https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/355 2026-04-26T16:04:41Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1232 Title: Gender Imbalance and Women Empowerment: Some Policy Challenges in the Twelfth Plan Authors: Bisai, Santanu; Mazumdar, Debashis Abstract: The Twelfth Five Year Plan of India, scheduled to begin from April 2012, is supposed to face many policy challenges particularly in the fields of inclusive growth. This paper aims at pointing out the problems related to gender imbalance and women empowerment, as experienced by the Indian economy during the previous plan periods in general and during Eleventh Plan in particular. It also wants to show how far these issues would pose a challenge to the policy framework of the Twelfth Plan.The question of gender balance is often analyzed with the help of sex ratio. The sex ratio in India has been historically negative or in other words, unfavourable to females. It is believed that several factors such as old practice of neglect of girl child and female infanticide, higher mortality rate among the female children, advent of new technology for the determination of the sex of foetus, women literacy rate, poverty rate, workforce participation rate among the women, etc. are responsible for influencing overall sex ratio and the child sex ratio in our country. The analysis has been based upon some secondary data sources, particularly the population census (2011) data. Description: 74-83 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1226 Title: Technical Efficiency in Indian Manufacturing Industry,1981-2001: An Explorative Analysis Authors: Sengupta, Atanu; Sanyal, Sayan Abstract: This paper has explored the technical efficiency levels in five selected manufacturing industries in India utilizing a stochastic frontier approach. In this analysis we have used a panel of 15 Indian States over the 21 years period (1980 -01). Our analysis showed that technical efficiency levels have decreased in four manufacturing sectors in the post reform period and increased only in one. Among the factors that influenced efficiency, man days lost due to industrial dispute has a negative effect while trade openness seems to boost efficiency. The infrastructural parameter such as bank per population has also a favorable effect. On the whole though reforms seemed to have a negative effect on efficiency, it is mostly cluster of other factors that are responsible for this seemingly perverse result. Description: 1-12 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1231 Title: Assessing Causal relationship between Education and Economic Growth in India Authors: Ray, Sarbapriya; Ray, Ishita Aditya; Pal, Mihir Kumar Abstract: The paper attempts to evaluate empirically the relationship between education expenditure and economic growth in India using annual data over the period 1961-62 to 2009-10. The paper is based on the following hypotheses for testing the causality and co-integration between economic growth via GDP growth and educational expenditure in India as to whether there is bi-directional causality between GDP growth and education, or whether there is unidirectional causality between the two variables or whether there is no causality between GDP and education in India or whether there exists a long run relationship between GDP and education in India. Time-series econometric techniques (Granger causality and Johansen cointegration test) are applied to test the hypothesis.The cointegration test confirmed that economic growth and education expenditure are co integrated, indicating the existence of long run equilibrium relationship between the two variables-education and economic growth as confirmed by the Johansen cointegration test results. The Granger causality test finally confirmed that there does not exist any short-run causality between economic growth and education and vice-versa. The error correction estimates indicates appropriate speed of convergence towards equilibrium position in case of any disequilibrium situation. Description: 43-57 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1229 Title: Use of Indigenous Health Care in Eastern and North-Eastern Regions of India Authors: Sen, Raj Kumar; Goswami, Ramanuj Abstract: The objective of this paper is to have certain ideas about the use of indigenous health care system in a few states of India situated in the eastern and north-eastern regions. For this purpose we have chosen six states namely West Bengal, Jharkhand and Orissa from the Eastern India and Assam, Manipur and Nagaland among the north-eastern states with the help of a structural questionnaire on the basis of household survey of tribalpeople we have arrived at certain conclusions about our selected theme and the health care system of these people based on indigenous knowledge. Altogether 300 households were surveyed and relevant conclusions have been drawn out. Excepting Nagaland, the remaining 5 states have demonstrated a similar pattern in this case and all of them exhibited of huge potential of this system particularly among the low income group of population considering the easy availability of medicinal plants seeds for this purpose Description: 37-42 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z