Springer India: 585 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India’s development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India have...
Development Disparities in India
An Enquiry into Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
This book highlights the development disparities in India and considers three complex areas of development – economic wellbeing, human progress and agricultural development – over a period of forty years since the 1970s. The novelty of the book lies in is its rich analytical foundation and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
This book is a collection of articles presented by researchers and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals and informatics/computer scientists, interested in both theoretical advances and applications of information systems, artificial intelligence, signal processing,...
Fertility Control in a Risk Society
Analysing Contraception Choice of Urban Elites in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book analyses the reasons for relying on behavioural contraception methods among urban ‘elites’ in India and examines their efficacy in controlling fertility. It also traces variations in contraception choice over the reproductive cycle of women.
Although researchers and policy makers...
The Indian Textile and Clothing Industry
An Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book examines the textile and clothing Industry of India and its trade scenario from a global perspective. New developments in international policies related to trade and investment and falling barriers to trade worldwide as well as within individual regional communities have transformed the...
Public Sector Enterprises in India
The Impact of Disinvestment and Self Obligation on Financial Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The book examines the various aspects of non-financial central public sector enterprises (PSEs) in India, for a period from 1986-87 to 2010-11. The analysis is based on all the key financial ratios; namely, profitability, efficiency, liquidity, leverage and productivity.
Liberalization and...
Social Dynamics of the Urban
Studies from India
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between ‘locale’ and ‘milieu’ and the community–cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it...
GHG Emissions and Economic Growth
A Computable General Equilibrium Model Based Analysis for India
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Issues linking climate change and economic growth are now at the centre of discussions regarding development strategies especially in the context of developing countries. This book contributes by analyzing the relationship between economic growth and GHG emissions in India with explicit reference...
Oilseed Production in India
The Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This book analyses the performance and potential of India’s oilseed sector, identifies the major constraints facing the industry and suggests options for increasing the country’s oilseed production and productivity, taking into account the changing policy environment, increasing demand, slow growth...
by Madhusudan Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Upon the backdrop of impressive progress made by the Indian economy during the last two decades after the large-scale economic reforms in the early 1990s, this book evaluates the performance of the economy on some income and non-income dimensions of development at the national, state and sectoral...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Divided into three parts - Rationale and Extent of Agricultural Diversification, Nature and Problems of Agricultural Diversification, and Food and Livelihood Security through Agricultural Diversification, this edited book examines various aspects of agricultural diversification in Eastern India.
In...
Autism and the Family in Urban India
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The book explores the lived reality of parenting and caring for children with autism in contemporary urban India. It is based on a qualitative, ethnographic study of families of children with autism as they negotiate the tricky terrain of identifying their child s disability, obtaining a diagnosis,...
Youth in Contemporary India
Images of Identity and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
This book endeavors to be a study of identity in Indian urban youth. It is concerned with understanding the psychological themes of conformity, rebellion, individuation, relatedness, initiative and ideological values which pervade youths’ search for identity within the Indian cultural milieu, specifically...
India’s Perception, Society, and Development
Essays Unpleasant
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
There has been, of late, a growing realisation that the pace and pattern of economic development of a country can hardly be understood and explained comprehensively in terms of the straitjacket of economics discipline alone. India is a prime example of the importance of the part played by a country's...