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Themes
in Social Sector
Research: The S Guhan
Memorial Series
Recent Titles
Series
Outline
Professor S.Guhan
(1933-1998) was one of
the most distinguished
civil servants and
academicians the State
of Tamilnadu has
produced. He joined the
Indian Administrative
Service in 1955, having
been ranked first in the
all-India competitive
examination, and took
voluntary retirement
from the Service in
1979. From 1979 to 1993,
he was a Senior Fellow
at the Madras Institute
of Development Studies.
Upon retirement from the
Institute, he was
invited to continue as a
Professor Emeritus.
While he was in
Government Service, he
held the positions of
Indian Alternate
Director at the World
Bank (1964-68), Finance
Secretary, Government of
Tamilnadu (1974-78), and
Senior Economist in the
Brandt Commission
Secretariat (1978-79).
During this period, he
acquired extensive
practical experience in
dealing with issues of
fiscal economics and
international
development, which stood
him in such good stead
in his subsequent
research endeavours in
these fields. In the
course of his career, he
served as a consultant
to many U.N. and Bretton
Woods agencies and as
Advisor to the Chief
Minister of Tamilnadu
(1989-90). His untimely
demise in 1998 robbed
the country of a
committed commentator
on, and interventionist
in, India's development
experience. A scholar of
remarkable range and
versatility, Professor
Guhan's research
interests covered a wide
canvas: international
economic relations;
issues relating to
Tamilnadu's development
experience; village
studies;
poverty-alleviation;
social security; public
finance; Centre-State
relations; and caste
discrimination and caste
reservations, among many
other subjects. Taking
his work as a whole,
though, it is easy to
discern that his most
systematic engagement
was withy deprivation
and its redressal.
Against this backgroumd,
we at the Madras
Institute of Development
Studies believe it to be
appropriate for us to
honour Professor Guhan's
memory by dedicating an
academic programme to
him, of which the
Discussion Papers and
Monographs subsumed in
the S.Guhan Memorial
Series on Themes in
Social Sector Research
constitute one
component. The objective
of the series is to
serve as a forum for the
dissemination of
knowledge on various
aspects of the social
sector; poverty,
inequality,
discrimination, health,
education, nutrition,
environment, population,
and so on. The idea,
above all, is to allow
for a broad and
inclusive strategem of
research, one which
accommodates differing
perspectives and electic
orientations, and
thereby facilitates
studies of the social
sector that are
motivated by
heterogeneous concerns;
conceptual,
measurement-related,
policy-oriented,
empirical, or
theoretical, as the case
may be, it is our hope
that this Discussion
Paper and Monograph
series will help to
focus attention on those
concerns of human
development and
well-being which were so
integral an aspect of
Professor Guhan's own
research interests, and
will thereby serve the
purpose of enabling us
to acknowledge - and in
some small measure,
discharge - a collective
institutional debt to
him.
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RECENT TITLES
Discussion Papers
S.
Subramanian,
The deprivation
distribution profile: A
graphical device for
comparing alternative
regimes of
multidimensional poverty,
2009, Discussion Paper
12.
S.
Subramanian,
A Chakravarty-D’Ambrosio
Class of Social
Exclusion Measures as a
Foster-Greer-Thorbecke
Class of Headcount
Indices of
Multidimensional
Deprivation: An
Interpretive and
Expository Note,
2009, Discussion Paper
11.
D. Jayaraj,
Factors
Contributing to the
Declining Trend in
Sex-Differentials in
Mortality in India: An
Exploratory Analysis,
2007, Discussion Paper
10.
D. Jayaraj and S.
Subramanian, Horizontal
and Vertical inequality:
Some interconnections
and indicators, 2004,
Discussion Paper 9.
S. Subramanian,
Measuring literacy: Some
extensions of the Basu-Foster
framework, 2002,
Discussion Paper 8.
D. Jayaraj and S.
Subramanian, Assessing
the 'Agedness' of a
Population, 2002,
Discussion Paper 7.
D. Jayaraj and S.
Subramanian, Comparing
the Age Structures of
Populations, 2002,
Discussion Paper 6.
D. Jayaraj , The Sex
Ratio at Birth and its
Determinants: an
Exploratory Analysis,
2001, Discussion Paper
5.
Manabi Majumdar , The
Educational Challenge
before the 'Knowledge
Economy': Implications
for Planning and
Financing, 2000,
Discussion Paper 4.
S. Subramanian, Poverty
Measurement and the
Repugnant Conclusion,
2000, Discussion Paper
3.
Des Gaspar ,
'Development as
Freedom': Taking
Economics Beyond
Commodities - The
Cautious Boldness of
Amartya Sen, 2000,
Discussion Paper 2.
D. Jayaraj and S.
Subramanian, Group
Affiliation,
Externality, and the
Measurement of Poverty,
2000, Discussion Paper
1.
Monograph Series
K. Sivasubramaniyan
and V. Gandhiraj,
Irrigation in Tamil Nadu:
With special
reference to Tank
Irrigation, 2009, Monograph Series:
8.
Moana Bhagabati and
Rachna G Ganatra,
Trade
Facilitation and WTO: An
Indian Perspective,
2007, Monograph Series
7.
Frank Heidemann,
Modernity and Status
Autonomy: Reflections on
a Survey of Two Tamil
Villages, 2007,
Monograph Series 6.
D. Jayaraj and K.
Nagaraj,
Socio-economic
factors underlying
growth of silk-weaving
in the Arni region - A
preliminary study, 2006,
Monograph Series 5.
V. K. Natraj, Manabi
Majumdar, Kripa
Ananthpur, G. S. Ganesh
Prasad and Indrashis
Banerjee, Delegation to
Devolution: A
comparative study, 2006,
Monograph Series 4.
D Jayaraj and K Nagaraj,
Socio-economic factors
underlying growth of
silk-weaving in the Arni
region - A preliminary
study, 2006, Monograph
Series 5.
V K Natraj, Manabi
Majumdar, Kripa
Ananthpur, G S Ganesh
Prasad and Indrashis
Banerjee, Delegation to
Devolution: A
comparative study, 2006,
Monograph Series 4.
A. Vaidyanathan and S.
Janakarajan , Water
management and
agriculture in the Palar
and the parambikulam
aliyar systems in
tamilnadu, 2004,
Monograph Series 3.
S. Subramanian, Aspects
of Global Deprivation
and Disparity: A Child's
Guide to Some
Simple-Minded
Arithmetic, 2000,
Monograph Series 2.
K Nagaraj, Fertility
Decline in Tamil Nadu:
Social Capillarity in
Action?, 2000, Monograph
Series 1.
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