Employment Policy in a Developing Country A Case-study of India Volume 2: Proceedings of a joint conference of the International Economic Association and the Indian Economic Association held in Pune, India

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 361-361
The Employment Strategies of the Indian Five-Year Plans: Reasons for their Failure....Pages 363-395
Employment Goals in the Five-Year Plans of India....Pages 396-404
Employment Strategy in the Sixth Plan....Pages 405-413
Employment and Manpower in the Draft Plan 1977/8 to 1982/3....Pages 414-438
Choice of Strategy in a Labour-abundant Developing Economy: An Empirical Analysis....Pages 439-460
Front Matter....Pages 461-461
Unemployment and Poverty: Is There a Conflict between Policies to Tackle the Two?....Pages 463-482
Poverty and Unemployment: Some Estimates for India of the Employment Implications of Income Redistribution....Pages 483-502
Does Output-growth Necessarily Imply Employment-growth?....Pages 503-514
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
Employment Policies for the Absorption of Technical Manpower: The Indian Experience....Pages 517-527
Rural Artisan Development Strategies and Employment Generation....Pages 528-546
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Employment and Unemployment in Punjab....Pages 549-581
Tackling Unemployment in Maharashtra through the Employment Guarantee Scheme....Pages 582-594
Employment and Unemployment in Karnataka....Pages 595-617
Employment and Unemployment in Tamil Nadu....Pages 618-639
Employment and Unemployment in Kerala....Pages 640-672
Front Matter....Pages 673-673
Aspects of Academic Thinking in India on Employment and Related Policies....Pages 675-721
The Conference in Retrospect: Some Basic Questions arising out of Indian Experience....Pages 722-734
Comment on the Conference....Pages 735-738
Back Matter....Pages 739-746