reorientation of development strategies in favour of deprived masses so that the economy at large can take advantage of changing worlds towards building an inclusive and egalitarian society.

This volume is an outcome of a three day National Seminar on 'Deprivation and Inclusive Development: Options and Strategies for Uttar Pradesh' for collective reflections among cross section of experts to analyse and work out a package of feasible strategies and policies for development.

This book is divided into following six parts: Part I: Deprivation: Concept, Perspectives and Dimensions; Part II: Employment, Growth and Deprivation Linkages; Part III: Economic Deprivation, Policies and Programmes; Part IV: Resource Mobilisation, and Institutional Finance; Part V: Women Empowerment and Challenges; Part VI: Globalisation, Market and Deprivation.