• Outcome budget: 2005-06: outlays and outcomes-towards achieving better results / New Delhi: Ministry of Finance. Department of Expenditure, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This document is a compilation of outcomes and outputs identified by various Ministries and Departments in respect of the Plan programmes/schemes being implemented by them. These data have been analysed by the Planning Commission and the Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure. Converting outlays into outcomes is a complex process, which differs from Ministry to Ministry and programme to programme. In this outcome budget, only plan expenditure is included, from the next year, ‘outcome budget’ will be prepared for the Non-Plan expenditure too.

• Indicators for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals: definitions, rationale, concepts and sources.--New York: United Nations, 2003 (Reference)
  

  Building on the United Nations global conferences of the 1990s, the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000 marked a strong commitment to the right to development, to peace and security, to gender equality, to the eradication of the many dimensions of poverty and to sustainable human development. Embedded in that Declaration, which was adopted by 147 heads of State and 189 states, were what have become known as the eight Millennium Development Goals, including 18 time-bound targets. The present handbook provides guidance on the definitions, rationale, concepts and sources of data for each of the indicators that are being used to monitor the goals and targets. It expands on an earlier exercise to provide the metadata for the socio-economic indicators that make up the United Nations Common Country Assessment Indicator Framework. The indicators for goals 1-7 are a subset of that framework.

• Innovation: applying knowledge in development / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Science, Technology & Innovation--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation underscores the critical importance of knowledge and innovation for development in every country.

• Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the millennium development goals / UN Millennium Project.--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The core of the UN Millennium Project’s work has been carried out by 10 thematic task forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the private sector. This report brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

• Lawlessness and economics: alternative modes of governance / Avinash K. Dixit. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006
  

  This book examines the theory of private institutions that transcend or supplement weak economic governance from the state. In much of the world and through much of history, private mechanisms—such as long-term relationships, arbitration, social networks to disseminate information and norms to impose sanctions—have grown up in place of formal, state-governed institutions. Numerous case studies and empirical investigations have demonstrated the variety, importance, and merits and drawbacks of such institutions. This book builds on these studies and constructs a toolkit of theoretical models to analyze them.

• Towards universal primary education: investments, incentives, and institutions / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Education and Gender Equality. London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Task Force on Education and Gender Equality argues that education has the potential to transform societies and to fully realize human capabilities, to prepare workers to participate in the global economy, and to provide citizens with the tools for full engagement in public life. The report lays out a clear vision of what will be required to achieve universal primary education in the developing world—specific actions to increase access and demand for education in combination with difficult but feasible improvements in the institutions of the education sector.

• New GAIA atlas of planet management/ edited by Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent London: Gaia Books, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This atlas is the definite guide to a planet in critical translation. This revised edition comes after a decade of revolutionary environmental and political change—a revolution the book itself has helped to inspire. It maps and analyses a living planet at a critical point in its history—as one species, our town, threatens to disrupt and exhaust its life-support systems. It charts the growing divisions in the human family. And it proposes that we have the chance to redirect our course, and become caretakers of our future.

• Postmodern Gandhi and other essays: Gandhi in the world and at home / Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph.--New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006
  

  Postmodern Gandhi and other essays: Gandhi in the world and at home / Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph.--New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006

• Management of non-governmental organisations: towards a developed civil society / J. M. Ovasdi.--Delhi: Macmillan, 2006
  

  Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are involved in a wide range of services to the society. They normally create their areas of competency depending upon their mission and objectives. They fall in the category of ‘not-for-profit’ organizations. In the current scenario, the NGOs and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are coming closer to each other in their approach to cater to the needs of the specific sections of society and humanity in general. This book is designed to cater to the needs of the persons and organizations that are interested in the concept of civil society and in the role of NGOs in organizing groups to help look after the collective needs of the various segments of society and humanity in general.

• New modes of governance in the global system / edited by Mathias Koenig-Archibugi and Michael Zurn.--Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
  

  Globalization processes are propelling a transformation of governance. As political problems become more transnational, public as well as private sectors increasingly perform governance activities beyond the level of individual states. This book examines the wide variety of forms that governance can take in the global system and their consequences. It proposes a conceptual and analytical framework that focuses on institutional diversity in global governance. This framework is then applied to a set of global institutions and initiatives dealing with key transnational issues, such as trade, such as trade liberalization, financial market regulation, privacy protection, cybercrime, biodiversity and food safety.

• PMO diary-II: the emergency / B. N.Tandon.--New Delhi: Konark, 2006
  

  Civil servants in India usually do not either maintain a diary or write their memoirs. This is proving to be a major void in the source material that historians would like to access. To some extent this Diary fills this gap. This second volume covers the period from August 16, 1975 to July 24, 1976. The author was in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat (PMS) as it was known then, as a Joint Secretary for seven years dealing mainly with political affairs. His entries, which were made almost on a daily basis, trace the trajectory of the political crisis that would, on 26 June 1975 overwhelm the country. They take the reader through the major issues of the day and the manner in which the PM and her office dealt with them. In the process, the reader gets and accurate and fascinating glimpse into the personal of Indira Gandhi as well as her working style. The diary also reveals hitherto untold facts. It portrays political leaders and others, who became powerful at the time, in their true colours.

• Our inner ape: the best and worst of human nature / Frans de Wall. London: Granta Books, 2005
  

  Since long, man’s violent, aggressive, competitive nature is attributed to the animal ancestry. But what if he is just as given to cooperation, empathy and morality by virtue of the genes? This book brings to life, the famously aggressive chimpanzee and the lesser-known, egalitarian, erotic, matriarchal bonobo, two species whose DNA is nearly identical to that of humans. It reveals their personalities, relationships, power struggles and games. Overall, it explores what their behaviour can teach us about ourselves and each other.

• Manu's code of law: a critical edition and translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra / Patrick Olivelle; with the editorial assistance of Suman Oli. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005 (Reference)
  

  Manu’s code of law, which dates back to about the second century, has long been considered the most authoritative work on Hindu law, religion, and social mores. This volume contains the first critical edition of the Code, as well as accurate and elegantly worded translation. In a substantive introduction it explains the sources, structure, and socio-political background of the treatise. It goes on to examine its nature and purpose, as also the contradictions within it.

• Investing in strategies to reverse the global incidence of TB / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential medicines, Working group on TB.--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Working Group on TB of the Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines addresses the devastating impact of TB on both human health and economic performance. This report provides concrete and practical steps that governments and international agencies can take to treat and prevent this illness.

• Prescription for healthy development: increasing access to medicines / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential medicines, Working Group on Access to Essential medicines.--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Working Group on Access to Essential Medicines of the Task Force on AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines underscores the vital need to increase the availability, affordability, and appropriate use of medicines in developing countries. It proposes concrete and practical steps to increase incentives for research for priority diseases of developing countries, improve procurement and distribution, strengthen primary health systems, develop more human resources, and increase health funding.

• India Social Development Report / Council for Social Development. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006 (Reference)
  

  For the past several years, social development, has acquired a new salience in development thinking. In the immediate post-war period, development was seen mainly in terms of accretion in the material wealth of nations, and was measured in terms of rate of growth in domestic product. The Council for Social Development which has since the mid-60s played a pioneering role in advocacy through research and analysis in the field of social development, has carried out numerous empirical studies to document these trends and bring out their implications for those directly affected by them. This report is in two parts, the first covering the major areas of social development and the second being the thematic report on the conditions of children in India. In each area, an attempt has been made to present an up-to-date picture of the social situation in the historical perspective, commencing from India’s Independence, identify major concerns and problems, and suggest measures and instruments for possible intervention.

• Removing unfreedoms: citizens as agents of change in urban development / edited by Jane Samuels.--Warwickshire: ITDG, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This book re-evaluates existing approaches to urban development by assessing degrees of freedom rather than relying exclusively on measuring poverty. While early ideals of urbanization focused on economic valuation, the provision of services and city design, here the concern is directed toward the individual citizen’s ability to live the life they value leading. Thus, by identifying and then removing ‘unfreedoms’, global urban strategies ensure the citizen’s role as an active agent of change. The book documents sessions with Amartya Sen, working in collaboration with the authors and many others, and provides a shared policy framework for project design in urban development and governance programmers.

• The State, IT and development / edited by R. K. Bagga, Kenneth Keniston and Rohit Raj Mathur.--New Delhi: Sage, 2005
  

  Information technology (IT) has brought about a major shift in the nature and speed of knowledge processing, thereby transforming the way businesses and, indeed, governments, function. An integral aspect of social capital, IT can either be an empowering force for marginalized, or be instrumental in creating a new dimension of inequality. Conceived against this background, this volume consists of 21 chapters written by authorities responsible for planning and implementing IT in India, including the President of India, H.E. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, senior government officials, IT professionals and scholars. It is divided into four sections—The ICT Route to Development; Challenges Before The State; ICT Initiatives in Developing India; and The Road Ahead.

• Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Education and Gender Equality.--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Task Force on Education and Gender Equality underscores the need to place women’s empowerment at the center of development plans. This report explains why gender equality is vital for achieving all of the Millennium Development Goals. It argues persuasively for policies and actions to guarantee universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, invest in infrastructure to reduce women’s time and work burdens, guarantee women’s and girls’ property and inheritance rights, reduce gender gaps in employment and wages, increase women’s political participation, and combat violence against women.

• Trade for development / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Trade. London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Task Force on Trade makes a strong case for a multilateral trading system that is more supportive of economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. To this end, it put forwards a set of goals to be accomplished by the ongoing Doha Round as well as longer term objectives for the trading system to achieve by 2015 and 2025. It suggests that the High-Level Millennium Review of September 2005 be used to advance the trade for development agenda.

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