Regional Development and Public Policy Challenge in India

Introduction and Overview.- Chapter 1. India's Growth Performance 2000-2012 - Region Based Perspective (by Biswa Swarup Misra).- Chapter 2. Poor versus Prosperous India (by Madhusudan Ghosh).- Chapter 3. Poverty and Inequality in India: Regional Disparities (by Rakhee Bhattacharya and J. P Bhattacharjee).- Chapter 4. Miseries of the Red Corridor Region of India: What Do the Data Tell Us? (by Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay and Nilanjan Banik).- Chapter 5. Intra and Inter State Inequality in the Northeast Region with Special Reference to Assam (by Meenakshi Rajeev and Azharuddin Akhtar).- Chapter 6. Growth, Development Outcome and Fiscal Balance: How have Indian States Performed? (by Pinaki Chakraborty).- Chapter 7. 'Inclusive Growth' and Income Inequality in India under Globalisation: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses (by Amitabh Kundu).- Chapter 8. Examining Regional Imbalance in China and Comparing with India (by Amitendu Palit).- Chapter 9. The Way Forward: Public Policy to Address Regional Imbalances in India- Process and Outcome (by Rakhee Bhattacharya).- Epilogue. Evolution of Literature on Different Aspects of Regional Inequality in India (by K. L. Krishna).

Rakhee Bhattacharya is currently the Associate Director and a fellow at Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi. She is working on various economic challenges of contemporary India. Prior to this assignment, she has worked at others institutes across the country and was Endeavour post-doctoral fellow in Australia. Her research interests are development, disparity, regional economies & conflicts. She has worked on many such issues in India's Northeast and authored 'Development Disparities in Northeast India'. In addition to this, she has edited a number of volumes and has written several articles in both national and international journals.

Institutional Affiliation of the Contributors

Amitabh Kundu, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Regional Development and Dean of the Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Biswa Swarup Misra, Professor of Economics and Dean at the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. 

Madusudan Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal (India). 

Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Research Scholar in the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai. 

Nilanjan Banik, Associate Professor in the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai. 

Meenakshi Rajeev, Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Policy in ISEC, Bangalore. 

Azharuddin Akhtar, Research Associate at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. 

Amitendu Pali, Senior Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) in the National University of Singapore 

J. P. Bhattacharajee, Deputy Director General in the Survey Design & Research Division (SDRD) of National sample Survey Office (NSSO) of MOSPI, Govt of India, Kolkata. 

Pinaki Chakraborty, Professor at National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. He is also an Honorary