Challenges to Punjab Economy: A Regional Perspective from India - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032378638 ISBN 13: 9781032378633

Verlag: Routledge India, 2025

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This volume looks at the challenges faced by the economy and society in Punjab, India. It probes into the economic issues, institutional development and resources imbalance faced by the Punjab economy. It discusses regional research problems and futuristic approaches for a developing economy.

The chapters in this volume:

• focus on comprehending economic challenges, agrarian structure and development; markets, R&D and public policy; manufacturing sector; opportunities and possibilities;
• examine labour, caste and gender trajectories, exploring the question of freedom and livelihood; human, social and financial resources development; hunger, diet and disease; challenges for development paradigm;
• present the macro and micro facets of development processes in the region and offer a way forward for long-run growth, sustainability and inclusiveness amidst the dynamic fast-changing economies across the globe.

Comprehensive and analytical in its approach, this volume will be of interest to young researchers, scholars, practitioners and policymakers working in the fields of Development Economics, Regional Economics, Evolutionary Economics, Sustainable Economics, Agrarian Development, Manufacturing and Labour.

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Baldev Singh Shergill is Assistant Professor at Guru Kashi Department of Social Sciences, Punjabi University Guru Kashi Campus, Talwandi Sabo, Punjab. He completed his PhD in Economics at Punjabi University, Patiala. Prior to his current position, he taught at the University of Delhi. He has published widely in journals of repute like Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Development Policy and Practice and International Journal of Economics and Development, amongst others. He is a referee to many journals including Millennial Asia, Agrarian South and other reputed journals.

Swati Mehta is Assistant Professor at the Punjab School of Economics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. She is an Associate Editor, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. She is a Member, Board of Management, The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS) (2022–24). With a PhD from the Department of Economics, Punjabi University, Patiala, She was Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University, Seoul, S. Korea with the award of International Scholar Exchange Fellowship (ISEF) of Korea/Chey Foundation for Advanced Study during March–August 2019.

Her area of research includes Economics of Innovation, Innovation Systems Approach, Global Value Chains, Development Economics, and Manufacturing Industries in developing countries. She is a Member of “The Global Network of Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems” (Globelics). She is a founding member of earlier career Innovation Researchers, CRIS, https://www.cris-is.org.

She has published articles in journals such as Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, Seoul Journal of Economics, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development and Innovation and Development. She is a referee to journals of repute including Economic Modelling, Millennial Asia, Innovation and Development, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation and African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032378638
• ISBN 13: 9781032378633
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350
• Herausgeber: Shergill Baldev Singh, Mehta Swati
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