An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions

Business & Money

Jean Drèze

Economics

Penguin

India is a country of great diversity. The normally used indicators of quality of life - life expectancy, infant mortality, and literacy - differ extremely between different states, similar to international disparities between low performing nations and very high achieving ones. This book of essays tries to draw lessons from the contrasting understandings within India, rather than other countries. It supplements the book India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, compiled by the same authors, which delves on the lessons that could be learnt from international evaluations of actions, strategies, and achievements. The essays test the economic decisions of the development process completely. The first two overview essays discuss the concerns at the national level, mainly concentrating on policy deliberations and district-by-district demographic pointers. They are tailed by exhaustive case studies of three very dissimilar states: Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, and West Bengal.

Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives

Amartya Sem

Oxford University Press

India's success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite 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 growth of the economy. This book argues 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. Beginning with an introductory chapter presenting the motivation, focus, and approach of the book, it discusses the respective roles of the market mechanism and government action in economic development and discusses the particular role of public involvement in the fields of health and education. International comparisons of development experiences are brought to bear on the diagnosis of India's successes and failures, and the work discusses the lessons to be learnt from the contrasting development experiences of different states within India, with particular attention to Kerala's outstanding success in social fields. The authors consider the role of public action and political organization in promoting social opportunities. Attention is drawn, in particular, to the part played by widespread illiteracy in suppressing that process and perpetuating social inequalities. The work also looks at the issue of basic education, including a critical assessment of public policy in this field. The issue of gender inequality is discussed, and the role of women's agency in the expansion of social opportunities for both women and men is explored. The work concludes by consolidating the argument and discussing the policy implication of the analyses presented. A statistical appendix presents a comparative picture of India and other developing countries, and also the comparative performance of different states within India. This new work by two internationally renowned economists is an important and relevant argument for promoting human welfare.

India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity

Amartya-Sen

Clarendon Press

About the bookan uncertain glory: india and its contradictions is an enlightening book that tells its readers all about india, before she gained independence and after she broke away from colonial suppression after india gained independence in the year 1947, she decided to adopt a political system that was democratic in nature and involved the existence of several political parties and many political rightsthe end of the colonial era saw the disappearance of the continual famines that were striking india instead of stagnation, india began to witness growth in her economy, making her eventually rank at number two in the list of fastest growing economies in the world even now, though indias economy has dipped slightly, it still has one of the highest growths in the world an uncertain glory: india and its contradictions is a book that has the opinions of two of indias leading economists, jean dreze and amartya sen, who highlight the major problems that the country faces at present these two experts stress on the need to have sound knowledge concerning the deprivations of humans in indiaan uncertain glory: india and its contradictions has been published by allen lane in the year 2013 and is available in hardcoverkey features this book provides valuable insight from two experts in the field the readers of this book get to know a lot about india during the colonial era

An Uncertain Glory

Allen Lane.

An Uncertain Glory (Hardcover) (Chinese Edition)

Renmin University of China Press

Social Policy

Orient Blackswan

Jean Drze is well-known to students of Indian society, who are concerned about economic inequality, social justice and ethical development. He has written extensively about social policy and development issues in India. Unlike most economists, he has emphasized the primacy of the lived experience, field research, the importance of ethical norms and a call for action in his goals for an India that will be a good society .

Sense And Solidarity - Jholawala Economics for Everyone

Jean Drèze has a rare and distinctive understanding of the Indian economy and its relationship with the social life of ordinary people. He has travelled widely in rural India and done fieldwork of a kind that few economists have attempted. This has enabled him to make invaluable contributions not only to public debates on economic and social policy but also to our knowledge of the actual state of the country. Drèze’s insights on India’s “unfashionable” issues – hunger, poverty, inequality, corruption, and conflict – are all on display here and offer a unique perspective on the evolution of social policy over roughly the past two decades. Historic legislations and initiatives of the period, relating for instance to the right to food and the right to work, are all scrutinised and explained, as are the fierce debates that often accompanied them. “Jholawala” has become a disparaging term for activists in the business media. This book affirms the learning value of collective action combined with sound economic analysis. In his detailed Introduction, Drèze persuasively argues for an approach to development economics where research and action become inseparably interconnected. This is a book as much for economists as for every reading citizen.

SENSE AND SOLIDARITY (PB)

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