Articles by K Sundaram

Poverty Reduction and Redistribution in Sixth Plan Population Factor and Rural-Urban Equity K Sundaram S D Tendulkar The Sixth Five-Year Plan aims to reduce the proportion of population below the 'poverty line' to 30 per cent by its terminal year, by means of growth and redistribution of aggregate consumer ex- penditure. The far higher than expected rate of increase in population, revealed in the results of the 1981 Census, however, would have an impart on this original aim.

A Rahman K Sundaram N R Rajagopal A V Raman Ever since 1951 when India adopted the path of planned economic development, the role of R and D as an instrument of social change has been recognised; and in recent years, there has been a conscious attempt to plan and orient R and D efforts to the achievement of national objectives. This paper which focuses attention on the inter-relationships between the R and D plans and the National Plan shows that there has been a broad conformity between the orientation of efforts in the R and D sector and the orderings of different socio-economic objetives-in the National Plan, though this broad conformity itself cannot be viewed as entirely a planned outcome.

Combines in Punjab M S Mishra Prasanta K Pattanaik K Sundaram This paper studies some aspects of the social as well as private costs and benefits of harvest combines which have been used fairly widely in Punjab in recent years.

Politicians and Parties K Sundaram The devaluation of the rupee in 1966 came up against intense and widespread political reaction. This made it nearly impossible for the government to gain real political support for the measure ex-ante or to make a national appraisal of its success ex-post.