In Quest of Humane Development: Human Development, Community Networking and Public Service Delivery in India

Part A: Perspectives on Human Development.- Chapter 1: Is the Notion of Human Development Capitalo-centric?.- Chapter 2: Human(e) Development: Philosophy, Politics, Praxis in World of the Third Contexts.- Chapter 3: Hunger, Climate Change and Human Development - a Global Perspective.- Chapter 4: Measuring Human Development at Sub-National Level: Methods & Application.- Part B: Delivery of Public Services in India.- Chapter 5: Delivering to Destroy? Communities and Access to Public Goods in India.- Chapter 6: Delivery of Safe Drinking Water in Rural India: A critical evaluation of the public policies and rural water supply programs.- Part C: Education, Health and Social Security for Human Development.- Chapter 7: The changing relationships between education and development: Glimpses from policymaking in India.- Chapter 8: The Effect of Employment Guarantee Scheme on School Attendance in Rural India.- Chapter 9: Health and Well-being of the Elderly People: A Survival Challenge in West Bengal.- Chapter 10: Experience of Social Protection for Unorganized Labourers in West Bengal.- Chapter 11: Backward Region Grant Fund and its Utilisation: A Case Study in the District of Adilabad, Telengaga.- Part D: Gender and Human Development.- Chapter 12: Understanding the cost of violence against women and child marriage and the need for Context-specific response.- Chapter 13: Female Work Participation and Persistent Gender Inequality in India.- Part E: Financing for Human Development.- Chapter 14: Emerging Challenges in Public Financing of Human Development in India.- Chapter 15: Backward Region Grant Fund: Is the allocation justified?.- Chapter 16: Private Provision of Public Goods through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)