About the Book
An unparalleled textbook on the subject, extensively revised to provide updates of various policies, strategies, and programs in the spheres of rural development and management in India.
This time-tested textbook on the basic concepts, policy instruments, strategies, policies, programs, and management of rural development provides a comprehensive coverage of the subject. Primarily targeted at graduate and postgraduate students of rural development, this textbook also emphasizes the crucial role of human resources as both a means and an end to development. The book aims to equip the reader to hone skills in planning, formulation, monitoring, and evaluation in rural development programs.
Key Features
• Extensive analytical coverage of concepts, policies, and strategies in rural development
• New sections added on various methodologies of estimating poverty, National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) and the National Livestock Mission (NLM), seven new social welfare-oriented programs, and planning machinery in India
• Complete revision of all original tables and statistical figures along with new data on employment/unemployment and poverty scenario in India
Table of Contents:
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
1. INTRODUCTION / Concepts and Connotations of Rural Development
Basic Elements of Rural Development
Growth versus Development
Why Rural Development
Rising Expectations and Development
Development and Change
Human Beings as the Cause and Consequence of Development
Some Dilemmas in Development
2. RURAL ECONOMY OF INDIA
Introduction
Size and Structure of the Rural Economy
The Role of the Agricultural sector
Major Problems of the Agricultural sector
The Role of the Non-agricultural Subsector
Challenges and Opportunities
3. MEASURES OF DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
Measures of Level of Rural Development
Measures of Income Distribution
Measures of Development Simplified
Concepts and Measures of Rural Poverty
4. SOME PARADIGMS OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
The Modernisation Theory
The Dependency Theory of the Marxist School
Rosenstein-Rodan’s Theory of the “Big Push”
Leibenstein’s “Critical Minimum Effort Thesis”
Lewis’ Model of Economic Development
Gunnar Myrdal’s Thesis of “Spread and Backwash” Effects
The Human Capital Model of Development
The Gandhian Model of Rural Development
Development Theories from Other Social Sciences
5. DETERMINANTS OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
Changes in Output
Natural Resources
Human Resources
Capital
Technology
Organizational and Institutional Framework
Relation between Rural Development and Its Determinants
6. RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
Introduction
freedom, Control, and Public Policy
Need for a Rural Development Policy
Goals of Rural Development Policy
Hierarchy of Policy Goals
Rural Development Policies in India
Globalization and Rural Development
7. STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
The Concepts of Sustainability and Sustainable Development
Some Indicators of Non-sustainable Development
A Critical Review of India’s Strategies of Rural Development
Some Elements of a New Strategy for Sustainable Development
8. POLICY INSTRUMENTS OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
A Conceptual Framework
An Action System
Policy Instruments
9. EQUITY-ORIENTED AND GROWTH-ORIENTED PROGRAMS
Introduction
Equity-oriented Programs
Growth-oriented Programs
10. POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT ERADICATION PROGRAMS
Introduction
Current Poverty Scenario and Trends
Current Rural Employment Scenario and Trends
Poverty and Unemployment Alleviation Programs
11. NATURAL RESOURCES AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Introduction
Natural Resources-based Programs
National Crop Insurance Program (NCIP)
Weather-based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS)
Infrastructure Development Programs
12. PLANNING FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
Levels and Functions of Planning
Decentralization of Planning
Methodology of Micro-level Planning
Methodology of Block- and District-level Planning
Institutional Structure for Planning
13. ORGANIZING FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
A Detour to Organizational Models
The Search for a New Paradigm
Criteria for Designing an Appropriate Organization
Government Organizations
Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)
Cooperatives
Voluntary Agencies
Nongovernmental Organizations
Corporations and Rural Development
14. FINANCING RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
Domestic Institutional Sources
The Role of Non-institutional Agencies / Deficit Financing or Controlled Inflation
Deficit Financing or Controlled Inflation
Foreign Sources of Funds
15. IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING, AND EVALUATION
Introduction
Project Implementation
Project Control
Integration and Coordination
People’s Participation in Implementation
Project Monitoring
Project Evaluation
Knowledge Management in Rural Development
Bibliography
Index
About the Author :
Katar Singh is currently Honorary (Founder) Chairman, India Natural Resource Economics and Management (INREM) Foundation, Anand, which is a nongovernmental academic organization committed to promoting teaching, training, and research in natural resource economics and environment management, and improving natural resource management policies and programs. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, USA, and has done postdoctoral research and advanced coursework in natural resource economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA and in the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.
He has over 50 years of teaching, training, research, and consulting experience in the areas of agricultural and rural development, and natural resource economics and management. He was the director and RBI Chair Professor in the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), India, and also had a short stint as Director, Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow. He has also taught at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India.
He has coordinated and conducted several research and consultancy projects funded by national and international agencies. A prolific writer, he has published over 120 articles and papers in professional journals of repute and has authored/co-authored nine books, including a textbook, Rural Development: Principles, Policies, and Management, second ed. (SAGE, 1999), and another entitled Environmental Economics: Theory and Applications (SAGE, 2007), coauthored with Dr Anil Shishodia. He has also co-edited three books, namely, Co-operative Management of Natural Resources (SAGE, 1996), Natural Resource Economics: Theory and Application in India (1997), and Designing and Managing Rural Development Organizations (2000).
Professor Singh is a life member of numerous professional bodies, including the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE), Indian Society for Ecological Economics, and International Society for Ecological Economics. He is a recipient of several awards and honors, including Rathindra Puraskar 2003, awarded by Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, in recognition of his significant contribution to education in rural development and Sir Chhotu Ram National Award for the year 1996–97, awarded by CSS Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, in recognition of his outstanding research work in the field of agriculture and rural development.
Anil Shishodia currently works in the Information/Reference Services Department of the Calgary Public Library in Calgary, Canada. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer in the Postgraduate Department of Economics, Sardar Patel University (SPU), Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He was a World Bank Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in environmental economics at the Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA, from August 1999 to May 2000, where he credited and audited a number of advanced courses in natural resources and environmental economics, including a course in environmental ethics. At SPU, he was instrumental in designing and offering a postgraduate level course in environmental economics. He has over 11 years of experience in teaching and research, and has published a number of articles on the subject.
