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IIMC hosts mini exposition for launch of the Resource Book for Livelihood Promotion

| | Aug 23, 2014, at 04:39 am
Kolkata, Aug 22 (IBNS): A mini exposition for the launch of the Resource Book for Livelihood Promotion was held on Friday at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
The launch was well attended by representatives of various government and non government development agencies in the city.
 
The organizers, Centre for Development and Environment Policy (CDEP), Indian Institute of management Calcutta mentioned that this is a part of many such expositions happening or have already taken place at various colleges, university campuses, and organizations across the country. 
 
This is to popularize the Resource Book for Livelihood Promotion promoted by Institute of Livelihood Research and Training (earlier The Livelihood School), authored by  Sankar Datta,  Rama Kandarpa and  Vijay Mahajan. 
 
This Resource Book describes both theoretical as well as practical approaches of livelihood promotion and provides an enhanced understanding of livelihoods under various lenses of social, economic, cultural and political analysis. 
 
It includes cases along with a comprehensive collection of new tools, which will help and support the approaches described in it for practical use by the livelihood promoting organizations. 
 
It is one book that is useful for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the development domain.
 
Rama Kandarpa gave a brief overview of the Resource Book and Runa Sarkar provided her critical review of the same. In the interactive session that followed, the participants raised pertinent questions.
 
VidyaRao, retired professor (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai) said: “It is an excellent textbook for Universities and colleges teaching rural development, social entrepreneurship, and related degree programs. Theoretically sound, it is a blend of Intellectual history, cases, movements, uses aggregate data creatively to strengthen arguments.”
 

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