Research Catalog

Title

The politics of poverty : planning India's development / D. K. Rangnekar.

Author

Rangnekar, D. K.

Publication

Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2012.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 256 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• India > Social conditions > 21st century
• India > Economic policy
• Poverty > Government policy > India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / by T. N. Ninan -- Preface and acknowledgements / by Dwijen Rangnekar -- Introduction and overview: humanist economics as public reason / by Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- The politics of poverty : the social crisis of development in India -- Crisis today : the dimming of hope -- Politics of poverty II: the deepening social crisis -- Politics of poverty II: a quiet burial for ideology -- The ritual of remembering Gandhiji -- Farmers' stir I : writing on the Nasik wall -- Farmers' stir II : changes in inter-sectoral price parity -- Will the rains fill our bowls? -- Dependencies : independence? : the international context to India's experiment -- Economic co-operation -- North-south divide : an economic analysis -- Today's controversies : Delhi's attitude to aid -- Today's controversies : fertiliser and foreign capital -- Trade prospects -- Rope tricks : planning India's development -- The annual Indian rope trick -- Nehruism and the second phase -- Second thoughts on Indian planning -- To earn or not to spend : the taxing question -- Industrialising India : follies and policies -- India : the emerging industrial power -- Crisis today I: failure to stem structural deterioration -- Crisis today II: anti-inflation follies -- Crisis today III: IMF borrowals : perils of economic chaos -- Industrial policy -- Conclusion and afterword / by Sanjaya Baru -- Index -- About the author.

ISBN

• 9788132109020 (hbk.)
• 8132109023 (hbk.)

LCCN

2012025642

OCLC

• ocn796355132
• 796355132
• SCSB-5664190

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries