Poverty amid plenty in the new India

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Poverty amid plenty in the new India
Atul Kohli, Atul Kohli
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Poverty amid plenty in the new India

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"India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet, in this, "new" India, grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of India, Äôs children are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a seasoned scholar of Indian politics and economics, blames this discrepancy on the narrow nature of the ruling alliance in India that, in its newfound relationship with business, has prioritized economic growth above all other social and political considerations. In fact, according to Kohli, the resulting inequalities have limited the impact of growth on poverty alleviation, and the exclusion of such a significant proportion of Indians from the fruits of rapid economic growth is in turn creating an array of new political problems. This thoughtful and challenging book affords an alternative vision of India, Äôs rise in the world that its democratic rulers will be forced to come to grips with in the years ahead"--

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Poverty amid plenty in the new India
2012, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
339.4/60954
Library of Congress
HC440.P6 .K64 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL24918525M
ISBN 13
9780521513876, 9780521735179
LCCN
2011028645

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