Globalization and decentralised development/ edited by Gyana Chandra Kar

Globalization and Decentralised Development is an edited volume prepared out of the selected papers contributed to one of technical sessions of the Tiruvananthapur Conference of the Indian Economic Association. The 38 papers included in this volume are distributed over 3 sections, viz. (a) Theories and Philosophy of Globalisation and Decentralised Development, (b) Sectoral, Regions-specific and Goods-specific Issues of Globalisation, and (c) Globalisation and Social Welfare. The authors of these articles are : (a) B. Narashimha Reddy, Ram Binod Singh, Sukumar Basu, J. Lenka, S.K. Dhage, R. Meera and V. Raja Ramane and C. Rajendran, A. Meenakshisundararajan, P.N. Rao, Debasis Chakraborty and Arup Guha; (b) Suchismita Mondal and Pinaki Chakraborty, Md. Abdus Salam, S. Borbara and Ratul Mahanta, R. Annapoorani and K. Nirmala Devi, Paramjit Nanda and P.S. Raikhy, K. Sai Haragopal, S. Perumaisamy and P. Krishna Thulasimani, U.B. Kondewar, Kapildeo Singh, P.K Pal, Pradeep Kumar, Inder Pal Kaur, V.S. Ganesamurth and K. Mariappan, Uday Kumar Lal Das, V.P. Tripathy and P. Prakash and Arun Bhadoria, B.P. Chandramohan, Gajavelli V. Swamy, A.R. Veeramani and K. Ramesh, Davinder Kumar Madaan, S. Vijayalakshmi; (c) A.P. Pandey, S.K. Mishra and I.D. Singh, Anil Kumar Choudhury, L. Rathakrishnan and N. Krishnakumar, S.K. Pant, S.P. Saha and V.S. Paswan and Supriya and Nivedita Chaturvedi. This volume contains an Editorial by Gyana Chandra Kar and a Foreword by Raj Kumar Sen.

In this era of sweeping globalisation, this book highlights an altogether different dimension, viz. decentralised development in this context. Researchers, policy-makers, academicians and interested general readers will find the contents rich in information and both light and fruit bearing.