Product Description: This important book highlights the role of voluntary action in bringing about social change; in reestablishing the values of sharing, equality and justice; and in eliminating poverty. Six case studies of successful voluntary agencies are followed by studies which address some of the problems of voluntary agencies and their prospects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines the interactions between economic change and urbanization, in the form of structural shifts in employment, regional development policy, and national industrial policy. It also discusses the human welfare problems associated with rapid urbanization and a lack of government finance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 22 papers that constitute this volume contain the essence of the observations on the problems of growth and development by the leading Indian economist, M L Dantwala. The six parts of the book cover: values in economic thought; agricultural development and policy; planning for rural development; agricultural-price policy; rural credit; and agricultural labour and employment...read more