書店員向け情報 HELP
India : development and participation
- 初版年月日
- 2002
- 登録日
- 2017年9月22日
- 最終更新日
- 2017年9月22日
紹介
This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors place human agency at the centre of stage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms. In comparative international perspective, the Indian economy has done reasonably well in the period following the economic reforms initiated in the early nineties. However, relatively high aggregate economic growth coexists with the persistence of endemic deprivation and deep social failures. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen relate this imbalance to the continued neglect, in the post-reform period, of public involvement in crucial fields such as basic education, health care, social security, environmental protection, gender equity, and civil rights, and also to the imposition of new burdens such as the accelerated expansion of military expenditure.
Further, the authors link these distortions of public priorities with deep-seated inequalities of social influence and political power. The book discusses the possibility of addressing these biases through more active democratic practice.
目次
Introduction and Approach
Economic Development and Social Opportunity
India in Comparative Perspective
India and China
Basic Education as a Political Issue
Population, Health, and the Environment
Gender Inequality and Women's Agency
Security and Democracy in a Nuclear India
Well Beyond Liberalization
The Practice of Democracy.
上記内容は本書刊行時のものです。