Reclaiming development studies: essays for Ashwani Saith.

As the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arsel, Murat
Otros Autores: Dasgupta, Anirban, Storm, Servaas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press, 2021.
Colección:Anthem frontiers of global political economy
Temas:
Saith, Ashwani.
Economic development.
Development economics.
Développement économique.
Économie du développement.
economic development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development
Development economics
Economic development
Developing countries.
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tbale
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One INTRODUCTION: THE WHY AND HOW OF RECLAIMING DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
  • Development Studies on an Unsteady Terrain
  • Development as an Enduring Societal Ambition: The Work of Ashwani Saith
  • References
  • Part I GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE
  • Chapter Two THE RURAL NON-FARM ECONOMY IN INDIA REVISITED: FROM RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION TO RURAL ENTREPRENEURS
  • Introduction
  • Revising Saith's Thesis
  • Sectoral Shifts in the Indian Economy
  • Employment for Rural Households
  • A Different Historical Moment
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter Three ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA AND INDIA: A TALE OF GREAT DIVERGENCE
  • Introduction
  • Economic Growth: 1955-2010
  • Structural Change, Growth and Employment: An Analytical Perspective
  • Structural change in China and India
  • Structural change, labour reallocation and growth
  • Structural change, labour reallocation and employment
  • The Great Divergence: Why?
  • The initial conditions
  • The reforms
  • Concluding Observations
  • Appendix Tables
  • References
  • Chapter Four GLOBALIZATION: AN ENHANCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY OR THE DEPRIVATION OF AUTONOMY TO PURSUE RAPID AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH?
  • Introduction
  • Perceived Constraints
  • Globalization per se Did Not 'Kick the Ladder'
  • The Dismantlement of the ISI Required Compensatory Action
  • Policies for Inequality Aversion
  • A Digression on History
  • Changes in Development Paradigm that Coincided with Globalization
  • Globalization under Threat from Advanced Countries
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Part II LABOUR
  • Chapter Five LABOUR LAWS AND MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE IN INDIA: HOW PRIORS TRUMP EVIDENCE AND PROGRESS GETS STALLED
  • Laws Created to Help Workers Often Hurt Them
  • Labour Laws and Manufacturing Performance: Besley And Burgess (2004)
  • Extant critiques of Besley and Burgess (2004)
  • Conceptual problems with the BB index
  • Econometric problems
  • The curse of Econ10117
  • Capital-labour substitution
  • Increase in the marginal cost of production.
  • The expropriation effect
  • The findings of Besley and Burgess are also not economically meaningful
  • Power and the useful economist22

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