Persistent and Emerging Challenges to Development: Insights for Policy-Making in India

This book discusses development studies, divided into four sections: macroeconomy, health and standard of living, education, and banking and credit. It uses cutting-edge econometric techniques to answer important questions, such as spatial concentration of low infant and child health outcomes, trade liberalization and export quality, intergenerational occupational mobility, multidimensional poverty incidence in rural India, and robustness of the banking sector.

Format: Hardback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 27 February 2022
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This comprehensive book delves into a diverse array of topics within the realm of development studies, acknowledging the multifaceted challenges associated with achieving and sustaining economic growth. It is organized into four sections:

The Macroeconomy: Foreign Trade, Structural Transition, and the Environment

Health and Standard of Living

Education, Human Capital, and Evolution of Employment Quality in India

Banking and Credit: Access, Efficiency, and Stability

The book brings together a distinguished group of senior and young economists, who employ cutting-edge econometric techniques and innovative approaches to unravel insightful findings that have the potential to shape tomorrow's theorization and policymaking.

One of the key themes explored in the volume is the spatial concentration of low infant and child health outcomes, trade liberalization and export quality, intergenerational occupational mobility, multidimensional poverty incidence in rural India, and the robustness of the banking sector. To address these critical questions, the contributions employ novel and esoteric methods such as machine learning, spatial econometrics, system GMM, quintile regression, and counterfactual decomposition (QRCD).

The rich collection of contributions in this book holds immense importance for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners working in various developmental sectors. It provides valuable insights and methodologies that can contribute to improving development outcomes and promoting sustainable growth.

Weight: 840g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811641800
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022