NIRD is India's apex body for undertaking training, research, action research and consultancy functions in the rural development sector. It works as an autonomous organisation supported by the Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment, Government of India.

• Natural resource management
• Sustainable Development
• Support systems institutions and structures for development
• Human Development, which includes: Women & Development, Social Development, Economic Development

• Patterns of Decentralised Governance in Rural India
• Fifty Years of Rural Development in India: retrospect and prospect
• Experiences in Implementation of Innovative Employment Programmes
• Intersectoral Coordination in Rural Health Care
• Database of Planning and Monitoring of Basic Minimum Services
• Database on Rural Poverty Indicators
• Implications of GATT/WTO on Agriculture and Rural Development
• Rural Development Statistics  1998

• Journal of Rural Development (a quarterly)
• The NIRD Newsletter (a bimonthly)
• The Grameen Vikas Sameeksha (a biannual journal in Hindi)
• Panchayati Unnati (a monthly newsletter in 12 regional languages reaching 25,000 Panchayati Raj institutions in India)

NIRD  Rajendranagar, Hyderabad,   500 030, India

Telefax: 91-40-4015765 Website: www.nird.org

The Institute of Social and Economic Change was established over two decades ago to promote inter-disciplinary research in South India. This includes both self-initiated research as well as commission research studies for the Central and State Government, other universities and organisations.

The faculty is structured into units covering: Economics, Rural Economics, Ecology, Quantitative Analysis, Sociology, Education, Development Administration, Agriculture Development and Rural Transformation, Population Research Centre and the Research Bank of India Unit

ISEC receives grants from the Government of Karnataka as well as from the Ministry for Human Resources Development through the Indian Council for Social Science Research.

ISEC WORKING PAPERS - A SELECTION

• Land Reforms and its Consequences for Political Configurations - Abdul Aziz
• Land reforms: Recent Trends and Policy Captures - V V Bhanoji Rao
• Emerging Patterns of Leadership in Panchayat Raj System - B S Bhargava and N Sivanna
• Administrative Innovations at the Grass Roots: The case of Middle Tier in the Panchayati Raj System - B S Bhargava and N Sivvana
• Credit delivery in Karnataka: A Case of Chickmagakur District - K Gayathri
• Social Amenities Spread in Rural Karnataka - H G Hanumappa
• The Economic Reforms and Industrial Development (The Karnataka Experience) - H Rao
• Migrants to Bangalore - M Johnson and M Lingaraju
• Development and Change Under Integrated Tribal Development Project - M Mahadeva
• Indigenous Health-Care System in Karnataka: An Exploratory Study - R Mutharayappa
• Sustainable Development: The Case of Watershed Development in India - K N Ninan and S Lakshmikanthamma
• Poverty and Income Distribution in India - K N Ninan
• Demographic Transition in the South - P H Rayappa and M Lingaraju
• The Public Distribution System in Karnataka: A Study of its organisation and management aspects - N Sivanna
• The Political Economy of Populist Programmes - G Thimmaiah
• Economic Liberalisation in the Agricultural Sector - G Thimmaiah
• Management of Poverty Alleviation Programmes in Karnataka: An Overview - V Vyasulu
• The Rural Credit System in the 1990s - V Vyasulu and D Rajasekhar
• Uncultivated Lands: Institutional Aspects of their use and management in Karnataka - S Pasha

 A complete listing of ISEC publications is available on request.

Address:

Institute of Social and Economic Change, Nagarbhavi PO,

Bangalore 560 072, India

Email: ssisec@ren.nic.in   Fax: 91-80-3387008