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Development, Displacement and Disparity: The last quarter of the twentieth century. The book is a collection of essays that tackle a crucial theme in developmental economics and planning. The essays:

look at the inequities and disparities of national resource distribution, and the need for a more equitable distribution of national developmental gains.
reflect a growing concern with many economic theorists over uneven regional development and the need for these issues to be looked at seriously, with a view to attend to them in the best possible ways.
are on the one hand a theoretical exposition of the economics of public goods supply, but on the other, they point to the lag between theoretical and academic understanding and practical initiative.
study the areas, evaluate the models of development and suggest new areas of research in development planning.

Nirmala Banerjee is a retired Professor of Economics from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences. She has co-edited four books and her areas of interest include urban planning and finances, industrial organinsations and forms of labour in urban India with specific reference to the unorganised sector; and the impact of these on growth and distribution, the economics of gender and issues relating to development, work and poverty.

Sugata Marjit is a Reserve Bank of India Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Kolkata. He has published research papers in a number of reputed journals like the International Economic Review, Keio Economic Studies, Journal of Macroeconomics and Canadian Journal of Economics.