Development, Transformations and the Human Condition (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honour of Jayati Ghosh
Redaktion: Damodaran, Sumangala; Sinha, Dipa; Mitra, Sona; Gupta, Smita

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Produktbeschreibung

The world is grappling to come up with alternative imaginations for transformation despite repeated crises, inequalities and immiseration caused by the increasing dominance of the neo-liberal capitalist framework and the collapse of twentieth-century socialist models. This book looks at concepts that form the core of development economics and political economy and brings together perspectives that explore the inextricable relationship between development and human rights, social movements and the call for social transformation.

The essays in this volume honour the massive corpus of work across a large number of areas around development issues by the eminent economist Jayati Ghosh. The book includes contributions by academics, activists and practitioners and attempts to understand the socio-economic causes of inequality, poverty and oppression. Divided into five parts - corresponding broadly to key areas of Ghosh's work - the book explores capitalism, inequality and development, gender and development, political economy of trade and financial systems, human development and human rights, and music. The volume situates Ghosh's work within a heterodox and broad-based understanding of development processes and provides many insights towards a new vision that sets an agenda for further research as well as mobilisation.

This volume will be of great interest to students, researchers, practitioners and scholars working on the issues of development, transformations, political economy, social science, economics, macroeconomics, international economics, politics and development studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040149287
• Artikelnr.: 72274327

Autorenporträt

Sumangala Damodaran is an economist and a musician, whose scholarly work spans industrial organisation and labour studies and popular music studies. She is presently Director of Gender and Economics at the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) and has more than 30 years of teaching experience at Delhi University and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the Institute for Human Development, Delhi. Smita Gupta works on employment, land rights, tribal rights, natural resources policy, etc. She did policy research for the Planning Commission at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. She is currently engaged with household surveys on living and working conditions of the poor in India at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. She regularly makes submissions to Parliamentary Committees on macroeconomic, gender and natural resource policies. Sona Mitra is an economist and is currently the Director of Policy and Research at the Institute for What Works to Advance Gender Equality (IWWAGE) - an initiative of LEAD at Krea University, India. She has worked on issues of women, labour and development policies for almost two decades. Her current work includes methodological innovations for capturing women's work better and incorporating the 'care economy' concerns within the economic policy discourse. Dipa Sinha is a Delhi based independent researcher. She writes and researches on issues related to social policy, gender and development, food security and nutrition and public health in India. She has over 20 years of experience of working in research and policy advocacy and is associated with various rights-based campaigns.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures x List of Tables xii List of Contributors xiv
Acknowledgements xix 1 Introduction 1 PART I Capitalism, Inequality and
Development 23 2 A Time of Darkness? The Pursuit of Collective Well-being
in an Unequal World 25 Gerry Rodgers 3 The Underdevelopment Trap of Indian
Capitalism 39 Surajit Mazumdar 4 Social Capital: The Indian Connection 54
Ben Fine 5 Studying the World in Order to Change the World: Looking Back
Across Half a Century 68 Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker 6 Gandhi,
Technology and Employment 77 Prabhat Patnaik PART II Aspects of Human
Development and Human Rights 97 7 Food Systems, Markets and Public Policy
for Food 99 Barbara Harriss-White 8 Calorie and Nutrient Intake in India
from 1993-94 to 2011-12 and Its Implications 117 Sourindra Mohan Ghosh 9
School Meals and Child Undernutrition in India 134 Anjana Thampi 10 Does
India's Post-Colonial Land Acquisition Act Safeguard Farmer Interests? 148
Smita Gupta 11 Three Public Protests and the Dynamics of Democracy in India
165 Zoya Hasan PART III Gender and Development 181 12 How the IMF
Discovered Gender Equality but Continued to Undermine Women's Rights 183
Diane Elson 13 Gender Bias in Data Collection: The Indian Context 200 Sona
Mitra 14 Women in Pubic Employment in India: Working for the State in the
Neoliberal Era 214 Dipa Sinha 15 Gender Dimensions of Paid and Unpaid
Labour of Asian and Mexican Immigrants in the USA, 2003-2018 230 Ruchira
Sen 16 Women's Unpaid Carework in Rural Malaysia 245 Rokiah Alavi and Jomo
K. S. 17 Does a Higher Female Share in Managerial Positions Lead to Less
Gender-Based Discrimination for Other Female Employees in a Sector? 259
Bidisha Mondal PART IV Political Economy of Trade and Financial Systems 269
18 Political Economy of International Taxation of Digital Businesses 271
Suranjali Tandon 19 The Costs of Financial Inclusion 288 Madhura
Swaminathan 20 Digital Transformations: An Exploration of Their
Cross-Sectoral Impacts on the Manufacturing Sector 302 Smitha Francis 21
China-Africa Partnership: Implications for African Development 327
Malancha Chakrabarty 22 India's Trade in Pharmaceutical Products: Recent
Trends 339 Reji K. Joseph and Dinesh Kumar PART V Music 363 23 Offkey:
Musings on Singing a Tune 365 T. M. Krishna 24 The Language of Grief 377
Vidya Rao 25 Music in Politics, Music as Politics: Understanding Radical
Interventions through 'People's Music' in India 394 Sumangala Damodaran
Index 410