India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity - Couverture souple

Dreze, Jean

 
9780198295280: India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0198295286 ISBN 13 : 9780198295280
Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1999

Synopsis

This book presents analysis of endemic deprivation in India and the role of public action in addressing the problem. The analysis is based on a broad view of economic development, focusing on human well-being and 'social opportunity' rather than the standard indicators of economic growth.

India's success in reducing deprivation since Independence has been limited. Recent diagnoses of this failure of policy have concentrated on the counterproductive role of government regulation, and on the need for economic incentives to accelerate the economy. Professors Drèze and Sen argue that an assessment of India's failure to eliminate basic deprivations has to go beyond this limited focus, and to take note of the role played in that failure by inadequate public involvement in the provision of basic education, health care, social security, and related fields. Even the fostering of fast and participatory economic growth requires some basic social change, which is not addressed by liberalization and economic incentives. The authors also discuss the historical antecedents of these political and social neglects, including the distortion of policy priorities arising from inequalities of political power. Following on from this, the book considers the scope for public action to address these earlier biases and achieve a transformation of policy priorities.

` ... a fine account of India's achievements and failures ... written throughout in a fine style ... it will be a starting-point of subsequent discussions on social life in India.'

Partha Dasgupta, Times Higher Education Supplement

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Revue de presse

As a compendium of data on India's education system and, to a lesser extent its record on eliminating basic health problems and gender inequality, the book is without recent peer. (Financial Times)

As a compendium of data on India's education system ... the book is without recent peer. (India Financial Times)

The disappointing social statistics from India are today familiar matter, but nowhere will you find as intensive a collation of a number of them as in India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen ... writtin throughout in a fine, journalistic style; and it will be a starting point of subsequent discussions on social life in India. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

They offer a commentary on data at the level of Indian state governments. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

important book (Martin Wolf, Financial Times)

In a broad comparative analysis of India's economic development, Dreze and Sen have dealt with a wide range of issues in this book. ... A significant merit of this book lies in the link that the authors establish between economic development and social opportunity. ... A rich selection of statistical data prefaced with a succinct explanatory note, a copious selection of appropriate bibliographical references, and meticulously drawn up indexes (by name and by subject), together constitute material of inestimable value. The strength of this book lies in the facility with which the authors handle complex philosophical and economic issues in an interpenetrating manner. This makes the book a crucially important addition to the literature on India's experience of economic development which students of social science can ill afford to ignore. (The Journal of Development Studies, vol.33, no.5, June 1997)

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book presents analysis of endemic deprivation in India and the role of public action in addressing the problem. The analysis is based on a broad view of economic development, focusing on human well-being and 'social opportunity' rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. India's success in reducing deprivation since Independence has been limited. Recent diagnoses of this failure of policy have concentrated on the counterproductive role of government regulation, and on the need for economic incentives to accelerate the economy. Professors Drèze and Sen argue that an assessment of India's failure to eliminate basic deprivations has to go beyond this limited focus, and to take note of the role played in that failure by inadequate public involvement in the provision of basic education, health care, social security, and related fields. Even the fostering of fast and participatory economic growth requires some basic social change, which is not addressed by liberalization and economic incentives. The authors also discuss the historical antecedents of these political and social neglects, including the distortion of policy priorities arising from inequalities of political power. Following on from this, the book considers the scope for public action to address these earlier biases and achieve a transformation of policy priorities. ` ... a fine account of India's achievements and failures ... written throughout in a fine style ... it will be a starting-point of subsequent discussions on social life in India.' Partha Dasgupta, Times Higher Education Supplement

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Éditeur
Clarendon Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198295286
ISBN 13 
9780198295280
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
308
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1996
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