"Human development and structural adjustment : papers and proceedings of UNDP Symposium on Economic Growth, Sustainable Human Development and Poverty Alleviation in India : Bombay ;"

In the specific context of India's programmes of stabilization and structural adjustment, this book discusses issues which are of global concern -- how to abolish the scourge of poverty, accelerate human development and ensure sustainable economic growth.

The articles in this book, followed by lively and provocative discussions, provide an as sessment of various approaches to poverty alleviation, the implications of structural adjustments, trends in public expenditure on human development, problems of backward regions, new modalities for people's participa tion to overcome bureaucratic bottlenecks and possibilities of extending protective social security for groups hitherto bypassed by economic growth. The responsibilities government for ensuring human de and environmental sustainability are sized.

The book looks beyond the transitional period of structural adjustment and projects a vision of realistic possibilities for improving the life chances of the world's quarter or more poor people who happen to live