Prof. L. M. Bhole
Laxman Madhao Bhole is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. After graduating from Poona University in 1965, he obtained his M.A. in Economics from Bombay University in 1967. He obtained Ph.D. from Bombay University in 1971 and joined Sydenham College, Bombay, where he taught for two years. He joined IIT Bombay in1973 and was the Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences during 1989-92. He was awarded Maharashtra Government Open Merit Scholarship, Ford Foundation Scholarship, and UGC Fellowship for pursuing his studies at various levels. He visited the Institute for Studies in Economic Development, Naples, Italy for six months on an Italian Government scholarship. Prof. Bhole has been teaching Economics for more than 35 years.
A prolific writer, Prof. Bhole has many books, and over 125 research articles published in books and reputed journals, to his credit. His books are: (1) Investment, Interest, and Monetary Policy in India (1974); (2) Impacts of Monetary Policy (1985) (3) Financing of the Private Corporate Sector: Trends, Issues, and Policies (2000); (4) Essays on Gandhian Socio-Economic Thought (2000); (5) Financial Institutions And Markets: Structure, Growth, And Innovations (Fourth Ed.) (2004); (6) Collected Papers on Money, Interest, and Monetary Policy (2007); (7) Collected Papers on Credit and Finance (2007), (8) Collected Papers on Gandhian Thought (2007); (9) Unemployment, Inequality, Entrepreneurship, and other Collected Papers (2007).
Unemployment, Inequality, Entrepreneurship,
and other Collected Papers - Vol. 4
238 Pages, 17 x 24 cm, Tables & Figures
ISBN 978-3-938054-20-8 - Softcover - EURO 50,80
ISBN 978-3-938054-25-3 - Hardcover - EURO n/a
About the book
Overview
Unemployment, Inequality, Entrepreneurship, and other Collected Papers contains fifteen research papers on important, topical, socially relevant themes such as the extent of unemployment in India, the true nature and the degree of success of Government unemployment alleviation programmes, the interrelationship between growth and equalities, regional disparities in development in India, the concept of entrepreneurship, corporatism, and co-operativism. The book takes a critical and unconventional perspective on certain holy cows such as co-operatives and entrepreneurship.
Excerpt (Introduction, p. 1)
Many people fear that the New Economic Policy (NEP) introduced in June 1991 by the Government of India would further aggravate an already acute unemployment problem in India. In order to understand this issue, it may be useful to know about the working of special Unemployment Alleviation Programmes, Schemes, Yojnas which have been implemented in India over the past 20/25 years, and about the impact of NEP on these programmes. The objective of this paper, therefore, is to present a systematic review of the operation of these programmes, and to critically discuss the prospects for and approach to them under the NEP. The paper is divided into five sections. In Section I, the origin, evolution, objectives, and main features of special Unemployment Alleviation Programmes (UAPs) are described. The quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the performance of these programmes are presented in Section II and Section III, respectively. The NEP's approach to these programmes is examined in Section IV. The summary and conclusions arc presented in Section V.
Contents
1. Unemployment Alleviation Programmes In India: A Review and Prospects Under the New Economic Policy
2. Employment-Unemployment in India
3. Reflections on Interrelationship between Growth and Equality
4. Development and Disparities in Maharashtra - A Spatiotemporal Analysis
5. Measuring Development Distances between Regions in India: A Combined Component Approach
6. Regional Disparities in Rural Development in India
7. Determinants of Bank Deposits in India: A State-Wise Analysis
8. State-wise Differences in Determinants of Bank Credit in India
9. Commercial Banking: A Profile of Spatial Development
10. Patterns and Determinants of Land Utilization in Maharashtra
11. The Evolution of the Concept of Entrepreneurship
12. Entrepreneurship in an Environment of Deregulated Interest Rates
13. Is Corporatism an Alternative Social Order?
14. The Role of Co-operatives in Socio-Economic Development in India
15. A Perspective on Controlling Inflation
Audience
Doctoral and post-doctoral students, researchers in economics and finance, and policy makers.
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