"This volume addresses development issues for sustained economic growth and employment, policies towards trade reform, capital mobility between formal and informal sectors, informal wage structure, price structure between agricultural and industrial commodities, strategies towards industrialization suited to regional variation of relative factor intensity and relative abundance of factors of production, wage structure for gender based occupational segregation in the non-agricultural sector, agriculture-industry interaction and priority policy objectives and the like. It also exemplifies the ill of the market structure in practice to such dynamics. Due to its comprehensiveness and contemporariness, it is felt that this volume would be useful for academics, students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in development, in addition to being a book of teaching student particularly for macroeconomics, developing economics and political economy."
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Contents

Preface

Introduction / Debnarayan Sarkar

List of Contributors

Section 1

1. Economic Theory and Ideology : An Approach to Market / Amit Bhaduri

Section 2

2. Trade Reform, Capital Mobility and Informal Wage in Developing Countries : Theory and Indian Evidence / Sugata Marjit and Saibal Kar

3. Lessons from the Lewis Model : Is Growth Sustainable? / Amitava Bose

4. The Way of Industrialization : With Particular Reference to India / Paramgama Sikdar, Nikita Modi, Aishani Roy and Debnarayan Sarkar

Section 3

5. Priority Policy Objectives of West Bengal Left Front Government in the Process of Agriculture-Industry Interactions / Debnarayan Sarkar and Debraj Das

6. Regional Variation in Occupational Segregation in India : Some Evidence from NSS Data / Mousumi Dutta and S. Satyabhama

7. The Nexus Between Agricultural Prices and Industrial Prices in India : A Time Series Data / Rajnarayan Gupta

8. The Interaction Between Agriculture and Industry : With Reference to the Current Indian Scenario / Amitava Chatterjee

9. Economic Development in the Shadows of Socio-Political Conflicts : An Agenda for West Bengal / Avijit Dutta

10. Growth, Regional Pattern and Performance of Food Processing Industry in West Bengal / Debnarayan Sarkar, Madhuchhanda Saha and Indrani Basu

Index