scholarly journals Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth After Liberalisation: An Analysis of Indian States

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacchidananda Mukherjee ◽  
Debashis Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Indian States

scholarly journals How Do Floods and Drought Impact Economic Growth and Human Development at the Sub-National Level in India?

Climate ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Upali Amarasinghe ◽  
Giriraj Amarnath ◽  
Niranga Alahacoon ◽  
Surajit Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
National Level ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Large Geographical Area ◽  
Substantial Investment ◽  
The Impact

This paper tries to shift the focus of research on the impact of natural disasters on economic growth from global and national levels to sub-national levels. Inadequate sub-national level information is a significant lacuna for planning spatially targeted climate change adaptation investments. A fixed-effect panel regression analyses of 19 states from 2001 to 2015 assess the impacts of exposure to floods and droughts on the growth of gross state domestic product (GSDP) and human development index (HDI) in India. The flood and drought exposure are estimated using satellite data. The 19 states comprise 95% of the population and contribute 93% to the national GDP. The results show that floods indeed expose a large area, but droughts have the most significant impacts at the sub-national level. The most affected GSDPs are in the non-agriculture sectors, positively by the floods and negatively by droughts. No significant influence on human development may be due to substantial investment on mitigation of flood and drought impacts and their influence on better income, health, and education conditions. Because some Indian states still have a large geographical area, profiling disasters impacts at even smaller sub-national units such as districts can lead to effective targeted mitigation and adaptation activities, reduce shocks, and accelerate income growth and human development.

scholarly journals Good governance and human development: Evidence form Indian States

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudra P. Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
The Impact

The paper explores the impact of good governance on human development in India during the last two decades. Using panel data analysis, it finds the evidence that good governance and past human development determines present human development in India. That means good governance can be considered as the policy variables through which we can obtain high economic growth and human development in the country. The paper accordingly suggests that with better institutional mechanism and good governance the country can put its development process in the higher ladder of growth and human development. The lack of same may affect the development process, particularly to achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. Hence governments should have aim to increase the status of good governance and can maintain the same with greater caution. This is not a daunting task, if there is adequate political will in the economy.

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