Rabindra Ghosh

The changing status of women in India: Impact of urbanization and development

Argues that legal and constitutional rights in themselves do not change social attitudes. In the longer term these attitudes are conditioned by economic pressures, which would ultimately lead to improvement in the status of women. In the Indian context, developmental planning and urbanization did not have a specific focus on the role of women in economic change. As a result, development and urbanization led to very uneven results for different categories of women in India. While the poor women in rural India were left behind, the middle class educated women were able to improve their economic and social status as a result of urbanization and development. Again, Muslim women were unable to make as much social progress as did the Christian and Hindu women.

Tourism and economic development : case studies from the Indian Ocean region

Contents: Tourism, ecotourism and economic development: an overview, R.N. Ghosh, M.A.B. Siddique and R. Gabbay Tourism in the Indian Oceanregion, M.A.B. Siddique and R.N. Ghosh International tourism and economic development, R.N. Ghosh, M.A.B. Siddique and R. Gabbay Tourism and development: not an easy alliance, Tej Vir Singh Ecotourism development in the Indian Ocean region: the case for shared learning, Ross K. Dowling and John C. Wood A tale of two cities: modelling inbound tourism from Hong Kong and Singapore into Australia, Christine Lim Regional inequalities in tourism development: experiences of China and India, J. Wen, C.A. Tisdell and K.C. Roy A systematic approach to tourism development in Island states, Jack Carlsen Tourism in the Seychelles, Rony Gabbay and Robin Ghosh An analysis of tourism trends in Mauritius, Jack Carlsen and Karim Jaufeerally Is sustainable tourism development possible? broad issues concerning Australia and Papua New Guinea, Parikshit K. Basu Tourism or livestock - a policy dilemma for environmental management and poverty amelioration in Botswana, Diana J. Beal Index.

Corruption, good governance and economic development : contemporary analysis and case studies

Corruption, Good Governance and Economic Development adopts a non-Eurocentric approach towards good governance issues in Asia and Africa on practical and theoretical levels. Edited by R N Ghosh and M A B Siddique, this volume features contributions from distinguished scholars and policy makers who examine whether there is any correlation between the level of corruption in a country and its rate of economic change. These chapters are the outcome of major papers that were presented in conferences on the topic of “Good Governance and Economic Development?presented in Australia and India in June and December 2009 respectively, and it is hoped that they will bridge the gap in the area of good governance from a non-Western perspective in existing development literature.