Inclusive Growth and Development in India [electronic resource] : Challenges for Underdeveloped Regions and the Underclass /
Tsujita, Y.editor.
India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, high economic growth is accompanied by social stratification and widening economic disparity between states. This book illustrates some important aspects of underdevelopment and the process by which the underclass is left behind by focusing on the country's most neglected regions.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Acronyms; Introduction; I.1 Introduction; I.2 Underdeveloped regions and the underclass; I.3 Overview of underdevelopment: Four selected issues; I.4 Structure; I.5 Major findings and future challenges; I.6 Concluding remarks; Appendix I: Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) - Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) Survey 2011-2012; 1 How Agriculture in Bihar Lagged Behind: Implications for Future Development; 1.1 Introduction
1.2 Critical review of major arguments on the backwardness of agriculture in Bihar1.3 Analysis of the rice and wheat sectors in Bihar since the 1960s; 1.4 Insights from fieldwork in various parts of Bihar; 1.5 The role of land reforms in economic development in West Bengal; 1.6 Future prospects for agricultural development in Bihar; 1.7 Summary and conclusions; 2 An Analysis of Rural Household Electrification: The Case of Bihar; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Progress of rural electrification; 2.3 Selection of surveyed villages and sample households and the status of household electrification
2.4 Estimation and results2.5 Issues and discussion; 2.6 Summary and conclusions; 3 Caste, Land and Migration: Analysis of a Village Survey in an Underdeveloped State in India; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Data collection and sampling framework; 3.3 Correlations of caste, land and household migration; 3.4 Changing dynamics of household migration; 3.5 Economic impact of migration: implications for economic disparity in villages; 3.6 Conclusions; 4 Education and Labour Market Outcomes: A Study of Delhi Slum Dwellers; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Context and data collection; 4.3 Education level
4.4 Slum dwellers' work4.5 Linkages between education and labour market outcomes; 4.6 Conclusion; Appendix: List 1: fathers' occupations by category; Appendix: List 2: workers' occupations by category; 5 Poverty and Inequality under Democratic Competition; 5.1 Poverty and inequality in democracy; 5.2 Political history of Bihar; 5.3 Reservation policy; 5.4 Naxalite movements; 5.5 Maha Dalit policy; 5.6 Impact of the democratic competition; 6 The Burden of Public Inaction: Agrarian Impasse in Growing Bihar; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Behind the Bihar boom: persistent poverty amid high growth
6.3 Political ambivalence towards land reforms: a view from above6.4 Public inaction as a cause of low awareness of the land reform issue: a view from below; 6.5 Conclusion; Appendix: the sample survey during the Bihar Assembly elections in 2010; 7 Transformation of Field Development Bureaucracy in Uttar Pradesh: Indigenisation and the Senses of Bureaucratic Discretion and Satisfaction; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Study of rural development bureaucracy; 7.3 Rural development bureaucracy in the field: Districts surveyed and sampling; 7.4 Analysis; 7.5 Summary and concluding remarks; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, high economic growth is accompanied by social stratification and widening economic disparity between states. This book illustrates some important aspects of underdevelopment and the process by which the underclass is left behind by focusing on the country's most neglected regions.
Asia—Economic conditions.
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Development economics.
Political economy.
Economic growth.
International economics.
Asian Economics.
Regional/Spatial Science.
Development Economics.
International Political Economy.
Economic Growth.
International Economics.