Higher Education, Employment, and Economic Development in India: Problems, Prospects, and Policies
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The book discusses themes such as quality and access to higher education, the shift towards private investment in higher education, demographic dividend and joblessness among youth, social and income inequalities, labour migration and employment, and the participation of women in the workforce, among others. It provides insights into the challenges relating to employment generation in the industrial sector. It also offers solutions and policy measures to move towards sustainable growth, better employment opportunities in various sectors of industries, and human development.
Rich in empirical data, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of education, economics, development studies, sociology, gender studies, and social and economic policy.
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Ram Kumar Mishra is a Senior Professor, ONGC Subir Raha Chair, and NLC Chair at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, India, and is a graduate of the International Management Program, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He has been a Fellow of the British Council and Commonwealth Secretariat. He has taught at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom, and was a Visiting Professor at Maison Des Sciences De L’ Hommes, Paris; University of Technology Mara, Malaysia; and Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of the UN Task Force on Standards of Excellence in Public Administration and Education. He has handled assignments for the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Trade and Commerce, and Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, Government of India. He has been a management consultant to several organisations, including DFID, Deloitte, Adam Smith Institute, ADB, and Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad, India. He is a member of the editorial boards of many international and national journals.
Sandeep Kumar Kujur is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Earlier, he was with the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, India. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and a Visiting Faculty to the Department of Business Management, Central University of Odisha, Koraput. He holds a PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests include industrial economics, economics of technological change, and labour and development economics.
K. Trivikram holds an MA and a PhD in Economics and is a Professor at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, India, with close to four decades of experience in teaching, training, and research. He has designed and conducted a good deal of management development programmes for central and state-level public enterprises for senior and middle-level executives, civil servants, and corporate executives. His areas of interest include business environment, public policy, corporate governance, and CSR.
