The Creation of Poverty and Inequality in India

Exclusion, Isolation, Domination and Extraction
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3038-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste, untouchability, colonialism and indentured servitude, inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race.

Focusing on historical and modern practices, this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion, isolation, domination and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. Examining cash and asset transfers, as well as the enhancement of women’s rights, primary health and education, it scrutinizes inadequacies in compensatory policies for redressing the balance.

This is an original interdisciplinary contribution that offers bold domestic and international policies anchored in human radicalism to eradicate poverty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shome, Parthasarathi

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Part 1: Macro-Economy and Human Development

2. Macro-Economic Indicators: A Backdrop

3. Population, Poverty and Happiness

4. National Income, Human Development and Inequality

Part 2: Sources of Inequality and Poverty

5. Racism, Colonialism and Slavery as International Practices

6. India’s Caste Structure

7. Untouchability: Ambedkar and Early Reformers

Part 3: Sectoral Effects

8. The Rural-Urban Divide

9. Women, Children and Demographic Dividend

10. Nutrition, Health, Sanitation, Water and Climate Change

Part 4: Radical Humanism

11. Blueprint for Addressing Poverty and Inequality

Über Autor(innen)

Shome, Parthasarathi
Parthasarathi Shome is Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Chairman of the International Tax Research and Analysis Foundation in India.

Parthasarathi Shome is Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics.