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Papers by P.K. CHAUBEY

Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2020

Indian Journal of Public Administration, 2005

Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, 1999

Many populations are intrinsically dichotomous and many others are meaningfully dichotomized. For... more Many populations are intrinsically dichotomous and many others are meaningfully dichotomized. For gauging the level of disparity between two sections with respect to a certain trait, many disparity indices have been devised. They are all based on aggregate sectional rates. They all err ignoring the relative size of the two sections, thus tacitly assuming that the two sections an of equal size. This paper devises a new positive disparity measure through a simple geometrical device and generalises it for the situation of unequal size sections. The measures are applied to female-male and rural-urban dichotomies in the case of literacy for the States of India. It is found that a disparity measure that ignores the issue of relative size, grossly underestimates/overestimates the magnitude of disparity.

India Studies in Business and Economics, 2014

Welfare economics ignored for its long capability dimension of development and development econom... more Welfare economics ignored for its long capability dimension of development and development economics did not pay sufficient attention to the softer side of human progress. This has been made somewhat better in the recent decades. The primary focus of the chapter is to point out that while the whole capability approach concentrates on the individual, numerical presentation has exclusively been made only at an aggregate level and that UNDP approach aggregates social states with respect to each functioning instead of individual beings and doings. The chapter attempts to first specify well-being of an individual through choice of personal utilization function and commodity vector and then to explain valuation of a functioning. However, for a society, all functionings of each individual has to be aggregated. There could be two approaches to aggregate them: one via individual aggregate of functionings and the other via functioning aggregate of individuals. The UNDP follows the second one in its Human Development Report.

South Asia Economic Journal, 2014

Southern Economist , 1988

Land reforms have a peculiar significance because without them, there can be no radical improveme... more Land reforms have a peculiar significance because without them, there can be no radical improvement in productivity in agriculture. But the main object of land reforms is a deeper one. They are meant to break up the old structure of a society that has gone stagnant.-Jawaharlal Nehru Land reforms were considered necessary from the viewpoint of both resurging the agricultural economy and making the rural community more equal. Two other minor objectives could be the generation of surplus and provision of raw material for accelerating the pace of industrial development. The abolition of intermediary interests marked a very big step but fell far short of the proclaimed objective of 'land to the tiller'. Perhaps, at the time of independence, it was possible to accomplish it if the government intended. It cannot wield that power today as it is itself in bad shape. To have it done is far too difficult because those who can wield power also argue (and we may feel like endorsing) about the increasing cleavage between owners and tenants. Their recommendations, short of radical reforms, aim at converting black tenancy into white one so as to provide a minimum security to the tenant-tiller will help restore the health to land, improve its vitality and raise eversustaining yield. It will also help reduce gross economic inequalities and alleviate poverty to some extent.

Varta, 1994

The Present phase of population change is characterized by two important factors: first increasin... more The Present phase of population change is characterized by two important factors: first increasing population growth, and second, ever-increasing urban proportion in total population.1 Because of the first factor, this phase has often been called as the age of population explosion, and the second factor has allowed it to be called as the age of urbanization. Generally, the urbanization process is studied by the volume of urban population (i.e., the size), the proportion of urban population (i.e., the level), and the growth rate of urban population.2 Volume wise, that is, by size, our urban population in 1981 was the fourth highest among the nations of the world-the first, second and third being the PRC, the USSR, and the USA. We were likely to soon overtake the USSR and the USA. In 1985, we shall become the second to China in this respect.3 But our level of urbanization is far below the world average and even below the average obtaining in the underdeveloped regions of the world. Urbanization process in the world has often been studied in their regional components. Often the regions relate to the developed and underdeveloped parts of the world.4 But these regions are further subdivided in many parts of the world. On the other hand, urbanization process in India has been studied by state components. No zonal study has been made so far. But the Census 1971 Atlas5 has divided India in five zones which are more or less homogeneous. This small number allows the comparison to be more intelligible. We have, therefore, made a tentative zonal study of urbanization in India and have restricted for the present to the growth in population between 1971 and 1981 censuses.

I was a child of barely 0 years when Dhurjati Prasad Mukerji (05.10.1894–05.12.1961) passed away ... more I was a child of barely 0 years when Dhurjati Prasad Mukerji (05.10.1894–05.12.1961) passed away in December 1961 at the age of 67. I had only known that he was a rare scholar of Economics and Sociology and a pillar of Lucknow School of Economics and Sociology. He had varied interest in life and a wide range of knowledge. Having done M.A. in History (1918) and M.A. in Economics (1920) from the University of Calcutta and spending a brief stint in Bangabhasi College in Calcutta, he came to join Lucknow University as a Lecturer in Economics and Sociology in 1922, where he later became Reader in 1945 and was made Professor in his personal capacity in 1951. He also served the first U.P. Congress Government under Govind Ballabh Pant (1937–40) as Director of Information and created the Bureau of Economics and Statistics. In 1947, he also headed U.P. Labour Enquiry Committee. In 1951 he was a Visiting Professor in I.I.S.S. at the Hague.

Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2020

Indian Journal of Public Administration, 2005

Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, 1999

India Studies in Business and Economics, 2014

South Asia Economic Journal, 2014

Southern Economist , 1988

Varta, 1994

Uttar Pradesh Arthik Patrika, 1980

After abolishing intermediaries between the State and tenants in agricultural lands, the steps we... more After abolishing intermediaries between the State and tenants in agricultural lands, the steps were taken to impose ceiling on the amount of land one could possess. The surplus thus acquired was to be distributed to the poor having interest in agriculture. This paper argues that, given the extent of total surplus land available, it should be distributed only to marginal farmers and mechanism should be devised to absorb landless agricultural labour elsewhere--say, in agro-based processing industries.