Regional Development and Public Policy Challenges in India

Rakhee Bhattacharya is currently the Associate Director and a fellow at Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi. She is working on various economic challenges of contemporary India. Prior to this assignment, she has worked at others institutes across the country and was Endeavour post-doctoral fellow in Australia. Her research interests are development, disparity, regional economies & conflicts. She has worked on many such issues in India's Northeast and authored 'Development Disparities in Northeast India'. In addition to this, she has edited a number of volumes and has written several articles in both national and international journals.The contributors to this volume are:Amitabh Kundu, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Regional Development; Dean of the Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India).Amitendu Pali, Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore.Azharuddin Akhtar, Research Associate, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore (India). Biswa Swarup Misra, Professor of Economics and Dean, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (India). J. P. Bhattacharajee, Deputy Director General, Survey Design & Research Division (SDRD), National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) of MOSPI, Govt of India, Kolkata. Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Research Scholar, Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai (India). K. L. Krishna, Chairman, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai; Founder member, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics; former Professor and Director, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi (India).Madhusudan Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal (India). Meenakshi Rajeev, Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Policy, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore (India). Nilanjan Banik, Associate Professor, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai (India). Pinaki Chakraborty, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi (India); Honorary Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, New York (USA)