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

Vasant P. Pethe

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The Governmental policy concerning the twin problem of population and poverty is based on the Western neo-Malthusian model, which regards over-population as the cause of poverty. This perception is wrong and irrelevant to Indian conditions. In this paper I have proposed a new alternative paradigm on the interrelations between population, poverty and the related concerns. Its central thesis is that the population problem has also the concomitant social problems like unemployment, illhealth, crime, etc., result from (1) poverty as their 'immediate' determinant, (2) such evils as inequality, consumerism, military expenditure, defective planning, etc., as their 'intermediate' determinants, and (3) out-model non-egalitarian social structures, vicious human psyche and spiritual degradation as their 'ultimate' determinants. This new paradigm has implications for policy and programme logistics that are fundamentally different from official policy.

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Vasant P. Pethe , V. S. Badari

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The 1961 Census of India had been more comprehensive than any other previous Census, in the sense that it collected a large mass of data on a variety of social and economic aspects of the population. In particular, the 1961 Census has presented detailed data on the economic activity of the working population for each village, town and city. This information is extremely useful for analysing the economic base of individual village or town as well as for studying the location of economic activity.

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V. M. Dandekar , Vasant P. Pethe

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This paper deals with the pattern of employment and unemployment of the adult rural population. It also studies the variations in employment as between the big and small cultivators.

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Vasant P. Pethe

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The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics carried out a socio-economic survey of the city of Sholapur is 1938, the report of which is yet unpublished. Another inquiry with emphasis on demographic and economic aspects was conducted there by the author in 1955.

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Vasant P. Pethe

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This paper has a two-fold objective: (i) to indicate the dimensions of mobility - geographical and occupational - as between three generation in the rural community, and (ii) to know whether and how far the movements over space and occupations go hand in hand with each other.

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V. M. Dandekar , Vasant P. Pethe

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The main purpose of this article is to describe, in broad terms, the size and composition of families in rural areas. The results presented below are based on data collected in the course of a programme of socio-economic surveys of the villages liable to drought and famine, carried out by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics during 1947-51.

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