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Public Policies and Sustainable Development in Post-Reform India - Regional Responses and the Way Forward (1st ed. 2023)
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Public Policies and Sustainable Development in Post-Reform India - Regional Responses and the Way Forward (1st ed. 2023)
Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 71
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This book portrays India as a representative of post-colonial
democratic republic states with a parliamentary form of
federal-structured government and analyzes the critical challenges
faced by such states in generating broadly shared economic
well-being and quality of life. The reader is shown how creating
and utilizing physical, human, financial, and social assets under
the aegis of public policies help achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) to provide a global framework to move
toward a more equitable, peaceful, resilient, and prosperous
society by 2030. It not only addresses how the state’s capacity
has long been linked to the available economic resources, but also
unfolds how the political system thus evolves to crucially
determine the capacity of the state to implement its programs. The
chapters of this book are particularly focused on judging the
state’s capacity amid the neo-liberal ascendancy that has been
triggered by the opening up of both the domestic and external
economy, significantly initiated since 1991 and popularly known as
the economic reforms in India. Examined here is the potency of the
public policies of the country in fulfilling the sustainable
development agendas, the specificity of which places the state at
the heart of its execution, unlike many other versions of
development that would be executed in parallel with or without
states’ action. This work book has three principal foci facets
within the broad swath of discussions covered by different
chapters: (1) It critically examines how successful remains the
public policies in mobilizing the population is mobilized to the
next orbit of income, employment, education, and health consequent
to amid the existing considerable magnitude of social and economic
inequalities while achieving “equity” has always been the
declared agenda in the post-reform public policy frameworks; (2) It
traces the rationality of the transformation of the public policies
and welfare strategies during the post-reform period in terms of
motives, goals, and coverage to achieve the SDGs; and, (3) It
reviews specific post-reform policies in terms of their potency to
stimulate the system in addressing sustainable development. and
upholding the state’s dominant and structuring intervention to
resolve the existing inequalities and ensure that society develops
amidst a harmonious world reconciled with nature.
General
Imprint: |
Springer Verlag, Singapore
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Country of origin: |
Singapore |
Series: |
New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 71 |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Firstpublished: |
2023 |
Editors: |
Mukunda Mishra
• Subrata Saha
• Madhabendra Sinha
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
448 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
ISBN-13: |
978-981-9936-95-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
981-9936-95-0 |
Barcode: |
9789819936953 |
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