Institutions and Public Policy for India's Sustainable Development Perspectives on Governance, Technology, and Finance

List of Figures ix List of Tables x List of Boxes xiii Author Biographies xiv Foreword xxiv 1 Challenges of Sustainable Development in India: Understanding Dilemmas, Disconnects, and Mismatches 1 A. INDIRA, A.V. ARUNKUMAR, JYOTSNA JHA AND SUKHPAL SINGH 2 Meeting India's Sustainable Development Challenges: A People-Centred Perspective 21 SHOBHA RAGHURAM 3 Time-Use Surveys and Valuation of Household Production: The Canvas Before India 40 BHARGAVI RAMAMURTHY 4 Methodological and Ethical Concerns in a Study on Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine Among Health-Care Workers in a Medical College of India 62 SRIJIT MISHRA 5 Efficiency's Handmaiden: The Use of ICTs in Development 78 BHARATH M. PALAVALLI AND SRUTHI KRISHNAN 6 Strengthening Public-Sector Governance in India 94 VIJAYALAKSHMI VADIVELU 7 Has Farmers' Access to Credit Improved Over Time? An Analysis of NSSO Data 117 MEENAKSHI RAJEEV AND PRANAV NAGENDRAN 8 What Ails IBC Regime Especially in Relation to Individual Insolvency?: A Critical Assessment 137 H.S. SHYLENDRA 9 Institutional Interventions in Dairy Value Chains in India: A Case Study of the Impact of the Milk Co-operative Vis-à-Vis Informal Milk Market Channels on Farmers in Punjab 148 NARESH SINGLA AND SUKHPAL SINGH 10 Dullards, Drop-Outs and Daughters: Examining Institutional Structures of Schooling in Andhra Pradesh 166 JYOTSNA JHA, NIVEDITHA MENON, NEHA GHATAK AND ARCHANA PUROHIT 11 Public Policy and Banking: An Unfinished Journey 186 M.S. SRIRAM 12 The Political Economy of Maps as Public Documents 204 S. RAJAGOPALAN 13 MSMEs in India: A Techno Ecosystem Approach 218 A.V. ARUNKUMAR AND S. GOPIPRASAD 14 Financial Inclusion and Livelihood Security: A Case Study of Community-Based Organisation 237 V. VEERASHEKHARAPPA Index 257