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almafu_9960143983802883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 287 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st edition.
ISBN:
1-78527-997-1
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1-78527-998-X
Series Statement:
Anthem frontiers of global political economy.
Content:
This book aims to reclaim the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies - something that is increasingly challenged from different directions. Confronted by the status quoist enterprise of randomized control trials (RCTs) on the one hand and the radical endeavour to decolonize dominant knowledge systems (decoloniality) on the other, the study of development as an enduring societal ambition needs urgent revival.〈br〉〈br〉The essays featured in this book build on the contributions of Ashwani Saith - an ardent critic of development orthodoxy and who at the same time is not ready to give up on the emancipatory potential of the development project. Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays touch upon many of the key questions of development studies centred around structural change, labour and poverty and inequality. They also highlight the continued necessity to ground the study of development processes in a critical political economy approach while interrogating the quick-fixes touted by the mainstream discourse on development.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Feb 2022).
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Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tbale -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One INTRODUCTION: THE WHY AND HOW OF RECLAIMING DEVELOPMENT STUDIES -- Development Studies on an Unsteady Terrain -- Development as an Enduring Societal Ambition: The Work of Ashwani Saith -- References -- Part I GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE -- Chapter Two THE RURAL NON-FARM ECONOMY IN INDIA REVISITED: FROM RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION TO RURAL ENTREPRENEURS -- Introduction -- Revising Saith's Thesis -- Sectoral Shifts in the Indian Economy -- Employment for Rural Households -- A Different Historical Moment -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA AND INDIA: A TALE OF GREAT DIVERGENCE -- Introduction -- Economic Growth: 1955-2010 -- Structural Change, Growth and Employment: An Analytical Perspective -- Structural change in China and India -- Structural change, labour reallocation and growth -- Structural change, labour reallocation and employment -- The Great Divergence: Why? -- The initial conditions -- The reforms -- Concluding Observations -- Appendix Tables -- References -- Chapter Four GLOBALIZATION: AN ENHANCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY OR THE DEPRIVATION OF AUTONOMY TO PURSUE RAPID AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH? -- Introduction -- Perceived Constraints -- Globalization per se Did Not 'Kick the Ladder' -- The Dismantlement of the ISI Required Compensatory Action -- Policies for Inequality Aversion -- A Digression on History -- Changes in Development Paradigm that Coincided with Globalization -- Globalization under Threat from Advanced Countries -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Part II LABOUR -- Chapter Five LABOUR LAWS AND MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE IN INDIA: HOW PRIORS TRUMP EVIDENCE AND PROGRESS GETS STALLED -- Laws Created to Help Workers Often Hurt Them.
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Labour Laws and Manufacturing Performance: Besley And Burgess (2004) -- Extant critiques of Besley and Burgess (2004) -- Conceptual problems with the BB index -- Econometric problems -- The curse of Econ10117 -- Capital-labour substitution -- Increase in the marginal cost of production. -- The expropriation effect -- The findings of Besley and Burgess are also not economically meaningful -- Power and the useful economist22 -- References -- Chapter Six MAKING PEOPLE 'SURPLUS POPULATION' IN SOUTHERN AFRICA -- Introduction -- Marx, Living Labour and the Creation of Surplus Population -- Labour Power and Living Labour -- Living Labour and Wage Labour in Southern Africa -- Land and primitive accumulation -- The reproduction living labour -- Competition, class struggle and variable outcomes for the social division of labour -- The tensions of petty commodity production within capitalist society -- The struggles of living labour -- Conclusion: Proletarianization and the Wage Labour/Living Labour Divide -- References -- Chapter Seven EFFECTIVE DEMAND, SURPLUS LABOUR AND THE PACE OF DEVELOPMENT: REREADING KALECKI AND KAHN -- Introduction -- Macro Framework: The Interaction between Consumption and Investment -- Inflation in Prices of Necessities as a Constraint to Economic Growth -- Surplus Labour, Investment and Consumption -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Eight FROM ASSUMED RELUCTANCY TO ENFORCED REDUNDANCY: THE CHANGED DEPRECIATION OF LABOUR IN THE TRANSITION TOWARDS GLOBAL CAPITALISM -- Stagnation and De-industrialization in the Low Countries -- Tackling Poverty with Dutch Benevolence -- Persistent Unwillingness to Accumulate or to Economize -- Poverty and Destitution in the World Today -- References -- Part III Poverty and Inequality -- Chapter Nine POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS IN BANGLADESH: REVISITING SOME DEVELOPMENT IDEAS.
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Poverty Reduction with Increasing Inequality -- Achievements in Social Development Indicators -- Limits to the 'Development Surprise' -- Governance and Development -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter Ten SUKHATME'S LEGACY AND THE INDIAN EXCEPTIONALISM1 -- Introduction -- Measuring Poverty -- The Indian Exceptionalism: 'Small but Healthy' -- The Indian Body Machine: Decrease in Food, Increase in Efficiency -- Challenging the 'Small but Healthy' Hypothesis from a Nutritional Perspective -- Bailing Out the Indian State -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter Eleven ENGLISH AS A MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN INDIAN EDUCATION: INEQUALITY OF ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES -- Introduction -- The Data -- The Advantages of Studying with English as the Medium of Instruction -- Inequality in Access to English -- A Multinomial Logit Model of Language Choice -- Institutional Structure and English as a Medium of Instruction -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Twelve INDIA'S SOCIAL INEQUALITY AS DURABLE INEQUALITY: DALITS AND ADIVASIS AT THE BOTTOM OF AN INCREASINGLY UNEQUAL HIERARCHICAL SOCIETY -- Introduction -- Social Inequality: Definitional and Measurement Issues -- Why focus on social inequality? -- How are the social groups identified? -- Dimensions of inequality -- How are they measured? -- The Framework of Durable Inequality -- Social Groups in the Indian Context -- The classification is both social and economic -- SCs and STs or Dalits and Adivasis: How many are they and where are they concentrated? -- Sources of Data for Mapping Social Inequality -- Types of Inequality -- Resource Inequality -- Asset inequality -- Inequality in the incidence of poverty -- Capability Inequality -- Inequality in educational attainment -- Inequality in health status -- Existential Inequality.
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Employment and Livelihood Implications of Being at the Bottom of the Social Ladder -- Summing Up the Findings -- Durable Inequality and Its Core Mechanisms -- Future Prospects -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter Thirteen THE MYTH OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS AND (DE)GROWTH IN THE TIME OF SDGs -- Earthrise -- Limits to Whose Growth? -- Sustainable Development and Its Goals -- The Earth Is One, the World Is Not -- References -- End Matter -- Contributors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78527-996-3
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781785279973/type/BOOK
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