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100	1		_aKaul, Sanjay _eauthor.
245	1	3	_aAn alternative development agenda for India / _cSanjay Kaul.
250			_aSouth Asia Edition.
260			_aUK : _bRoutledge, _c2023.
300			_axii, 211p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 'people first' imperative -- Universalizing healthcare -- Battling malnutrition and food insecurity -- Ensuring quality schooling -- Caring for the young child -- Improving livelihoods, creating jobs -- Unshackling gendered mindsets -- Promoting planned urbanization -- The way forward: principles, actions and sustainability.
520			_a"This book provides a revamped, transformative, and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically improve the well-being and livelihoods of its citizens. Grounded in a 'people first' approach, this alternative agenda focuses on seven vital development and inter-connected areas, including health, education, food and nutrition, child development, gender, livelihood and jobs, and urbanization. The volume highlights the systemic issues plaguing these sectors and offers pragmatic and implementable solutions to address them. The author takes cognizance of the COVID-19 pandemic and draws attention to the limitations of the current public policies and suggests cost-effective interventions and strategies that focus on the poor. The volume discusses crucial themes of universalizing healthcare, battling malnutrition and food insecurity, ensuring quality schooling, unshackling gendered mindsets, enhancing livelihoods and improving the urban quality of life to spell out a pragmatic and workable development agenda for India. Accessible and reader-friendly, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, public policy, governance, development policy, public administration, political studies, South Asia studies. It will also be of interest to professionals in the development sector"--
546			_aEnglish.
650		0	_aSustainable development _zIndia.
650		0	_aPolitical planning _zIndia.
650		0	_aEconomic development _zIndia.
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