This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption, environmental resource management, agricultural...

Introduction -- 1. China: Interpreting the Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of National Goals -- 2. COVID-19 and the Indian Economy: The Debate about a Wage-led Recovery -- 3. Palestine: The Pandemic Between Occupation and Neoliberalism -- 4. Economic Policy Debates in...

Though considerable research literature is now available on China-India relations, most of it still follows a conventional narrative, viewing the relationship through the narrow conflictual prism limited to South Asia than in the new, larger perspective, especially in the context of emerging...