Amit S. Ray is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for International Trade and Development (CITD) of the School of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.Manmohan Agarwal studied at the Delhi School of Economics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been teaching at the Centre of International Trade and Development at JNU for more than a quarter of a century.M. Parameswaran is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Developing Studies.

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• 1. Introduction 2. Evolving concepts of development 3. Measuring development: international approaches 4. Measuring development: studies on India 5. From conceptualization to implementation: designing a composite measure of development for Indian states 6. Where are the Indian states? 7. Concluding remarks

Amit S. Ray is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for International Trade and Development (CITD) of the School of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.Manmohan Agarwal studied at the Delhi School of Economics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been teaching at the Centre of International Trade and Development at JNU for more than a quarter of a century.M. Parameswaran is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Developing Studies.

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• 1. Introduction 2. Evolving concepts of development 3. Measuring development: international approaches 4. Measuring development: studies on India 5. From conceptualization to implementation: designing a composite measure of development for Indian states 6. Where are the Indian states? 7. Concluding remarks

Amit S. Ray is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for International Trade and Development (CITD) of the School of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.Manmohan Agarwal studied at the Delhi School of Economics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been teaching at the Centre of International Trade and Development at JNU for more than a quarter of a century.M. Parameswaran is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Developing Studies.

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• 1. Introduction 2. Evolving concepts of development 3. Measuring development: international approaches 4. Measuring development: studies on India 5. From conceptualization to implementation: designing a composite measure of development for Indian states 6. Where are the Indian states? 7. Concluding remarks