India Development and Participation
Development and Participation
Jean Dreze(Author)
Oxford University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. September 2002
Book
Hardback
540 pages
978-0-19-925748-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors place human agency at the centre of stage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms. In comparative international perspective, the Indian economy has done reasonably well in the period following the economic reforms initiated in the early 1990s. However, relatively high aggregate economic growth coexists with the persistence of endemic deprivation and deep social failures. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen relate this imbalance to the continued neglect, in the post-reform period, of public involvement in crucial fields such as basic education, health care, social security, environmental protection, gender equity, and civil rights, and also to the imposition of new burdens such as the accelerated expansion of military expenditure.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
fig., num. tab.
ISBN-13
978-0-19-925748-5 (9780199257485)
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Jean Dreze | Amartya Sen
India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity
Economic Development and Social Opportunity
Book
04/1996
Clarendon Press
€134.70
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Content
Introduction and Approach; Economic Development and Social Opportunity; India in Comparative Perspective; India and China; Basic Education as a Political Issue; Population, Health, and the Environment; Gender Inequality and Women's Agency; Security and Democracy in a Nuclear India; Well Beyond Liberalization; The Practice of Democracy.