About the Book

Globalization has affected a change across the regions of the world and India is no exception. The national economy has become far more integrated with the global economy now. However there are large parts of the underdeveloped regions that suffer from endemic underdevelopment. The North Eastern Region in one such region. The relevance of globalisation in the context of the North Eastern Region of India has additional implications in terms of social and political integration. the most important characteristic of the North Eastern Region is that all the constituent units (States) are relatively closed ethnic groups. All the states in the region share porous international border. Consequently both product and factor markets in these states have some international dimension. Given the socioeconomic and geopolitical dimensions in the region the prevailing pattern of development in these states has also culminated in the form of social unrest and degradation of economic values. This clearly implies that the development policies and programmes have fallen short of meeting the social and economic aspirations of the indigenous population in the region.

In this context the question that arises is how the forces of globalization and economic growth could be combined together to address the implicit and most relevant questions associated with migration unemployment and development of trading activities in the perspective of North Eastern Region of India. This volume argues for a more perceptive sensitive assessment of the development needs of the region. There is a need to identify and recognize the most critical and appropriate strategy required for the region. This volume highlights the key issues which remain as challenges for the future development. Poverty inequality and deprivation remain entrenched in the backwardness and remoteness of the region despite sixty years of India's independence. Further marginalization and peripheralisation of the communities from this region will not augur for the nation state.

The book is expected to be a valuable addition to the rather scanty literature on these contemporary economic issues with reference to North Eastern Region of India.

Contents:

1. Are migrants worse or Better off? Asking the Right Questions– Arjan de Haan and Amaresh Dubey

2. Migration in the North Eastern Region of India : Some Issues – Amaresh Dubey, Smita Das and Veronica Pala

3. Globalisation, Trade and the Issues of Employment : Case from Small Scale Tea Plantations in Assam – Kalyan Das

4. The Employment Situation in the North-Eastern region of India :  A Gender Perspective – Smita Das, Amaresh Dubey and Veronica Pala

5. The Nonfarm Sector in the Rural North-Eastern Region of India : Some Correlates and Determinants – Veronica Pala, Smita Das and Amaresh Dubey

6. Structure and Trends in the Informal Sector : A Case of North-East India – M. Satish Kumar

7. Development of Service sector : Is There Any Hope for  the Economies of North-Eastern States of India – Nirankar Srivastav

8. Border Trade with Bangladesh and Pre-Investment Feasibility : Economic Prospects of North Eastern Region – Saundariya Borbora and Ratul Mahanta

9. Border Trade in Mizoram : An Economic Spatial Analysis – B.S. Mipun and Charles Romalswama

10. Locations, Economic Growth and Trade : Recent Economic Trends in South Asia – A.C. Mohapatra and Josojit Dey

11. Globalisation and the Challenge of Poverty, Unemployment and Social Sector Development in North-Eastern States – Sudhakar Panda

12. Poverty and Inequality Among the North-Eastern States During 1980s and 1990s – Amaresh Dubey, Orester J. Kharpuri and Eugene D. Thomas

13. Globalisation and its Employment Implications for the North-East – E. Bijoykumar Singh

14. Economic Reforms and Prospects of Developing Nature-based Tourism in North-East India : A Study on Arunachal Pradesh – Amitava Mitra

15. Globalisation and Its Relevance for the North-Eastern Region of India – A.K. Agarwal