Ray, Biswanath (ed.)

Welfare, choice and development: essays in honour of professor Amartya Sen - New Delhi Kanishka 2008 - 263 p.

"Welfare, Choice and Development: Essays in Honour of Prof. Amartya Sen," reviews the prevalent social, economic and demographic features in India. Such diverse issues as overview of epidemio logic transition, health care services, theory of collective choice and welfare, measuring human well-being of the countries: achievements and development indices, post modern response of welfare economics, Sen's sense of development, gender inequality in the education system, leadership and development, transfer of technology through Panchayati Raj, inequality, problems of primary education and economic development demographic indicators of economic development, the concluding paper contains a comprehensive account of Professor Amartya Sen's career and his manifold academic and other activities.

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Economic development

BR 338.9 WEL 1999