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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808946803321

Titolo

India's new economic policy : a critical analysis / / edited by Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu, and Richard Peet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-93691-2

1-136-93692-0

1-282-91315-8

9786612913150

0-203-84681-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in development and society ; ; 26

Altri autori (Persone)

AhmedWaquar

KunduAmitabh <1948->

PeetRichard

Disciplina

330.954

Soggetti

Economics - India

India Economic conditions 1991-

India Economic policy 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Introduction; 1 Neoliberalism, Inequality, and Development; 2 From Mixed Economy to Neoliberalism: Class and Caste in India's Policy Transition; 3 Urban System in India: Trends, Economic Base, Governance, and a Perspective of Growth under Globalization; 4 New Urbanism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Restructuring in Mumbai; 5 Economic Liberalization and Urban Governance: Impact on Inclusive Growth; 6 The Right to Waste: Informal Sector Recyclers and Struggles for Social Justice in Post-Reform Urban India

7 From Red Tape to Red Carpet?: Violent Narratives of Neoliberalizing Ahmedabad8 Neoliberalism, Environmentalism, and Urban Politics in Delhi; 9 Coping with Challenges to Food Security: Climate Change, Biofuels, and GMOs; 10 Imperialism, Resources, and Food Security, with Reference to the Indian Experience; 11 Special Economic Zones: Space, Law, and Dispossession; 12 Thinking Militant Particularisms Politically:



Resistances to Neoliberalism in India; 13 Radical Peasant Movements and Rural Distress in India: A Study of the Naxalite Movement; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India's economic growth. But in a country like India, growth is not enough. Who benefits from the new growth regime, and can it significantly improve the conditions of livelihood for India's 800 million people with incomes below 2.00 a day? This edited volume looks at international policy regimes and their national adoption under strategic conditions of economic crisis and coer