1st Edition
Institutions and Public Policy for India’s Sustainable Development Perspectives on Governance, Technology, and Finance
List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
List of Boxes xiii
Author Biographies xiv
Foreword xxiv
1 Challenges of Sustainable Development in India: Understanding Dilemmas, Disconnects, and Mismatches 1
A. INDIRA, A.V. ARUNKUMAR, JYOTSNA JHA AND SUKHPAL SINGH
2 Meeting India’s Sustainable Development Challenges: A People-Centred Perspective 21
SHOBHA RAGHURAM
3 Time-Use Surveys and Valuation of Household Production: The Canvas Before India 40
BHARGAVI RAMAMURTHY
4 Methodological and Ethical Concerns in a Study on Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine Among Health-Care Workers in a Medical College of India 62
SRIJIT MISHRA
5 Efficiency’s Handmaiden: The Use of ICTs in Development 78
BHARATH M. PALAVALLI AND SRUTHI KRISHNAN
6 Strengthening Public-Sector Governance in India 94
VIJAYALAKSHMI VADIVELU
7 Has Farmers’ Access to Credit Improved Over Time? An Analysis of NSSO Data 117
MEENAKSHI RAJEEV AND PRANAV NAGENDRAN
8 What Ails IBC Regime Especially in Relation to Individual Insolvency?: A Critical Assessment 137
H.S. SHYLENDRA
9 Institutional Interventions in Dairy Value Chains in India: A Case Study of the Impact of the Milk Co-operative
Vis-à-Vis Informal Milk Market Channels on Farmers in Punjab 148
NARESH SINGLA AND SUKHPAL SINGH
10 Dullards, Drop-Outs and Daughters: Examining Institutional Structures of Schooling in Andhra Pradesh 166
JYOTSNA JHA, NIVEDITHA MENON, NEHA GHATAK AND ARCHANA PUROHIT
11 Public Policy and Banking: An Unfinished Journey 186
M.S. SRIRAM
12 The Political Economy of Maps as Public Documents 204
S. RAJAGOPALAN
13 MSMEs in India: A Techno Ecosystem Approach 218
A.V. ARUNKUMAR AND S. GOPIPRASAD
14 Financial Inclusion and Livelihood Security: A Case Study of Community-Based Organisation 237
V. VEERASHEKHARAPPA
Index 257
Biography
Sukhpal Singh is Professor and Former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad; Former Director General, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), Chandigarh; and Former Professor and Head, Agricultural Economic Research Unit (AERU), Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi, India.
Jyotsna Jha is Director Skills, Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver. She headed Bengaluru, India, based Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, an independent public policy and finance think tank for 13 years between 2011 and 2023. Prior to this, she worked with Commonwealth Secretariat, London, as an adviser for the Social Transformation Programmes Division for five years where she actively researched on issues related with equity in education, gender and HIV-AIDS, and engaged in evidence-based policy advocacy with member countries in all regions: Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
A. Indira is an Independent Researcher with over 30 years of experience as a researcher, teacher, trainer, consultant and academic administrator. She received her MA (Economics) from Central University, Hyderabad; MTech (Management Studies) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; and holds a PhD in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.
A.V. Arunkumar is Professor and Associate Dean of a leading Business School located at Bengaluru, India. He has over 29 years of expertise in wide-ranging functional areas that include teaching, research, academic administration, development banking, national and international banking, financial risk management and international finance. As part of the research work, he has brought out, quite a few working papers, articles in journals, book chapters and books. In addition to his academic profile, has held executive roles in development, commercial and multinational banks in the core functional areas like credit, operational and enterprise risk management.
