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  • Decentralisation in Contemporary India

    Status, Issues and the Way Forward

    Edited by D. Rajasekhar, R Manjula, M Devendra Babu ...
    This volume examines the process of decentralisation in India since the 1992 legislation which devolved powers to local government bodies to ensure greater participation in local governance and planning.It studies the functioning of gram sabhas, panchayats, school development committees, water supply and sanitation committees, Residents Welfare Associations, and rural development schemes like the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Decentralised Governance, Development Programmes and Elite Capture

    by D. Rajasekhar, M. Devendra Babu, R. Manjula ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book discusses the elite capture taking place in the development programmes implemented through Grama Panchayats (GPs), the lowest tier in the rural local self-government structure in India. Inclusive growth being the cherished goal of all the developing countries, including India, the book assesses whether checks and balances incorporated in development programmes prevent elite capture and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • The New Bihar

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    Well-known economists and policy makers look at the Bihar model of development and discuss the challenges ahead During the 1990s, Bihar's development failed to benefit from the acceleration in India's economic growth, principally because of a steep decline in the already low standards of governance. this changed dramatically after November 2005, when The Nitish Kumar government came to power. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Decentralised Governance and Development in India

    Edited by D. Rajasekhar ...
    This handbook examines 25 years of decentralised governance and development in India. It provides a historical overview of developments since the introduction of decentralisation reforms (73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts) and critically assesses the measures initiated to strengthen decentralised institutions and deepen grassroots democracy. It also discusses the status of service ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Persistence of Poverty in India

    Edited by Nandini Gooptu, Jonathan Parry ...
    What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Democracy, Development and Decentralisation in India

    Continuing Debates

    Edited by Chandan Sengupta, Stuart Corbridge ...
    Offering new insights into the political economy of contemporary India, this book considers how and why unequal patterns of economic growth have taken shape within the context of a democratic and decentralising political system, and how this has impacted upon the processes of economic development. ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • India - The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State, 1951-2007

    by Matthew McCartney ...
    Series series India in the Modern World
    Understanding the drivers and inhibitors of economic growth is critical for promoting development in less developed countries, including India. This book examines economic growth in India from 1951 to the present, challenging many accepted orthodox views. It argues that growth and stagnation should be considered over the medium term, and that the precise role of the state – in relation to ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Undermining Local Democracy

    Parallel Governance in Contemporary South India

    by Lalita Chandrashekhar ...
    Focusing on Karnataka in India, this study examines the implications of the model of development sought to be introduced in the entire country through the governance reforms of the post-1991 period — a model that bypasses Panchayat Raj institutions (PRIs), resulting in a majority of the population being left outside the purview of development.These changes in governance resulted in, among other ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Governing India's Metropolises

    Case Studies of Four Cities

    Edited by Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal ...
    Series series Cities and the Urban Imperative
    This book is a comparative, sector-based study of the changing character of governance in Indian metropolises in the 2000s. Highlighting the horizontal and vertical ties of the participatory groups, both state and non-state, it looks at key civic issues. ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Insights into Inclusive Growth, Employment and Wellbeing in India

    by Arup Mitra ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    What changes are occurring at the macro and the sectoral levels, how the labour market changes are taking place and what impact is felt on the low income households are some of the questions that the present volume focuses on. It begins by examining the sectoral composition of growth, revisiting the issues related to industry-services balance, and also brings out the spatial dimension of growth. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Migrants, Mobility and Citizenship in India

    Edited by Ashwani Kumar, R. B. Bhagat ...
    This book reconceptualizes migration studies in India and brings back the idea of citizenship to the center of the contested relationship between the state and internal migrants in the country. It interrogates the multiple vulnerabilities of disenfranchised internal migrants as evidenced in the mass exodus of migrants during the COVID-19 crisis. Challenging dominant economic and demographic ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD