Subject(s): Social policy -- Economic policy -- Deprivation : Concept, perspectives and dimensions -- Inclusive development, empowerment linkages in development discourse, deprivation and development in UP, relative status of different social categories in UP, school education in UP, socialization and learning among children -- Employment, growth and deprivation linkages : income and structural change in UP after post-liberalisation, growth trend and sectoral behaviour in economy-- functions in aggregate manufacturing sector in UP-- determinants of wage and employment of agricultural labours in UP, food security in India, status of implementation and impacts of land reforms on material and human deprivation in UP -- Economic deprivation, policies and programmes : strategy for rural development and poverty alleviation, evaluation of prime minister's rojgar yojana in UP, decentralised planning under panchayati raj -- Resource mobilization, institutional finance and rural development :Fiscal crisis in UP, economics of agriculture- spatial and scale bias in banking finance, pattern of district co-operative central banks loans, institutional finance and rural poor -- Gender empowerment and challenges :issues of empowering women-impact of reservation policy under panchayati raj system, deprivation and women's health in rural UP, -- Globalization, market and deprivation : Globalisation and dilemmas of inclusive development- direct principles to direction less state policy, caste and economic discrimination- reflections on theory, concept and consequence