TY - BOOK AU - Thakur, Anil Kumar AU - Singh, Paramanand TI - Global meltdown and Indian economy SN - 9788184503548 U1 - 330.954 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Deep & Deep Publications KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Congresses KW - India -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Congresses KW - Financial crises -- Congresses N1 - PART I:Disparity in Development 1. Regional Disparities 3 Biswajit Guha 2. An Enquiry into the Sub-State Level Disparities 48 Debendra Narayan Bhattacharyya 3. Inter-district Income Disparity 68 Dhires Bhattacharya, Puspa Tarafdar and Abhijit Dutta 4. Growth, Diversification and Instability 81 Gunendra Prasad Pal 5. Regional Disparity Trends 95 Pavel Chakraborty and Debashis Chakraborty 6. Economic Development: A Study of Centricity 120 Jayanta Sen and D.P. Pal PART II: Agriculture 7. Regional Disparity in Productivity of Boro and Aman Paddies in Six Districts 137 Ruma Bhattacharya and Biswajit Chatterjee 8. An Analysis of Inter-district Disparity in Foodgrains Production 175 Arpita Ghose (nee Dhar) and Dipyaman Pal 9. Disparity and Convergence of Daily Wage Rate of Male Agricultural Labour since 1990-91 207 Debesh Bhowmik PART III: Human Development 10. Disparity of Human Poverty Index: The Role of Infrastructure 231 Sushi! K. Haider and Kajari Roy 11. Regional Disparity in Income and Human Development since 1980s 250 Prankrishna Pal 12. Development Paradigm of Health-Education Nexus—An Examination of Regional Disparities 269 Dhiraj Kumar Bandyopadhyay PART IV: Infrastructure, Urbanization and Small Scale Industries 13. Inter-district Disparity in the Growth of Urbanization 305 Dhirendra Nath Konar 14. Road Transport System and Regional Disparities 317 Debasish Bera, Dhirendra Nath Konar and Dilip Haider 15. Disparity in the Development of Small Scale Industries 334 Mohasin Mallick 16. Regional Disparities in Development 352 Kalipada Basu PART VI: Backwardness in North Bengal 17. Comparative Backwardness of North Bengal: Strategies for its Development 367 Kanak Bagchi and Satyen Sarkar 18. Regional Disparity and Secessionist Militancy in North Bengal 391 Sumit Mukherjee ER -