Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives

by Jean Drïze (Editor), Amartya Sen (Editor)

Overview

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India is a country of extreme economic and social diversity, and the performances of Indian states in eliminating basic deprivations are remarkably disparate. This book, a companion volume to Dréze's and Sen's India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity (OUP 1996), draws lessons from this diversity through three case studies (of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Kerala) and two national overviews that look at socio-economic policy and demographic indicators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198292043
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/02/1997
Series:	WIDER Studies in Development Economics
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile:	1670L (what's this?)

About the Author

Sen is Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is a former Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University, and a former Delegate to the Press. He is President of the American Economic Association, and a past president of both the Econometric Society and the International Economic Association. In 1990 he was awarded the Giovanni Agnelli Prize for the promotion of the understanding of ethical issues in modern society.

Table of Contents

PrefaceRadical Needs and Moderate Reforms, Amartya SenMortality, Fertility, and Gender Bias in India, Mamta Murthi, Anne-Catherine Guio, and Jean DrèzeUttar Pradesh: The Burden of Inertia, Jean Drèze and Haris GazdarAgrarian Politics and Rural Development in West Bengal, Sunil Sengupta and Haris GazdarKerala's Development Achievements, V. K. Ramachandran