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Economic and human development in contemporary India : cronyism and fragility / Debdas Banerjee

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Banerjee, Debdas
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Physical Description
xvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Emerging India: issues in development -- Obscurity to prosperity -- The best of times, the worst of times -- Development of underdevelopment -- Rise of "political entrepreneurs" and social tension -- Dilemma of the classical development model -- "Catching up": an elusive milestone -- The plan -- 2.Global trade and investments: opportunities and challenges for India -- India's exports: an overview -- Global trends in merchandise flows -- The new international division of labour -- Trade in services -- Special economic zones: the rise of political entrepreneurs -- External reserves and imbalances -- Concluding remarks -- 3.Industrial capabilities: research and development as the indicator -- Introduction -- The supply-side factors -- The outcome: patent statistics as summary indicator -- Creativity to innovation and diffusion: the demand-side factors -- Profit-wage relations -- Conclusion -- 4.Economic restructuring: employment and income implications -- Structural changes: then and now -- Changes in India: illusions and reality -- Social division of labour and weightlessness -- Transformation, a bloated "residual" -- Concluding remarks -- 5.Agriculture: the genesis of growing vulnerability -- The world food crisis and India -- "Look west" policies and Indian agriculture -- Low growth disorder: inputs and land use pattern -- Low growth issue of terms of trade -- Farmers' predicament -- Conclusion -- 6.Trends in wage and earnings differentials -- Global restructuring and inequality -- India: inter-personal distribution -- Inter-sectoral distribution -- The future -- 7.Development as governance: more evidence from the social sector -- Why governance? -- Health and workers -- Distribution of "power" -- Mass education and quality: the hope -- Governance as accountability -- 8.Epilogue.
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9780415559744 (hbk. : alk. paper)
041555974X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780203866436 (ebook)
0203866436 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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