G. Ramathilagam ¹

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1 Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

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The Food Policy Report 2020 Vision authored by per-Pinstrup Anderson and his colleagues at IFPRI using IMPACT simulations has predicted that about 2800 k.calories per day per person will be available in the developing countries by 2020 an increase of about 9 per cent over 1995. Yet 135 million children under five years of age will be malnourished in 2020, as against 160 million in 1995. As against 25 per cent malnourished children in the developing world, this number in South Asia will be as high as 40 per cent. Among the developing countries, 830 million people will still lack access to sufficient food. South Asia will be one of the hot spots of child malnutrition next food insecurity next only to sub Saharan South Africa.

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The book gives a simple and elaborate account of the concepts and issues relating to the estimation of agricultural production functions.

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The problems of development are by their very nature complex and multifacted. A multidisciplinary dialogue is necessary for understanding most of these problems. The volume under review is an attempt in this direction in that it seeks to shed light on the issue of infant mortality in India, based on the interdisciplinary interactions that took place between social scientists and health professionals.

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The study examines the effects of trade and exchange rate policies on relative incentives in the Philippine economy, with special attention to the agricultural sector.

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It was the late philospher president Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan who remarked, "We must work with the precision of the jeweller, the vision of the prophet and the strength of the giant". When we address problems of food and nutrition, we find that this remark becomes all the more significant. Of course, the problem of malnutrition is a global one but it has to be attacked locally. In this context Aggarwal's work on the geo-ecology of malnutrition based on the survey of Haryana children stands out, among othes contributions.

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In the women's decade, several glaring gaps in the knowledge on women are becoming evident and only now we are talking about the areas where the contributions of this weaker section of the population have been ignored.

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This book is an approach to personnel management as developed by Scott and Clothier in 1923. The current sixth edition incorporates the findings of a comprehensive study of personnel minded companies survey since 1930 through 1957.

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Quality control at every stage of manufacture is essential for mass production. It is a challenge to the Indian industrial sector.

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The concern about world food supplies dates back to Malthus in the 19th century who happened to be the first to discuss the problems of feeding the world.

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This publication is a report of the proceedings of a workshop on food and nutrition policy analysis and a symposium on policy making and planning to reduce malnutrition, both held at the university of California in 1976-77.

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Growth originates in accumulating, resources and in improving their utilization. The two aspects in the improvement of resource utilization relate to intersectoral resource allocation and technical change.

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Three Issues of Development Strategy - Food, Population, Trade ', a publication of the International Food Policy Research Institute is a compilation of the papers on the three vital and interrelated issues of food, population and trade written by its Director, John Mellor.

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This book is a collection of thirteen essays by the noted development economist, Singer, written at various points of time. Based on the author's long and widespread experience and contacts with the developing countries, it provides a useful conspectus of his current outlook on development problems. It illustrates a number of the central problems of the economic and social progress of developing countries, including planning, aid, trade employment, and technology.

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In the economics of growth, the orthodox preoccupation with the development of physical resources has given place to the concern for the development of human resources The development of human resources as a major growth factor is widely acclaimed.

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