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  • Women Reinventing Development

    The Odisha Experience

    Edición de Asha Hans, Amrita Patel, Bidyut Mohanty, Swarnamayee Tripathy ...
    Women in the State of Odisha have played an important role in development, however they remain mostly invisible in policy and research. This anthology undertakes a journey from the States' rich historical tradition to its present stage of development to locate women's spaces in this process. This book helps in refocusing attention on economic, political and social dimensions of women and ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Engendering Climate Change

    Learnings from South Asia

    Edición de Asha Hans, Nitya Rao, Anjal Prakash, Amrita Patel ...
    This book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability.The book analyzes how changes in rainfall patterns, floods, droughts, heatwaves and landslides affect those who are directly dependent on the agrarian economy. It examines the socio-economic pressures, ... Leer más

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  • An Uncertain Glory

    India and its Contradictions

    de Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen ...
    When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • India Today

    Economy, Politics and Society

    de Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Leer más

    $33.00 USD

  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    de Dayabati Roy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Leer más

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  • Understanding India's New Political Economy

    A Great Transformation?

    Edición de Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge ...
    A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.Filling a ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Higher Education in India

    In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity

    Edición de Jandhyala B. G. Tilak ...
    India has a large network of around 634 universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 teachers spread across the length and breadth of the country.Despite its massive geographical reach, higher education in India has had its share of problems.This volume is a collection of essays which discusses these problems like inclusiveness and the impact of reservation on education, the problems of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • India

    Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century

    de John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey, Trent Brown ...
    India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influence have ensured that people across the world recognise India as one of the main sites of social dynamism in the early twenty-first century.In this book, research leaders John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown explore in depth the economic, social, ... Leer más

    $24.00 USD

  • Decentralization, Local Governance, and Social Wellbeing in India

    Do Local Governments Matter?

    de Rani Mullen ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    Over the past three decades, decentralization has been seen as the means for allowing local governments to become more accountable, and for encouraging the deepening of democracy and the building of village communities. By drawing on original village-level case studies of six villages in three different Indian states, this book presents a systematic analysis of the impact of decentralization on ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Poverty amid Plenty in the New India

    de Atul Kohli ...
    India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet, in this 'new' India, grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of India's children are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a seasoned ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Elementary Education System in India

    Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics

    Edición de Rashmi Sharma, Vimala Ramachandran ...
    This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence, which is usually seen as the result of simplified phrases like 'lack of political will', 'because of poverty', etc. This book looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states namely Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in India

    de World Bank ...
    Despite India?s record of rapid economic growth and poverty reduction over recent decadesrising inequality in the country has been a subject of concern among policy makersacademics and activists alike.Poverty and Social Exclusion in India focuses on social exclusion which has its roots in India?shistorical divisions along lines of caste tribe and the excluded sex that is women. These ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD