This book is a compendium of papers presented in the ‘International Conference on Emerging Global Economic Situation: Impact on Trade and Agribusiness in India’. The book is structured in four parts with thirty four papers. The first part discusses the aspects related to Crop Production and Agriculture Growth, while second part highlights the issues related to Agriculture Marketing and Prices in India. The third part of book presents the important issues related to Credit Income Insurance in India and last part presents innovation and Factors Influencing Sector. This book will be very useful for all those who are interested in issues related to growth of agriculture and allied sectors in our country.

The Book Education In The 21st Century: Emerging Issues And The Way Forward represents the diverse issues very much relevant to our Education system. Education is the most powerful tool which can be used to change the world. It helps in the development of critical thinking which is necessary for the development of scientific temperament. Education in the 21st century is going through a paradigm shift. This century has witnessed the journey from the traditional face to face classroom to the modern virtual classroom. The goal of modern education is to focus on ensuring that children would be problem solvers, decision makers, and enablers. Education in present digital world is concerned with giving learners the skills they need to succeed in this new world, and helping them grow the confidence to practice those skills. Students need to leave school with life skills that help them navigate challenges, even if they don't know the solutions to them. In this book total 19 chapters have been presented to depict the major issues related with education.

The book about political and educational issues in current India India is a plural country. To establish ‘Unity in Diversity has been a challenging and stupendous feat since the earliest inception of nation building process just after independence of India from British colonialism. Great leaders and architects made sincere effort in ensuring social cohesion and stability in burning days of contemporary state of nation and world order. On the other hand, great leaders had to go under systematic planning and program for promoting socio economic and political development of nation affected by the bloodshed partition of a historic territory with diverse culture and tradition . Today’s stage of glorified nation is the result of rigorous labor and missionary zeal of social engineers of yesterday who sacrificed a lot for the sake of India and their people. In spite of being the largest democracy in the world political development is yet to be matured . It is in the maiden stage of deliberative democracy . Political education and consciousness are yet to be institutionalized. Democratization of society , political behavior and political socialization are still in the transitional stage. It hampers education and economy .

Education is a very common ad globally widespread term and in one way or other appears to be as old as mankind, though during the time, its concept, meaning, objectives and modes of delivery have inevitably remained in a constant flux. As a student of education, and as a prospective teacher, it is vital for us to understand the nature, meaning and concept of education and different perspectives that have shaped its context from time to time. Understanding the meaning and concept of education will help us to develop insights about the various processes of education. Education is considered both a field of knowledge and an area of operation. As a field of knowledge, it deals with a number of concepts, ideas, principles and thoughts which are educative in nature. On another side, education is a field of practice. Educational practices occur in different environments, namely formal, non-formal and informal environments. Education operates in a wide spectrum of situations both at macro and micro levels.

This book covers a wide range of the issues in development studies. Recognizing the existence of manifold challenges in achieving and sustaining economic development, it is divided into four sections—(i) The Macroeconomy: Foreign Trade, Structural Transition and the Environment, (ii) Health and Standard of Living, (iii) Education, Human Capital and Evolution of the Employment Quality in India, and (iv) Banking and Credit: Access, Efficiency and Stability. The book brings together a right mix of senior and young economists who use cutting edge econometric techniques and/ or revisit a perennial question with much sharper focus and tools to unravel insights that are important and will inform tomorrow’s theorisation and policy making. The volume looks at important questions like spatial concentration of low infant and child health outcomes, trade liberalisation and export quality, intergenerational occupational mobility, multidimensional poverty incidence in rural India, robustness of the banking sector, to name a few. To do so, the contributions use novel and esoteric methods like machine learning, spatial econometrics, system GMM, quintile regression and counterfactual decomposition (QRCD), and so on. The rich collection holds importance for researchers and policy makers alike, and also for practitioners working in different developmental sectors..

Editor: Dr.K.Saravanan, Associate Professor, PG & Research Department of Economics, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, Velur, Namkkal, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.S.Parvathi, Assistant Professor, PG & Research Department of Economics, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, Velur, Namkkal, Tamil Nadu, India. Co- Editor: Mrs.K.V.Jayashree, Assistant Professor, PG & Research Department of Economics, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, Velur, Namkkal, Tamil Nadu, India