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With six essays exploring different aspects of economic growth, poverty, inequality and social security, this book offers a critical perspective on India's development experience since independence. Incisive and empirically rich, the book opens up new vistas in development discourse and informs...
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redistribution, while the working class supports expansive social rights. I argue that in multiethnic societies with long histories … transforming the structural conditions that generate demand for redistribution. I demonstrate this in the context of India by …
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redistribution, while the working-class demand expansive social rights. I argue that in societies with long histories of ascriptive … examines the policy preferences of the political elite in India. While I do find less support for redistribution among upper … marginal groups in the bureaucracy can support redistribution by breaking down upper-caste patronage networks …
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We show that inequality triggers social unrest in rural India. We develop a theoretical framework where social unrest is rationally used by civilians to oppose (unfair) surplus sharing by the elite. We predict that the probability of observing social unrest in a village increases with the sum of...
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Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and …
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The four essays collected in this volume aim is to shed some light on specific aspect in which women are discriminated against (employment, education and access to health care) in developing countries and on the impact that gender inequalities have on development. The first chapter investigates...
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