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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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