http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/794 PUB Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:24:22 GMT 2026-04-03T19:24:22Z http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/4114 Title: Development and Deprivation in the Indian Subcontinent Authors: De, Utpal Kumar; Pal, Manoranjan Abstract: The concept of “Development and Deprivation” is an important and timely topic for discussion. It is also highly relevant for Indian sub-continent, particularly for North-Eastern part of India which is comparatively underdeveloped part of India as this region seems to suffer from deprivation in many aspects until last decade of the previous century. Deprivation can be measured as the impact of lack of income and other financial, non-income and physical resources, which can cause income and non-income poverty. The deprivation has four major dimensions, namely the economic, social, political and cultural needs of people. It can be measured by Human Poverty Index (HPI) as devised by United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) and achievements of MDGs and SDGs.The book entitled “Development and Deprivation in the Indian SubContinent” by Utpal Kumar De and Manoranjan Pal attempts to examine several important issues such as poverty, inequality, financial inclusiveness, and role of institutions, entrepreneurship and other socio-political perspectives of inclusive development in Indian subcontinent with a special focus on North- East India. As there are very few books in these areas covering North-East and Eastern India, this book will contribute significantly to the literature on deprivation and development with recent data analysis on these topics. Furthermore, the authors of the chapters utilize advanced techniques and quantitative methods to analyze secondary and primary data. Besides introducing some new questions on financial inclusiveness in development; regional, inter and intra sectoral analysis, sophisticated tools have been used such as Spatial correlation-regression techniques to analyse regional variation, co-integration, vector auto regression, panel data techniques like fixed and random effect models to address the socio-economic complexities, society’s role in sustainable resource use and development along with an analysis of penetration index in Information and Communication Technology (lCT). Also, the roles of the largest rural development scheme, namely MGNREGA along with the role of Self-help groups in India towards socio-economic development have also been taken into consideration in some chapters. The book is divided into four parts, namely: 1. Poverty, Development and Financial Inclusion, 2. Poverty and Inequality, 3. Entrepreneurship, Development and Deprivation and 4. Socio-Political Issues of Development and Inequality. In Part-l , Ashok, Nair and Kharlukhi examine the nature and extent of financial inclusion and region specific constraints in expanding institutional credit in the North-Eastern region of India. The relationship between deficit financing, crowding out and economic growth in Bangladesh is also examined by Banerjee, Siddique and Amin with the help of time series cointegration and vector autoregression techniques. Chapter 3 addresses three issues - the level of concentration; inter regional and state-wise differences; the impact on sectoral performance - in the distribution of priority sector advances over the period from 2000 to 2013 in India. The other chapters of the section address issues related to the role of financial inclusion, micro finance and MGNREGA in poverty reduction. Studies include in Part 2, highlighted the behaviour of absolute and relative levels of living explaining the true picture of poverty in India and North-Eastern states. The other issues covered in this part are the (1) achievement of women in the context of Gender Empowerment Measure, (2) role of gender inequality in human development, (3) ways of capacity building among the women, and (4) economic inequality between the native and non-native groups by using Lorenz Curve and Gini Index on consumption expenditure. Also the role of information technology in development and informal sector along with education is analysed from the perspective of poverty reduction. Part 3 includes studies on various entrepreneurial activities and socio-economic measures in the light of deprivation and inclusive development in various zones of Indian sub-continent. Various sociopolitical issues in inequality and development are presented through different case studies in Part 4. The role of institutions in addressing deprivation, inequality and development has also been highlighted in a number of studies. The book therefore addresses a wide number of issues including sociopolitical aspects of poverty and inequality, financial inclusiveness, poverty and inequality at regional level, agriculture-environment interface and socio-economic development, which will certainly benefit the researchers, other readers and policy makers. I congratulate the authors and the editors for producing a very useful, timely and important book in the area of deprivation and economic development and wish them all the success. Dr Premananda Bharati Retired Professor and Head Biological-Anthropological Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/4114 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/4113 Title: Examination of Consumer Price Index in India – Rural versus Urban Authors: Das, Dipankar; Chaudhuri, Rimu; Bedajna, Suman Kumar Abstract: For the last 66 years Indian economy has gone through many phases. The development of both rural and urban India has taken place indeed but the debate of rural versus urban or in other words India versus Bharat is still very relevant and contemporary. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an important economic indicator. In this paper, the authors have examined the CPI of India from January, 2011 to April, 2014 (40 months) to identify whether both rural and urban India exhibit the same economic pattern or not. The authors have observed that the distribution of CPI is different in rural and urban India in recreation and amusement‘, transport and communication‘ and household requisites‘. It is well known that dual economy is an important theory in economics. The findings of this paper certainly spark the question in our minds – ―Are we living in a dual economy in India‖. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/4113 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/4112 Title: Equity Debt Conflict and the Reverse Pyramid – Two Threats to Information Technology Sustainability Authors: Ghatak, Ipshita; Chatterjee, Arindam; Choudhuri, Rimu; Banerjee, Malay Abstract: In this paper we have studied whether the Indian IT industry is having a sustainable future or not. We have shown using financial statements of a number of companies that the present industry is precariously and irrationally oriented towards an all equity based growth ride. But with no tangible product offered at any point in its lifetime, we have shown using predictive analytics that IT companies are going to lose out the favour of fervent equity investors in the long run. We have shown that this translates to more debt component creeping into a company’s capital structure reducing the DSCR (Debt Service Coverage Ratio) of the company. This will ultimately make the company financially unsustainable. We have also taken into consideration the balanced aspect of maintaining the human resource ratio according to “The Pyramid Approach”. But we have shown for Indian IT companies, this kind of planned “Pyramid” structure eventually degenerates into a “Reverse Pyramid”, thereby making these companies unsustainable. Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/4112 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/1933 Title: test Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/1933 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z