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

Sustainable development has emerged as an overarching concern globally. Given the challenges of climate change, national economies, especially in the developing world, face unsustainable levels and patterns of growth and development. This volume looks at how India’s sustainable development has progressed through institutional changes and public policy discourse. It studies the three pillars of sustainability - technology, governance, and finance. The authors examine whether institutions have been able to work towards becoming inclusive and participatory and whether public policy can remain relevant and agile in a fast-changing world to ensure sustainable development.

Written in honour of Professor Vinod Vyasulu, an erudite economist with wide-ranging interests, this volume will be of interest to academics and practitioners engaged with issues of development, policy, institutions, and technology in the fields of Economics, Sociology, Development Studies, Public Policy, and South Asian Studies.

Sukhpal Singh is Professor and Former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad; Former Director General, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), Chandigarh; and Former Professor and Head, Agricultural Economic Research Unit (AERU), Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi, India.

Jyotsna Jha is Director Skills, Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver. She headed Bengaluru, India, based Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, an independent public policy and finance think tank for 13 years between 2011 and 2023. Prior to this, she worked with Commonwealth Secretariat, London, as an adviser for the Social Transformation Programmes Division for five years where she actively researched on issues related with equity in education, gender and HIV-AIDS, and engaged in evidence-based policy advocacy with member countries in all regions: Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

A. Indira is an Independent Researcher with over 30 years of experience as a researcher, teacher, trainer, consultant and academic administrator. She received her MA (Economics) from Central University, Hyderabad; MTech (Management Studies) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; and holds a PhD in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.

A.V. Arunkumar is Professor and Associate Dean of a leading Business School located at Bengaluru, India. He has over 29 years of expertise in wide-ranging functional areas that include teaching, research, academic administration, development banking, national and international banking, financial risk management and international finance. As part of the research work, he has brought out, quite a few working papers, articles in journals, book chapters and books. In addition to his academic profile, has held executive roles in development, commercial and multinational banks in the core functional areas like credit, operational and enterprise risk management.