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This open access book provides an evidence-based roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring that the growth process is efficient, inclusive, and sustainable, and results in sustained growth of farmers’ incomes. The book, instead of looking for global best practices and evaluating them to assess the possibility of replicating these domestically, looks inward at the best practices and experiences within Indian states, to answer questions such as -- how the agricultural growth process can be speeded up and made more inclusive, and financially viable; are there any best practices that can be studied and replicated to bring about faster growth in agriculture; does the prior hypothesis that rapid agricultural growth can alleviate poverty faster, reduce malnutrition, and augment farmers’ incomes stand? To answer these questions, the book follows four broad threads -- i) Linkage between agricultural performance, poverty and malnutrition; ii) Analysing the historical growth performance of agricultural sector in selected Indian states; iii) Will higher agricultural GDP necessarily result in higher incomes for farmers; iv) Analysing the current agricultural policy environment to evaluate its efficiency and efficacy, and consolidate all analysis to create a roadmap. These are discussed in 12 chapters, which provide a building block for the concluding chapter that presents a roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring growth in farmers’ incomes.

Agricultural science --- Labour economics --- Political economy --- Development economics & emerging economies --- Agricultural Economics --- Labor Economics --- Economic Policy --- Development Economics --- Socio-Economic Policy --- Open Access --- Doubling Farmer Income --- Reform Agenda --- Rural Livelihood --- Agricultural Products --- Sustainable Agriculture --- Agribusiness & primary industries

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This book discusses the extent and nature of COVID-19 pandemic in India and its effect on the society and economy. The suggested management practices discussed here are also not stereotype. At the same time, it highlights deficiency in development fundamentals in India on several dimensions, especially health, education, quality of public spending, taxation orientation, external trade involvement across states, etc., deficiencies which create an inbuilt bottleneck toward the creation of a more equal society. While discussing these, the book throws light on how they were expectedly exacerbated by the sudden negative shock in the form of COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the book has highlighted the COVID pandemic and its response in India in the background of certain less discussed aspects of development fundamentals. The contents would be of interest to researchers and students studying socioeconomic aspect of developmental economics and also to policy makers and non-government entities involved in mitigating effects of pandemic in the socioeconomic sphere.

Development economics. --- Economic development. --- Economic policy. --- Social policy. --- Finance, Public. --- Development Economics. --- Economic Growth. --- Socio-Economic Policy. --- Public Finance. --- Economic Development --- Economic Policy --- Finance, Public --- Business & Economics --- Political Science

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As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges. Against the background of long-term migration trends, it asks whether the pandemic has changed the patterns observed, transformed the circumstances international migrants face at destination or whether the opportunities and challenges for integration have been altered. Twenty-four researchers have contributed to this volume with research attention on how COVID-19 has affected transnationalism and identity, labour market employment, and impacted the discrimination of migrants in a variety of ways. Loyalties and tensions created by the need to include also hesitant migrant groups in vaccination programmes are explored. The role of cosmopolitanism and welfare chauvinism in narratives on inward migrations flows, the stance of trade unions on migration, the complexities of implementing return policies, and the challenges faced by unaccompanied refugee youth from Afghanistan are also discussed. The book aims to provide a background to the future of migration, both in relation to the labour market and to society. It will be relevant to multi-stakeholders, students, and scholars interested in migration and integration as well as in the economic and social impact of Covid-19. Lin Lerpold is an Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. She is also director of the SIR Center for Sustainability Research and vice director of the Sustainable Finance Lab. She was the founding director of the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets and her research focuses on various aspects of social sustainability. Örjan Sjöberg is a Professor of Economic Geography at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he is also affiliated with the SIR Center for Sustainability Research. He has a longstanding interest in issues at the intersection of migration, labour markets and urban growth. Karl Wennberg is a Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and academic director of the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP). His current research deals with processes and outcomes related to organisational diversity, entrepreneurship and innovation policy, and education economics. His work has been published in a range of academic journals and books. .

Labor economics. --- Economics. --- Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. --- Economic policy. --- Social policy. --- Labor Economics. --- Political Economy and Economic Systems. --- Sociology of Migration. --- Socio-Economic Policy. --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man

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This book examines the dynamics of neoliberal urban governance through a comparative analysis of Buenos Aires and Chicago, with a special focus on gentrification processes in both cities from 2011 to 2021. This work argues that neoliberal principles, rationales and institutions, along with the elaborate rhetoric that has contributed to their success, are forever present in the US and Latin American region, particularly in global cities like Buenos Aires and Chicago. The year of 2011 marks the (almost) simultaneous election of new executive authorities in each city, and finalizes in 2021—a sufficient time span to observe key patterns, narratives and developments of each neoliberal urban governance. First, this book chronicles the evolving urban neoliberal policies implemented since 2011 in both cities, with special attention to the systematic reduction of affordable housing and privatization of public land that have paved the way for gentrification to advance at a fast pace. Second, it also exposes readers to the prominent rhetoric crafted by local boards, developers, architects, and real estate agents in both cities. Third, this study chronicles how these contemporary neoliberal urban governances currently operate, a critical aspect that remains vastly unexplored. Lastly, until now these governances have been scantly explored from a comparative perspective in Latin American and North American urban settings, and so this book offers a rich new approach. Carolina Sternberg is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies and Affiliated Faculty in the Master’s in Critical Ethnic Studies at DePaul University, USA. .

Sociology of social care --- Social policy --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Economics --- Economic geography --- economie --- economische politiek --- welzijnsbeleid --- sociaal beleid --- Urban economics. --- Real estate business. --- Economic policy. --- Social policy. --- Urban policy. --- Latin America --- Urban Economics. --- Real Estate Economics. --- Socio-Economic Policy. --- Urban Policy. --- Comparative Social Policy. --- Latin American/Caribbean Economics. --- Economic conditions.

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This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions. Conceptualizing development as a regional process is a geographer's brainchild, and the sense of region has long been rooted deeply in the fundamental research practices that geographers are accustomed to. The geographical perspective of regions entails conceptualizing them nested horizontally as the formal region and hierarchical relationships in space with spatial flows or interactions as the functional region. In geographical research, the region works as a tool by serving as a statistical unit of analysis. More importantly, however, regions serve as the fundamental spatial units of management and planning by specifying a territory or a part of it for which a certain spatial development or regulatory plan is sought. This book addresses the complex processes in different regions of the world, particularly South Asia, to perceive the regional development planning involved and the sustainable management practiced there. The book is a useful resource for socio-economic planners, policymakers, and policy researchers. .

Geography. --- Sustainability. --- Economic policy. --- Social policy. --- Political planning. --- Human geography. --- Regional Geography. --- Socio-Economic Policy. --- Public Policy. --- Human Geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Planning in politics --- Public policy --- Planning --- Policy sciences --- Politics, Practical --- Public administration --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- Economics --- National security --- Social policy --- Sustainability science --- Social ecology --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history