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  • Sustainable Development Goals and Indian Cities

    Inclusion, Diversity and Citizen Rights

    Edited by Ashok Kumar, D.S. Meshram ...
    Series series Towards Sustainable Futures
    This book critically examines Sustainable Development Goals and cities in developing countries with special reference to climate change, inclusion, diversity, and citizen rights in India. It discusses global issues of sustainability and climate change in the context of rapid urbanisation and focuses on the role of equitable and just processes of urban development aimed at protecting social ... Read more

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  • Future of Cities

    Planning, Infrastructure, and Development

    Edited by Ashok Kumar, D.S. Meshram ...
    Series series Towards Sustainable Futures
    This book critically analyses the existing condition of cities in developing countries with special reference to planning and infrastructure networks in India. It provides an overview of the nature of opportunities presented by cities; major challenges that cities would face in future; and codifies the ways and means to transcend the challenges of contemporary urban growth and quality of ... Read more

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    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Read more

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    Well-known economists and policy makers look at the Bihar model of development and discuss the challenges ahead During the 1990s, Bihar's development failed to benefit from the acceleration in India's economic growth, principally because of a steep decline in the already low standards of governance. this changed dramatically after November 2005, when The Nitish Kumar government came to power. ... Read more

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  • Role of Media In Indian Democracy

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  • Persistence of Poverty in India

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    This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor. Analyzing their success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and developing countries.Put together by a group of prestigious editors, the contributors address a range of ... Read more

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  • The Struggle And The Promise

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