India : development and participation

Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen

This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors place human agency at the centre of stage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms. In comparative international perspective, the Indian economy has done reasonably well in the period following the economic reforms initiated in the early nineties. However, relatively high aggregate economic growth coexists with the persistence of endemic deprivation and deep social failures. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen relate this imbalance to the continued neglect, in the post-reform period, of public involvement in crucial fields such as basic education, health care, social security, environmental protection, gender equity, and civil rights, and also to the imposition of new burdens such as the accelerated expansion of military expenditure. Further, the authors link these distortions of public priorities with deep-seated inequalities of social influence and political power. The book discusses the possibility of addressing these biases through more active democratic practice.

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[目次]

  • Introduction and Approach
  • Economic Development and Social Opportunity
  • India in Comparative Perspective
  • India and China
  • Basic Education as a Political Issue
  • Population, Health, and the Environment
  • Gender Inequality and Women's Agency
  • Security and Democracy in a Nuclear India
  • Well Beyond Liberalization
  • The Practice of Democracy.

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書名 India : development and participation
著作者等 Drèze, Jean
Sen, Amartya
Sen Amartya K.
Dreze Jean
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2002
版表示 2nd ed
ページ数 xxviii, 512 p.
大きさ 22 cm
ISBN 0199257493
0199257485
NCID BA58930715
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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