This volume looks at how India’s sustainable development has progressed through changes in its institutions and public policy discourse.
Sustainable development has emerged as an overarching concern globally. Given the challenges of climate change, national economies, especially in the developing world, face unsustainable levels and patterns of growth and development. This volume looks at how India’s sustainable development has progressed through changes in its institutions and public policy discourse. It studies the three pillars of sustainability — technology, governance, and finance. The authors examine whether institutions have been able to work towards becoming inclusive and participatory in nature, and whether public policy is able to remain relevant and agile in a fast-changing world to ensure sustainable development.
Written in honour of Professor Vinod Vyasulu, an erudite economist with wide-ranging interests, this volume will be of interest to academics and practitioners engaged with issues of development, policy, institutions, and technology in the fields of Economics, Sociology, Development Studies, Public Policy, and South Asian studies.
List of Figures ix List of Tables x List of Boxes xiii Author
Biographies xiv Foreword xxiv 1 Challenges of Sustainable Development in
India: Understanding Dilemmas, Disconnects, and Mismatches 1 A. INDIRA, A.V.
ARUNKUMAR, JYOTSNA JHA AND SUKHPAL SINGH 2 Meeting Indias Sustainable
Development Challenges: A People-Centred Perspective 21 SHOBHA RAGHURAM 3
Time-Use Surveys and Valuation of Household Production: The Canvas Before
India 40 BHARGAVI RAMAMURTHY 4 Methodological and Ethical Concerns in a Study
on Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine Among Health-Care Workers in a Medical College
of India 62 SRIJIT MISHRA 5 Efficiencys Handmaiden: The Use of ICTs in
Development 78 BHARATH M. PALAVALLI AND SRUTHI KRISHNAN 6 Strengthening
Public-Sector Governance in India 94 VIJAYALAKSHMI VADIVELU 7 Has Farmers
Access to Credit Improved Over Time? An Analysis of NSSO Data 117 MEENAKSHI
RAJEEV AND PRANAV NAGENDRAN 8 What Ails IBC Regime Especially in Relation to
Individual Insolvency?: A Critical Assessment 137 H.S. SHYLENDRA 9
Institutional Interventions in Dairy Value Chains in India: A Case Study of
the Impact of the Milk Co-operative Vis-à-Vis Informal Milk Market Channels
on Farmers in Punjab 148 NARESH SINGLA AND SUKHPAL SINGH 10 Dullards,
Drop-Outs and Daughters: Examining Institutional Structures of Schooling in
Andhra Pradesh 166 JYOTSNA JHA, NIVEDITHA MENON, NEHA GHATAK AND ARCHANA
PUROHIT 11 Public Policy and Banking: An Unfinished Journey 186 M.S. SRIRAM
12 The Political Economy of Maps as Public Documents 204 S. RAJAGOPALAN 13
MSMEs in India: A Techno Ecosystem Approach 218 A.V. ARUNKUMAR AND S.
GOPIPRASAD 14 Financial Inclusion and Livelihood Security: A Case Study of
Community-Based Organisation 237 V. VEERASHEKHARAPPA Index 257
Sukhpal Singh is Professor and Former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad; Former Director General, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), Chandigarh; and Former Professor and Head, Agricultural Economic Research Unit (AERU), Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi, India.
Jyotsna Jha is Director Skills, Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver. She headed Bengaluru, India, based Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, an independent public policy and finance think tank for 13 years between 2011 and 2023. Prior to this, she worked with Commonwealth Secretariat, London, as an adviser for the Social Transformation Programmes Division for five years where she actively researched on issues related with equity in education, gender and HIV-AIDS, and engaged in evidence-based policy advocacy with member countries in all regions: Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
A. Indira is an Independent Researcher with over 30 years of experience as a researcher, teacher, trainer, consultant and academic administrator. She received her MA (Economics) from Central University, Hyderabad; MTech (Management Studies) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; and holds a PhD in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.
A.V. Arunkumar is Professor and Associate Dean of a leading Business School located at Bengaluru, India. He has over 29 years of expertise in wide-ranging functional areas that include teaching, research, academic administration, development banking, national and international banking, financial risk management and international finance. As part of the research work, he has brought out, quite a few working papers, articles in journals, book chapters and books. In addition to his academic profile, has held executive roles in development, commercial and multinational banks in the core functional areas like credit, operational and enterprise risk management.
