Themes in development economics: essays in honour of Malcolm Adiseshiah

This collection of essays is heterogeneous in theme, orientation, and treatment. Some of the papers have a pronouncedly 'theoretical' perspective. These include one on formulating a freedom-based notion of rights that could be of some immediate relevance in the context of a resource-constrained developing economy; two papers on issues relating to the implementation of poverty-alleviation programmes; and one on mechanisms for dealing with the phenomenon of urban employment in a dual economy.

The 'applied' papers include one on demographic data in the census; one on issues relating to infant mortality; one on processes attending the gradual emergence of capitalist forces in the agrarian regime of a village; one on factors influencing the incidence of non-farm labour; one on the experience of providing social security measures to disadvantaged groups, and one on the performance of a state in managing its power resources.
The editor hopes that the 'applied' papers will lend themselves to generalizable insights in the same way in which the 'theoretical' essays will have relevance for specific events on the ground.