Social Change and Development A JOURNAL OF OKD INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT VOL X No. 2 July 2013 CONTENTS Reforming Health Policy and Financing under Globalisation Ravi Duggal 1-30 Trade Reforms and Crisis in India’s Plantation Industry: an analysis of Tea and Rubber Plantation Sectors P.K. Viswanathan, Amita Shah 31-85 Production Growth and Adoption of Technology in Agriculture: A Case of Central Brahmaputra Valley Zone, Assam Soma Dhar, Niranjan Roy 86-100 Functioning Village Councils in Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland Uddipan Dutta, Bhupen Sarmah 101-108 Determinants of Poor Educational Attainment in Minority Concentrated Districts of Assam Ira Das 109-119 How Does an Informal Credit System Affect Lives and Livelihoods! Case of Fishermen of Chilka Lagoon, Odisha Soumen Ray 120-130 Book Review- The ‘Host’ and the ‘Other’: Narratives of Migration and Identity-Politics in Assam Uddipan Dutta 131-134 Book Review- Protecting the Displaced Arup Kumar Deka 135-139