Table of Content 

Editor’s Note
Authors: Brij Mohan  

President’s Welcome Address at the 23rd ICSD Biennial International Conference—Social Development in Times of Crisis: Challenges and Responses, Gavle, Sweden, 23–25 August 2023

Author: Manohar Pawar

Social Development: Synthesizing Theory and Practice 
pp 1-24
Authors: Mel Gray

A Comparative Literature Review of Integrated Approach in  Health Care in High and Low-Middle-Income Countries

pp: 25-44

Author: Vikash Kumar and Suk Yin Caroline Cheng  

The Fluidity of World Order and Break from Past: Opportunities and Challenges

pp: 45-68
Authors: Sanjay Mishra 

Exploring the Interplay between Policy Texts and Local Realities in Drug Procurement for the NPCDCS Program in Bihar: An Institutional Ethnography 

Pp: 69-87
Author: Vikash Kumar

Transforming Opportunities into Productivity (TOP): A New  Social Development Model for Social Transformation

Pp: 88-108
Author: Philip Young P. Hong

Commentary: Fanatic Madness: Democracy at Crossroads

Pp: 109-118
Author: Shamsul Islam

Commentary: Corrective Abortion and Crime

Pp: 119-123
Author: William M. Epstein

Book Review
pp: 124

Author: Brij Mohan