Democracy, development and decentralisation in India : continuing debates / / editors, Chandan Sengupta, Stuart Corbridge ; foreword by Anthony Giddens

• Pubblicazione: New Delhi ; ; Abingdon : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Disciplina: 354
• Soggetto topico: Democracy - India; Decentralization in government - India
• Soggetto geografico: India Economic policy Congresses
• Altri autori: CorbridgeStuart SenguptaChandan
• Note generali: Based on presentations at a workshop organized by the Development Studies Institute, LSE and the Centre for Development Studies, TISD in London, June 2007.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction / Chandan Sengupta and Stuart Corbridge -- 2. Equality or inclusion : the dilemma of India's democracy / Meghnad Desai -- 3. Burden of exception? : deficits and deepening of democratic development in India / Chandan Sengupta -- 4. The continuing reinvention of India / John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge -- 5. Development as freedom and justice : an essay on Sen and Rawls / Parthasarathi Mondal -- 6. Framing the development debate : the case of farmers' suicide in India / Ritambhara Hebbar -- 7. Institutional credit and economic entitlement : emerging regional and sectoral divides in Maharashtra / Abdul Shaban -- 8. Fiscal decentralisation and urban local governments in India : an empirical review / Anita Rath -- 9. Decentralisation, women's rights and development : lessons from India and South Africa / Jo Beall -- 10. Social divisions and rural non-farm sector : lessons from India / Gaurang R. Sahay -- 11. Development and change in agrarian economy : aspects of rural non-farm sector in Andhra Pradesh, India / Perumula Gopinath -- 12. Privatising social opportunity : trends and implications for higher education in India / Anindita Chakrabarti -- 13. Healthcare services and development in India : a study of reproductive health in Jharkhand / P.M. Sandhya Rani -- 14. Public intervention, institutions and human development in India : theory and evidence / Sandhya S. Iyer.
• Sommario/riassunto: Contributed articles.
• Titolo autorizzato: Democracy, development and decentralisation in India
• ISBN: 1-138-84238-9; 1-136-19847-4; 0-203-08548-5; 1-136-19848-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790788103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II