Springer India: 585 books
Efficiency of Elementary Education in India
Empirical Evidence Using a Nonparametric Data Envelopment Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book assesses how efficient primary and upper primary education is across different states of India considering both output oriented and input oriented measures of technical efficiency. It identifies the most important factors that could produce differential efficiency among the states,...
Interrogating Disability in India
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This book discusses the multifaceted concept of disability in the context of India. Through analyses of theoretical propositions of disability in South Asia and empirical explorations of the lives of persons with disabilities in India, this book not only brings to the forefront a hitherto unexplored...
by Vijay Paul Sharma, Harsh Wardhan
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This book helps readers understand the concepts of marketed and marketable surplus, as well as the role of the government and marketing agencies, including those in the private sector, in improving market efficiency. It also examines the impact of various socioeconomic, technological, institutional,...
Trade, the WTO and Energy Security
Mapping the Linkages for India
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The linkages between WTO rules governing trade and energy security with a certain degree of focus on India are the main subject of this book. The edited volume brings together the views of academics, policymakers and experts with extensive experience covering WTO and international trade issues. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
The book examines the status of public service in developing countries, in the sectors of health, infrastructure, labour and marginalized populations, rural economy and public administration. The last decade has witnessed significant government focus on service delivery in developing nations like...
by Arup Mitra
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
What changes are occurring at the macro and the sectoral levels, how the labour market changes are taking place and what impact is felt on the low income households are some of the questions that the present volume focuses on. It begins by examining the sectoral composition of growth, revisiting...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book looks closely at herbal product development and commercialisation. In spite of an ever-growing demand, there is a dearth of safe and effective herbal products that meet consumers’ expectations. Therefore, this book takes it upon itself to elaborate on the development process of herbal...
Urbanization in Asia
Governance, Infrastructure and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe. It has been divided into three sections: The first section is on rural interventions as they influence urbanization and its problems/solutions....
Persisting Undernutrition in India
Causes, Consequences and Possible Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The book revisits the causes of persisting under nutrition in India, but moves away from the usual focus on women and children to a broader view of the entire population. It estimates the economic losses resulting from ignoring under nutrition in the adult working population and questions the current...
A Petrographic Atlas of Ophiolite
An example from the eastern India-Asia collision zone
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
The book is a thoughtful discussion with scientists studying convergent plate boundaries such as the well-known, active India-Eurasia collision zone. It provides a comprehensive collection of petrographic images of ophiolitic rocks exhumed from oceanic lithosphere and mantle at the India-Asia plate...
Human Capital and Development
The Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The papers included in this volume cover several aspects of human capital. It starts with the role of human capital in influencing productivity, employment and growth of employment. The chapters show that Indian States that have been neglecting schooling and health facilities have become victims...
Indian Skilled Migration and Development
To Europe and Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This edited contribution explores strategies and measures for leveraging the potential of skilled diasporas and for advancing knowledge-based evidence on return skilled migration and its impact on development. By taking the example of Indian skilled migration, this study identifies ways of involving...
Water Resource Economics
Towards a Sustainable Use of Water for Irrigation in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country’s irrigation and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits. The importance of the subject can be judged in light of the fact that...
Mission Mars
India's Quest for the Red Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The objective of the book is to find an answer to the rationale behind the human quest for the Mars exploration. As a comprehensive assessment for this query is undertaken, it is realized that the basic question ‘Why Mars?’ seeks various responses from technological, economic and geopolitical...