India: Development and Participation

Author:   Jean Drèze (Honorary Professor, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics) ,  Amartya Sen, FBA (Master, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
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9780199257492


Pages:   542
Publication Date:   22 August 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jean Drèze (Honorary Professor, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics) ,  Amartya Sen, FBA (Master, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.675kg
ISBN:  

9780199257492


ISBN 10:   0199257493
Pages:   542
Publication Date:   22 August 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction and Approach 2: Economic Development and Social Opportunity 3: India in Comparative Perspective 4: India and China 5: Basic Education as a Political Issue 6: Population, Health, and the Environment 7: Gender Inequality and Women's Agency 8: Security and Democracy in a Nuclear India 9: Well Beyond Liberalization 10: The Practice of Democracy

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Review from previous edition a very meticulous and persuasive analytical picture ... altogether a model of empirical economics with a heart Ashok V. Desai, The Book Review Highly illuminating ... an exceptionally impressive analysis, rich with implications Cass R. Sunstein, The New Republic a fine account of India's achievements and failures ... it will be a starting point of subsequent discussions on social life in India Partha Dasgupta, Times Higher Education Supplement


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Jean Drèze is a Visiting Professor at the Delhi School of Economics and an international authority on development economics. His association with India goes back more than twenty years during which time he has studied the issues in India minutely and has authored many books, research papers, and newspaper articles on education, poverty, development, nuclear doctrine, freedom of information, and the Narmada Struggle.; Amartya Sen is the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. He has been President of the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. He has taught at Calcutta, Delhi, Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and Harvard.

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