This book examines various facets of the development process such as aid, poverty, caste networks, corruption, and judicial activism. It explores the efficiency of and distributional issues related to agriculture, and the roles of macro models and financial markets, with a special emphasis on...

The economic power of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) is rapidly increasing, changing the landscape of global economics and politics. Top scholars of international business address in this vital volume the markets, strategy implications, challenges and possibilities of this new economic...

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...