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  • India's Blind Spot

    Understanding and Managing Our Cities

    de Devashish Dhar ...
    A comprehensive study on the phenomenon of Indian urbanization, and what comes with it.Indian policy has been characterised by a denial of urbanization. This has prevented us from meaningfully addressing the blizzard of policy issues that come with the phenomenon: from governance deficit to infrastructure shortfall, from effective management of land to lack of focus on growing city economies; from ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • Unshackling India

    Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival

    de Ajay Chhibber, Salman Anees Soz ...
    As India enters its seventy-fifth year of independence, conventional policy is unlikely to combat the breadth of its economic challenges. Across a range of areas-human capital, technology, agriculture, finance, trade, public service delivery and more-new ideas must now be on the table. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only cost India many lives and livelihoods, it has also exposed major structural ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The New Bihar

    de Nicholas Stern ...
    Well-known economists and policy makers look at the Bihar model of development and discuss the challenges ahead During the 1990s, Bihar's development failed to benefit from the acceleration in India's economic growth, principally because of a steep decline in the already low standards of governance. this changed dramatically after November 2005, when The Nitish Kumar government came to power. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • MGNREGA and Women Empowerment

    de Annita Ranjan ...
    A lot has changed in Indian social and economic planning since the introduction of the grand rural employment guarantee scheme, now known as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA). The act has been implemented, suffered setbacks, established land-marks, drawn criticism, and collected accolades in all these years. But most significantly it has profoundly changed the character of ... Leer más

    $8.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • What Really Counts

    The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy

    de Ronald Colman ...
    Politicians and economists fixate on “growing the economy”—measured by a country’s gross domestic product. But this yardstick counts harmful activities such as greenhouse gas emissions, plastic waste, and cigarette sales as gains, and it ignores environmental protection, voluntary community work, and other benefits. What we measure is a choice, and what is and isn’t counted determines what sorts ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Poor But Spritied In Karimnagar

    Field Notes Of A Civil Servant

    de Sumita Dawra ...
    The difficulty of finding solutions After six decades of policy-making and planning that appear perfect on paper, vast pockets of poverty persist across the country, accompanied by low human development indices. In Poor but Spirited in Karimnagar, Sumita Dawra recounts her experiences as collector in the district of Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh, and grapples with the question of why even with ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Beyond Kolkata

    Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination

    de Ishita Dey, Ranabir Samaddar, Suhit K. Sen ...
    Series series Cities and the Urban Imperative
    This bookexamines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government in the mid-1990s, in pandering to the vision of urban planners of creating a hi-tech town beyond an unruly, crowded Kolkata, and feeding the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Billion Unlimited Minds - India@100

    What the Future Beholds

    de Colonel Prashant Jha ...
    This book is a clarion call to every Indian citizen and the world at large, looking at India with a keen eye as it gallops on the path of inclusive growth, aimed at unleashing the unlimited potential of a billion young minds.For the last 8 years, India has been in fast gear, roaring, leading, learning, giving, sharing, winning, digitizing, inventing, and developing its infrastructure along with ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • A Manifesto For Change

    de V. Ponraj, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ...
    In 1998, a book was published that was surprisingly ahead of its times. It wascalled India 2020 and proposed that India could soon be one of the top fiveeconomies of the world. The nation had set off a series of nuclear tests andwas facing worldwide sanctions. A new government had taken charge, andthe economy was facing a tough time. It was not the best of times to predictthat India had it in her ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy

    Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

    Edición de Naila Kabeer, Ratna Sudarshan, Kirsty Milward ...
    Series series Feminisms and Development
    Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions and individualised struggles.Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy explores the ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Aid, Technology and Development

    The Lessons from Nepal

    Edición de Dipak Gyawali, Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This edited collection examines these in order to propose a novel perspective on how human development occurs ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development Goals and Indian Cities

    Inclusion, Diversity and Citizen Rights

    Edición de Ashok Kumar, D.S. Meshram ...
    Series series Towards Sustainable Futures
    This book critically examines Sustainable Development Goals and cities in developing countries with special reference to climate change, inclusion, diversity, and citizen rights in India. It discusses global issues of sustainability and climate change in the context of rapid urbanisation and focuses on the role of equitable and just processes of urban development aimed at protecting social ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD