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Accelerating India's Development
Seventy-five years after Independence, India has much to be proud of. We are both the world’s biggest democracy and fastest-growing large economy. Yet, we face profound challenges that hinder both individual well-being and aggregate growth, including education and skills, health and nutrition, public safety, justice, social protection, and jobs. This seminal book systematically analyses India’s governance challenges, especially in delivering essential public services, and highlights how these are limiting India’s development. Drawing on a wealth of research and practical insights, it provides actionable, evidence-based strategies, emphasizing state-level reforms as critical for Indiaâ€...
Getting Children Back to School
In Indian context.
Future Forsaken
Hundreds of thousands of children in India are living with HIV/AIDS. Many more children are otherwise seriously affected by India's burgeoning epidemic-when they are forced to withdraw from school to care for sick parents, are forced to work to replace their parents' income, or are orphaned (losing one or both parents to AIDS).
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Social innovation and social entrepreneurship look for creative and affordable solutions to specific societal problems. Fuelled by the spread of the internet and the ubiquity of mobile phones, there are more people working to solve pressing social and environmental problems in the world today than ever before. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents the journeys of pioneering - and often accidental - social innovators who, faced with a problem, used their courage, tenacity and creative thinking to find a solution. Using their own words to reflect upon their experiences, these cases do not gloss over the setbacks and the dead-ends social entrepreneurs can face. Instead, readers will g...
An Alternative Development Agenda for India
This book provides a revamped, transformative, and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically improve the well-being and livelihoods of its citizens. Grounded in a ‘people first’ approach, this alternative agenda focuses on seven vital development and inter-connected areas, including health, education, food and nutrition, child development, gender, livelihood and jobs, and urbanization. The volume highlights the systemic issues plaguing these sectors and offers pragmatic and implementable solutions to address them. The author takes cognizance of the COVID-19 pandemic and draws attention to the limitations of the current public policies and suggests cost-effective in...
Forty Years of Arun C Mehta at NIEPA
Prof. Arun C Mehta worked at the premier National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi for almost four decades (1980 to 2019) and authored numerous books, published articles in journals of repute, and written research reports based on one of the largest databases of the World, namely the Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE) which he nurtured about two decades. He had written extensively in the areas of educational planning, education for all, demographic & enrolment projections, indicators of educational development, and data analysis. In the present book, Prof. Mehta presents a select 27 articles which are grouped into five broad head...
Changing Tides
This book explores climate action and justice in India, a country which has been facing extreme climate events and complex sociopolitical challenges arising from climate change. It offers diverse perspectives and insights into India's evolving climate landscape, policies, grassroots initiatives, and response to climate vulnerability and inequality. The book scrutinises policy efficacy, addresses community vulnerabilities and perspectives, and showcases innovative sustainable development strategies. It draws upon climate adaptation literature to underscore the significance of global cooperation in tackling climate change challenges. With a focus on inclusivity and global collaboration, the bo...
Improving Nutritional Outcomes
This book engages with the critical issue of nutrition and its relationship with the full spectrum of human development challenges in India. It examines concerns around both undernutrition and overnutrition through a range of case studies, documenting key interventions and strategies implemented by governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders. The book broadly discusses macroeconomic and social issues affecting India’s progress in addressing nutrition challenges, linking them to mesoand micro-level factors—from food and health systems to grassroots realities. It explores not only policy imperatives but, more importantly, the processes and mechanisms necessary to achieve them. Special attent...
Universalizing Elementary Education in India
This is a study on pattrn of financing of elementary education by the State, by the household, size and characteristics of the private sector in elementary education as well aspotential for new reforms in public spending on elemetary education.
