Social Sector Development and Governance : Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups (Paperback)

Introduction- Ramesh Chandra Das Part I: Governance and Developmental Aspects of Social Sectors in India, and its States and Districts 1. Trends of Social Sector Expenditures in India and its Impact on Human Development Indicators- Avijit Brahmachary 2. Impact of Governance on Social Sector Spending in Economic Development of India- Aparna Banerjee and Suparna Banerjee 3. Service-led Growth in India: An Enigma to Inclusiveness- Anup Kumar Saha and Sreelata Biswas 4. ICDS and the Status of Child Health: Does Good Governance Matter?- Satyanarayan Kumbhakar, Shama Firdaush, Pinaki Das 5. Efficiency and Equity in Health Care Financing in India: A state level inquiry for maintaining sustainable social ecology- Md Rakibul Hasan, Mihir Kumar Pal 6. Crimes Against Women During Pre and Post Nirbhaya Incidence- A Study of Different States in India - Nibedita Maiti and Ramesh Chandra Das 7. Gender Bias in Education and Local Area Development: A study on some selected districts of West Bengal, India- Amit Kumar Bhandari 8. Internet Use by the Higher Education Students in the Backward District of West Bengal-Examining role of the Government- Chandrima Chakraborty, Indrajit Sahoo 9. Educational attainment of people in the district of Bankura: A block level analysis- Atanu Sengupta and Shubhendu Chel Part II: Governance and Developmental Aspects of Social Sectors in other Countries’ Cases 10. Strategy generation for minimizing health risks to obtain economic development with Pedroni panel cointegration analysis and AHP model- Hasan Dinçer, Yaşar Gökalp, Serkan Eti, Serhat Yüksel 11. Government Expenditure, Governance and Economic Growth: An Empirical Exercise- Ujjal Protim Dutta, Lipika Kankaria, Jayashree Sarmah 12. Community Participation in Hygiene Intervention and Infectious Diseases Control among different Income Groups in Nigeria: Implications of COVID-19 Incidence- Asogwa, T. Henry, Ezebuilo R. Ukwueze 13. Impact of Governance on Primary School Enrollment in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Panel Data Approach- Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, Dipankar Das 14. Measuring Gender Gap in Education in Different Italian Regions under Sustainable Development Framework: Is GEI a Good Tool?- Enrico Ivaldi, Andrea Ciacci 15. Gender Equality and Economic Development: A comparison of Turkey with the EU countries- Gamze Yıldız Şeren 16. Assessing the Spatial-temporal, Social and Economic Impact of Micro-finance in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana: A Geographical Information System Analysis- Napoleon Kurantin, Bertha Z. Osei-Hwedie. 17. Entrepreneurial inclusive civil culture as an option for the future of work for the undeserved- José G. Vargas-Hernández. Index