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  • Nepal’S Enduring Poverty

    Non-Economic Barriers to Economic Growth

    by Sukhdev Shah ...
    Theory of economic growth has made remarkable progress over the past three decades that has helped give us a better understanding of factors that induce or inhibit growth. In practice, though, a majority of countries have failed to increase growth and improve living conditions. The elixir that has been absent from traditional growth theories is the role of an enabling environment that is needed to ... Read more

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  • India Is Broken

    A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

    by Ashoka Mody ...
    A provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.When Indian leaders first took control of their government in 1947, they proclaimed the ideals of national unity and secular democracy. Through the first half century of nation-building, leaders could point to uneven but measurable progress on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Why Growth Matters

    How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries

    by Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya ...
    In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty?Bhagwati and Panagariya ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • When Crime Pays

    Money and Muscle in Indian Politics

    by Milan Vaishnav ...
    The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics   In India, the world’s largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • In Defence of Democracy: Dynamics and Fault Lines of Nepal's Political Economy

    by Ram Sharan Mahat ...
    The post-1990 was a period of transition in many ways. The Peoples Movement brought about a polity based on political plurality and broad freedom. The state-imposed conformity and authoritarianism under the Panchayat gave way to diversity and innovations. The period was accompanied by new paradigms and ideas in many aspects of national life. A variety of concepts, idioms, and cliches of the ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Interpreting Contemporary India

    by Prof. K. Nageshwar ...
    This book is a collection of the authors editorials and articles, almost all of them originally published in The Hans India. It provides a perspective on contemporary political, economic, and social dimensions of India. It analyses current constitutional and legal questions, and the writer adopts a lucid journalistic style without compromising on academic flavor. The tome offers insights into ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Electrifying India

    Regional Political Economies of Development

    by Sunila S. Kale ...
    Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and planners conceptualized Indian development, and huge sums were spent on the project from then until now. Yet despite all this, sixty-five years after independence nearly 400 million Indians have no ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Poverty Alleviation in Assam

    by Joyeeta Ahmad ...
    It is Important for me to emphasize that this book is Not formal description of the causes of poverty in the State of Assam and a more enumeration of measures taken by its government as a panacea for its eradication. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • India at a Glance

    by Rajendra Kumar Sharma ...
    It is a proud feeling for me to publish and present the first edition of my book, India At A Glance. The book is being published through reputed publisher Partridge India. The book, which has hit the stands, has been written with an exceptionally optimistic outlook about India. There is no ill-intention to undermine or give any sweeping opinion about any Government or individual. If anything is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Finding The Middle Path

    The Political Economy Of Cooperation In Rural India

    by B. S. Baviskar ...
    Soviet-style socialism has failed; but in Russia, China, and India the transition to capitalism has proven hazardous. Elsewhere, capitalism itself appears to be in crisis, often failing to meet the fundamental needs of workers, small farmers, and even the middle classes. Clearly, the world needs enterprises that are both economically efficient and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Turn of the Tortoise

    The Challenge and Promise of India's Future

    by T N Ninan ...
    In The Turn of the Tortoise, T N Ninan explores the paradox of a "premature superpower" (as Martin Wolf once described India in the Financial Times). India has grown from the 12th largest economy in 2008 to what IMF reckons is the 7th largest in 2015, even as its people are poorer than those in Laos and Sudan. Ninan assesses India's position as a natural counter-weight to China, though ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Changing Times

    by Madhav Godbole ...
    The book is a compilation of seventy-nine lead articles written by Dr Madhav Godbole and published in leading national newspapers, periodicals and journals between the middle of 1995 through 1997. Although newspaper articles  are considered ephemeral, given that they comment on the immediate and the contemporary, the articles in this book are valuable for their political insight, their role in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD