Theory and practice of development has long been concerned about the problem of poverty and the poor communities in developing countries, which often also has a spatial dimension with a large concentration in rural hinterlands. The nature of poverty in such discourses has generally been...

We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization - a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...

Introduction: puzzle of divergent development trajectories within a debated (non)-developmental state -- State of art : governance and comparative political economy -- Theoretical framework -- Elite agency and development in Andhra Pradesh (I) : confrontation and populism in the age of tollywood...

The term Elite is originally from the Latin, elites which means "to elect". The elites are a relatively small dominant group within a large society, which enjoys a privileged status in comparison to other individuals' status in the society. The word Elite was used in seventeenth century to...