TY - BOOK AU - Bandyopadhyay,Simanti AU - Dutta,Mousumi TI - Opportunities and challenges in development: essays for Sarmila Banerjee SN - 9789811399800 U1 - 338.9 23rd. PY - 2019/// CY - Singapore PB - Springer KW - Economics KW - Economic development and growth KW - Development KW - Opportunities and challenges N1 - Includes a personal reflection on professor sarmila banerjee; Macroeconomic Issues -- Theories of Expectations Including Rational Expectations and Their Uses in Different Versions of the Philips Curve -- Keynes, Working Hours, Lifestyles and the Environment: A Note -- A Perspective on the Slowdown in Private Corporate Investments in India -- On the Lead–Lag Relationship Between Market Capitalization Ratio and Per Capita Growth -- A Study of Volatility of Five Major Stock Indices of Indian Stock Market -- Institutions and Development -- Uncertain R&D Outcomes and Cooperation in R&D -- Informal Sector: Progression or Persistence? -- Group Formation and Endogenous Information Collection in Microcredit -- Formal Contract Enforcement and Entrepreneurial Success of the Marginalized -- Does Social Connectivity Influence Tap Water Access? Evidence from India -- Public Finance and International Economics -- Political Economy of Fiscal Reform in Indian States -- Vertical Fiscal Imbalances and Its Impact on Fiscal Performance: A Case for Indian States -- Exchange-Rate Pass-Through to Sectoral Import Prices in an Emerging Market Economy: An Indian Evidence -- Pricing of Energy Goods in India: How Is It Done? -- International Joint Ventures in Developing Countries: The Implications of Policy Uncertainty and Information Asymmetry -- Labour and Human Capital -- Household Self-Employment Eliminates Child Labour -- Handloom in West Bengal: Decline or Dynamism? -- Total Factor Productivity Growth of Elementary Education in India and Its Determinants: Evidence from a Non-parametric Data Envelopment Approach -- Gulf War Syndrome: The Plight of War Veterans -- Foetal Starvation, Economic Adversity and Health a Difference-in-Difference Approach -- Inequality and Well-Being -- Sustainable Development and the Problem of Economic Inequality -- Informality and Disaster Vulnerability: A Preliminary Exploration -- Estimation of Median Incomes of the American States: Bayesian Estimation of Means of Sub-populations -- Entropy-Based Consumption Diversity—The Case of India -- Trend in Inter-state Disparity of Well-Being in India in the Post-Reforms Period -- Correction to: Informality and Disaster Vulnerability: A Preliminary Exploration N2 - This book provides a broad overview of the current research on various aspects of development, with a focus on India. The content and treatment of the subject of development in this volume is distinctive in many ways. It is a balanced mix of theory and practical elements, dealing with a number of issues at micro as well as macro levels. The analyses of the current socio-economic problems are attempted in an elegant yet simple manner which makes it equally useful for an aspiring researcher in economics or any inter disciplinary field. The methodologies of the articles include analytical verbal argumentative logic, theoretical constructs or different versions of statistical, econometric or programming techniques. It also contains well written survey articles, which are useful in grasping the fundamental research issues and in tracing the progress of research in an area. The general scope of the book is very wide as the readership can include researchers, scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, policy makers and practitioners. Though the contributors are primarily scholars in the field of Economics or Statistics, the book contains useful takeaways for those working in the area of Development. It will also be of interest to policy makers and practitioners interested in development issues, and to post graduate students in Economics or any field, in social science, management or development ER -