Globalization and Inequality Book

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Presidential address: globalization and inequality/C.H. Hanumantha Rao. Keynote address: globalization and inequality: a review of evidence/Asis Banerjee. S.N. Sen centenary Memorial Lecture: Wisdom and economics: a reflective essay/V.R. Panchamukhi. Alak Ghosh Memorial Lecture: inequalities in the pattern of urban development/S.R. Hashim. Valedictory address: truncated globalization: inequality and India/Raj Kumar Sen. Sub-theme I. Trends and incidence of globalization and inequality in international perspective: 1. Globalization and inequality in international perspective/Biswajit Guha. 2. Global economic crisis and globalization/Raghubansh Singh. 3. Inequality in the development of India and Sri Lanka in the context of globalization: a comparative study/Prankrishna Pal and Debjani Mitra. 4. Globalization and unequal income gradient: causes of poverty, inequality and insecurity/Debdas Ganguli. 5. Inflation, recession and global inequality/Anath Bandhu Mukherjee. 6. Globalization and Indian economy: a critical evaluation/Somasri Mukhopadhyay. 7. Globalization deepens international inequality/Pritimoy Majumder. 8. Globalization and inequality-a global challenge/A.K. Tiwari and Bandana. Sub-theme II. Globalization and regional dimensions of inequality within India: 9. Growth and disparity in India in the era of globalization/Atreyee Pal and S.K. Bhaumik. 10. Globalization, generation of employment and regional inequality in India/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 11. Development and well being in India during the period of reforms: inter-state inequalities/Gunendra Prasad Pal and Prankrishna Pal. 12. Regional Disparity in India-Issues related to inter state and intra-state variations of level of urbanization and development indicators/Dhiraj Kumar Bandyopadhyay. 13. Globalization, growth, distribution and inclusiveness in India: issues and evidences/Asim K. Karmakar. 14. Globalization and its Impact on growth, inequality in India: an analysis/N. Sharma and A. Kumar. 15. State-wise disparities of income and employment in India during the globalization era/Suvranshu Pan. 16. Globalization and inequality in India/Bharat Bhushan and Kabita Kumar. 17. Uneven and inbalanced growth in India under globalization/Anjana Kumari and Amar Krishna. 18. Globalization and inequality among different strata in India/Ratnesh Kumar and Ranjeet Kumar. 19. Globalization and income inequality in Indian context/Rupa and Sweta Kumari. Sub-theme III. Globalization and sector specific inequality in India: 20. India’s deepening health iniquity in the Neo-liberal regime/Debes Mukhopadhyay. 21. Globalization and inequality in health status in West Bengal/Subrata Kumar Ray and Pranabendu Pradhan. 22. Globalization and inequality in higher education/Dalip Kumar. 23. Marginalization of Indian women in job market and the role of education in eliminating inequality-an evaluation/Indrani Basu. 24. Gender discrimination and atrocities against women employees-violation of basic human rights in post-liberalization era/Kaushik Banerjee, Niladri De and Madhumita Mohanty. 25. Globalization and inequality in agriculture/Ashwini Kant Jha, Bhavna Jha and Dilip Kumar. 26. Globalization, drought in employment opportunity and inequality in India/Kishore Kumar Roy Choudhury. 27. Globalization and inequality/Shailesh Kumar. Index.

Globalization is a complex issues. The current mode of development has not been delivering right goods in right quantities to the majority of the population. Growing unemployment poverty inequality has been putting enormous pressure not only o the developing world but also on the advanced countries. Increasing global inequality and both economic and social inequality in the Indian perspective caused by globalization has been systematically investigated and analyzed by many experts. Important among them are: C.H. Hanumantha Rao, Asis Banerjee, Raj Kumar Sen, V.R. Panchmukhi, S.R. Hashim etc. and others. Research articles of experts have been organized into three main parts.

The papers presented offer fresh insights pm the linkages between globalization and GDP growth rates as well as inequality. The papers bring out that the last two decades of globalization have witnessed rising growth rates in GDP along with growing income inequalities in several developing economies including India. The proportion of people living below the poverty line has been declining but at a lower pace than in the preglobalization era. However, there seems to be no unambiguous causal relationship between the rise in GDP growth rates and rising income inequalities or slow reduction in poverty. This experience suggests that initial or pre-reform domestic socio-economic conditions as well as post-reform policies, which considerably vary across countries, could be mainly responsible for rising inequalities and slow reduction in poverty in many countries in the wake of globalization.

According to the papers presented, policy action on the domestic front is central to reducing inequalities in income and wealth in the wake of globalization. This argues for holistic paradigm of development for ushering in maximum human welfare for the greatest number people. The essence of the papers in the book is : globalization should have a human face reducing inequality to tolerable level.