SDGs Amidst Multiple Global Shocks
Description
This book provides a comprehensive perspective by taking an interdisciplinary approach to issues of attaining SDGs in India. It starts with policy priorities and opportunities for interlinking of different SDGs with sustainable industrial transformation. Subsequently, various chapters present a blend of analytical methods that are primarily rooted in economics and yet have an inter-disciplinary approach, highlighting pathways towards achieving SDGs, especially SDG1, SDG2, SDG3, SDG4, SDG10, SDG11, SDG13, and SDG15. Gender equality and empowerment of women is a common cross-cutting issue across all three themes towards achieving SDG targets. Chapters are divided into three themes climate change, health and nutrition, and poverty and inequality, with a special chapter devoted to each theme providing the overall picture. The book's content is a great resource for students, researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners studying these SDGs related to India as the country movesforward on its growth path.
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Persons
A. Ganesh-Kumar is Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. He is a Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He specializes in computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling with a focus on food security and grain management policies; issues in agricultural trade; pricing policies; spatial dimensions of Indian economy; and policies for sustainable human development and economic growth.
Vijay Laxmi Pandey is Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. She is a Ph.D. from the G.B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar, Uttarakhand. She specializes in primary data collection and analysis with a focus on agriculture and nutrition, food security; gender issues; and policies for sustainable development.
Bharti Nandwani is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR). Her research work lies in the areas of political economy and economics of education. Her work in the political economy area has documented the implementation gaps and unintended consequences of decentralisation initiatives introduced for Scheduled Tribes (STs). Within the economics of education field, she has explored the role of local community participation in school governance and involvement of women in school administration.
Content
1. Introduction and Overview of the Book.- 2. SDGs and Sustainable Industrial Transformation: Key Policy Priorities and Opportunities for India.- 3. Green Total Factor Productivity for India.- 4. Integrating Autonomous and Planned Adaptation to Climate Change: The Case of Indian Agriculture. Brinda G Krishnan.- 5. Climate Variability, Rising Drought and Livelihood Vulnerability of Farmers: A Gender-Environment Perception with Study Area in West Bengal.- 6. Reconsidering 3 R's of Non-Biodegradable (Plastic) Waste Management: An Experiment design using indirect control randomization.- 7. Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of landfilling vs. WTE - a case of Mumbai, India.- 8. Climate Change Perception and Gender Responsiveness: Contribution of Conservation Agriculture farms of Terai Zone, West Bengal.- 9. India's COP26 Targets- Promises to keep or renege?.- 10. The 2021/22 Food Crisis- Causes, Impacts and the Way Forward.- 11. Farm Production Diversity and Women's Dietary Diversity in Rural Bihar and Odisha.- 12. The Burden of Diseases and Injuries in India in 2019: An Analysis of Disability Adjusted Life Years Perspective.- 13. Access to Improved Maternal and Child Healthcare Services: The Extent of Coverage and Inequality in India with Particular Reference to Assam.- 14. Universal Health coverage and Health insurance in India: a panel data analysis.- 15. Analyzing the Background Characteristics and Determinants of Malnutrition among children in Uttar Pradesh.- 16. How Digital Technology is Changing Economics: A Challenge for Policymakers.- 17. Growth Divergence between Indian States.- 18. Inequality in Household Consumption Expenditure: Study in the context of Manipur, a North-Eastern State of India.- 19. Financial Inclusion, Young Women Entrepreneurs, and Rural Livelihood in India.- 20. Spatial Disparities in the Educational Development: Evidence from an Indian State.- 21. Empirical Analysis of Monetary Policy in a Targeting Framework: a case of Covid-19 Pandemic and Russia-Ukraine War.