Price and output response of marketed surplus of foodgrains : a cross-sectional study of North-Indian villages

Caption title"1737"--handwritten on leaf [1]Includes bibliographical references (leaf 23

Crop prices and interstate differences in the use of chemical fertilisers in India

Caption title"1738"--handwritten on p. [1

On UNDP’s Revisions to the Gender-Related Development Index

human development, economic growth, globalization, inequality, poverty

UNDP's Gender-Related Indices: A Critical Review

human development, consumption, globalization

Response of marketed surplus of foodgrains to the price-ratio between foodgrains and manufactured consumer goods: some cases from India

Cover title"1739"--handwritten on coverIncludes bibliographical reference

Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels: a selection of Bengali short stories

Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories - stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical structures of privilege and class differentiation.Written over a span of roughly ninety years from the early 1890s to the late 1970s, the twenty stories in this collection represent the work of five authors. Their characters, drawn from widely varying social groups, often find themselves caught up in tumultuous political and social upheaval.The reader encounters Rabindranath Thakur's extraordinarily spirited and bold heroines; Manik Bandyopadhyay's peasants, laborers, fisherfolk, and outcastes; and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's rural underclass of snake-charmers, corpse-handlers, stick-wielders, potters, witches, and Vaishnava minstrels. Mahasweta Devi gives voice to the semi-landless tribals and untouchables effectively denied the rights guaranteed them by the Constitution; Hasan Azizul Huq depicts the plight of the impoverished of Bangladesh

Women in Emerging Asia: Welfare, Employment, and Human Development

Women in Asia now find themselves at a crossroad. While most of the long-term trends in demography, education, and employment opportunities, if sustained by supportive policies and gender-sensitive crisis management, are likely to reduce gender inequities, the outlook in the short to medium term is not very bright. Gender-bias in mortality persists in parts of Asia. Literacy and schooling gaps are still large in South Asia. The interaction of gender-based indicators of welfare, capability, work participation, and earnings reflects the centrality of female education for economic growth, mortality and fertility reduction, and equity. Educational inequality will be a weightier source of income inequality in the next decade. Lastly, during stagflation, recession, restructuring, and transition, women relatively suffer earnings loss, workload increase, and educational setback. Economic growth is not a sufficient condition for gender equity, and public policies must consistently pursue it in the distribution of opportunities and adjustment costs. Improving women’s employment opportunities (in quantity and quality) involves addressing labor-market rigidities, credit-market barriers, and the lack of infrastructure and utilities that aggravates their workloads