Brazil and India : a mirror image of each other? -- Approach and method -- Brazil and India in the decades before 1980 -- India and Brazil from 1980 until 2014 -- Key divides and cleavages ruptures, continuities, or adaptation? -- Index

The article investigates the economic and social changes that have occurred over the last 30 years in two villages in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India. The two villages are on different development paths: one based on agricultural diversification and local non-agricultural employment,...